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Thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers have launched a major security crackdown in the northern city of Kirkuk.authorities say they then imposed an indefinite ban on all podestrian and vehicle traffic in that trouble city.The move is intended to stop the recent way of increasing violence there.And an Iraqi spokesman said on saturday security forces are sweeping through neighbourhood in Kirkuk.He said they confiscated hundreds of weapons and arrested an unknown number of suspected insurgents.

An US navy medic,who helped kidnapped an iraqi man later killed by US marines has been sentenced to 10 years in jail but will serve on a year under a plea deal.Haiti officer Melson Bacos was sentenced friday after he testified at his court martial about the April death of Saleh Gowad in the Iraqi town of Hamdaniyah.Bacos described how members of this patrol/ seized Gowad from his home when they grew frustrated in their search for an insurgent.
Testifing is truthly dead of my trust and hopefully that* will forgive us for all we have done.
Bacos is one of the 8 marines charged with kidnapping and killing award .prosecuters agreed the job murder charges against Bacos exchanged his testomony and admission of kidnapping.

Afghan officials say gunmen on saturday shot and killed two German jounalists in norhern Baghlan province.the officials identified the journalists as a man and a woman who worked for the german news agency Dutch Villa. Earlier a nato solider died when militance ambushed his patrol.with the roadside bomb and small arms fire.A nato statement said that ambulish took place in Kandahar province.

An senior us official says as work on the united nation security council resolution covering Iran's nuclear program will begin next week.Undersecretary of states Nicholas Burns said saturday in London he is confident the council is head towards sanctions resolution because of Iran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.

Recent exchanges of the commisions that responsible for the management of the southest Asia's Mekong Delta are raising concerns about how it combines two tasks economic development and the environmental protection.Benjamin Robinson has more.

Strenching 1400 kilometers from the Tibetan Plateau to the south china sea . The Mekong River helps to meet the daily water train food demands over very 6 million people,but the efforts to both saft guard deliver ecosystem and tap its economic potention is controversial.as southest asia develop and economically the river is increasingly been harnest for hyper pull and down .farm irrigation and budge traffice.the M river commision which repercents the goverments of Laos,Thailand,Cambodge and Vietnam is in charge of managing the river.the commision shifted invasion has concerned environment to listen to the rised groups.many critics complained that now no any represents for goverments and not for the people who live a long in M.of suggests influential business intrest will be able to persuade the goverment to develop the M of expense of local residents.much of the M 's water comes originally from smaller rivers in china.but a number of recent dam projects in china led to complaint of the reduced flow in the downstream countries.Benjamin Robinson for VOA News Beijing.
West African leaders have attended an summit on Ivory Coast expressing their support for untied nation's peace plan to end their crisis.Leaders from the economic community of west african states calls the meeting in Nigeria to discuss ways of reviving the stalled peace process.

Hundreds of survivors of the devastating earthquake in Pakistan last year have protested alleged corruption on the goverment rebuilding program.the quake struk on this day last year killed more than 8000 people and left more than 3 million people homeless.thousands of protesters are matching through the streets of Warsaw saturday in rival demonstrations organised by Poland's opposing liberal and ruling conservative political parties.some ten thousands supporters of the country's main opposition liberal civic platform party are demonstrating in part and support of earlier elections and nearby at least 4000 supporters of the conservative ruling law and justice party are holding a poll goverment rally.

Somali molitiamen have fired shots in the area to disperse hundreds of people they are protesting a new Islamic administration in the key southern seaport K.witnesses say scores of people took the streets late on friday burning tires and blocking roads after the Islamists appointed a new governor .