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BBC News with Jonathan Weekley.
High demand, political uncertainty and gloomy economic figures have fueled a record jump in the price of oil. The cost of crude in New York has seen its biggest-ever one-day rise, surging more than 11 dollars to a record high of 139 dollars a barrel. From New York, here's Greg Wood.
Even during the oil crises of the 1970s and 80s, there's never been a day like this. US light crude hit a new high of more than 139 dollars a barrel after an Israeli minister talked about attacking Iranian nuclear sites and the US investment bank Morgan Stanley predicted prices would go higher still. Nervous investors also switched their money into oil and out of dollars after the latest sign of weakness in the US economy, the biggest rise in the unemployment rate for more than 20 years. That prompted a widespread sell-off on the New York stock market with the Dow-Jones Average losing more than 3 percent of its value.
Legislation in the United States to combat global warming has suffered a serious setback after Republicans in the Senate blocked efforts to bring the bill for a final vote. The bill would have introduced a target cap on carbon emissions of 70% by the middle of the century. President Bush has threatened to veto the bill.
The United States has accused the government in Harare of withholding food aid from opposition supporters ahead of the run-off presidential election this month. The State Department Spokesman, Sean McCormack said officials were confiscating opposition supporters' documents needed to receive food aid and to cast a vote. "In order to get food aid from the government rationing stations,/ they have to show their voter registration as well as other identification. Apparently, if individuals hand these things over and they are registered to vote for an opposition party, those credentials are kept and held by the government officials, thereby, making it impossible for those people to vote in the election. That is / cruel in the most sinister kind of way, using food as a weapon to prevent them from voting their conscience for a better kind of Zimbabwe. " (Www.hxen.net)
In Turkey, the governing AK party has accused the constitutional court of overstepping its powers in the dispute over the wearing of Islamic headscarves. It follows the court's decision to block attempts to overturn a ban on headscarves in universities. Sabastian Asha now reports.
On Thursday, Turkey's Constitutional Court rejected a law by AKP to let women wear headscarves in university. The court said it violated the secular principles of Turkey's Constitution. In response, the Prime Minister and head of the AKP, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, held an emergency meeting of his party. Afterwards, a spokesman denounced the court as having overstepped its authority. The AKP which has deep Islamist roots promised to lift the headscarf ban in last year's election campaign.
World News from the BBC.
Workers in the German city of Hamburg have been told to stop processing Italian rubbish after discovering high levels of radioactivity in it. The waste in question came from the Italian region of Campania, which includes the city of Naples. That city's rubbish crisis has been blamed on illegal dumping by the local mafia. Mark Duff reports from Milan.
Hamburg halted incineration of waste from Italy after finding traces of radioactivity in a consignment of hospital waste. A spokesman said the level of radioactivity in the rubbish was 80 times higher than normal and costly special treatment would be needed to make it safe. The city says it won’t accept any more waste from Campania until it receives written guarantees from the Italian authorities that all waste will be checked thoroughly to ensure it safe before being transported to Germany.
A senior prosecutor in Russia says a third of the national budget is being lost in corruption. Official Vasily Piskaryov says each year, 120 billion dollars is being drained from the budget through business kickbacks and bribes for officials. Russia's new President, Dimitry Medvedev, has pledged to tackle the problem but many ordinary Russians expect little to change soon.
A delegation from the United Nations Security Council visiting eastern Chad says the number of refugees there is rising as they flee the continuing violence in the neighboring Sudanese province of Darfur. About 250, 000 Sudanese have fled to Chad to escape from the war in Darfur. And almost 200, 000 Chadians have been displaced by the violence on both sides of the border.
The Cuban government has approved a number of sex change operations, indicating a further relaxation of policy on gender and sexuality issues by President Raul Castro. The National Sex Education Centre, which is run by the President's daughter, Mariela Castro, said the decision would immediately benefit 28 transsexuals. (www.hXen.com)
BBC News.
