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A report by the US Senate on the buildup to the Iraq War says the CIA didn't believe there was any evidence to link the former president Saddam Hussein to Al-Qaeda. The vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Democratic Senator John Rockefeller, said the Bush administration has misled the American public.

"The administration sought and succeeded in creating the impression that Al-Qaeda and Iraq worked in concert and presented a single unified threat to the United States of America. The committee's investigation revealed something completely different."

Our correspondent to Washington Nick Miles says the report comes at a critical time ahead of November's mid-term congressional elections.

If indeed were we saying now and more information comes out about the war in Iraq and in the run-up to November, it could will be then many Republicans are both from House representatives and the Senator of the Upper House of the Congress, their seats will be looking extremely shaky.

NATO was calling for up to 2,000 extra troops for its operations in Afghanistan to assist the19,000 soldiers, soldiers are already there. The call came as NATO military leaders met in Warsaw to review operations in Afghanistan and on the day when two American soldiers and at least fourteen Afghan civilians were killed by a suicide bomber in Kabul. Johnny Dymond reports:

NATO wants more men to create what it calls an in-theatre reserve, an infantry unit between 700 and 1,000 strong which could be flown around the country. Combat support units will bring the numbers up to something around 2000.This is no indication of where the fresh troops might come from. Officials say that all countries will be asked to contribute, but no one country has been pinpointed as a likely donor.

At least 37 people have been killed in three explosions outside a mosque in the Indian state of Maharashtra. More than 100 others were injured and a number of them seriously. The blasts happened soon after Friday prayers when the mosque in the town of M northeast of Mumbai was crowded with Muslim worshippers. The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the attack and appealed for calm and communal harmony. A Maharashtra's state police chief said a curfew had been imposed and police reinforcement sent to M.

This is BBC World News.

Opposition leaders in Bolivia say that they received massive support for a general strike in the wealthiest region of the country. The action was widely seen as the biggest challenge yet to the authority of the president Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president who took office in January after years of bleeding street protests. Our South America correspondent Daniel Schweimler reports

It was always a matter of when rather than if president Evo Morales would face strong challenges to his leadership.\ comes no surprise to him that the opposition to his proposed changes to Bolivia's constitution, has surged in the provinces of Santa Cruz,B,for that's where much of the country's oil and agricultural wealth centered, and Mr. Morales first and foremost wants to take some that way and ensure a fairer distribution to Bolivia's poorer provinces. Those areas also thought they want greater autonomy from the central government in the referendum in July, but now feared that President Morales won't let that happen.

The Chilean Supreme Court has once again stripped the country's former military ruler General Augusta Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution. General Pinochet can now be charged in the human right case involving torture and kidnapping. The Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and her mother were among thousands of people tortured at the centre. Mr. Pinochet has already lost his immunity of prosecution in several other human rights cases. N. reports:

The Supreme Court has stripped the immunity from prosecution on human rights charges, a privilege he enjoyed as the former president and a law himself imposed before leaving office. The Supreme Court's ruling now allows charges to be laid against the 90-year-old for his part in the kidnap of 36 political opponents and torture of 23 of them. The victims were taken to the infamous Villa Grimaldi prison in the capital Santiago. It was run by General Pinochet's secret police and thousands of people were tortured there in the mid 1970s.

The United Nation's high commissioner for refuges Antonio Guterres has issued a stark warning about the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. Mr Guterres said Darfur was heading for a major catastrophe unless action is taken to improve security and allow access by humanitarian agencies. With violence is increasing despite a peace deal, he called on the government of Sudan to allow in a UN peacekeeping team.

BBC World News.