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International leaders have been paying tribute to the former Russian president Bolicin Yeltsin who is died of heart failure at the age of seventy six. He presided over the demise of the Soviet Union and Russia’s turbulent transition to democracy and capitalism. His funeral will be held on Wednesday which is been declared as a day of national mourning. Reacting to the news of Mr. Yeltsin’s death, the last Soviet leader M. B. said he has done many important things, but has made many mistakes as well. During the /, during his hour of glory, Yeltsin caragously and boldly defended the subsequent democracy and democratic changes. Subsequently his lust for power undermined to join efforts to overcome the decrisis. At the time there was a hope this could be done. A charismatic figure B. Yeltsin was elected the first president the Russian Federation in 1991, but reached the peak of his popularity even before then when he stood on a tank to defend parliament after a hardliner attempted a coup. James Rogers reports from Moscow.

B. Yeltsin changed Russia for ever. His death was announced from the Kremlin. The seat of power which he fell off with then later occupied as Russia’s first post-Soviet head of state. He did not shout the country will never return to the stifling authoritarianism of Soviet Communism. But he also presided over the disastrous military campaign to crush Czech’s drive for independence and was during his administration that some entrepreneurs were able to amass fortunes oftent on the illegally questionable circumstances from the sail of state property.

The outgoing president of Nigeria A. has defended the way the presidential election on Saturday was carried out in the face of criticism from the main opposition parties and international observers. In the BBC interview, Mr. R. said the election was flawed, but not so imperfect that it would have to be run again. The electoral commission declares the candidate of the governing People’s Democratic Party / had received 24 million votes. For time’s manual as, But Mr. M. said another election was needed as soon as possible. “We are not going to accept this result, now the questions of us vary in the alleged winner of the election. We have to be patient and see what happen on the 29th of next month, but I very much doubt it.

The top court in Ecuador has restated the group of fifty seven sacked congress men and women who are fired last month over the opposition to a recent referendum on rewriting the constitution. The constitutional court made the ruling after the group of dismissed congressmen appealed against an earlier ruling by the country’ electoral court.

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The second round of campaign for the French presidency has begun with major speeches by both candidates. Speaking in / and /, the center-right from / Nicolas Sarkozy appealed to voters to do not back in Le Pender’s first ballot. Our correspondent Daniel Sunford watches Nikolas Sarkozy’s appearance.
This has been a clear attempt by Nicolas Sarkozy to the spelly image of hard line winner who divides France and deadly for a tray a presidential contender who can unite the country. He has talked a lot about the values and themes that helped him through the first round: national identity and pride, integration, respect for hard work. But there has been no direct mention of his socialist opponent S. Royal. The Nicoler Sarkozy knows he has a size of both now engage in the battle for political center ground.

The US says that it expects Sudan to prove its commitments to align in strengthening UN’s peace keeping force into the troubled province Darfur within a matter of weeks. The deputy secretary of state John N. who is recently been to the region said the time is running out for Sudan to allow strengthened international force into the province.

The UN Secretary General Ban K-M has called for an end to the continuing heavy fighting in Somalia which has left more than 250 people dead in the past week. Mr. Ban called all parties to immediately cease /. He said he deployed the reported indiscriminate use of heavy weapons against centers of civilian population and urged the resumption of talks between the warring factions.

Performers from the / Opera house in Milan have staged the / for the first time as part of celebration to mark fifty years independence in /. The 160 strong orchestra chorus performed /’s ninth symphony in / capital /.

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