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BBC 2007-08-12


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To the Bush family home in Maine. We are here in Maine where the French President Nicolas Sarkozy joined him from his holiday in nearby New Hampshire. Mr. Sarkozy likened their relationship to that of a family whose members sometimes had disagreements. "Do we agree on everything else? No. Because even within the family, there are disagreements but we are still in the same family and we may be friends and not agree on everything but we are friends nevertheless. That's the truth."

A spokesman for the Taliban militants in Afghanistan said they've released two of the group of more than 20 South Korean Christian aid workers they seized three weeks ago. But there's been no independent conformation that the two hostages have been freed. Charles Haviland reports from Kabul.

The Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmad was speaking by telephone to a BBC reporter in the province of Ghazni where the South Korean Christians were kidnapped more than three weeks ago. Mr. Ahmad said two of the sixteen female hostages were sick and that the Taliban had freed them as a sign of goodwill. But government officials in Ghazni contacted by the BBC were not immediately able to confirm that the women had been freed. Furthermore, Mr. Ahmad has at times in the past given false information.

Vote counting is underway in Sierra Leone following Saturday's presidential and parliamentary elections. Ballot papers have been counted in public and voters are waiting for official results from the country's 6,000 polling stations. There is a choice of seven presidential candidates to replace Ahmad Tejan Kabbah who is stepping down after two terms. In the past, there have been numerous attempts to seize power in Sierra Leone through violence.

Two prominent Somali journalists have been killed in the capital Mogadishu in separate attacks within a few hours. The owner of HornAfrik radio and television, Ali Iman Sharmake, died when his car exploded after apparently running over a landmine. Mr. Sharmake has just attended the funeral of one of his leading radio presenters, Mahad Ahmed Elmi, who was shot dead by a gunman early in the day. It's unclear who was responsible. HornAfrik prides itself on its journalistic independence and its broadcasts have in the past angered both the government and Islamist opposition.

President Putin has announced what he's described as a vast program to upgrade Russia's missile defense system. Visiting a new radar early warning station near St.Petersburg, Mr. Putin said this was the first step in a major construction program which would last until 2015. Russia has expressed grave reservations at President Bush's plan to deploy parts of the new American missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.

You are listening to the World News from the BBC.

President Gloria Arroyo of the Philippines has ordered her top army commander Tolentino in the south to take charge of operations against Islamic militants there. Fighting in recent days has left at least 26 Pilipino soldiers dead as well as a number of Muslim separatist rebels.

Iraqi police say a provisional governor Khalil Jalil Hamza and a police chief have been killed in a roadside bomb attack south of Baghdad. The men were returning to the city of Diwaniya after a funeral when the bomb exploded beside their convoy. Richard Galpin reports from Baghdad.

A powerful roadside bomb specifically targeted the car in which both men were travelling. It blew the vehicle off the road into a water channel. The governor died instantly. The police chief died later in hospital. Ad-Diwaniya province is dominated by rival Shiite factions and has been a scene of intense clashes this year. The governor and other members of the provincial authorities belong to the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq, which is the country's largest political party.

Rescuers in the United States trying to reach six coal miners trapped deep underground for almost a week has succeeded in lowering a camera into a cavity where they thought the men may have been able to take refuge. Attempts to reach the men have been met with silence although the head of Mine Safety and Health Administration Richard Stickler said that the camera did show survivable space. "The good news that we have is that we do have a 5.5-foot void at the bottom of this borehole in the mine, that's an opening. It's the same opening that was mined when the tunnel was driven by the mining operation. So we have not lost the space where miners could be located 5.5 feet."

That was the head of Mine Safety and Health Administration Richard Stickler ending this BBC World News.

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