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President A. of Iran has cancelled the plan to attend a session of UN Security Council on Saturday, at which further sanctions could be imposed on his country because of its nuclear program. Reporting from New York, L. T..
The spokesman for the Iranian mission told BBC President A. couldn’t get to New York in time for the Security Council vote on Saturday because what he said was delays in the US issuing visas for the air crew. Instead, said the spokesman, Iran’s foreign minister and his deputy hope to attend the vote traveling in commercial flight. The US ambassador A. said that looks like an excuse on that all visas properly filled in have been granted.

The outgoing American ambassador in Baghdad says sectarian dividers developing across the Middle East because the situation in Iraq. A warns that it could destabilize the entire region. “it’s in everyone’s interest including the countries outside this region or interested in this region to encourage the states of this area to come together to contain and reverse that a tendency towards polarization along sectarian line.” In Iraq itself several insurgent groups have settled down on their intention to work together to fight US forces. They told BBC that they agreed to set up coordinating office and would eventually build a political front. The groups include the organization as known as Islamic Army, the Ansar al-Islam, and the military wing of the Islamic Iraqi Resistance, which is called S. brigades.

The American Secretary of state Condolezza Rice has left Washington for the Middle East on her first visit to the region since the creation of Palestinian unity government. Our correspondent A. is traveling with secretary of state and sends his report. “President Bush said he was sending his secretary of state to the region again because the peace in the Middle East was a priority for his administration. Despite the Washington’s refusal to recognize the new Palestinian unity government, Condolezza Rice and her officials are continuing to talk to moderates including President Abbas. It’s a further sign that ideology is no longer the driving force for this administration of foreign policy agenda. Condolezza Rice wants to focus minds on what she calls the political horizon of creating a peaceful Palestinian state. She’s not yet prepared to get bog down on the detail of how that can be achieved.

US says one of the inmates of the Guantanamo Bay detention campus has admitted supplying explosives for the bombing of American Embassy in Tanzania in 1998, but said he didn’t know what they be used for. A transcript to the hearing at the campus quotes an in mate A. has apologizing to the US government and the families of the victims. Mr. G. who was arrested in Pakistan three years ago, admitted going to Al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan after the embassy bombing.

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The UN says government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo have restored order in the capital Kinshasa after two days of fighting with forces loyal to the main opposition leader J. The fighting began after Mr. J’s forces failed to disarm in line with the new agreement with government. From K. A. reports. “Most of fighting have stopped, but people are spending the second night locked inside their homes. [屏蔽] tanks are holding positions on Kinshasa’s main avenues. [屏蔽] troops have also setting up a number of road blocks made of bricks, plastic / and other beaten pieces. But a few civilians who are ventured out of scene to take injured people to the hospital complained the polluting at the roadblocks. The leader R. hassled refuge near building owned by South Africa embassy. The Congolese persecutor general has issued an nerish warrant for him.

South Africa has made its strongest comments so far on the events of its neighbor Zimbabwe. The deputy foreign minister A. said it was difficult to say how a total melt down in Zimbabwe could be avoided because annual inflation was now a 1700%. But South Africa officials insisted no alternative to their policy of quite diplomacy with Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean human rights activists say they fear further violence so they step on their campaign.

Lawyers for thirteen Cabin staff grounded by India Airline for being overweight acclaimed a partial victory after a judge ordered the company to pay the women the wages they lost as a result to the flying ban. The airline says L. are better ambassadors for the company and more able to respond to emergencies. But some staffs have said they feel demeaned by the pressure to conform to an un-Indian-ideal of womanhood. The latest ruling could just be overturned.