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BBC News. I'm Michael Poles.
The pro-Syrian president of Lebanon Emile Lahoud has stepped down after nine years in office without parliament having decided who should be his successor. Mr. Lahoud was driven away from the presidential compound after handing over security to the Lebanese army. His decision to do so was dismissed by the western-backed government of the Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, as Kim Ghattas reports from Beirut.
President Lahoud left the palace with some fanfare and humph leaving behind some confusion as to what is happening in this country. According to the constitution, the cabinet of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora now assumes executive powers and they have said there is no state of emergency in Lebanon, but he leaves behind a very difficult situation with no successor and no clarity about when and if Lebanon will be able to elect a president anytime soon.
Voting is taking place in a general election in Australia where the conservative Prime Minister John Howard is seeking a fifth term in office. His principle rival is Kevin Rudd, leader of the Labor Party. If elected, Mr. Rudd has promised to sign the Kyoto Accord on climate change and pull Australian troops out of Iraq. Nick Bryant reports from Sydney.
All year, Labor's enjoyed a commanding lead in the polls, but in the final 24 hours two new ones have given the government a glimmer of hope by suggesting that John Howard has at least narrowed the gap. As voters started to cast their ballots, he's asked them to focus on the possible impact to the booming economy of a Labor victory. But his main rival, Kevin Rudd, does not appear to frighten the voters as some of his predecessors have done. He's a committed Christian and a fiscal conservative who has set out to woo middle Australia.
Five Hollywood studios have filed a lawsuit against a Chinese Internet provider for allegedly providing illegal copies of films to an Internet Cafe in Shanghai. The studios accused the Internet Provider jeboo.com of creating software that allows illegal downloads of films. Jeboo.com which advertises itself as China's biggest film download provider says its films are all obtained legally.
United State has welcomed the decision by Saudi Arabia to attend next week's conference on the Middle East in the American town of Annapolis. A State Department spokesman said the participation of the Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal was a sign that the Riyadh government believed the meeting would be serious and substantive. It's not yet clear whether Syria will attend.
Doctors at a hospital in Zimbabwe said they've been treating 22 people who were serially beaten by police after taking part in an anti-government demonstration. The protest was timed to coincide with a visit by South African President Thabo Mbeki who was holding talks with President Robert Mugabe and the opposition movement for democratic change. One protestor said the plain clothes policemen had picked out 22 people and taken them away for a severe beating.
You are listening to the world news from the BBC.
United Nations Committee Against Torture has accused Uzbekistan of allowing police and prison officers to carry out torture on a routine basis. The committee said it had received hundreds of well-supported allegations of torture. It's said the Uzbek authorities were very slow to investigate such allegations and obstructed efforts by independent human rights organizations to monitor the situation. A member of the committee and Special Rapporteur for Uzbekistan, F.G. said it was a heart hitting report.
"We've received information, documentation, details, times, places. Each one corroborating the same fact pattern, the same behavioral pattern, the same disregard for the rules, disregard for the humanity of the person, disregard for. . . just about everything. "
The World Health Organization says that an outbreak of bromide poisoning in Angola last month was probably caused by contaminated salt. More than 400 people from Cacuaco, north of the capital Luanda, have been affected. And the numbers continue to rise. Peter Greste reports.
Doctors from the community of Cacuaco, just north of Luanda, began to realize something was wrong late last month. People started complaining of dizziness, of muscle spasms and of having difficulty speaking and wording. The numbers rapidly started to rise and some of the victims slipped into a kind of stupor. Doctors raised the alarm. According to the World Health Organization, there are now at least 414 victims, all showing symptoms of what they now believe to be bromide poisoning. The vast majority of them are under the age of 15.
Negotiators of the World Trade Organization say a row between China and Taiwan is threatening to bring its work to a standstill. Taiwan has vetoed the appointment of a Chinese lawyer to the organization's top dispute body saying it has reservations about the lawyer's impartiality and qualifications. The move means the WTA's Appellate body is currently in limbo.
BBC News.
