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Exit polls from the constitutional referendum Ecuador suggested that president // has overwhelming support for his supposals radically to change the way the country is run. Mr. / wants to create a constituent assembly which would reform the congress, judiciary and other political institutions, and improve the lives of the Ecuador’s poorest. // reports from the Ecuadorian capital /.
Supporters of president //’s plan to radically reform Ecuador political system were out on the street / minutes after polling stations were closed. He will show on national television celebrating at hoteling the largest city /. The full official results would not likely to be released some time. There’s seemed clear that president’s proposal receive overwhelming backing he was seeking. The result means that Ecuador would now hold third elections to choose a constituent assembly will radically rewrite the country’s constitution.

The key committee of the World Bank meeting in Washington has expressed serious concern about the personal scandal surrounding the bank’s president //. The controvocy is over the decision by Mr. / to promote and give a big pay rise to his girl friend who was employed by the bank befor e he took over. Ander Wolker reports.
Mr. / was still in his job, but remained under a cloud. The bank’s board will continue looking into the controversy and he has said he accepted whatever remedies the board proposes. The ministers who manage the committee guides world bank and IMF polity, on which does not usually consider personnel matters, describe the situation as a great concern. The committee also said it’s important that the bank should maintain its credibility and reputation as well as the motivation of its staff. Critics of Mr. / say all of those has been undermined by the controvocy.

Israel Prime Minister Ehud Almert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abas have held talks in Jerusalem. They met for lunch for Prime Minister’s residence. The spokeswoman for Mr. / said the two men have positive talks mainly about security and humanitarian issues. A Hamas led Palestinian government spokesman Haz Hamad said the establishment of government national unity in February had improved the prospects for cooperation. It’s not the present meeting between /Abass and Almert, but I think now that situation has changed because we’re supposed here we are unified in our government.

The Supreme Court in Iran is reported to have acquitted a group of men charged with murdering people they are considered to be involved in an Islam activities in the southeast city of / in the 2002. The killers who were all members of Islamic paramilitary force told the court they believed Islam allow them to kill anyone engaged what they called illicit activities if they ignored two warnings to stop.

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More than sixty people have been killed and at least hundreds injured in a street bomber attacks in sectarian murders through the day in the Iraq capital Baghdad. Two car bombs went off close together near a busy street market in the mainly Shiite neighborhood followed by a series other explosions elsewhere. Police also reported finding thirty bodies dumped in the street apparent victims of sectarian killings.

Opposition supporters in Nigeria have set up road blocks barricaded elected offices and burned buildings since their protest against Saturday state election results. The protesters complaining the poll was not free, nor fair, and police say more than twenty people were killed during the vote, our correspondent David Belford is in Nabuja.
It is exactly what the international observers had, didn’t want to happen. This is / up animosity across the country, particularly in /, and in the north, in the delta region, and with presidential in parliementary election system few days away, there is build up as well. And I think the tension will build rather than lessen.

Riot police in Russia have clashed with anti government protesters at a rally in the country’s second city Saint Petersburg. A day after police broke up a similar protest in Moscow. The violence in Saint Petersburg took place at the end of rally when police wielding batons chaste small groups protesters beating them to the ground and hull them to police buses. Several organizers of the rally were arrested.

A previously unknown Palestinian group calling itself / has issued a statement saying it has killed the missing BBC correspondent in Gaza Alan Johnston. The BBC said it was aware of the report and very concern about it. But stressed that there was no verification what’s the ever. The Palestinian authority said it, too, had no information confirming the fate of Alan Johnston. He disappeared more than a month ago on his way home from work in Gaza

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