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From the VOA news center in Washington, I'm F. A.

The Sudanese government is expelling a top United Nations envoy from Sudan. The Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. The expulsion comes in the week of comments UN envoy Jan Pronk made on his website indicating that the Sudanese armed forces are in the state of disarray in Darfur. N.K reports from Khartoum.

United Nations' special representative to the Secretary General Jan Pronk has been given 72 hours to leave Sudan. Pronk last week wrote on his website that the Sudanese army had lost two key battles against rebels in Darfur. Pronk charged that some Sudanese troops are refusing to fight and he said some generals have been fired. The Sudanese armed forces denied Pronk's claim and called for his expulsion from the country. Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ali Sadig told VOA that Pronk is also at arts with the government over statements he made about the Darfur peace agreement.

The United Nations was not available for comment on Pronk's dismissal. N.K for VOA news, Khartoum.

NATO-led troops have killed 15 suspected militants who ambushed a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan. The alliance said today that the troops returned fire after they were attacked in Zabul province with small arms and rocket prepared grenades and says 2 NATO vehicles were damaged in the attack which happened on Saturday.

A bomb has ripped through a crowded market in Baghdad killing 3 people as the country prepares to the Muslim holiday of /. The bomb today exploded in the / market place which is filled with people buying goods for the holiday which marks the end of Ramadan. President Bush meanwhile reviewed his strategy for Iraq with top advisors and military commanders Friday and Saturday.

A Japanese news report says the government in Tokyo is considering a plan to deploy navy warships in surveillance aircraft to help allies enforce UN sanctions against North Korea. Quoting from an outlined of government plan that / Xinbun Daily says several destroyers in patrol aircraft would monitor ship traffic to and from North Korea.

Palestinian witnesses say a member of the security service loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas has been killed in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Witnesses say he was fadely shot outside his home in his barrage camp early today during clashes with forces from the governing Hamas group.

The World Health Organization says there has been considerable progress in the fight against tuberculosis in South Asian, Indonesia with a worse TV problem exist. As A.P reports from New Delhi, India has a highest number of tuberculosis cases in the world.

For decades, tuberculosis has extracted a heavy toll in India although the disease is usually easily cured with an inexpensive six-month treatment of drugs. Nearly 2 million new patients are stricken by the disease every year in published Indian communities and 1,000 to die every day. World Health Organization officials say the program has prevented at least 1 million deaths in India from the disease in recent years and the cure rate has increased dramatically to more than 80%. But a top international tuberculosis expert and senior member of the mission that reviewed the program F/ cautions that combating tuberculosis is a long-term battle.

"We have to mind things these for about 50 years minimum, to release tuberculosis * is not a measured progress, because no matter what you do tuberculosis reduce slowly."

WHO official said the main battle against tuberculosis has been engaged in 5 countries of South and Southeast Asia that account for the bark of the worldwide cases. The five are India, Bangladesh, the Maori, Burma and Indonesia. A.P for VOA news, New Delhi.

India says that it has good but not strong evidence that Pakistan's spy agency was involved in a series of bombings that killed 186 people in Mumbai in July. The Indian National Security advisor told the CNN-IBN television network today that the evidence would be presented to Pakistan during ministerial level talks that resume in November.