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A second round of voting will be needed in the Democratic Republic of Congo to decide the outcome of the presidential election. Official result showed that the incumbent President Joseph Kabila failed to win enough votes for an outright win. Mr. Kabila secured 44. 8% in the election 3 weeks ago and will contest the second round with his closest challenger Jean-Pierre Bemba. With more details, here is Peter Greste.
After 3 weeks of counting in one of the world's most complicated elections, at last, the result. The President Joseph Kabila just failed to get the 50% he needed for an outright victory, and there will now be a run-off vote in October. His nearest rival Jean-Pierre Bemba got barely 20%. Mr. Kabila dominated the vote in the fractious east where he was born, but he struggled in the west, which is home to Mr. Bemba, himself a former rebel commander and now a serving vice president. For the UN, which organized the poll, it means having to crank up the electoral machine that successfully managed the staggeringly complicated first round of polling.
Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo have promised money to help Lebanon rebuild after the destruction caused by the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. But detailed planning for reconstruction was put off until next month and the Lebanese foreign minister appealed for more Arab aid to pay for the repair of homes, roads and bridges. The Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said international support for Israel left no space for moderation among Arab states. Reporting from Cairo, David Z.
Diplomats say Arab governments with close ties to the United States are concerned that the conflict had strengthened militants and increased the influence of Hezbollah's backers, Iran and Syria. The Syrian foreign minister did not attend the meeting. Diplomatic sources say US allies in the Middle East are now concerned that Hezbollah is winning more popular support by handing out money to Lebanese whose homes have been destroyed. Some Arab governments seem to be hoping that their pledges of millions of dollars for reconstruction will help them win back hearts and minds.
Gunmen in the Iraqi capital Baghdad have attacked a large crowd of Shiite pilgrims, at least 20 people were killed and 300 wounded, many by snipers, as they were walking to the shrine of a revered Shiite leader. The attacks came in the face of special security measures to protect the Shiite pilgrims. During the same event last year, almost 1, 000 people were killed in a stampede caused by a rumour that suicide bombers were among the huge crowd.
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Muslim leaders and human rights groups in Britain have expressed concern over the case of 2 men of Middle Eastern appearance who were removed from a flight after other travellers said they feared they might be terrorists. Some passengers on a Monarch Airlines' flight from Spain to Britain last Wednesday said they'd become concerned after noticing the men speaking Arabic and behaving oddly. The 2 men, both British citizens were escorted from plane and subjected to further security checks before being allowed to catch a later flight. A British Member of Parliament Khalid Mahmood said that people should not be singled out because of their skin colour.
I think it's absolutely disgraceful that passengers had taken it on themselves to label people in the way that they've done. There must be apprehensions, there are securities that are available that can check those things out. Just because of colour of your skin, I think it shouldn't identify what you are, and that is a real, real sad state of affair that that has happened, and people need to be understanding, once people are allowed through security, they should be OK.
The fourth cricket Test between England and Pakistan has collapsed in an unprecedented fashion after the Pakistani team was accused of cheating. Pakistan forfeited the match at the Oval in London, leaving England the winners of the Test series by 3 matches to nil. Joe Wilson reports.
It was pass ten o'clock in the evening local time when the decision was finally announced that this Test would end in the most bizarre and unsatisfactory circumstances. It was decided that the Pakistan had forfeited the match, by, in effect, going on strike. Their protest, remaining in the changing room after the tea interval, was prompted by deep anger after the umpire Darrell Hair decided that they had cheated. He concluded that the ball had been damaged deliberately by Pakistan to seek advantage. That decision itself is under review by the world governing body the ICC. They must also decide how Pakistan are to be punished.
Reports from Hungary say at least 2 people have been killed and several injured when a storm hit the capital Budapest. State media said thousands of people watching a fireworks display to mark Hungary's National Day fled in panic while others were stuck under fallen trees and branches.
Indigenous Maori leaders in New Zealand have named a new king. 51-year-old Tuheitia Paki is the eldest son of the previous monarch who died last week at the age of 75 after a reign of 40 years.
Words and Expressions: crank up - If you crank up a machine or a device, you make it function harder or at a greater level. (BRIT)
umpire - An umpire is a person whose job is to make sure that a sports match or contest is played fairly and that the rules are not broken.
forfeit - If you forfeit something, you lose it or are forced to give it up because you have broken a rule or done something wrong.
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