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BBC News with Roy Lamar.
There've been two explosions very close to the motorcade of the former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who's just returned home after 8 years of self-imposed exile. At least 30 people are reported to have been killed. Ms. Bhutto herself is safe. Barbara Plett reports from Karachi.
There've been 2 explosions near the vehicle carrying Benazir Bhutto. Local reports say they were bombs. The former Pakistani Prime Minister has just returned to the country after 8 years in self-imposed exile. She was travelling in a crowded procession on a main street in Karachi. She was not harmed, but television pictures showed dead and injured people. Hospital officials confirmed that 4 people died and said around 60 were wounded. Eyewitnesses reported to have seen at least 15 bodies, most of them activists from Ms. Bhutto's party. Two cars are on fire. Police have cordoned off the area and evacuated the grounds around the stage where she was supposed to be giving a speech. Security forces had deployed in large numbers to guard the procession after threats against Ms. Bhutto by pro-Taliban militants.
European Union leaders meeting in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, have expressed confidence that they would conclude within hours a reform treaty to replace the European Constitution, two years after its rejection by French and Dutch voters, from Lisbon, Oana Lungescu.
EU leaders have begun the summit hopeful that they will be able to reach an agreement to lift the bloc out of the deepest crisis in its 50-year history. The Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates who is hosting the meeting, said problems were limited, while the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the deal was only millimeters away, but those millimeters could take many hours to cover, because what's at stake are national interests and national pride. Poland wants guarantees. It will be able to delay decisions it doesn't like for months or even years / while Italy is upset that it might end up with fewer seats in the European Parliament than Britain and France.
It's been officially announced that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Cecilia have divorced. Mr. Sarkozy admitted in 2005 that the marriage was going through, uh, problems, his wife left him briefly to live with an advertising executive in New York. Emma-Jane Kirby reports from Paris.
Earlier announcements from the Elysee suggested that President Sarkozy and his wife had just begun the process of separating. Now the official statement confirms the couple have already divorced by mutual consent. The news that Nicolas Sarkozy has separated from his wife of 11 years ends weeks of speculation that the couple's marriage was in trouble. Since the President took office in May, the pair have rarely been seen together in public. France's first lady admitted official duties bored her.
The Director General of the BBC Mark Thompson has announced big job cuts. He said 2,500 would go.
This is BBC News.
The military authorities in Burma have announced the formation of a committee to draft a new constitution with no opposition representation. State radio and television said it would be led by senior legal figures and would have 54 members. The Formation of the committee as part of a 7-stage process, the military says, will lead to elections, critics dismiss it as a sham.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has held a first round of talks with the leader of Southern Sudan, Salva Kiir, to try to resolve the crisis that's threatened to return the country to conflict. There was no comment on what they had discussed. And further talks are due to take place on Monday.
The trial has begun in Argentina of a former military officer, accused of carrying out human rights abuses at a clandestine detention center under military rule. Hector Febres is the first person to stand trial in connection with the alleged abuses carried out against government opponents at the center, a naval mechanics school known as ESMA. Febres is accused of having tortured 4 people and having participated in the abduction of babies born to government opponents.
The British actress Deborah Kerr who starred in Hollywood films including "An affair to remember" and "King and I", has died aged 86. She's been suffering from Parkinson's disease. Chris Johns looks back at her career.
When asked how she would like to be characterized in cinema history, Deborah Kerr didn't hesitate, not as an English role she insisted. For one thing she was Scottish and when she went to Hollywood after the war, she became increasingly frustrated at being asked to play the polite and proper English lady. That changed in 1953, in one of the cinema's famous moments, as she played an adulterous wife, rolling on the surf with Burt Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity". Deborah Kerr was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar six times during the 1950s and 60s.
BBC News.
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BBC News with Roy Lamar.
There've been two explosions very close to the motorcade of the former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who's just returned home after 8 years of self-imposed exile. At least 30 people are reported to have been killed. Ms. Bhutto herself is safe. Barbara Plett reports from Karachi.
There've been 2 explosions near the vehicle carrying Benazir Bhutto. Local reports say they were bombs. The former Pakistani Prime Minister has just returned to the country after 8 years in self-imposed exile. She was travelling in a crowded procession on a main street in Karachi. She was not harmed, but television pictures showed dead and injured people. Hospital officials confirmed that 4 people died and said around 60 were wounded. Eyewitnesses reported to have seen at least 15 bodies, most of them activists from Ms. Bhutto's party. Two cars are on fire. Police have cordoned off the area and evacuated the grounds around the stage where she was supposed to be giving a speech. Security forces had deployed in large numbers to guard the procession after threats against Ms. Bhutto by pro-Taliban militants.
European Union leaders meeting in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, have expressed confidence that they would conclude within hours a reform treaty to replace the European Constitution, two years after its rejection by French and Dutch voters, from Lisbon, Oana Lungescu.
EU leaders have begun the summit hopeful that they will be able to reach an agreement to lift the bloc out of the deepest crisis in its 50-year history. The Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates who is hosting the meeting, said problems were limited, while the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the deal was only millimeters away, but those millimeters could take many hours to cover, because what's at stake are national interests and national pride. Poland wants guarantees. It will be able to delay decisions it doesn't like for months or even years / while Italy is upset that it might end up with fewer seats in the European Parliament than Britain and France.
It's been officially announced that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Cecilia have divorced. Mr. Sarkozy admitted in 2005 that the marriage was going through, uh, problems, his wife left him briefly to live with an advertising executive in New York. Emma-Jane Kirby reports from Paris.
Earlier announcements from the Elysee suggested that President Sarkozy and his wife had just begun the process of separating. Now the official statement confirms the couple have already divorced by mutual consent. The news that Nicolas Sarkozy has separated from his wife of 11 years ends weeks of speculation that the couple's marriage was in trouble. Since the President took office in May, the pair have rarely been seen together in public. France's first lady admitted official duties bored her.
The Director General of the BBC Mark Thompson has announced big job cuts. He said 2,500 would go.
This is BBC News.
The military authorities in Burma have announced the formation of a committee to draft a new constitution with no opposition representation. State radio and television said it would be led by senior legal figures and would have 54 members. The Formation of the committee as part of a 7-stage process, the military says, will lead to elections, critics dismiss it as a sham.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has held a first round of talks with the leader of Southern Sudan, Salva Kiir, to try to resolve the crisis that's threatened to return the country to conflict. There was no comment on what they had discussed. And further talks are due to take place on Monday.
The trial has begun in Argentina of a former military officer, accused of carrying out human rights abuses at a clandestine detention center under military rule. Hector Febres is the first person to stand trial in connection with the alleged abuses carried out against government opponents at the center, a naval mechanics school known as ESMA. Febres is accused of having tortured 4 people and having participated in the abduction of babies born to government opponents.
The British actress Deborah Kerr who starred in Hollywood films including "An affair to remember" and "King and I", has died aged 86. She's been suffering from Parkinson's disease. Chris Johns looks back at her career.
When asked how she would like to be characterized in cinema history, Deborah Kerr didn't hesitate, not as an English role she insisted. For one thing she was Scottish and when she went to Hollywood after the war, she became increasingly frustrated at being asked to play the polite and proper English lady. That changed in 1953, in one of the cinema's famous moments, as she played an adulterous wife, rolling on the surf with Burt Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity". Deborah Kerr was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar six times during the 1950s and 60s.
BBC News.
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