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The White House has struck a deal with Republican leaders in the US Senate ending a week-long dispute over the interrogation and treatment of terror suspects. The agreement was reached following a meeting between the National Security Advisor Steven Hadley and Republican Senators who feared that legislation proposed by the Bush administration failed to protect the rights of detainees. Correspondents say Republicans need to appear united in order to retain their majorities in Congress in the November midterm elections. President George Bush welcomed the agreement.
I'm pleased to say that this agreement preserves the most single, most potent tool we have in protecting America and foiling terrorist attacks. And that is the CIA program to question the world's most dangerous terrorists and to get their secrets. The measure also creates military commissions that will bring these ruthless killers to justice. In short, the agreement clears the way to do what the American people expect us to do, to capture terrorists, to detain terrorists, to question terrorists and then to try them.
The American aircraft manufacturer Boeing has won a big government contract to install advanced surveillance equipment on the border with Mexico. The initiative is part of President Bush's plan to overhaul border security, which is a major political issue in the US. Here's our Americas editor Simon Watts.
With more than a million people entering America illegally every year, President Bush is under pressure to get tough. As well as hiring more agents, the US government wants to install what's being called the invisible fence on the long and porous border with Mexico. Boeing is proposing a network of towers equipped with cameras with a range of up to 14 kilometres as well as advanced movement censors. The contract also involves unmanned surveillance aircraft and all the equipment will be linked up to an improved communication system.
The United Nations special investigator on torture Manfred Nowak has said torture in Iraq may be worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein. He said religious militias, terrorist groups and some Iraqi government forces all operated with no regard for basic human rights. Based on interviews conducted in Jordan, Mr. Nowak said there was substantive evidence of torture inside official Iraqi government detention centres.
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The authorities in Indonesia, the world's most popular Muslim nation, have executed three Christians who were convicted of inciting lethal attacks on Muslims. The three men were shot by firing squad in the province of central Sulawesi. They were sentenced to death five years ago after being found guilty of leading a mob attacking a Muslim school. Between 1999 and 2001, more than 1,000 people died in fighting between Christians and Muslims in Sulawesi. The executed men's lawyer Roy Rening said he had received confirmation of the men's deaths.
They've already been executed at around midnight 45 local time. The authorities didn't tell us anything before or after the execution. I got the confirmation from my sources. This shows that this country is very ruthless. My clients have faced injustice.
Police in Nigeria have imposed an overnight curfew in the northern state of Jigawa and arrested 25 youths after violence erupted between Muslims and Christians in the state capital Dutse. At least 6 churches were set on fire and many Christians have taken shelter in police barracks. Alex Last reports from Lagos.
The disturbance, it seems, sparked by a disagreement between a Muslim man and a Christian woman in the market. Rumour spread that the woman had blasphemed against the Prophet Mohammed. As a crowd gathered, riot police used teargas to disperse the demonstrators which prompted groups of youths to go through the town, attacking and looting shops and burning some church buildings. Despite the religious veneer, such disturbances tend to be less about religion, and more about poor or unemployed youths seeing an opportunity to loot.
The British aid charity Oxfam says world's spending on weapons is now higher in real terms than it was during the cold war. In a report Oxfam estimates more than 1,000 billion dollars will be spent on arms this year, 15 times the amount devoted to international aid. Most of the spending, it says, is by the United States and Middle Eastern countries.
The United Nations has proposed a radical shake-up in the way development aid reaches Africa. Instead of the money going through a host of independent organizations, it wants the cash to go through a single channel managed by the UN.
BBC world news.
Words and Expressions: porous - Something that is porous has many small holes in it, which water and air can pass through. blasphemed - If someone blasphemes, they say rude or disrespectful things about God or religion, or they use God's name as a swear word. veneer - If you refer to the pleasant way that someone or something appears as a veneer, you are critical of them because you believe that their true, hidden nature is not good.
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