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BBC News with Nick Kelly.
Russia says it will withdraw troops from the parts of Georgia it is still occupying around the breakaway territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, provided the European Union deploys at least 200 monitors in the areas. The announcement followed talks in Moscow between President Medvedev and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy. Richard Galpin reports.
After four hours of negotiations which had seemed doomed to fail, the two presidents came out to tell the world significant progress had been made. They announced Russian troops still manning positions in western Georgia around the vital port of Poti would be the first to pull out. In return, the European Union says it has a guarantee from the Georgian government it will not use force to try to regain control of the nearby separatist region of Abkhazia. And there is an important condition—the European Union must first deploy around 200 monitors to work in the so-called buffer zone surrounding South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
After a trial lasting five months, the high-profile anti-terrorism case in Britain has resulted in three British Muslims being found guilty of conspiracy to murder, using bombs of liquid explosives. But the jury failed to reach a verdict on whether there was a plot as alleged by the prosecution to blow up passenger planes in midair of the Atlantic. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner reports.
The verdicts in the so-called airline bomb plot trial have been received in Whitehall with a mixture of astonishment and dismay. This, thought counterterrorism officials, was an open-and-shut case, with what they believe was the strongest evidence yet in a British terror trial. Police and prosecutors expected the jury to accept the alleged connections between the accused, al-Qaeda and a whole fleet of transatlantic airliners. But although three men have been convicted of conspiracy to murder, none of those connections have been stood up. So now the recriminations begin.
The main opposition party in Angola Unita has accepted the results of the parliamentary election held last week. The Unita leader Isaias Samakuva congratulated the winners, the governing MPLA Party. The MPLA is heading for a landslide victory. Louis Redvers reports from Luanda.
Unita's President Isaias Samakuva made a declaration during a hastily arranged news conference in the capital Luanda. He said it was clear that with most of the votes now counted, the government had been chosen, and he said he hope they govern the country in the interest of Angolans. Unita's acceptance of the MPLA's victory came shortly after the electoral commission rejected the opposition party's complaints about the voting process in Luanda, where missing material and confusion led to delays at polling stations and the vote being rolled over into an extra day.
President Bush is preparing to announce that more American troops are to be sent to Afghanistan in the coming month. In a speech on Tuesday, he will say that a Marine battalion that was scheduled to go to Iraq in November will instead be deployed to Afghanistan.
World News from the BBC.
The authorities in Cuba have put the entire population on maximum alert because of Hurricane Ike, which has temporarily moved back over water and is hugging the country's southern coast. The hurricane has weakened to a Category-1 storm, but the authorities warned that it could strengthen again. It has already produced massive waves and torrential rain, leaving destruction in its wake. The Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage said the country must be ready for a very powerful hurricane. "We should be prepared for a strong impact and take all necessary measures, prioritizing the protection of human life. And we should be ready for a maximum strength storm. We should prepare for the 200 kph winds that the storm is bringing to the island."(Www.hxen.net)
The Sri Lankan authorities say they've ordered all foreign aid workers to leave territory held by the Tamil Tiger rebels in the north of the country. The government says these employees will no longer be allowed to cross into rebel-held areas, and those already there must leave immediately for their own safety. Any Sri Lankan staff who are not local residents must also leave.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has said he's not yet reached an agreement with his political rivals on sharing power. President Mugabe spoke after meeting in Harare with his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki, who's been acting as a mediator in the crisis, and the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. The talks are due to continue on Tuesday. The BBC correspondent in the region says this may be the last chance to reach a power-sharing deal. Talks have been deadlocked for weeks.
Some news just in. The US Tennis Open Men's Final has been won by the Swiss player Roger Federer. He beat Andy Murray of Britain in three straight sets. It's 6-2, 7-5, 6-2. As a result, it's Federer's fifth consecutive US Open title, a feat that hasn't been achieved since the 1920s.
And that's the latest news from the BBC, goes for all the details as usual at bbcnews.com.