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BBC News. I'm Michael Poles.
The pro-Syrian president of Lebanon Emile Lahoud has stepped down after nine years in office without parliament having decided who should be his successor. Mr. Lahoud was driven away from the presidential compound after handing over security to the Lebanese army. His decision to do so was dismissed by the western-backed government of the Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, as Kim Ghattas reports from Beirut.
President Lahoud left the palace with some fanfare and humph leaving behind some confusion as to what is happening in this country. According to the constitution, the cabinet of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora now assumes executive powers and they have said there is no state of emergency in Lebanon, but he leaves behind a very difficult situation with no successor and no clarity about when and if Lebanon will be able to elect a president anytime soon.
Voting is taking place in a general election in Australia where the conservative Prime Minister John Howard is seeking a fifth term in office. His principle rival is Kevin Rudd, leader of the Labor Party. If elected, Mr. Rudd has promised to sign the Kyoto Accord on climate change and pull Australian troops out of Iraq. Nick Bryant reports from Sydney.
All year, Labor's enjoyed a commanding lead in the polls, but in the final 24 hours two new ones have given the government a glimmer of hope by suggesting that John Howard has at least narrowed the gap. As voters started to cast their ballots, he's asked them to focus on the possible impact to the booming economy of a Labor victory. But his main rival, Kevin Rudd, does not appear to frighten the voters as some of his predecessors have done. He's a committed Christian and a fiscal conservative who has set out to woo middle Australia.
Five Hollywood studios have filed a lawsuit against a Chinese Internet provider for allegedly providing illegal copies of films to an Internet Cafe in Shanghai. The studios accused the Internet Provider jeboo.com of creating software that allows illegal downloads of films. Jeboo.com which advertises itself as China's biggest film download provider says its films are all obtained legally.
United State has welcomed the decision by Saudi Arabia to attend next week's conference on the Middle East in the American town of Annapolis. A State Department spokesman said the participation of the Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal was a sign that the Riyadh government believed the meeting would be serious and substantive. It's not yet clear whether Syria will attend.
Doctors at a hospital in Zimbabwe said they've been treating 22 people who were serially beaten by police after taking part in an anti-government demonstration. The protest was timed to coincide with a visit by South African President Thabo Mbeki who was holding talks with President Robert Mugabe and the opposition movement for democratic change. One protestor said the plain clothes policemen had picked out 22 people and taken them away for a severe beating.
You are listening to the world news from the BBC.
United Nations Committee Against Torture has accused Uzbekistan of allowing police and prison officers to carry out torture on a routine basis. The committee said it had received hundreds of well-supported allegations of torture. It's said the Uzbek authorities were very slow to investigate such allegations and obstructed efforts by independent human rights organizations to monitor the situation. A member of the committee and Special Rapporteur for Uzbekistan, F.G. said it was a heart hitting report.
"We've received information, documentation, details, times, places. Each one corroborating the same fact pattern, the same behavioral pattern, the same disregard for the rules, disregard for the humanity of the person, disregard for. . . just about everything. "
The World Health Organization says that an outbreak of bromide poisoning in Angola last month was probably caused by contaminated salt. More than 400 people from Cacuaco, north of the capital Luanda, have been affected. And the numbers continue to rise. Peter Greste reports.
Doctors from the community of Cacuaco, just north of Luanda, began to realize something was wrong late last month. People started complaining of dizziness, of muscle spasms and of having difficulty speaking and wording. The numbers rapidly started to rise and some of the victims slipped into a kind of stupor. Doctors raised the alarm. According to the World Health Organization, there are now at least 414 victims, all showing symptoms of what they now believe to be bromide poisoning. The vast majority of them are under the age of 15.
Negotiators of the World Trade Organization say a row between China and Taiwan is threatening to bring its work to a standstill. Taiwan has vetoed the appointment of a Chinese lawyer to the organization's top dispute body saying it has reservations about the lawyer's impartiality and qualifications. The move means the WTA's Appellate body is currently in limbo.
BBC News.
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