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Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of ordering killings and kidnappings in the 1990s. He was held responsible for the massacre of 25 people by an army death squad during the war against Maoist guerrillas. The first time in Latin America that a democratically elected leader has been convicted of such abuses. His lawyers say he will appeal. Mr. Fujimori's daughter Keiko said the Fujimo Movement she leads will continue to support him.

Obviously the Fujimori Movement will not set back and fold its arms. We are going out onto the streets to openly demonstrate our support for the best president this country has had, for the president who saved our country from terrorism, we shall do so peacefully because we feel proud of the job he did. If they think that this sentence will weaken us politically, they are wrong.

On his first visit to Iraq since taking office, President Obama has said it's time for Iraqis to take responsibility for their country. Mr. Obama arrived in Baghdad at the end of a visit to Turkey aimed at rebuilding US relations with the Muslim world. From Baghdad，here is Jim Muir.

Both to his own troops and to Iraqi leaders, President Obama had the same general message. US forces will be leaving. He's keen to get all of them out by 2011 and it's time for the Iraqis to take responsibility for their own country. The next 18 months, he told the troops, would be crucial. And to the Iraqi prime minister and president, he said the leadership must find ways of overcoming their differences and making sure the Iraqi political institutions and security forces will all embracing, so that everybody had a stake in the country's future and stability.

The President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin has said that violent protest against the reelection of the Communist Party amounts to an attempted coup. Mr. Voronin said he would protect Moldova from a handful of fascists drunk on anger. Earlier demonstrators stormed the Parliament, throwing computers through windows and lighting fires. The mayor of Chisinau, an opposition leader Dorin Chirtoaca said the protest had not been planned.

The Communists are the ones who rig the re-election. As a result of this fraud, youths from the Chisinau municipalities started an absolutely spontaneous protest. This spontaneous rally was joined by other youths, from light cns, universities, as well as by other residents of Chisinau.

North Korea has warned that it will react strongly if the UN Security Council censors its launch of a long-range rocket at the weekend. North Korea's deputy ambassador at the UN Pak Tok Hun did not say what steps would be taken except that they would be stronger. He repeated that his country had launched a rocket to put a satellite into space.

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Members of the United States Congress have met the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro at the end of a five-day visit to the island. It's the first known meeting between Fidel Castro and US officials since he had surgery in 2006. The officials were from a Congressional black caucus delegation which met President Lahu Castro on Monday. In those talks, they discussed normalizing relations and they say that they're convinced the Cuban president is ready to end fifty years hostility with the US.

A strong aftershock has hit central Italy nearly two days after one earthquake caused great damage in the region. Monday's quake killed more than 200 people and injured more than a thousand. 150 people have been pulled alive from the rubble including a 98-year-old woman. From L'AQUILA, Dominic Hughes has this report.

There have been a series of tremors here throughout the day. But as evening drew in, a much larger one hit. A deep elemental rumbling was followed almost immediately by the sound of a falling masonry. The ground started to sway and wobble, almost as though waves were passing beneath your feet. It lasted about 10 seconds or so. But that was long enough to bring down already fragile buildings in the old part of town.

The Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused other countries of cowardice during the Rwandan Genocide. Addressing a rally of 20,000 people in the capital Kigali to mark the 15th anniversary of the genocide, he said that United Nations troops had abandoned their post without firing a shot. As a part of commemoration, thousands of candles were lit in Kigali, spelling out the word “hope” in three languages.

Vermont has become the fourth American State to legalize gay marriage after legislators overruled a veto by the state governor. A campaign is underway to allow gay men and lesbians to marry in all the states of New England. Massachusetts and Connecticut have already approved bills along with the Midwestern states of Iowa.

That's the latest BBC News.