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Palestinian negotiators who are in the United States for a Middle East conference say there is still work to be done before an agreement with Israelis can be reached. Talks between the two sides ended without agreement on a joint document in advance of the conference. Earlier President Bush had separate meetings with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the White House. James Comarasamy reports from Washington.
This Annapolis meeting is being infused with a strong sense of realism amid widespread skepticism about the Bush administration’s ability to breathe new life into the Middle East peace process. After his Oval Office meeting, the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said he hoped the conference would produce negotiations on all the permanent status issues pertaining to the creation of a Palestinian state. The White House says merely that this meeting will produce a start to those negotiations but that they said itself is a welcome development.
Violence has broken out for the second night running in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel. Up to 30 police officers are said to be injured in clashes with youths angered by the deaths of two teenagers of North African origin in a high-speed collision between their motorcycle and a police car on Sunday. Alex Sanford reports from Paris.
The scenes have been every bit as violent as during the first night of trouble. Police have fired teargas to try to keep at bay gangs of youths who were attacking them. Some reports say shots have been fired at police and / several officers and one journalist have been injured. The French Interior Minister who visited Villires-le-Bel earlier in the day has said she believes the violence has been organized. The clashes come despite numerous appeals for calm.
The first study of arms embargoes imposed by the United Nations Security Council says that only one in four has been successful. A report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said that none of the 27 embargoes imposed since 1990 had been totally successful in halting the flow of weapons. From UN headquarters in New York, here is Laura Trevelyan.
A Swedish academic studying this found that in only 25 percent of cases did governments improve their behavior once an arms embargo have been imposed. However, if an arms embargo with an action and that there were also UN peacekeepers in the country, then the rate of effectiveness went up to 47 percent. Arms embargoes have often failed to stop the flow of weapons in West African conflict, say the researchers. But the embargo against Saddam Hussein's Iraq was effective and did reduce the capabilities of the Iraqi armed forces.
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan says he plans to step down as army chief on Wednesday before taking the oath a day later for another term as president. It is the first time there has been a clear timetable for General Musharraf to hand over his military powers. But his spokesman said that emergency rule would only be lifted when the General considered that there was no need for it.
World news from the BBC.
The Gates Foundation and Rotary International have announced that they would give $200 million to help eradicate polio. The money will go towards immunizing children against the disease which is still endemic in four countries. The money will support the activities of a global initiative to tackle polio led by groups including the World Health Organization. The organization’s Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan welcomed the news. “It comes at a critical moment. The last pockets of this disease are the hardest and the most costly to reach. This investment is also precisely the catalyst we need to mobilize additional resources. We can achieve a polio-free world if the rest of our financial partners stepped up to the challenge.
An Iraqi journalist has said that 11 members of his extended family have been killed by Shiite gunmen in Baghdad. The journalist Dhia al-Kawaz who has been living in Germany said his two sisters, their husbands and seven children were shot dead at their home on Sunday. Mr. al-Kawaz is an outspoken critic of the Iraqi government, the US military presence in Iraq and those who support it.
President Bush and the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have agreed to start formal negotiations next year about the future relationship between the two countries. Mr. al-Maliki said Iraq would be seeking a renewal at the end of this year of the UN mandate governing the presence of foreign troops but he said it would be for one year only until the end of 2008.
A debate at Oxford University in England was heavily delayed by a mass protest against two of the speakers, a controversial historian David Irving and a far-right political leader Nick Griffin. Protestors forced their way into the building and staged a sit-in while hundreds demonstrated noisily outside. Police eventually cleared the debating chamber and the debate finally began.
BBC news.
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Palestinian negotiators who are in the United States for a Middle East conference say there is still work to be done before an agreement with Israelis can be reached. Talks between the two sides ended without agreement on a joint document in advance of the conference. Earlier President Bush had separate meetings with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the White House. James Comarasamy reports from Washington.
This Annapolis meeting is being infused with a strong sense of realism amid widespread skepticism about the Bush administration’s ability to breathe new life into the Middle East peace process. After his Oval Office meeting, the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said he hoped the conference would produce negotiations on all the permanent status issues pertaining to the creation of a Palestinian state. The White House says merely that this meeting will produce a start to those negotiations but that they said itself is a welcome development.
Violence has broken out for the second night running in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel. Up to 30 police officers are said to be injured in clashes with youths angered by the deaths of two teenagers of North African origin in a high-speed collision between their motorcycle and a police car on Sunday. Alex Sanford reports from Paris.
The scenes have been every bit as violent as during the first night of trouble. Police have fired teargas to try to keep at bay gangs of youths who were attacking them. Some reports say shots have been fired at police and / several officers and one journalist have been injured. The French Interior Minister who visited Villires-le-Bel earlier in the day has said she believes the violence has been organized. The clashes come despite numerous appeals for calm.
The first study of arms embargoes imposed by the United Nations Security Council says that only one in four has been successful. A report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said that none of the 27 embargoes imposed since 1990 had been totally successful in halting the flow of weapons. From UN headquarters in New York, here is Laura Trevelyan.
A Swedish academic studying this found that in only 25 percent of cases did governments improve their behavior once an arms embargo have been imposed. However, if an arms embargo with an action and that there were also UN peacekeepers in the country, then the rate of effectiveness went up to 47 percent. Arms embargoes have often failed to stop the flow of weapons in West African conflict, say the researchers. But the embargo against Saddam Hussein's Iraq was effective and did reduce the capabilities of the Iraqi armed forces.
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan says he plans to step down as army chief on Wednesday before taking the oath a day later for another term as president. It is the first time there has been a clear timetable for General Musharraf to hand over his military powers. But his spokesman said that emergency rule would only be lifted when the General considered that there was no need for it.
World news from the BBC.
The Gates Foundation and Rotary International have announced that they would give $200 million to help eradicate polio. The money will go towards immunizing children against the disease which is still endemic in four countries. The money will support the activities of a global initiative to tackle polio led by groups including the World Health Organization. The organization’s Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan welcomed the news. “It comes at a critical moment. The last pockets of this disease are the hardest and the most costly to reach. This investment is also precisely the catalyst we need to mobilize additional resources. We can achieve a polio-free world if the rest of our financial partners stepped up to the challenge.
An Iraqi journalist has said that 11 members of his extended family have been killed by Shiite gunmen in Baghdad. The journalist Dhia al-Kawaz who has been living in Germany said his two sisters, their husbands and seven children were shot dead at their home on Sunday. Mr. al-Kawaz is an outspoken critic of the Iraqi government, the US military presence in Iraq and those who support it.
President Bush and the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have agreed to start formal negotiations next year about the future relationship between the two countries. Mr. al-Maliki said Iraq would be seeking a renewal at the end of this year of the UN mandate governing the presence of foreign troops but he said it would be for one year only until the end of 2008.
A debate at Oxford University in England was heavily delayed by a mass protest against two of the speakers, a controversial historian David Irving and a far-right political leader Nick Griffin. Protestors forced their way into the building and staged a sit-in while hundreds demonstrated noisily outside. Police eventually cleared the debating chamber and the debate finally began.
BBC news.
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