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Rebels in Chad have seized large parts of the capital N'Djamena and have taken up positions around the presidential palace where the head of state Idriss Deby is holding out. Residents say Saturday's heavy fighting has subsided. A rebel spokesman Abderaman Koulamallah confirmed reports from Libya that one rebel leader Mahamat Nouri had agreed to a ceasefire but that the rebels were on the verge of taking control. "The current situation is that the city of N'Djamena is surrounded by our forces and that the government's forces are completely scattered. Our first column is surrounding the city. And we think that President Idriss Deby will let go of his power shortly."
But Chad's ambassador to the US Mahamat Bechir denied that Chadian forces had been pushed back. "President Deby is exercising fully his responsibility as the head of the state and the commander of chief of the Chadian army. It's very unfortunate that most of the reports are rebel's propaganda."
The African Union has charged Libya with overseeing the response to the rebellion in Chad which was condemned at the end of the organization's summit in Ethiopia. The Union's new president, President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, warned that if the rebellion succeeded, the country would be suspended from the AU until normality was restored. A spokesman for the Chadian government expressed disappointment that the AU hadn't condemned Sudan whose territory believed was used to launch the rebellion. The AU also called for a peaceful resolution to the crisis in Kenya.
The British Justice Minister Jack Straw has ordered an inquiry into allegations that London's police bugged(窃听) conversations between a Muslim member of parliament and a detained man facing extradition to the US. Mr. Straw said it would be completely unacceptable if prison meetings between the MP Sadiq Khan and his constituent Babar Ahmad had been secretly recorded. Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the capital's police force, has refused to comment. With more details, here's Laura Kuenssberg.
Scotland Yard is accused of seriously breaching decades old rules that say "MP's conversations should not be bugged". It's claimed they secretly recorded conversations between Sadiq Khan and his childhood friend and constituent Babar Ahmad. He is accused of running websites supporting Chechen and Taliban rebels and he is fighting extradition to the United States. An investigation by the Ministry of Justice will determine whether or not Mr. Khan, now a government minister, was recorded by a bug hidden in a table during visits to see Mr. Ahmad in prison in 2005 and 2006.
A Lebanese judge has ordered the arrest of 17 people, 11 of them soldiers, in connection with the clashes in Beirut last weekend. At least 7 people were killed when the army opened fire to break up a protest by supporters of the opposition Hezbollah Party. The violence has added to the political crisis in Lebanon.
World news from the BBC.
Republican voters in Maine on the east coast of the United States appeared to have given their backing to Mitt Romney in the race to choose the party's candidate for the presidency. Early returns from caucuses in the state gave Mr. Romney 53% well clear of his main rival John McCain. Mr. McCain though remains the Republican front-runner and he's told reporters he's assumed he would win his party's nomination. The two remaining Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have concentrated their campaigning in the west of the country ahead of Super Tuesday when 24 states vote.
A court in Paraguay has sentenced the owner of a supermarket chain to 12 years in prison after more than 300 people died in a fire of one of his stores. Our Latin American editor Emilio San Pedro reports.
The court found the owner of Ycua Bolanos supermarket chain Juan Pio Paiva guilty of manslaughter but rejected calls for a lengthier sentence by the prosecution. 327 people died in the fire in 2004, the worst in Paraguayan history. Survivors of the blaze accused Mr. Paiva of ordering the doors of the supermarket to be locked to prevent looting after the fire started, a charge which he vehemently denies.
Police in the American city of Chicago say 5 people have been shot dead at a shopping mall in an apparent robbery. Officers said they found the bodies at a store in one of the city's southern suburbs just before midday. Police are searching for one man in connection with the killings.
A group linked to al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania on Friday, in which 3 French bystanders were wounded. In a written statement shown on the Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera, the group al-Qaeda in Islamic North Africa said the attack had been a reprisal for the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Mauritania is one of three Arab countries to have diplomatic relations with Israel. Authorities are continuing their search for the attackers.
BBC news.
