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The army in Pakistan says Islamic militant linked to the Al-Qaida network had finally been cleared from the South Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan after a-year long military campaign. It said it was not concentrating on developing roads and water supplies, so local tribes people will not rejoint the militant. Our correspondent PL has just returned from the region.
Pakistani military operations in South Waziristan began over a year ago. Since then commanders say they smashed three training camps and killed more than 300 militants. But even that military declared operations over in South Waziristan, they've come on under pressure from United States commanders in Afghanistan to mount a big operation to the north where an estimated 100 militants fled from the south. The Pakistani side rejected the call saying the militants have frankG and will operate in small groups. The Americans probably have a bigger fission mind on Osama Bin Laden and his deputy AW.
T Army said they’d cleared militants M large parts of South Waziristan. But he admitted that several hundred foreign militants remained in known locations.

Police in Iraq say that ten Shiite Muslims from southern Iraq have been killed as they were traveling back from Syria. Earlier hospital officials said at least 7 people have been killed and dozens wounded in suicide attacks in the town of S also near the Syrian border. KL reports from Baghdad.
Police say the bodies of ten Shiites were found in the desert near the town of AK. They'd apparently been blindfolded and tied up and shot at the head. It's believed that they were stopped as they were on their back from visiting a religious shrine in Syria several days ago. The new Shiite-dominated government is facing a determined campaign of violence. Since it took office, almost 700 Iraqis have been killed. The government now says it wants to go on an offensive with an attempt to seize the initiative and try to restore public confidence.

Two bombs exploded in a busy market on the Island of Sulawesi in central Indonesia, at least 22 were killed and 40 wounded. The blasts in the predominantly Christian town of Tentena occurred within 15 minutes of each other. Tentena lies the heart of the Poso region where hundreds of people have been killed in violence between Christians and Muslims since 1998.

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On the second day as his tour of Sudan the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan had said it's central to improve security for people living in Darfur so that the UN could gain access to those who needed help. Your are listening to refugees who complain about the attacks by the police and Arab militias and also spoke to female victims of rape. Some 2 million people have been forced out their homes in Darfur as a result of attacks by pro-government militias. Mr. Annan described the conditions he witnessed.
How ** obviously everybody says it's better than it was last year, but this is not a situation that can be acceptable for long. What we need to do is to create an environment a secure environment that will encourage the people to go back home, to go back and plant, to go back and pick up their lives and begin to recover.

Voting has begun in overseas French territories in the referendum on the European constitution with voters going to polls a day before people in France. The outcome of the referendum is expected to be close. KL reports.
In territories outside mainland France the voting has already begun with almost one and half million potential voters. What they decide * could prove crucial to the future of Europe as the referendum results are close. Meanwhile the rest of Europe remains on tenterhooks, but mainland France spends a day contemplating which way to vote some day. The complaining had ended but the passionate debate about the constitution has continued in K homes across France.

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have marched through the streets of the capital Caracas to demand that the United States extradite a Cuba exile who was accused of bombing an airliner in 1976. That attack had killed more than 70 people. Blowing vehicles and chanting anti-American slogans, the protestors accused President Bush of double standards after his government announced on Friday that there wasn't enough evidence to support Venezuela's extradition requests for the suspect LK.

Engineers in Britain say they are still baffled that a wide world famous clock tile the houses of parliament in London Big Ben failed to chime for than an hour later on Friday night. The clock which is nearly 150 years and was announced with an *. Stopped at 17 minutes past ten and remained active action until the earlier at saturday morning when it was reset. Officials say one possible explanation could be the unusually hot weather in London where temperatures on friday reached nearly 42 degrees Celsius.

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