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The US military says 24 Iraqi police officers and 18 insurgents have been killed while fighting in the Iraqi city of Baquba, the US military says a civilian also was killed in the violence that erupted Thursday after insurgents ambushed a police unit. In the northern city of Mosul authorities have imposed a vehicle ban after insurgents distributed leaflets threatening violence in the mixed Sunni-Kurdish city.
Iran is reportedly to have expanded its nuclear program despite the threat of United Nations sanctions, the Iran’s Samia official’s student news agency says nuclear engineers have begun operating a second network of centrifuges at a Uranium enrichment facility. The report today quotes sources as saying gas has been fed into a system of cascades this week and the results of the process already have been obtained. The report also says Uranium had not yet been put into the system but could be in the next few days.
South Korea’s Foreign Minister is in Beijing for talks with Chinese leaders on how to impose sanctions against North Korea for its recent nuclear test. Ban Ki-moon arrived in the Chinese capital today where he is to meet President Hu Jintao and State Councilor who met North Korean leader Kim Jong Il last week. The officials will consider how to implement United Nations Security Council resolution which is aimed at punishing the North for detonating an underground nuclear device October 9th.
And ally of Congolese President Joseph Kabila has been freed from a radio station where he was trapped by soldiers loyal to the president’s rival. The United Nations peacekeepers freed Francois Mobutu Nzanga from his makeshift prison today, that incident raised tensions just ahead of Sunday’s runoff presidential election in the country. VOA’s Niclo C reports from Kinshasa, analysts are expressing some misgivings about the upcoming vote.
An analyst with the Brussels-based International Crisis Group JS says the crucial DRC election could become a winner taste of old fair and election that does not leave any role for the minority party in the parliament. “The most parliament you have guarantees for the minority that they have positions and key commissions, auditing bodies and so on, until now in parliament it seems the majority wants to dominate everything leaving the political opposition without many rights.” Both candidates, President Joseph Kabila and vice President and former rebel Jean-Pierre Bemba still relied on large private security guards that are not integrated into the army. After first-round results announced in August supporters of the two candidates clashed leaving dozens dead in Kinshasa, neither candidate has taken to the campaign trail citing security concerns. Vice President Bemba has said that if he loses in a transparent election he will go into a peaceful opposition but Mr. Kabila has not said anything. NC VOA news Kinshasa.
Russian space officials say the crew of the international space station has successfully opened the hatch of a cargo door and began unloading fresh supplies after resolving some technical problems. The Progress N58 ship could not fully docked in the first attempt Thursday when an antenna on the craft failed to properly retract.
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels say peace talks will fail unless the government agrees to open a key highway on the Jeffina Peninsula which the rebels say is necessary for humanitarian reasons. Observers hoped the talks will lead to a cessation of fighting between the rebels and the government. VOA’s PN has more from New Delhi.
The Sri Lankan government two months ago cut off a key highway linking the predominated Tamil Jeffina Peninsula with the rest of the country. The Tamil Tiger say people living on the Peninsula and Sri Lanka’s far north are facing food shortages as a result. A rebel spokesman warned Friday that the government does not agree during upcoming peace talks in Geneva to reopen the highway there will be no further talks. The two sides are due to start two days of negotiation on Saturday, the goal of talks is to save a ceasefire signed by the two sides in 2002 and prevent it return to all out civil war. Observers hope the talks will lead to a renewed commitment to the ceasefire. But given the ongoing wave of violence and the failure previous rounds of talks to end it few people are optimistic. The group Human Rights Watch says the priority now is not achieving peace but merely medicating the impact of fighting on Sri Lanka’s civilian population. PN VOA news New Delhi.
Brief look at markets on Wall Street US stock indices are down, pacific Asia markets closed lower today.