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BBC news with Mike Cooper.
Rebels in Chad have seized large parts of the capital N'Djamena and have taken up positions around the presidential palace where the head of state Idriss Deby is holding out. Residents say Saturday's heavy fighting has subsided. A rebel spokesman Abderaman Koulamallah confirmed reports from Libya that one rebel leader Mahamat Nouri had agreed to a ceasefire but that the rebels were on the verge of taking control. "The current situation is that the city of N'Djamena is surrounded by our forces and that the government's forces are completely scattered. Our first column is surrounding the city. And we think that President Idriss Deby will let go of his power shortly."
But Chad's ambassador to the US Mahamat Bechir denied that Chadian forces had been pushed back. "President Deby is exercising fully his responsibility as the head of the state and the commander of chief of the Chadian army. It's very unfortunate that most of the reports are rebel's propaganda."
The African Union has charged Libya with overseeing the response to the rebellion in Chad which was condemned at the end of the organization's summit in Ethiopia. The Union's new president, President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, warned that if the rebellion succeeded, the country would be suspended from the AU until normality was restored. A spokesman for the Chadian government expressed disappointment that the AU hadn't condemned Sudan whose territory believed was used to launch the rebellion. The AU also called for a peaceful resolution to the crisis in Kenya.
The British Justice Minister Jack Straw has ordered an inquiry into allegations that London's police bugged(窃听) conversations between a Muslim member of parliament and a detained man facing extradition to the US. Mr. Straw said it would be completely unacceptable if prison meetings between the MP Sadiq Khan and his constituent Babar Ahmad had been secretly recorded. Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the capital's police force, has refused to comment. With more details, here's Laura Kuenssberg.
Scotland Yard is accused of seriously breaching decades old rules that say "MP's conversations should not be bugged". It's claimed they secretly recorded conversations between Sadiq Khan and his childhood friend and constituent Babar Ahmad. He is accused of running websites supporting Chechen and Taliban rebels and he is fighting extradition to the United States. An investigation by the Ministry of Justice will determine whether or not Mr. Khan, now a government minister, was recorded by a bug hidden in a table during visits to see Mr. Ahmad in prison in 2005 and 2006.
A Lebanese judge has ordered the arrest of 17 people, 11 of them soldiers, in connection with the clashes in Beirut last weekend. At least 7 people were killed when the army opened fire to break up a protest by supporters of the opposition Hezbollah Party. The violence has added to the political crisis in Lebanon.
World news from the BBC.
Republican voters in Maine on the east coast of the United States appeared to have given their backing to Mitt Romney in the race to choose the party's candidate for the presidency. Early returns from caucuses in the state gave Mr. Romney 53% well clear of his main rival John McCain. Mr. McCain though remains the Republican front-runner and he's told reporters he's assumed he would win his party's nomination. The two remaining Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have concentrated their campaigning in the west of the country ahead of Super Tuesday when 24 states vote.
A court in Paraguay has sentenced the owner of a supermarket chain to 12 years in prison after more than 300 people died in a fire of one of his stores. Our Latin American editor Emilio San Pedro reports.
The court found the owner of Ycua Bolanos supermarket chain Juan Pio Paiva guilty of manslaughter but rejected calls for a lengthier sentence by the prosecution. 327 people died in the fire in 2004, the worst in Paraguayan history. Survivors of the blaze accused Mr. Paiva of ordering the doors of the supermarket to be locked to prevent looting after the fire started, a charge which he vehemently denies.
Police in the American city of Chicago say 5 people have been shot dead at a shopping mall in an apparent robbery. Officers said they found the bodies at a store in one of the city's southern suburbs just before midday. Police are searching for one man in connection with the killings.
A group linked to al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania on Friday, in which 3 French bystanders were wounded. In a written statement shown on the Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera, the group al-Qaeda in Islamic North Africa said the attack had been a reprisal for the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Mauritania is one of three Arab countries to have diplomatic relations with Israel. Authorities are continuing their search for the attackers.
BBC news.
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