Download Audio
BBC News with Nick Kelly.
Russia says it will withdraw troops from the parts of Georgia it is still occupying around the breakaway territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, provided the European Union deploys at least 200 monitors in the areas. The announcement followed talks in Moscow between President Medvedev and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy. Richard Galpin reports.
After four hours of negotiations which had seemed doomed to fail, the two presidents came out to tell the world significant progress had been made. They announced Russian troops still manning positions in western Georgia around the vital port of Poti would be the first to pull out. In return, the European Union says it has a guarantee from the Georgian government it will not use force to try to regain control of the nearby separatist region of Abkhazia. And there is an important condition—the European Union must first deploy around 200 monitors to work in the so-called buffer zone surrounding South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
After a trial lasting five months, the high-profile anti-terrorism case in Britain has resulted in three British Muslims being found guilty of conspiracy to murder, using bombs of liquid explosives. But the jury failed to reach a verdict on whether there was a plot as alleged by the prosecution to blow up passenger planes in midair of the Atlantic. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner reports.
The verdicts in the so-called airline bomb plot trial have been received in Whitehall with a mixture of astonishment and dismay. This, thought counterterrorism officials, was an open-and-shut case, with what they believe was the strongest evidence yet in a British terror trial. Police and prosecutors expected the jury to accept the alleged connections between the accused, al-Qaeda and a whole fleet of transatlantic airliners. But although three men have been convicted of conspiracy to murder, none of those connections have been stood up. So now the recriminations begin.
The main opposition party in Angola Unita has accepted the results of the parliamentary election held last week. The Unita leader Isaias Samakuva congratulated the winners, the governing MPLA Party. The MPLA is heading for a landslide victory. Louis Redvers reports from Luanda.
Unita's President Isaias Samakuva made a declaration during a hastily arranged news conference in the capital Luanda. He said it was clear that with most of the votes now counted, the government had been chosen, and he said he hope they govern the country in the interest of Angolans. Unita's acceptance of the MPLA's victory came shortly after the electoral commission rejected the opposition party's complaints about the voting process in Luanda, where missing material and confusion led to delays at polling stations and the vote being rolled over into an extra day.
President Bush is preparing to announce that more American troops are to be sent to Afghanistan in the coming month. In a speech on Tuesday, he will say that a Marine battalion that was scheduled to go to Iraq in November will instead be deployed to Afghanistan.
World News from the BBC.
The authorities in Cuba have put the entire population on maximum alert because of Hurricane Ike, which has temporarily moved back over water and is hugging the country's southern coast. The hurricane has weakened to a Category-1 storm, but the authorities warned that it could strengthen again. It has already produced massive waves and torrential rain, leaving destruction in its wake. The Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage said the country must be ready for a very powerful hurricane. "We should be prepared for a strong impact and take all necessary measures, prioritizing the protection of human life. And we should be ready for a maximum strength storm. We should prepare for the 200 kph winds that the storm is bringing to the island."(Www.hxen.net)
The Sri Lankan authorities say they've ordered all foreign aid workers to leave territory held by the Tamil Tiger rebels in the north of the country. The government says these employees will no longer be allowed to cross into rebel-held areas, and those already there must leave immediately for their own safety. Any Sri Lankan staff who are not local residents must also leave.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has said he's not yet reached an agreement with his political rivals on sharing power. President Mugabe spoke after meeting in Harare with his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki, who's been acting as a mediator in the crisis, and the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. The talks are due to continue on Tuesday. The BBC correspondent in the region says this may be the last chance to reach a power-sharing deal. Talks have been deadlocked for weeks.
Some news just in. The US Tennis Open Men's Final has been won by the Swiss player Roger Federer. He beat Andy Murray of Britain in three straight sets. It's 6-2, 7-5, 6-2. As a result, it's Federer's fifth consecutive US Open title, a feat that hasn't been achieved since the 1920s.
And that's the latest news from the BBC, goes for all the details as usual at bbcnews.com.
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