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...Galpin reports from Baghdad.
We understand that it was out of three or four bombs which went off clearly a coordinated attack. The bombs were onboard either fuel tankers or normal cars and the targets were two towns in this clear remote area of northwestern Iraq close to the Syrian border. And specifically the bombs appeared to have gone off outside (um...) housing complexes. This is a pretty poor area. The houses are not well built to meet stand. A lot have been destroyed in the explosions.
Celebrations have begun in Indian to mark 60 years of independence from Britain. Early events included a concert at Wagar on the border with Pakistan, mirroring one held on the other side the previous night. Our correspondent Alastair Leithead was there.
While Pakistan has its Independence Day celebrations, the India is preparing for its own. I am on the Wagar border between India and Pakistan. This is a few kilometers on the India side. And there is a huge concert that has been organized here. Thousands of people have come along and the singers keep coming on stage and going through a whole repertoire of songs. There is also a Pakistani delegation who come here as well because the idea of this concert is a trying build relations, it's a peace concert essentially. It was supposed to be an even bigger event, actually straddling the border in both countries. But that was cancelled just a few days ago by both India and Pakistan.
The world's largest toy manufacturer, the American firm Mattel has recalled more than 18 million Chinese made toys because of renewed safety fears. Mattel says some have lead in their paint. Others have magnets that could become dislodged and swallowed. It's the second time in two weeks that Mattel has ordered such a withdrawal, adding to a wide range of Chinese product recalls in Europe and America this year. A vice president of the company Brown Stocktam tried to reassure customers. "We are testing every single batch of toys to make sure that the appropriate paint has been used on and that the paint meets our standards for permissible levels of lead. So we are very, very serious about making sure these toys are safe." The BBC Beijing correspondent says fears over the safety of China's exports could cost China billions of dollars.
The world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, the Finnish company Nokia has warned its customers that 46 million batteries supplied with some of its phones risk overheating while they're being recharged. Nokia said that so far 100 such incidents have been reported worldwide.
Italian coastguards say the bodies of around a dozen suspected would-be immigrants from Africa are being spotted in the sea near the Italian island of Lampedusa off the Libyan coast. Italian coastguards say they are sending boats to pick up the bodies found floating in Maltese territory waters.
World News from the BBC.
There has been more uncertainty on international financial markets as nervousness continues over the impact of bad mortgage debts in the United States. Share prices in London fell 1% with Frankfurt 0.5% lower and Paris down 1.5%. New York suffered losses of about 1%. The European Central Bank on Tuesday injected a further 10.5 billion dollars into the money markets to stabilize conditions.
The Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has promised to uphold his country's secular constitution if he becomes president. Mr. Gul has been nominated by the governing AK Party and he is now trying to win support among other groups before parliament chooses Turkey's new leader next week. Mr. Gul's nomination as the presidential candidate in April led to a political crisis with warnings from the army because of fears about his possible Islamist sympathies. But he said such concern was misplaced. "Defending secularism will be one of my key principles. Nobody should worry about this. The key principles of our constitutional law are clear. Secularism is one of them. I will devote all my effort to defend this."
The North Korean authorities and international agencies are beginning to distribute aid to the victims of severe floods. A spokesman for the International Federation of the Red Cross said many parts of North Korea were still inaccessible but his and other agencies were receiving improved cooperation from the government. A BBC correspondent across the border in Seoul says the fact of the traditionally suspicious government has appealed for help is reflection of the scale of the disaster in which hundreds of people are known to have died. Roads, railways, bridges and power lines have been washed away. The UN's World Food Program said that North Korea produced less food than it needed and any loss of this year's harvest would cause concern.
BBC World News.
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...Galpin reports from Baghdad.
We understand that it was out of three or four bombs which went off clearly a coordinated attack. The bombs were onboard either fuel tankers or normal cars and the targets were two towns in this clear remote area of northwestern Iraq close to the Syrian border. And specifically the bombs appeared to have gone off outside (um...) housing complexes. This is a pretty poor area. The houses are not well built to meet stand. A lot have been destroyed in the explosions.
Celebrations have begun in Indian to mark 60 years of independence from Britain. Early events included a concert at Wagar on the border with Pakistan, mirroring one held on the other side the previous night. Our correspondent Alastair Leithead was there.
While Pakistan has its Independence Day celebrations, the India is preparing for its own. I am on the Wagar border between India and Pakistan. This is a few kilometers on the India side. And there is a huge concert that has been organized here. Thousands of people have come along and the singers keep coming on stage and going through a whole repertoire of songs. There is also a Pakistani delegation who come here as well because the idea of this concert is a trying build relations, it's a peace concert essentially. It was supposed to be an even bigger event, actually straddling the border in both countries. But that was cancelled just a few days ago by both India and Pakistan.
The world's largest toy manufacturer, the American firm Mattel has recalled more than 18 million Chinese made toys because of renewed safety fears. Mattel says some have lead in their paint. Others have magnets that could become dislodged and swallowed. It's the second time in two weeks that Mattel has ordered such a withdrawal, adding to a wide range of Chinese product recalls in Europe and America this year. A vice president of the company Brown Stocktam tried to reassure customers. "We are testing every single batch of toys to make sure that the appropriate paint has been used on and that the paint meets our standards for permissible levels of lead. So we are very, very serious about making sure these toys are safe." The BBC Beijing correspondent says fears over the safety of China's exports could cost China billions of dollars.
The world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, the Finnish company Nokia has warned its customers that 46 million batteries supplied with some of its phones risk overheating while they're being recharged. Nokia said that so far 100 such incidents have been reported worldwide.
Italian coastguards say the bodies of around a dozen suspected would-be immigrants from Africa are being spotted in the sea near the Italian island of Lampedusa off the Libyan coast. Italian coastguards say they are sending boats to pick up the bodies found floating in Maltese territory waters.
World News from the BBC.
There has been more uncertainty on international financial markets as nervousness continues over the impact of bad mortgage debts in the United States. Share prices in London fell 1% with Frankfurt 0.5% lower and Paris down 1.5%. New York suffered losses of about 1%. The European Central Bank on Tuesday injected a further 10.5 billion dollars into the money markets to stabilize conditions.
The Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has promised to uphold his country's secular constitution if he becomes president. Mr. Gul has been nominated by the governing AK Party and he is now trying to win support among other groups before parliament chooses Turkey's new leader next week. Mr. Gul's nomination as the presidential candidate in April led to a political crisis with warnings from the army because of fears about his possible Islamist sympathies. But he said such concern was misplaced. "Defending secularism will be one of my key principles. Nobody should worry about this. The key principles of our constitutional law are clear. Secularism is one of them. I will devote all my effort to defend this."
The North Korean authorities and international agencies are beginning to distribute aid to the victims of severe floods. A spokesman for the International Federation of the Red Cross said many parts of North Korea were still inaccessible but his and other agencies were receiving improved cooperation from the government. A BBC correspondent across the border in Seoul says the fact of the traditionally suspicious government has appealed for help is reflection of the scale of the disaster in which hundreds of people are known to have died. Roads, railways, bridges and power lines have been washed away. The UN's World Food Program said that North Korea produced less food than it needed and any loss of this year's harvest would cause concern.
BBC World News.
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