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Both the leading parties contesting the seat of a maronite Christian stronghold above Beirut say they want a vote that could be crucial in determining the country's next president. The seat was formerly held by the murdered cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel. Christian Fraser reports from Beirut.
"Victory was claimed early in the evening by Dr. Camille Khoury, a candidate for the opposition party led by the Christian hardliner General Michelle Aoun, but politics in Lebanon is seldom simple. And it was not long before the other candidate, Amin Gemayel, a former president, and Pierre Gemayel's father was contesting the result. Mr. Gemayel claimed that there had been cheating . . . . royal to the opposition and insisted the vote was to early to call. "
The Afghan President Hamid Karzai is meeting President Bush for talks built by American officials as a strategy session on the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. A US intelligence report last month said al-Qaeda and the Taliban were gaining strength in Afghanistan. Jonathan Beale reports from Washington.
"These informal Camp David talks focus on security, highlighting the continuing threat. On the part of Hamid Karzai, it is concerned that too many civilians have become casualties of coalition operations. He also wants the US to press its ally Pakistan to do more to tackle fighters crossing the border into Afghanistan. Washington is just as worried about the influence of neighbouring Iran, accusing Tehran of supplying weapons to the Taliban. "
The African-American civil rights lawyer Oliver Hill who was at the forefront of the legal battle to desegregate schools in the US has died at the age of one hundred. Eletri Neil Smith reports.
"He once said of himself that he only went to law school so he could fight segregation. And that's exactly what he did. After graduating from Howard University in Washington in 1933, Oliver Hill won his first civil rights case till seven years later, gaining equal pay for black teachers in North of Virginia. He went on to win a succession of similar cases, but it was as one of the lawyers fighting the landmark "Brown versus the board of education case" in 1954 that he secured his place in history. The Supreme Court decision dismantled the legal bases for racial segregation in schools, acting as the catalyst for the modern civil rights movement and all its achievements. "
A rally has been held in Jerusalem to demand more help from the Israeli government for survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. A group of elderly survivors, many leaning on canes walked from Parliament to the office of the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, accompanied by hundreds of youthful supporters. The government has offered to make extra payments from next year to tens of thousands of people aged over 70 and considered eligible. But campaigners say the amounts proposed are too little, too late.
This is BBC World News.
In what is seen as a sign of openness towards Iran's religious minorities, chaired service has been held in Tehran to mark the installation of a new Anglican bishop. Bishop Azad Marshall who was from Pakistan has been appointed to head the Anglican Church in Iran. Bishop Marshall said that nearly thirty years after the Islamic revolution, Iran's current leaders wanted to open a new chapter with the Anglican Church.
"Revolution took place 28 years ago and there is a new generation of people who are, although they are committed to the revolution, but there is a new generation of people we are dealing with, who are very, in some ways, objectively looking at what happened in the past and what mustn't happen in the future."
The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that Iran constitutes a major security challenge to America's allies and interests in the Gulf region. She was defending Washington's decision to sell tens of billions of dollars worth of arms to sell several Gulf countries to counter Iran.
The death has been announced of the retired archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger. He was eighty and had been ill for some time. Cardinal Lustiger was born a Jew of Polish parents living in France but converted to Roman Catholicism during the Second World War. His mother was sued afterwards deported and killed in the Auschwitz death camp. Although sometimes a controversial figure, Cardinal Lustiger was an outspoken opponent of racism and anti-Semitism.
Two Cuban champion boxers who absconded during the Pan American Games in Brazil had now arrived home after being deported. They disappeared just before their gold medaled fights but were later found and arrested. In a newspaper article, the President was quoted to say that the boxing careers of the men, Guillermo Rigondeaux and Erislandy Lara, were now over, but they would not be punished further.
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Both the leading parties contesting the seat of a maronite Christian stronghold above Beirut say they want a vote that could be crucial in determining the country's next president. The seat was formerly held by the murdered cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel. Christian Fraser reports from Beirut.
"Victory was claimed early in the evening by Dr. Camille Khoury, a candidate for the opposition party led by the Christian hardliner General Michelle Aoun, but politics in Lebanon is seldom simple. And it was not long before the other candidate, Amin Gemayel, a former president, and Pierre Gemayel's father was contesting the result. Mr. Gemayel claimed that there had been cheating . . . . royal to the opposition and insisted the vote was to early to call. "
The Afghan President Hamid Karzai is meeting President Bush for talks built by American officials as a strategy session on the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. A US intelligence report last month said al-Qaeda and the Taliban were gaining strength in Afghanistan. Jonathan Beale reports from Washington.
"These informal Camp David talks focus on security, highlighting the continuing threat. On the part of Hamid Karzai, it is concerned that too many civilians have become casualties of coalition operations. He also wants the US to press its ally Pakistan to do more to tackle fighters crossing the border into Afghanistan. Washington is just as worried about the influence of neighbouring Iran, accusing Tehran of supplying weapons to the Taliban. "
The African-American civil rights lawyer Oliver Hill who was at the forefront of the legal battle to desegregate schools in the US has died at the age of one hundred. Eletri Neil Smith reports.
"He once said of himself that he only went to law school so he could fight segregation. And that's exactly what he did. After graduating from Howard University in Washington in 1933, Oliver Hill won his first civil rights case till seven years later, gaining equal pay for black teachers in North of Virginia. He went on to win a succession of similar cases, but it was as one of the lawyers fighting the landmark "Brown versus the board of education case" in 1954 that he secured his place in history. The Supreme Court decision dismantled the legal bases for racial segregation in schools, acting as the catalyst for the modern civil rights movement and all its achievements. "
A rally has been held in Jerusalem to demand more help from the Israeli government for survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. A group of elderly survivors, many leaning on canes walked from Parliament to the office of the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, accompanied by hundreds of youthful supporters. The government has offered to make extra payments from next year to tens of thousands of people aged over 70 and considered eligible. But campaigners say the amounts proposed are too little, too late.
This is BBC World News.
In what is seen as a sign of openness towards Iran's religious minorities, chaired service has been held in Tehran to mark the installation of a new Anglican bishop. Bishop Azad Marshall who was from Pakistan has been appointed to head the Anglican Church in Iran. Bishop Marshall said that nearly thirty years after the Islamic revolution, Iran's current leaders wanted to open a new chapter with the Anglican Church.
"Revolution took place 28 years ago and there is a new generation of people who are, although they are committed to the revolution, but there is a new generation of people we are dealing with, who are very, in some ways, objectively looking at what happened in the past and what mustn't happen in the future."
The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that Iran constitutes a major security challenge to America's allies and interests in the Gulf region. She was defending Washington's decision to sell tens of billions of dollars worth of arms to sell several Gulf countries to counter Iran.
The death has been announced of the retired archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger. He was eighty and had been ill for some time. Cardinal Lustiger was born a Jew of Polish parents living in France but converted to Roman Catholicism during the Second World War. His mother was sued afterwards deported and killed in the Auschwitz death camp. Although sometimes a controversial figure, Cardinal Lustiger was an outspoken opponent of racism and anti-Semitism.
Two Cuban champion boxers who absconded during the Pan American Games in Brazil had now arrived home after being deported. They disappeared just before their gold medaled fights but were later found and arrested. In a newspaper article, the President was quoted to say that the boxing careers of the men, Guillermo Rigondeaux and Erislandy Lara, were now over, but they would not be punished further.
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