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Tens of thousands of people, most of them tourists, have been moved from high-risk coastal areas including the resort of Cancun from where Heather Alexander sent this report.
Last preparations here are almost complete. Hotels and businesses have boarded up the windows. The last flights have gone carrying tourists who managed to get seats. Around 40,000 are thought to have left, that leaves about 20,000 still here. The army have been moving everyone away from the shorelines. The advice from the government is "stay inside and stay away from windows". Authorities here and in Texas are moving people from their offshore oil facilities, too. Around 10,000 have left with oil companies taking no chances.
The only American army officer to be charged in connection with abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, lieutenant-colonel Steven Jordan, has gone before a court martial in the United States. Prosecutors have dropped two of the most serious charges against the colonel who was in charge of interrogations at the prison. James Coomarasamy reports from Washington.
Lieutenant-colonel Jordan did not himself appear in any of the notorious photographs taken at Abu Ghraib prison but prosecutors allege he condoned and even encouraged the abuse of Iraqi prisoners that were shown in them, images which caused such outrage across the world. Yet even before the military jury had been formally selected for his court martial trial, the prosecution announced it was dropping two of the most serious charges against him, because he hadn't been read his rights by the general investigating the prisoner abuses. Lieutenant-colonel Jordan has maintained his innocence and recently described himself as a scapegoat.
President Sarkozy of France has announced that repeat sex offenders will face much tougher treatment ranging from full jail terms to chemical castration. Mr. Sarkozy said pedophiles would in future only be released when doctors decided that they were no longer dangerous. There was an outcry in France when a serial child molester was accused of raping a young boy after early release from jail, a case Mr. Sarkozy said should never have been allowed to happen. "Everyone knew that this individual was dangerous. The doctors knew it. His fellow prisoners knew it. The judges knew it. And yet this man was able to get out of prison. He managed to disappear, kidnap a child and make this child suffer disgraceful treatment. The situation is unacceptable."
The United Nations has warned that more and more Afghan civilians will be forced to flee their homes if the conflict in Afghanistan continues. The UN special envoy on internally displaced person said that everyone involved in the fighting had to do more to protect civilians in Afghanistan.
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The Pakistani authorities have released without charge a computer expert with alleged links to al-Qaeda. The man, Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, has been held for three years and is said to have provided information that led to the arrest of a number of terror suspects in the US and Britain. Barbara Plett reports from Islamabad.
Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan was arrested in Pakistan in July 2004. Pakistani officials said his computer files and his interrogations helped them to foil al-Qaeda plots in the US and Britain. Media reports have suggested he was a double agent working with Pakistani and American intelligence agencies. But his lawyer said there was no solid case against his client and he stressed that Mr. Khan had never been charged with a crime or brought before a court. According to security sources, he is still under heavy surveillance.
Angry crowds of Bangladesh university students have defied the state of emergency and fought running battles with riot police in the capital Dhaka. The police responded with tear gas and baton charges after the students started throwing stones and setting fire on the campus of Dhaka University. Our BBC correspondent says at least 50 protestors were hurt. The students, some of whom chanted anti-government slogans, want the army to withdraw from their campus.
The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is hosting talks with President Bush and the Mexican President Felipe Calderon, which will focus on regional trade and security. Mr. Harper is also expected to reassert his country's claim to the Northwest Passage through the Arctic which the US regards as international waters.
An American football star accused of taking part in an illegal dog fighting ring has agreed to plead guilty to the charges against him. Michael Vick, a quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, is accused of involvement in the ring where it's alleged that underperforming dogs were sometimes shot, hanged or electrocuted.
BBC World News.
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Tens of thousands of people, most of them tourists, have been moved from high-risk coastal areas including the resort of Cancun from where Heather Alexander sent this report.
Last preparations here are almost complete. Hotels and businesses have boarded up the windows. The last flights have gone carrying tourists who managed to get seats. Around 40,000 are thought to have left, that leaves about 20,000 still here. The army have been moving everyone away from the shorelines. The advice from the government is "stay inside and stay away from windows". Authorities here and in Texas are moving people from their offshore oil facilities, too. Around 10,000 have left with oil companies taking no chances.
The only American army officer to be charged in connection with abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, lieutenant-colonel Steven Jordan, has gone before a court martial in the United States. Prosecutors have dropped two of the most serious charges against the colonel who was in charge of interrogations at the prison. James Coomarasamy reports from Washington.
Lieutenant-colonel Jordan did not himself appear in any of the notorious photographs taken at Abu Ghraib prison but prosecutors allege he condoned and even encouraged the abuse of Iraqi prisoners that were shown in them, images which caused such outrage across the world. Yet even before the military jury had been formally selected for his court martial trial, the prosecution announced it was dropping two of the most serious charges against him, because he hadn't been read his rights by the general investigating the prisoner abuses. Lieutenant-colonel Jordan has maintained his innocence and recently described himself as a scapegoat.
President Sarkozy of France has announced that repeat sex offenders will face much tougher treatment ranging from full jail terms to chemical castration. Mr. Sarkozy said pedophiles would in future only be released when doctors decided that they were no longer dangerous. There was an outcry in France when a serial child molester was accused of raping a young boy after early release from jail, a case Mr. Sarkozy said should never have been allowed to happen. "Everyone knew that this individual was dangerous. The doctors knew it. His fellow prisoners knew it. The judges knew it. And yet this man was able to get out of prison. He managed to disappear, kidnap a child and make this child suffer disgraceful treatment. The situation is unacceptable."
The United Nations has warned that more and more Afghan civilians will be forced to flee their homes if the conflict in Afghanistan continues. The UN special envoy on internally displaced person said that everyone involved in the fighting had to do more to protect civilians in Afghanistan.
You are listening to World News from the BBC.
The Pakistani authorities have released without charge a computer expert with alleged links to al-Qaeda. The man, Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, has been held for three years and is said to have provided information that led to the arrest of a number of terror suspects in the US and Britain. Barbara Plett reports from Islamabad.
Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan was arrested in Pakistan in July 2004. Pakistani officials said his computer files and his interrogations helped them to foil al-Qaeda plots in the US and Britain. Media reports have suggested he was a double agent working with Pakistani and American intelligence agencies. But his lawyer said there was no solid case against his client and he stressed that Mr. Khan had never been charged with a crime or brought before a court. According to security sources, he is still under heavy surveillance.
Angry crowds of Bangladesh university students have defied the state of emergency and fought running battles with riot police in the capital Dhaka. The police responded with tear gas and baton charges after the students started throwing stones and setting fire on the campus of Dhaka University. Our BBC correspondent says at least 50 protestors were hurt. The students, some of whom chanted anti-government slogans, want the army to withdraw from their campus.
The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is hosting talks with President Bush and the Mexican President Felipe Calderon, which will focus on regional trade and security. Mr. Harper is also expected to reassert his country's claim to the Northwest Passage through the Arctic which the US regards as international waters.
An American football star accused of taking part in an illegal dog fighting ring has agreed to plead guilty to the charges against him. Michael Vick, a quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, is accused of involvement in the ring where it's alleged that underperforming dogs were sometimes shot, hanged or electrocuted.
BBC World News.
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