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The resolution means the UN will be involved... manageable despite continuing falls in share prices around the globe. Marsha Fleury reports from New York.
The International Monetary Fund was moved to comment by another dismal day on the stock markets. Steep falls in Europe and Asia, and huge swings in America forced central banks to get involved. Central banks including America's Federal Reserve, pumped billions of dollars into the banking system to ensure that the credit markets didn't dry up. The IMF says that the shakeout happening in credit markets is in fact a healthy development and that at this stage this is a problem for Wall Street, not the real economy.
The Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper has announced a construction of two military facilities in the Arctic and a move to assert his country's sovereignty over the contested region which is estimated to contain billions of dollars of oil and gas deposits. Mr. Harper said the new army training center and the deep water port underlined Canada's growing and long term presence in the region. Leek Arto reports from Toronto.
The military school will be based at a midway point along the fabled Northwest Passage which Canada regards as its water way, and the United States says it's an international strait. Near the North Pole, Russia, Denmark and Norway are among the countries with competing claims to areas of the Arctic seabed. Just last week, a Russian submarine crew explored the area, and dropped a Russian flag on the ocean floor, a move that irritated Canadian officials.
The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously in favor of a resolution calling for the organization to have a greater role in Iraq. The resolution will involve the UN and promoting reconciliation among Iraq's rival factions and settling boundary disputes. President Bush has praised the vote, while in Iraq the resolution was also welcomed as Richard Galpin reports.
So far, there has been a positive response from Iraqi politicians. The Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said it's in the country's interest for the United Nations to play a bigger role in helping tackle both the humanitarian and the political crisis. Significantly, a senior member of the largest group of Sunni political parties which recently pulled out from the government told the BBC he also welcomed the UN Security Council resolution.
Officials from South Korea have begun the first direct talks with Taliban militants in Afghanistan, who have been holding 21 Korean hostages for the past three weeks. An Afghan official said the talks were being held in offices of the Red Cross in the town of Ghazni. Twenty-three South Koreans were kidnapped south of Kabul three weeks ago.
World news from the BBC.
The BBC has obtained an internal United Nations report examining allegations that Pakistani UN peacekeepers based in the Democratic Republic of Congo a year ago were involved in gold and arms smuggling. It recommends that the case be referred to the Pakistani government for appropriate action against the soldiers. Martin Plaut reports.
The report marked strictly confidential says UN officers from the Pakistani battalion provided armed escorts, hospitality and food to gold smugglers in eastern Congo. Although the UN investigators found local people and UN staff who testified that weapons and ammunition were sold to the FNI militia operating in the area, they say this could not be substantiated.
Russian psychiatrists investigating allegations that an opposition figure has been detained illegally in a mental institution have warned that the system is wide-open to Soviet-style abuses. The case involves the activist L A whose supporters believe she is being punished for an interview she gave to an opposition publication. The psychiatrists conclude it was wrong to detain Mrs. A against her will although they did not think the motive was political.
The British music industry manager and broadcaster Tony Wilson has died, aged 57, he had been suffering from kidney cancer. Tony Wilson co-founded the influential Factory Record label in the northern English city of Manchester, signing Bands such as Joy Division and the Happy Mondays, the former head of ANR at Factory Records, Phil Saxe, paid tribute to Tony Wilson.
"Part of modern British music has died tonight, Tony was a genius basically, he was a visionary in that he helped bands, who otherwise wouldn't have made it, who were a bit out of the ordinary, basically without Tony one of them wouldn't happen."
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The resolution means the UN will be involved... manageable despite continuing falls in share prices around the globe. Marsha Fleury reports from New York.
The International Monetary Fund was moved to comment by another dismal day on the stock markets. Steep falls in Europe and Asia, and huge swings in America forced central banks to get involved. Central banks including America's Federal Reserve, pumped billions of dollars into the banking system to ensure that the credit markets didn't dry up. The IMF says that the shakeout happening in credit markets is in fact a healthy development and that at this stage this is a problem for Wall Street, not the real economy.
The Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper has announced a construction of two military facilities in the Arctic and a move to assert his country's sovereignty over the contested region which is estimated to contain billions of dollars of oil and gas deposits. Mr. Harper said the new army training center and the deep water port underlined Canada's growing and long term presence in the region. Leek Arto reports from Toronto.
The military school will be based at a midway point along the fabled Northwest Passage which Canada regards as its water way, and the United States says it's an international strait. Near the North Pole, Russia, Denmark and Norway are among the countries with competing claims to areas of the Arctic seabed. Just last week, a Russian submarine crew explored the area, and dropped a Russian flag on the ocean floor, a move that irritated Canadian officials.
The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously in favor of a resolution calling for the organization to have a greater role in Iraq. The resolution will involve the UN and promoting reconciliation among Iraq's rival factions and settling boundary disputes. President Bush has praised the vote, while in Iraq the resolution was also welcomed as Richard Galpin reports.
So far, there has been a positive response from Iraqi politicians. The Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said it's in the country's interest for the United Nations to play a bigger role in helping tackle both the humanitarian and the political crisis. Significantly, a senior member of the largest group of Sunni political parties which recently pulled out from the government told the BBC he also welcomed the UN Security Council resolution.
Officials from South Korea have begun the first direct talks with Taliban militants in Afghanistan, who have been holding 21 Korean hostages for the past three weeks. An Afghan official said the talks were being held in offices of the Red Cross in the town of Ghazni. Twenty-three South Koreans were kidnapped south of Kabul three weeks ago.
World news from the BBC.
The BBC has obtained an internal United Nations report examining allegations that Pakistani UN peacekeepers based in the Democratic Republic of Congo a year ago were involved in gold and arms smuggling. It recommends that the case be referred to the Pakistani government for appropriate action against the soldiers. Martin Plaut reports.
The report marked strictly confidential says UN officers from the Pakistani battalion provided armed escorts, hospitality and food to gold smugglers in eastern Congo. Although the UN investigators found local people and UN staff who testified that weapons and ammunition were sold to the FNI militia operating in the area, they say this could not be substantiated.
Russian psychiatrists investigating allegations that an opposition figure has been detained illegally in a mental institution have warned that the system is wide-open to Soviet-style abuses. The case involves the activist L A whose supporters believe she is being punished for an interview she gave to an opposition publication. The psychiatrists conclude it was wrong to detain Mrs. A against her will although they did not think the motive was political.
The British music industry manager and broadcaster Tony Wilson has died, aged 57, he had been suffering from kidney cancer. Tony Wilson co-founded the influential Factory Record label in the northern English city of Manchester, signing Bands such as Joy Division and the Happy Mondays, the former head of ANR at Factory Records, Phil Saxe, paid tribute to Tony Wilson.
"Part of modern British music has died tonight, Tony was a genius basically, he was a visionary in that he helped bands, who otherwise wouldn't have made it, who were a bit out of the ordinary, basically without Tony one of them wouldn't happen."
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