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BBC News with Nick Kelly.

The two Democratic rivals in the race to become America’s next president have paid tribute to each other a day after a marathon primary campaign ended with Barack Obama declaring victory over Hilary Clinton. Senator Clinton has still not conceded in public that she has lost the contest. In the speech to a pro-Israel lobby group in Washington, Senator Obama called his rival an extraordinary candidate. Senator Clinton told the same audience they could trust Mr. Obama.

"I know Senator Obama understands what is at stake here, it has been an honor to contest these primaries with him, it is an honor to call him my friend and let me be very clear, I know that Senator Obama will be a good friend to Israel."

Barack Obama also said Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he was moved by Mr. Obama’s speech at the American-Israel Public Affairs Council. But the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the Palestinians would never accept a state without Jerusalem as its capital. The Islamist Hamas Movement which controls Gaza said the speech confirmed American hostility to Arabs and Muslims.

The leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Morgan Tsvangirai has been freed without charge from police detention after being held for eight hours. He had been campaigning for the presidential run-off election to be held at the end of this month. Mr. Tsvangirai said his detention was unnecessary and harassment. Caroline Hawley reports.(Www.hxen.net)

Morgan Tsvangirai was detained at a checkpoint on his way from campaigning in the town of Lupane in the west of the country. His spokesman said he was held for four hours at the side of the road and then another four hours at a police station. Police accused him of violating the country’s Public Order Act for addressing supporters in what they called an illegal gathering. In the end though, he was freed without charge. But his detention is part of an increasing campaign of political intimidation as the presidential run-off approaches.

Senior military officers from Uganda and Southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed on a plan to launch a military operation against the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army. The Congolese army is to find what has been termed a military solution to the rebellion after the failure of two years of peace talks. From the Ugandan capital Kampala , Sarah Grainger reports.

Throughout the peace talks, Joseph Kony remained in eastern Congo while he and his top commanders were the subjects of arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court. He is accused of numerous war crimes including mutilating and abducting civilians and forcing thousands of children into combat. During the peace talks, the threat of attack by the LRA rebels receded from northern Uganda, but there have been reports of the rebels attacking and abducting civilians in both eastern Congo and the Central African Republic, suggesting that the problem has been displaced, not removed.

World News from the BBC.

A BBC World Service investigation has uncovered evidence of serious flaws in the United Nations-run scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. Under the scheme, industry in the developing world is paid to cut emissions of global-warming gases, but the BBC found examples in India of companies claiming carbon credits worth millions of dollars for emission cutting schemes that managers admitted would have taken place without the incentive of the credits.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that soaring food prices could lead to disaster, / he says up to 20 billion dollars a year is needed to help resolve the crisis. He made his comments at the UN food summit in Rome, held in response to food riots around the world. There have been calls for urgent action to stop people going hungry and pledges of almost three billion dollars in emergency food aid. Mr. Ban said the fight against hunger had to be won.

"The enemy is hunger, hunger degrades everything we have been fighting for in recent years and decades. Recent riots and protests show that hunger and the threat of hunger create unrest and instability. We are duty-bound to act now and to act as one."

A suicide bomber has blown himself up near a military barracks in the eastern suburbs of the Algeria capital Algiers. At the same time, two bombs went off in a cafe used by soldiers from the same military base. No one says they carried out the blasts which injured several people. The attacks came as foreign ministers from 11 Mediterranean countries are due to meet in Algiers to discuss plans for Mediterranean Union.

And the International Olympic Committee has drawn up a short list of four cities as potential hosts for the Olympic Games in 2016, eliminating three contenders. The list has been whittled down to Chicago, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid. The Executive Board ruled out bids from Doha, Prague and Baku.