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Turkmenistan's president Saparmurat Niyazov has died after 21 years of rule in the ()nation,state medias say Mr.Niyazov died of sudden heart failure early today,a funeral set for Sunday,the deputy prime minister has been named as acting president,top officials are to meet Tuesday to discuss a transition and set a day for new elections.

Now to Iraq where police say a suicide bomber has blown himself up at a police recruitment center in Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 15.authorities say the attacker believe to be wearing an explosive vest detonated the charge outside the police center early today.Meanwhile the new defense secretary Rober Gates who is currently visiting Baghdad has been discussing a possible increase a number of American troops in the country.

US envoy Christopher Hill is urging North Korean negotiators to focus on nuclear disarmament to rather than complains about US sanctions,Hill says it's difficult to make progress on nuclear issues when North Korea's free occupied with US financial restrictions against companies accused that was dealing with the North,their alternative sides of progress on the North Korean nuclear talks have now entered their force staying in Beijing,voa's Kurt Achin has more details in this report from the Chinese capital.

Pyongyang is still insisting that Washington lifted financial measures against North Korean interests before Pyongyang will move ahead on the issue of dismantling its nuclear weapons program,US treasury official Doniel ()who met with North Korean financial officials on the sidelines of the nuclear talks earlier this week says those talks were business like and useful,but ()says further talks are needed before they can be any agreement between the two sides.

We have to get to do that,we discuss a possibility of meeting next month,perhaps to New York.

That dispute will also bank in Macao,()delta Asia which Washington says help North Korea was counterfeiting and money laundrying activities,US's restrictions on the bank have a result in the North Korean account there with 24 million dollars being frozen,Thursday in cautious expressions of optimism,it was announced that the nuclear talks among North and South Korea,the US,China,Japan and Russia would be extended by a day until Friday,Kurt Achin voa news,Beijing.

In Bangladesh, at least 20 people have been injured as a security forces clash with the demonstrators taking part in the latest nationwide strike called by a prominent political alliance to demand an electoral reform,Anjana Pasricha in New Delhi.She has a report on the political deadlock that's gripping the country,ahead of national elections in January.

Soldiers and riot police fighter to rival politic dispersed thousands of activists of the army league and its allies who marched through the streets of the capital ()on () to enforce a shutdown,officials said protestors stormed police car and smashed other vehicles,the strike caused country wide destructions as activists halted the trains,()highways and shut down schools and the businesses,the army league is campaigning for an electoral reform begun Octomber when the previous government headed by its rival the Bangladesh nationalist body handed power to an interim government,the caretaker government is supports to supervise neutral both,but the army league accused it a buyer in favor of the previous government,the army league wants the elections'schedule for Janaury 22nd to be postponded,but the Bangladesh nationalist body insists they should go ahead as planned.Anjana Pasricha for voa news New Delhi.

Opponents of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won nationwide municipal elections held last week, final results announced today by Iran's interior ministry show moderate conservatives opposed to the president when the majority of the seats in city councils followed by reformers and Tehran moderate conservatives won 8 of the 15 seats in the council,reformers captured 4,Mr.Ahmadinejad's allies won 2 and the independent candidate won 1 seat.

US stock market indexes move down as trading ()underway today,the Dow-Jones industrial average climmed 6 points to 12,470,the S&P500 rose 2 points to 1,425,and the Nasdaq gained 3 points to reach 2,341.