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BBC News with Michael Poles.
The United Nations envoy to Zimbabwe Haile Menkerios says he expects President Robert Mugabe and the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to sign an agreement on Monday paving the way for substantive talks on resolving the crisis over the disputed presidential election. The opposition MDC says it expects the signing to go ahead, but a party spokesman George Sibotshiwe told the BBC that future talks would remain conditional.
The first thing that we are asking for, is there to be a cessation of violence and there must be a consistent plan agreed in the memorandum of how that violence is gonna stop. The second one is ensuring that all political prisoners are freed, because some of our negotiators are in detention.
Hundreds of thousands of Colombians have turned their Independence Day celebration into a mass national appeal for an end to kidnappings in the country. In a series of rallies across Colombia and abroad, demonstrators called for an end to hostage taking and for peace moves between the government and the main guerrilla group opposing it, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. From Bogota Jeremy McDermott reports.
The plight of those in captivity was thrust into the international spotlight by the rescue earlier this month of Ingrid Betancourt, three US Defense contractors and 11 Colombian soldiers and policemen. Mrs. Betancourt led a protest in Paris where she is recovering from her ordeal, showing that the cry from Colombians across the world is having international resonance. It remains to be seen whether it can penetrate the dense jungles where the FARC rebels lurk.
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged Israel and the Palestinians to seize the opportunity to reach a viable and lasting peace settlement. Speaking after talks in Jerusalem with the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Mr. Brown promised that any political progress would be backed up with economic support by Britain. Earlier, Mr. Brown held talks with Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and offered further financial and security help to the Palestinian authority.
I can announce today a further commitment of 60 million dollars, 30 million of which we will give as direct budgetary support, bringing our total support to the Palestinian authority this year to 175 million dollars.
A number of policemen and civilians in Afghanistan have been killed in incidents involving US-led NATO forces. The first group died in a nighttime air attack in the western province of Farah, possibly after troops and local police mistook each other for militants. In the other incident, at least four civilians were killed at Pakistan border when mortars fired by NATO troops fell short of their target.
The American presidential contender Barack Obama has said during a visit to Afghanistan that the country has to be the central focus in the battle against terrorism. Mr. Obama said the situation in Afghanistan was precarious and urgent. He said that the US had to make preparations for a shift of American soldiers from Iraq to Afghanistan.
You are listening to the World News from the BBC.
The Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, has met the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to discuss the call for his arrest by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Mr. Moussa said the Arab league's plan to address the crisis had been well received in Khartoum, and that he was confident progress could be made, the Arab League on Saturday condemned the arrest call, describing the prosecutor's approach as unbalanced.
The government of Ivory Coast says it's halving the salaries of its ministers to pay for a reduction in the price of fuel. The Prime Minister, Guillaume Soro, said the managers of state-owned companies would also have their pay cut in half. He said fuel prices would come down by about 10%. This follows a recent price increase which provoked a strike by transport workers. The strike led to violent protests in the commercial capital Abidjan.
A Sri Lankan bishop has urged conservative members of the Anglican Church to stop trying to exclude people because of their perceived faults. The Bishop of Colombo, Duleep de Chickera, has made the appeal at a service in Canterbury Cathedral in southern England attended by Anglican Church leaders taking part in the 10-yearly Lambeth Conference. From there, Robert Pigott reports. (Www.hxen.net)
In his sermon, the Bishop of Colombo, Duleep de Chickera, acknowledged the absence of a quarter of the communion's 880 bishops, adding that mending the rift over sexuality would be a long and arduous task. He rebuked those traditionalists who have tried to exclude others from the communion, saying that if Anglicans try to uproot the unrighteous, there would quickly be no one left. Bishop de Chickera reminded Anglicans that the church's first priority should be working against injustice in the world.
Golf, the Irishman, Padraig Harrington has won the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in northern England. He finished four shots clear of his nearest pursuer after a final round of 69, achieved in difficult playing conditions. It was Harrington's second consecutive victory in the open.
BBC News.
