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...powerful figure, guiding Mr. Bush's rise to the top for well over a decade. The correspondents say Mr. Rove is leaving at a time when his reputation has become tarnished by a series of recent scandals as well as in the shadow of the Republican Party's loss of power in Congress last year. Jonathan Beale reports.
President Bush has called Karl Rove the architect of his election victory in 2004. But Mr. Bush owes him much more. Karl Rove has been at his side as his most important advisor all the way from Texas to the White House. To republicans, he's been the master tactician energizing the party's core vote, to his critics, he's some kind of evil genius, they are the ones who dubbed him Bush's brain. He had hoped to keep the republicans in power for a generation. But Karl Rove leaves this president and his party in a much weaker position.
United States has asked the World Trade Organization to set up a dispute settlement panel in its determination to persuade China to protect intellectual property rights. Empowering a panel is an important step that generally indicates that both sides have failed to reach agreement through less formal processes. Rodney Smith reports.
According to Washington, global companies lose more than 60 billion dollars a year to counterfeiting and piracy in China. America says China's failed to act to prevent these abuses of intellectual property taking place in spite of World Trade Organization talks back in April and June. The US requests for a panel and alleges that the Chinese legal threshold for starting cases against counterfeiters is so high that commercial pirates can operate with impunity.
At least 15 people have been killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu in an incident involving Ethiopian troops allied to the interim Somali government. The Ethiopians are said to have opened fire after an explosion near a checkpoint. Two of the dead were soldiers, the rest, civilians on buses nearby. The lobby group Human Rights Watch has accused all sides involved in fighting in Mogadishu of committing war crimes, particularly the Ethiopian army.
The Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has hailed statistics suggesting that the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest has slown down. The government says the annual rate which trees are being cut down fell by 25% between 2005 and 2006, taking it to its lowest level in almost two decades. Gary Duffy has the details.
Figures show that Brazil releases about one billion tons of CO2 gases into the atmosphere every year. And unlike many other countries, more than 75% of this is caused by deforestation. President Lula says the latest drop in deforestation in the Amazon prevented the release of 410 million tons of greenhouse gases and the destruction of 600,000 trees.
World News from the BBC.
Chinese troops have descended by parachute on the Euro Mountains in Russia as part of a joint military exercise with Russian forces this week. They were rehearsing for the highlight of the war games on Friday when the maneuvers will be watched by leaders from Russia, China and four Central Asian republics. The exercise involves several thousand Russian and other troops supported by aircraft, tanks and other heavy weapons.
Celebrations are underway in Pakistan to mark the 60th anniversary of its formation as a separate nation as the former British-Indian Empire was granted its independence in 1947. From Islamabad, Dan Isaacs reports.
At the stroke of midnight in Pakistan, fireworks lit up the sky above the parliament buildings. Car horns blared and amid waving flags the crowds lining the main street let off firecrackers. Independence Day celebrations here are an occasion for all the family and the party atmosphere was dampened only by a torrential downpour that quickly turned the streets and grass verges into a muddy swamp. These are difficult times in Pakistan and people attending the celebrations were under no allusions that the months ahead are going to be turbulent.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has said that under new legislation businesses will have to seek approval from the government before raising prices. Mr. Mugabe said the law was needed to control what he called "the greed of the business community" which is putting up prices several times a week. Zimbabwe is in an economic turmoil with inflation now estimated to be running at 20,000%.
Archeologists working in Cambodia say radar imagery from space has revealed that the urban settlement surrounding the ancient religious complex at Angkor Wat was more than three times larger than previously thought. Publishing their results in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the multinational team of scientists say the images which pierced untamed Jungle as well as modern residential developments show that the thousand-year-old settlement could have supported half a million people.
BBC World News.
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...powerful figure, guiding Mr. Bush's rise to the top for well over a decade. The correspondents say Mr. Rove is leaving at a time when his reputation has become tarnished by a series of recent scandals as well as in the shadow of the Republican Party's loss of power in Congress last year. Jonathan Beale reports.
President Bush has called Karl Rove the architect of his election victory in 2004. But Mr. Bush owes him much more. Karl Rove has been at his side as his most important advisor all the way from Texas to the White House. To republicans, he's been the master tactician energizing the party's core vote, to his critics, he's some kind of evil genius, they are the ones who dubbed him Bush's brain. He had hoped to keep the republicans in power for a generation. But Karl Rove leaves this president and his party in a much weaker position.
United States has asked the World Trade Organization to set up a dispute settlement panel in its determination to persuade China to protect intellectual property rights. Empowering a panel is an important step that generally indicates that both sides have failed to reach agreement through less formal processes. Rodney Smith reports.
According to Washington, global companies lose more than 60 billion dollars a year to counterfeiting and piracy in China. America says China's failed to act to prevent these abuses of intellectual property taking place in spite of World Trade Organization talks back in April and June. The US requests for a panel and alleges that the Chinese legal threshold for starting cases against counterfeiters is so high that commercial pirates can operate with impunity.
At least 15 people have been killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu in an incident involving Ethiopian troops allied to the interim Somali government. The Ethiopians are said to have opened fire after an explosion near a checkpoint. Two of the dead were soldiers, the rest, civilians on buses nearby. The lobby group Human Rights Watch has accused all sides involved in fighting in Mogadishu of committing war crimes, particularly the Ethiopian army.
The Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has hailed statistics suggesting that the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest has slown down. The government says the annual rate which trees are being cut down fell by 25% between 2005 and 2006, taking it to its lowest level in almost two decades. Gary Duffy has the details.
Figures show that Brazil releases about one billion tons of CO2 gases into the atmosphere every year. And unlike many other countries, more than 75% of this is caused by deforestation. President Lula says the latest drop in deforestation in the Amazon prevented the release of 410 million tons of greenhouse gases and the destruction of 600,000 trees.
World News from the BBC.
Chinese troops have descended by parachute on the Euro Mountains in Russia as part of a joint military exercise with Russian forces this week. They were rehearsing for the highlight of the war games on Friday when the maneuvers will be watched by leaders from Russia, China and four Central Asian republics. The exercise involves several thousand Russian and other troops supported by aircraft, tanks and other heavy weapons.
Celebrations are underway in Pakistan to mark the 60th anniversary of its formation as a separate nation as the former British-Indian Empire was granted its independence in 1947. From Islamabad, Dan Isaacs reports.
At the stroke of midnight in Pakistan, fireworks lit up the sky above the parliament buildings. Car horns blared and amid waving flags the crowds lining the main street let off firecrackers. Independence Day celebrations here are an occasion for all the family and the party atmosphere was dampened only by a torrential downpour that quickly turned the streets and grass verges into a muddy swamp. These are difficult times in Pakistan and people attending the celebrations were under no allusions that the months ahead are going to be turbulent.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has said that under new legislation businesses will have to seek approval from the government before raising prices. Mr. Mugabe said the law was needed to control what he called "the greed of the business community" which is putting up prices several times a week. Zimbabwe is in an economic turmoil with inflation now estimated to be running at 20,000%.
Archeologists working in Cambodia say radar imagery from space has revealed that the urban settlement surrounding the ancient religious complex at Angkor Wat was more than three times larger than previously thought. Publishing their results in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the multinational team of scientists say the images which pierced untamed Jungle as well as modern residential developments show that the thousand-year-old settlement could have supported half a million people.
BBC World News.
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