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due at the end of this year. Mr. Bush's comments came after the Pakistani minister said general Mushraff has decided against declaring a state of emergency which could * have given him the power to postpone the elections. "You know, I have seen the reports of the, what they called an emergency declaration. I have seen no such evidence said they made that decision. My focus in terms of the domestic scene there is that they have a free and fair election. And that's we have been talking about and hopeful they will."
The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has spoken to general Musharaff that US officials didn't say whether she dissuaded him from imposing an emergency rule. The BBC's Islamabad correspondent says the Pakistani leader is coming under immense pressure both from his supporters and his opponents as he attempts to control the rising tide of violence in Pakistan.
United States and Britain have unveiled a new strategy in the fight against the drug trade in Afghanistan, the source of more than 90% of the world's opium. Provincial governor who take effective action against poppy growing are to be given money to help economic development. There'll also be a public education campaign against growing opium poppies. Extra resources will also go to help Afghan forces combat the most influential drug traffickers.
Shares in New York and Landon have fallen sharply amid continuing concern that the troubled American housing market could cause a credit shortage. Financial institutions on both sides of the Atlantic have been hit by the failure of many Americans to keep up their mortgage payments. The Dow-Jones Index in New York was down almost 3% and in Landon; Shares were down almost 2%. During the day, the European Central bank made its biggest intervention into the European money markets since the September 11 attacks of 2001. The bank pumped $120 billion into circulation making it available as credit to commercial banks.
United States military has dropped all charges against the marine who had been accused of killing three Iraqi civilians in Haditha, west of Baghdad two years ago. A military authority said the evidence did not support the referral of the marine, Lt Col Paul Justin Sharratt, to court-martial. From Washington, Adam Brooks reports.
What really happened at Haditha on November 19, 2005 remains unclear. But the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by US marines was followed quickly by allegations of a massacre, perpetrated by troops who were out of control. The military brought charges of murder against some of the marines who were there that day. One of them, Justin Sharratt, has now had all charges against him dropped. A pretrial hearing found there was not enough evidence to proceed to a full court-martial. And on that recommendation, a marine general, James Mattis, ruled that the case should go no further.
World news from the BBC.
Two British soldiers have been killed by militants in southern Iraq taking the number of British personnel who have died there this week to four. The two soldiers were killed by a bomb as they drove a convoy near oil fields to the west of Basrah. Two other soldiers were seriously hurt.
A Roman Catholic priest in Mexico who murdered his son so that church officials wouldn't discover his existence has been sentenced to 55 years in prison by a court in Mexico City. The priest, Dagoberto Valle Arriaga, had already confessed to killing his son Oscar two years ago. Our America's editor Will Grand reports.
Newspapers in Mexico are saying that Oscar Valle was 16 years old when he was murdered by his father, a Roman Catholic priest who was trying to keep the boy secret from his superiors in the church. The cases now concluded that the priest has been sentenced to 55 years in prison by a court in the municipality of Mexico City. Prosecutors say that reverend Valle confessed to having killed the boy two years ago after dumping him and bringing him to the state of Guanajuato. The authorities released no details of how the boy was killed, but it appeared that his father dumped his body in the outskirt of the city called Acambaro.
The President of Poland and the leader of the country's main opposition party say they have agreed that a snap general election later this year is unavoidable. A spokesman for president Lech Kaczynski said both he and the head of the opposition Civic Platform agreed that only an election could resolve Poland's political crisis. The turmoil began last month when the Prime Minister sacked his coalition partner from the cabinet.
Democratic Party contenders for the United States presidency are to take part in a few hours in the first ever campaign debate focus entirely on the issues of importance to the gay and lesbian community. Six of the eight candidates including frontrunners Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama would be taking part in the debate in Los Angeles which would be broadcast nationwide and streamed on the internet by a gay and lesbian theme cable television channel.
BBC World News.
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due at the end of this year. Mr. Bush's comments came after the Pakistani minister said general Mushraff has decided against declaring a state of emergency which could * have given him the power to postpone the elections. "You know, I have seen the reports of the, what they called an emergency declaration. I have seen no such evidence said they made that decision. My focus in terms of the domestic scene there is that they have a free and fair election. And that's we have been talking about and hopeful they will."
The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has spoken to general Musharaff that US officials didn't say whether she dissuaded him from imposing an emergency rule. The BBC's Islamabad correspondent says the Pakistani leader is coming under immense pressure both from his supporters and his opponents as he attempts to control the rising tide of violence in Pakistan.
United States and Britain have unveiled a new strategy in the fight against the drug trade in Afghanistan, the source of more than 90% of the world's opium. Provincial governor who take effective action against poppy growing are to be given money to help economic development. There'll also be a public education campaign against growing opium poppies. Extra resources will also go to help Afghan forces combat the most influential drug traffickers.
Shares in New York and Landon have fallen sharply amid continuing concern that the troubled American housing market could cause a credit shortage. Financial institutions on both sides of the Atlantic have been hit by the failure of many Americans to keep up their mortgage payments. The Dow-Jones Index in New York was down almost 3% and in Landon; Shares were down almost 2%. During the day, the European Central bank made its biggest intervention into the European money markets since the September 11 attacks of 2001. The bank pumped $120 billion into circulation making it available as credit to commercial banks.
United States military has dropped all charges against the marine who had been accused of killing three Iraqi civilians in Haditha, west of Baghdad two years ago. A military authority said the evidence did not support the referral of the marine, Lt Col Paul Justin Sharratt, to court-martial. From Washington, Adam Brooks reports.
What really happened at Haditha on November 19, 2005 remains unclear. But the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by US marines was followed quickly by allegations of a massacre, perpetrated by troops who were out of control. The military brought charges of murder against some of the marines who were there that day. One of them, Justin Sharratt, has now had all charges against him dropped. A pretrial hearing found there was not enough evidence to proceed to a full court-martial. And on that recommendation, a marine general, James Mattis, ruled that the case should go no further.
World news from the BBC.
Two British soldiers have been killed by militants in southern Iraq taking the number of British personnel who have died there this week to four. The two soldiers were killed by a bomb as they drove a convoy near oil fields to the west of Basrah. Two other soldiers were seriously hurt.
A Roman Catholic priest in Mexico who murdered his son so that church officials wouldn't discover his existence has been sentenced to 55 years in prison by a court in Mexico City. The priest, Dagoberto Valle Arriaga, had already confessed to killing his son Oscar two years ago. Our America's editor Will Grand reports.
Newspapers in Mexico are saying that Oscar Valle was 16 years old when he was murdered by his father, a Roman Catholic priest who was trying to keep the boy secret from his superiors in the church. The cases now concluded that the priest has been sentenced to 55 years in prison by a court in the municipality of Mexico City. Prosecutors say that reverend Valle confessed to having killed the boy two years ago after dumping him and bringing him to the state of Guanajuato. The authorities released no details of how the boy was killed, but it appeared that his father dumped his body in the outskirt of the city called Acambaro.
The President of Poland and the leader of the country's main opposition party say they have agreed that a snap general election later this year is unavoidable. A spokesman for president Lech Kaczynski said both he and the head of the opposition Civic Platform agreed that only an election could resolve Poland's political crisis. The turmoil began last month when the Prime Minister sacked his coalition partner from the cabinet.
Democratic Party contenders for the United States presidency are to take part in a few hours in the first ever campaign debate focus entirely on the issues of importance to the gay and lesbian community. Six of the eight candidates including frontrunners Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama would be taking part in the debate in Los Angeles which would be broadcast nationwide and streamed on the internet by a gay and lesbian theme cable television channel.
BBC World News.
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