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A police operation in the Moroccan city of Casablanca against suspected Islamic militants has ended with a death of at least four suspects and policeman in multiple incidents. All suspects were wanted in connection with a suicide bombing in an internet cafe in Casablanca a month ago which killed the bomber and four others. Richard Hamton reports now from /.

A police chased at a door across the roof top of a poor district ended in two men being cornered. One man detonated his belt explosives dying instantly and another was killed by police bullets while resisting arrest. A third man who was apprehended later in the day also died by blowing himself up. Eye witnesses said he throw himself from the roof. A police officer died of injuries caused by that explosion. A fourth suspected Islamic militant died yet another blast later in the day.

A British woman left infertile by cancer treatment has lost her final appeal to have children using frozen embryos fertilized by her former partner. The woman Nateli Evence lost her case at the grand chamber of European court. Here is our correspondent Jain Draper.

The seventeen judgers of the European court of human rights ruled that Hoven Jonston had never consented to let Nateli Evence using their jointly created embryos alone. The couple had undergone / six years ago because medical problem. Nateli Evence has had her ovaries removed. When they split up, Mr. Johnston withdrew his consent for her to use the embryos and the court ruled that her wishes couldn’t be overruled by her desire for a child.

The Portuguese president / has rectified a new law allowing abortion up to ten weeks pregnancy. The law lines Portuguese with the rest of European Union except Ireland, / and Poland where most abortions are still banned. The President / who opposes relaxing the law has recommended further measures to ensure abortion is a last resort.

A project aims at ending the violence in the Darfur region of Sudan has been launched by the holocaust memorial museum in the US and Google internet company. The museum has put its genocide database onto its website along with satellite images provided by Google of the more than 1600 villagers in Darfur which have been damaged or destroyed. The chief information officer at the holocaust Museum in Washington William Swader has more details about the aim of the project.

Today for the very first time when any user of Google Earth over 200 million users of Google Earth opens it they will see over Africa the outline of the province Darfur in Sudan. On by the default are avoidable you see that it’s a preview of destruction that has gone on in Sudan through icons that represent the major villagers.

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President Bush has invited Democratic and Republic party leaders in congress to discuss the stalemate over funding American forces in Iraq. He said that political differences between the two parties shouldn’t prevent resources from reaching the troops. Correspondents say that Democratic party leaders have not ruled out meeting the President next week, but are unlikely to drop their demand for a timetable for troop withdrawal as a condition to the funding.

The Czech writer Aigen Bundy has died at the age of seventy seven. Bundy alives lung maxis real syrean poem in stories that were seen as symbolical critical of the authorities of the communist government in Slova /. Our art correspondent / looks back at his carrer.

Aigen Bundy was not his real name, but the artistic / adopted by / who was born in / in 1930. he’s usually referred to a / comic poet who’s abserb or disturb content could easily be read as symbolic criticism of communist regime. He continue to attack the arrival of capitalism free market in /. Bur alternately, he will be remembered for his own life time of culture protest.

A Palestinian minister says his government is doing all it can to secure the release of Alan Johnston the BBC correspondent who is thought to have been abducted in the Gaza strip more than four weeks ago. The information minister said the government was deeply sorry and shamed that Alan Johnson was still being held. No group has publicly admitted that having seized him.

And Palestinian president M. has said he would meet Israel Prime Minister / next week. It will be the first meeting between the two leaders since they agreed during a recent visit by the American secretary of state Condelizz Rice to hold regular talks.

And that’s the latest from world BBC news.