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BBC News with Jerry Schmitt.
The turmoil of the past week has continued on the US financial markets. The renewed volatility follows fears for the future of the massive 700-billion-dollar rescue plan put together last week. Martin Velam reports.
Wall Street shares fell more than 3%, when measure of the oil price rose sharply, when investors sold the United States dollar. Traders began to wonder if the rescue plan masterminded by the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson might unravel. Congress will have to approve spending of 700 billion dollars of taxpayers’ money on buying up banks' dodgy loans, and finding a consensus appeared to be becoming increasingly difficult as comments attacking aspects of the Paulson plan emerged through the day from leading economists and politicians.
The authorities in Colombia say they have scored another notable success against the Marxist guerrilla group opposing the government, the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. They say that in an uNPRecedented intelligence coup they've seized a computer memory stick showing the names and aliases of members of the FARC's most powerful fighting division. Jeremy McDermott reports.
The captured memory stick holds files on 9,387 members of the FARC's eastern bloc. The USB also revealed that 113 guerrillas had been executed for a variety of crimes, another 200 had been shot whilst trying to escape. The discovery comes on the back of the killing of a notorious guerrilla commander known by the alias "El Paisa". An air strike killed the rebel leader who was wanted for 400 kidnappings, a primary source of rebel income, and some 500 murders.
More than 30 people have been killed and about 60 injured in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The violence was the worst the city had seen for months. F. Chartier reports.
The latest fighting comes just days after talks between the government and opposition ended without a ceasefire being signed. Now, there's been a dramatic escalation in violence with reports saying that government and Ethiopian troops have fired mortars and shells into the main market in the capital Mogadishu. About 30 people were killed and 60 others, some of them children, wounded. Government officials believe the market is a hideout for insurgents who had earlier launched a big attack on African Union peacekeepers in the city.
The Head of the African Union, the Tanzanian President, Jakaya Kikwete, has urged rich nations to honor their pledges to meet development aid promises to Africa despite the current global financial crisis. President Kikwete told the United Nations meeting that rich countries could easily raise the money required to meet the Millennium Development Goals for reducing poverty in Africa. Earlier, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon asked rich countries to provide the $72 billion dollars needed every year in order to meet the development goals by 2015.
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The Egyptian government says it's still negotiating the release of eleven foreign tourists who had been kidnapped on Friday despite earlier reports that they have been released. The government said the group including Germans, Italians and a Romanian as well as their Egyptian guides had been seized in southeastern Egypt and had been taken across the border into Sudan. The hostage-takers have demanded a ransom. The Egyptian Minister of Tourism, Zoheir Garranah, said the kidnappers remained unidentified.
Nobody knows who kidnapped the tourists. They were four veiled individuals. So far, we have not been able to ascertain their nationalities or their identities. Certainly, they are not in Egypt. The area where contact had been made with the group is an area called Karkur Talh which is in Sudan.
Police in Israel say about a dozen soldiers have been injured in an apparent attack in the center of Jerusalem. Police say a man deliberately drove his car into the soldiers. Two of them are reported to have suffered serious injuries. Micky Rosenfeld is a spokesman for the Israeli police.
One terrorist made his way with a vehicle, BMV(Burglary of a Motor Vehicle) vehicle, towards a, the main road in front of us at the Kikar Square. What we know at this moment is that between ten to fifteen people were injured, two of them moderately, all the rest were injured lightly. The terrorist was shot and killed inside the vehicle, the BMV vehicle. We are carrying on a present investigation as to exactly where he came from, his background.(Www.hXen.com)
A court in Moscow has convicted 13 teenagers of committing two racially-motivated murders and a string of other attacks. The youth, all Moscow schoolboys, when the attacks took place last year, used knives and baseball bats against their victims. They posted video of some of their activities on the Internet which prosecutors used as evidence in court.
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