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BBC News with Jonathan Weekley.
High demand, political uncertainty and gloomy economic figures have fueled a record jump in the price of oil. The cost of crude in New York has seen its biggest-ever one-day rise, surging more than 11 dollars to a record high of 139 dollars a barrel. From New York, here's Greg Wood.
Even during the oil crises of the 1970s and 80s, there's never been a day like this. US light crude hit a new high of more than 139 dollars a barrel after an Israeli minister talked about attacking Iranian nuclear sites and the US investment bank Morgan Stanley predicted prices would go higher still. Nervous investors also switched their money into oil and out of dollars after the latest sign of weakness in the US economy, the biggest rise in the unemployment rate for more than 20 years. That prompted a widespread sell-off on the New York stock market with the Dow-Jones Average losing more than 3 percent of its value.
Legislation in the United States to combat global warming has suffered a serious setback after Republicans in the Senate blocked efforts to bring the bill for a final vote. The bill would have introduced a target cap on carbon emissions of 70% by the middle of the century. President Bush has threatened to veto the bill.
The United States has accused the government in Harare of withholding food aid from opposition supporters ahead of the run-off presidential election this month. The State Department Spokesman, Sean McCormack said officials were confiscating opposition supporters' documents needed to receive food aid and to cast a vote. "In order to get food aid from the government rationing stations,/ they have to show their voter registration as well as other identification. Apparently, if individuals hand these things over and they are registered to vote for an opposition party, those credentials are kept and held by the government officials, thereby, making it impossible for those people to vote in the election. That is / cruel in the most sinister kind of way, using food as a weapon to prevent them from voting their conscience for a better kind of Zimbabwe. " (Www.hxen.net)
In Turkey, the governing AK party has accused the constitutional court of overstepping its powers in the dispute over the wearing of Islamic headscarves. It follows the court's decision to block attempts to overturn a ban on headscarves in universities. Sabastian Asha now reports.
On Thursday, Turkey's Constitutional Court rejected a law by AKP to let women wear headscarves in university. The court said it violated the secular principles of Turkey's Constitution. In response, the Prime Minister and head of the AKP, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, held an emergency meeting of his party. Afterwards, a spokesman denounced the court as having overstepped its authority. The AKP which has deep Islamist roots promised to lift the headscarf ban in last year's election campaign.
World News from the BBC.
Workers in the German city of Hamburg have been told to stop processing Italian rubbish after discovering high levels of radioactivity in it. The waste in question came from the Italian region of Campania, which includes the city of Naples. That city's rubbish crisis has been blamed on illegal dumping by the local mafia. Mark Duff reports from Milan.
Hamburg halted incineration of waste from Italy after finding traces of radioactivity in a consignment of hospital waste. A spokesman said the level of radioactivity in the rubbish was 80 times higher than normal and costly special treatment would be needed to make it safe. The city says it won’t accept any more waste from Campania until it receives written guarantees from the Italian authorities that all waste will be checked thoroughly to ensure it safe before being transported to Germany.
A senior prosecutor in Russia says a third of the national budget is being lost in corruption. Official Vasily Piskaryov says each year, 120 billion dollars is being drained from the budget through business kickbacks and bribes for officials. Russia's new President, Dimitry Medvedev, has pledged to tackle the problem but many ordinary Russians expect little to change soon.
A delegation from the United Nations Security Council visiting eastern Chad says the number of refugees there is rising as they flee the continuing violence in the neighboring Sudanese province of Darfur. About 250, 000 Sudanese have fled to Chad to escape from the war in Darfur. And almost 200, 000 Chadians have been displaced by the violence on both sides of the border.
The Cuban government has approved a number of sex change operations, indicating a further relaxation of policy on gender and sexuality issues by President Raul Castro. The National Sex Education Centre, which is run by the President's daughter, Mariela Castro, said the decision would immediately benefit 28 transsexuals. (www.hXen.com)
BBC News.
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