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Votes have been counted in Argentina's presidential election with the first exit polls suggesting that senator Christina Fernandez de Kirchner, the wife of the outgoing president has won outright. If these unofficial predictions are confirmed, she will become the country's first elected female head of state. Daniel Schweimler reports from the capital Buenos Aires.

The celebrations began shortly after polling stations closed. Christina Fernandez de Kirchner's supporters were reacting to unofficial exit polls that give the president's wife forty six percent of the vote. If confirmed, that would mean there's no need for another round of voting against the second place candidate next month. The electoral authorities allowed polling station to stay open for an extra hour after bureaucratic problems led to long delays in voting. The opposition said there was a shortage of ballot papers in some places. But that won't worry Christina Kirchner, looking likely to speak to the nation as the first elected woman president of Argentina.

The Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has warned of disastrous consequences if Turkey goes ahead with the military incursion into Northern Iraq. He was speaking after the breakdown of talks between the two countries on how to deal with the Kurdish group, the PKK, which launches attacks on Turkey from bases in Iraq. In an interview with the BBC, Mr. Zebari said Turkey's threatened incursion had raised fears that he was planning something bigger than merely tackling the PKK.
"Well, this is a concern of many people and we hope we will not reach that point at all under special wisdom and if Turkey still act rationally not emotionally because the consequences for Iraq, for the stability of the Iraq, for the stability of Turkey, of the region, would be disastrous."

Ethiopian forces in Somalia have opened fire during a demonstration by residents in the capital Mogadishu. Three people were reported to have been killed. The crowds were protesting at the presence of what they called foreign invaders. The Ethiopians have moved reinforcements into the city to help Somali forces defeat insurgents. Alfred Berulew, a doctor with the medical charity Nonsarsy Fronty Air told the BBC that fighting had intensified in recent days.

Only yesterday, eh, Twenty six casualties were reported, and at least 45 civilians were injured, so this was only one day, but if you compare it with the figures we have for the rest of the past three weeks, this is a tragedy among the people who were injured or killed in one week.

The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy has condemned French charity workers for trying to take more a hundred children out of Chad. Mr. Sarkozy branded their actions illegal and unacceptable. The Charity Zoe's Ark has denied it planned to sell the children for adoption, but said they would be taken abroad for medical treatment. Earlier the French Ambassador to Chad said the charity workers could be charged with kidnapping.

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International mediators meeting in Libya are working to save talks aimed at bringing peace to the Sudanese region of Darfur. United Nations chief mediator Jan Eliasson said rebel groups who refused to attend would be given more time for internal discussions. He said the peace process would not be postponed. From Sirte in Libya, Here is our correspondent Jonah Fisher.

Faced with complete failure, the Darfur peace talks are now being rebranded. At the opening ceremony on Saturday. Hundreds of delegates and journalists, even the host al-Qaddafi, thought they're attending the start of negotiations. Now, after a rebel boycott, mediators say in fact that ceremony was just the beginning of an advanced consultation phase with Darfur's many rebel factions given more time for internal discussions. As many of the rebel leaders don't want to go to talks, the mediators will travel to speak to them.

Here in Britain the first Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond has urged his Scottish National Party to use its record in government to make the case for full independence from England. Speaking at the party's first conference, since he took over the devolved administration earlier this year, Mr. Salmond said the SNP successes will strengthen the argument for separation. Earlier the main opposetion party in Britain as a whole, the conservatives said they would consider a plan to stop Scots MPs in the British parliament voting on purely English legislation.

Pakistani forces backed by helicopter gunships have clashed with Islamic militants in northwest frontier province on a third day of violence there. The military said they had killed ten militants. Hundreds of people have fled the area near Mingora in the Swat Valley.The fighting began with an attack by troops on Friday on the stronghold of a radical Muslin cleric. Pakistan says militants have been terrorizing and killing villagers in the Swat Valley.

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