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BBC News with Blerry Goga.
The United Nations is sending home more than a hundred Sri Lankan peacekeepers stationed in Haiti, after they were accused of sexual abuse. The peacekeepers are alleged to have paid for sex with Haitian prostitutes including underage girls. The United Nations Internal Oversight Committee has looked at the allegations and found them to be credible. This report from Laura Trevelyan at the UN.
This is the latest in a series of allegations of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers. Accusations that Sri Lankan peacekeepers had used prostitutes including underage girls were investigated by the UN and the Sri Lankan government. The United Nations found the allegations to be credible. And so on Saturday, 108 peacekeepers and three of their officers are being sent home. The UN has a policy of zero-tolerance towards sexual abuse by peacekeepers. But it's up to the governments that contribute the troops to discipline the peacekeepers.
The Mexican President Felipe Calderon has appealed for calm as more than a million people in the southern state of Tabasco struggle to cope with the effects of uNPRecedented rain and flooding. Speaking during a visit to the state capital Villahermosa, Mr. Calderon said he had ordered the Mexican air force to concentrate all its efforts on getting aid to the hundreds of thousands of people left stranded. Dr. Ramon Garcia-Rochin of the Tabasco's Health Ministry said the situation was very serious.
We have a shortage of water. Some food is scarcely available. Our shelters are packed with people and we are still running rescues in the flooded areas using helicopters and boats.
Several thousand demonstrators calling for early elections and denouncing what they call the authoritarian government under President Mikheil Saakashvili are still on the streets of the Georgian capital Tbilisi. Earlier as many as 30, 000 people attended the rally. As Mathew Collin reports from Tbilisi.
The demonstrators are calling for early elections and the democratic removal of President Saakashvili's government. This is the biggest protest in Georgia since Mr. Saakashvili came to power after the Rose Revolution four years ago. During the day, some 30, 000 people blocked the main street outside the Georgian parliament. But a leading government politician has said that no reasonable government would hold an election during, what she called, a state of national emergency.
The Venezuelan National Assembly dominated by supporters of President Hugo Chavez has overwhelmingly approved a series of constitutional changes. The controversial proposals include a measure removing the limit on the number of times the President can stand for re-election. They are due to be put to a referendum in December. On Thursday, troops used tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of university students in the Venezuelan capital Caracas who were demonstrating against the reforms.
World News from the BBC.
A federal judge in the United States has ordered the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior officials to testify the trial of two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of spying. The defendants, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, are accused of passing on information about American foreign policy. James Coomarasamy reports from Washington.
The two defendants in the case are former lobbyists for the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. They are accused of passing to the Israeli government immediate secrets which they obtained from a since-convicted Pentagon official, among them information about the AL-Qaeda network and the American policy in Iran. Their lawyers argued that they were regularly used as the go-betweens by the American government, and as such had an unofficial but approved role in the shaping of Middle East policy.
Morocco has recalled its ambassador to Spain following an announcement that the Spanish King Juan Carlos will visit two Spanish-held north-African enclaves for the first time in his 32-year reign. Rabat says the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are occupied Moroccan territory and says it's astonished by the Spanish decision. But Spain, which has held the territories for more than 400 years, says the visit is being made at the request of local people.
The Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka have appointed the chief of their police department P. Nadesan to be the new head of their political wing. The previous political leader S.P. Thamilselvan was killed in an air strike by the Sri Lankan military on a camp in Kilinochchi, where top Tamil Tiger leaders had gathered
The union which represents American screenwriters the Writers Guild of America has announced they will begin an indefinite strike against film and television studios on Monday. 12, 000 union members are expected to go on strike unless a last-minute settlement can be found. The Writers Guild wants a bigger share of profits from DVD and Internet revenues for its members. The strike has crippled the production of American television shows and forced stations to broadcast repeats.
BBC World News.
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BBC News with Blerry Goga.
The United Nations is sending home more than a hundred Sri Lankan peacekeepers stationed in Haiti, after they were accused of sexual abuse. The peacekeepers are alleged to have paid for sex with Haitian prostitutes including underage girls. The United Nations Internal Oversight Committee has looked at the allegations and found them to be credible. This report from Laura Trevelyan at the UN.
This is the latest in a series of allegations of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers. Accusations that Sri Lankan peacekeepers had used prostitutes including underage girls were investigated by the UN and the Sri Lankan government. The United Nations found the allegations to be credible. And so on Saturday, 108 peacekeepers and three of their officers are being sent home. The UN has a policy of zero-tolerance towards sexual abuse by peacekeepers. But it's up to the governments that contribute the troops to discipline the peacekeepers.
The Mexican President Felipe Calderon has appealed for calm as more than a million people in the southern state of Tabasco struggle to cope with the effects of uNPRecedented rain and flooding. Speaking during a visit to the state capital Villahermosa, Mr. Calderon said he had ordered the Mexican air force to concentrate all its efforts on getting aid to the hundreds of thousands of people left stranded. Dr. Ramon Garcia-Rochin of the Tabasco's Health Ministry said the situation was very serious.
We have a shortage of water. Some food is scarcely available. Our shelters are packed with people and we are still running rescues in the flooded areas using helicopters and boats.
Several thousand demonstrators calling for early elections and denouncing what they call the authoritarian government under President Mikheil Saakashvili are still on the streets of the Georgian capital Tbilisi. Earlier as many as 30, 000 people attended the rally. As Mathew Collin reports from Tbilisi.
The demonstrators are calling for early elections and the democratic removal of President Saakashvili's government. This is the biggest protest in Georgia since Mr. Saakashvili came to power after the Rose Revolution four years ago. During the day, some 30, 000 people blocked the main street outside the Georgian parliament. But a leading government politician has said that no reasonable government would hold an election during, what she called, a state of national emergency.
The Venezuelan National Assembly dominated by supporters of President Hugo Chavez has overwhelmingly approved a series of constitutional changes. The controversial proposals include a measure removing the limit on the number of times the President can stand for re-election. They are due to be put to a referendum in December. On Thursday, troops used tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of university students in the Venezuelan capital Caracas who were demonstrating against the reforms.
World News from the BBC.
A federal judge in the United States has ordered the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior officials to testify the trial of two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of spying. The defendants, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, are accused of passing on information about American foreign policy. James Coomarasamy reports from Washington.
The two defendants in the case are former lobbyists for the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. They are accused of passing to the Israeli government immediate secrets which they obtained from a since-convicted Pentagon official, among them information about the AL-Qaeda network and the American policy in Iran. Their lawyers argued that they were regularly used as the go-betweens by the American government, and as such had an unofficial but approved role in the shaping of Middle East policy.
Morocco has recalled its ambassador to Spain following an announcement that the Spanish King Juan Carlos will visit two Spanish-held north-African enclaves for the first time in his 32-year reign. Rabat says the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are occupied Moroccan territory and says it's astonished by the Spanish decision. But Spain, which has held the territories for more than 400 years, says the visit is being made at the request of local people.
The Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka have appointed the chief of their police department P. Nadesan to be the new head of their political wing. The previous political leader S.P. Thamilselvan was killed in an air strike by the Sri Lankan military on a camp in Kilinochchi, where top Tamil Tiger leaders had gathered
The union which represents American screenwriters the Writers Guild of America has announced they will begin an indefinite strike against film and television studios on Monday. 12, 000 union members are expected to go on strike unless a last-minute settlement can be found. The Writers Guild wants a bigger share of profits from DVD and Internet revenues for its members. The strike has crippled the production of American television shows and forced stations to broadcast repeats.
BBC World News.
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