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...carried in an oil tanker and three cars targeted a pair of densely populated villages near the Syrian border. The victims were members of the Yazidi religion. From Baghdad, Mike Wooldridge reports.
As a new benchmark in Iraqi violence was passed, the deadliest attack since the war on a single area, frantic efforts were still being made to find survivors in the rubble of dozens of homes and other buildings destroyed in the blasts. Many of the houses were made of no more than clay and mud. Hospitals in the area continue to receive wounded with terrible injuries. A new bride in one hospital said her husband and nine of his family were killed. The Americans are calling it a hallmark al-Qaeda event. And they said that last week letters were distributed in the villages, warning the Yazidi to leave because it was claimed they were infidels.
Palestinian officials say that President Mahmoud Abbas is considering changes to the electoral laws including measures that could prevent the participation of Hamas which won the general election in January last year. The National Unity Administration collapsed in June and Mr. Abbas governs from the occupied West Bank after Hamas seized control of Gaza.
Israeli and Palestinian officials have welcomed the Japanese government initiative to boost economic cooperation as a path to reviving the Middle East peace process. They were speaking after talks with the Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso at his Jordanian counterpart in the West Bank town of Jericho. Mr. Aso earlier announced a multimillion-dollar aid package for the Palestinians including Japan's first direct aid to the Palestinian government since Hamas won elections last year. From Jerusalem, Crispin Thorold reports.
The Palestinian economy has been in a desperate state for well over a year. So any financial aid is a welcome boost to the Palestinian authorities' accounts. Eleven million dollars in direct aid which Japan has pledged is not a huge amount, but it does at least mark the resumption of Japanese financial support.
Three Germans traveling in a diplomatic convoy have been killed by an explosion outside the Afghan capital Kabul. A fourth was wounded. Local police said the blast was caused by a remote-controlled bomb which completely destroyed one vehicle. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government was doing everything it could to find out who was responsible for the attack. "We found out today that three German police officers have died in a terrible murderous attack. On behalf of the federal government and personally, I would like to express my sympathy to the family members of those affected and assure them that our thoughts are with them at this time." Meanwhile in Kabul, a British national working for a private security firm which guards the British embassy was killed by unknown assailants.
World News from the BBC.
A United States official has told the BBC that he expects the Bush Administration to announce shortly that it would place Iran's elite military unit, the Revolutionary Guards, on its list of foreign terrorist organizations. Washington says there's evidence that the Revolutionary Guards have been involved in training and supplying weapons to Shiite militants in Iraq and to Taliban rebels in Afghanistan.
The Central Election Commission in Ukraine has unanimously voted to register candidates loyal to the opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko for next month's parliamentary election, reversing its earlier refusal. From Kiev, Helen Fawkes reports.
Yulia Tymoshenko can now officially launch her election campaign. The opposition leader and her candidates have been given the go-ahead to take part in next month's ballot. The pro-Western election bloc had earlier been barred for not providing their full addresses on their registration forms. Mrs. Tymoshenko challenged the ruling in court and the election commission was ordered to review its decision by the end of Wednesday. Mrs. Tymoshenko is one of Ukraine's most popular politicians. Along with the president, she helped to lead the mass protest of the Orange Revolution in 2004.
A Russian Internet music site owner who sold downloads for a fraction of the price charged by US-approved sites has been acquitted of copyright offences by a court in Moscow. Before it was shut down this year under pressure from US corporations, the Allofmp3.com site was attracting millions of customers worldwide.
A Malaysian man has been arrested after police discovered he'd been working as a dentist for nearly thirty years without any medical training or qualifications. The 63-year-old practiced from his home in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. He said he learned to pull teeth when he worked as an assistant to an army dentist. If convicted, the man could face up to six years in prison and an 86,000 dollar fine.
BBC World News.
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...carried in an oil tanker and three cars targeted a pair of densely populated villages near the Syrian border. The victims were members of the Yazidi religion. From Baghdad, Mike Wooldridge reports.
As a new benchmark in Iraqi violence was passed, the deadliest attack since the war on a single area, frantic efforts were still being made to find survivors in the rubble of dozens of homes and other buildings destroyed in the blasts. Many of the houses were made of no more than clay and mud. Hospitals in the area continue to receive wounded with terrible injuries. A new bride in one hospital said her husband and nine of his family were killed. The Americans are calling it a hallmark al-Qaeda event. And they said that last week letters were distributed in the villages, warning the Yazidi to leave because it was claimed they were infidels.
Palestinian officials say that President Mahmoud Abbas is considering changes to the electoral laws including measures that could prevent the participation of Hamas which won the general election in January last year. The National Unity Administration collapsed in June and Mr. Abbas governs from the occupied West Bank after Hamas seized control of Gaza.
Israeli and Palestinian officials have welcomed the Japanese government initiative to boost economic cooperation as a path to reviving the Middle East peace process. They were speaking after talks with the Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso at his Jordanian counterpart in the West Bank town of Jericho. Mr. Aso earlier announced a multimillion-dollar aid package for the Palestinians including Japan's first direct aid to the Palestinian government since Hamas won elections last year. From Jerusalem, Crispin Thorold reports.
The Palestinian economy has been in a desperate state for well over a year. So any financial aid is a welcome boost to the Palestinian authorities' accounts. Eleven million dollars in direct aid which Japan has pledged is not a huge amount, but it does at least mark the resumption of Japanese financial support.
Three Germans traveling in a diplomatic convoy have been killed by an explosion outside the Afghan capital Kabul. A fourth was wounded. Local police said the blast was caused by a remote-controlled bomb which completely destroyed one vehicle. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government was doing everything it could to find out who was responsible for the attack. "We found out today that three German police officers have died in a terrible murderous attack. On behalf of the federal government and personally, I would like to express my sympathy to the family members of those affected and assure them that our thoughts are with them at this time." Meanwhile in Kabul, a British national working for a private security firm which guards the British embassy was killed by unknown assailants.
World News from the BBC.
A United States official has told the BBC that he expects the Bush Administration to announce shortly that it would place Iran's elite military unit, the Revolutionary Guards, on its list of foreign terrorist organizations. Washington says there's evidence that the Revolutionary Guards have been involved in training and supplying weapons to Shiite militants in Iraq and to Taliban rebels in Afghanistan.
The Central Election Commission in Ukraine has unanimously voted to register candidates loyal to the opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko for next month's parliamentary election, reversing its earlier refusal. From Kiev, Helen Fawkes reports.
Yulia Tymoshenko can now officially launch her election campaign. The opposition leader and her candidates have been given the go-ahead to take part in next month's ballot. The pro-Western election bloc had earlier been barred for not providing their full addresses on their registration forms. Mrs. Tymoshenko challenged the ruling in court and the election commission was ordered to review its decision by the end of Wednesday. Mrs. Tymoshenko is one of Ukraine's most popular politicians. Along with the president, she helped to lead the mass protest of the Orange Revolution in 2004.
A Russian Internet music site owner who sold downloads for a fraction of the price charged by US-approved sites has been acquitted of copyright offences by a court in Moscow. Before it was shut down this year under pressure from US corporations, the Allofmp3.com site was attracting millions of customers worldwide.
A Malaysian man has been arrested after police discovered he'd been working as a dentist for nearly thirty years without any medical training or qualifications. The 63-year-old practiced from his home in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. He said he learned to pull teeth when he worked as an assistant to an army dentist. If convicted, the man could face up to six years in prison and an 86,000 dollar fine.
BBC World News.
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