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BBC News with Michael Poles.
The United Nations envoy to Zimbabwe Haile Menkerios says he expects President Robert Mugabe and the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to sign an agreement on Monday paving the way for substantive talks on resolving the crisis over the disputed presidential election. The opposition MDC says it expects the signing to go ahead, but a party spokesman George Sibotshiwe told the BBC that future talks would remain conditional.
The first thing that we are asking for, is there to be a cessation of violence and there must be a consistent plan agreed in the memorandum of how that violence is gonna stop. The second one is ensuring that all political prisoners are freed, because some of our negotiators are in detention.
Hundreds of thousands of Colombians have turned their Independence Day celebration into a mass national appeal for an end to kidnappings in the country. In a series of rallies across Colombia and abroad, demonstrators called for an end to hostage taking and for peace moves between the government and the main guerrilla group opposing it, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. From Bogota Jeremy McDermott reports.
The plight of those in captivity was thrust into the international spotlight by the rescue earlier this month of Ingrid Betancourt, three US Defense contractors and 11 Colombian soldiers and policemen. Mrs. Betancourt led a protest in Paris where she is recovering from her ordeal, showing that the cry from Colombians across the world is having international resonance. It remains to be seen whether it can penetrate the dense jungles where the FARC rebels lurk.
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged Israel and the Palestinians to seize the opportunity to reach a viable and lasting peace settlement. Speaking after talks in Jerusalem with the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Mr. Brown promised that any political progress would be backed up with economic support by Britain. Earlier, Mr. Brown held talks with Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and offered further financial and security help to the Palestinian authority.
I can announce today a further commitment of 60 million dollars, 30 million of which we will give as direct budgetary support, bringing our total support to the Palestinian authority this year to 175 million dollars.
A number of policemen and civilians in Afghanistan have been killed in incidents involving US-led NATO forces. The first group died in a nighttime air attack in the western province of Farah, possibly after troops and local police mistook each other for militants. In the other incident, at least four civilians were killed at Pakistan border when mortars fired by NATO troops fell short of their target.
The American presidential contender Barack Obama has said during a visit to Afghanistan that the country has to be the central focus in the battle against terrorism. Mr. Obama said the situation in Afghanistan was precarious and urgent. He said that the US had to make preparations for a shift of American soldiers from Iraq to Afghanistan.
You are listening to the World News from the BBC.
The Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, has met the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to discuss the call for his arrest by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Mr. Moussa said the Arab league's plan to address the crisis had been well received in Khartoum, and that he was confident progress could be made, the Arab League on Saturday condemned the arrest call, describing the prosecutor's approach as unbalanced.
The government of Ivory Coast says it's halving the salaries of its ministers to pay for a reduction in the price of fuel. The Prime Minister, Guillaume Soro, said the managers of state-owned companies would also have their pay cut in half. He said fuel prices would come down by about 10%. This follows a recent price increase which provoked a strike by transport workers. The strike led to violent protests in the commercial capital Abidjan.
A Sri Lankan bishop has urged conservative members of the Anglican Church to stop trying to exclude people because of their perceived faults. The Bishop of Colombo, Duleep de Chickera, has made the appeal at a service in Canterbury Cathedral in southern England attended by Anglican Church leaders taking part in the 10-yearly Lambeth Conference. From there, Robert Pigott reports. (Www.hxen.net)
In his sermon, the Bishop of Colombo, Duleep de Chickera, acknowledged the absence of a quarter of the communion's 880 bishops, adding that mending the rift over sexuality would be a long and arduous task. He rebuked those traditionalists who have tried to exclude others from the communion, saying that if Anglicans try to uproot the unrighteous, there would quickly be no one left. Bishop de Chickera reminded Anglicans that the church's first priority should be working against injustice in the world.
Golf, the Irishman, Padraig Harrington has won the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in northern England. He finished four shots clear of his nearest pursuer after a final round of 69, achieved in difficult playing conditions. It was Harrington's second consecutive victory in the open.
BBC News.
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