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Morning News


Aug.28   Turkey   Turks elect ex-Islamist president
  Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has been elected president in a parliamentary vote in a third round of voting
 Gul is the first politician with an Islamist background to become head of state since the creation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. His wife wears a Muslim headscarf


  Afghanistan     Taliban: Korean hostages to be released  South Korean negotiators have reached a deal with militants holding 19 S. Korean Christian aid workers for over a month

  USA Judge agrees Noriega extradition  A federal judge has approved the extradition of former Panamanian leader to France when his Florida jail sentence ends next month

  Papua New Guinea AIDS patients 'buried alive' probe  Officials are investigating claims by a woman that people with AIDS were buried alive by their relatives when they became too sick to care for

  Greece Agents probe 'arson plot'  The government has enlisted intelligence and counterterrorism agents to foil what it sees as a deliberate plan by arsonists to destroy forests

Day News


  Baghdad     US seizes Iranian group in Iraq
  7 Iranians working for the Iranian Electricity Ministry have been arrested by US forces


  Iraq   Al-Sadr calls for calm after militias clash Map of Karbala Iraq  Clashes between Shiite militias left dozens of people dead in Karbala and Baghdad

  Sudan Sudan launches flood aid appeal  The Government and the UN have launched an appeal to raise $20m to help more than 400,000 people hit by floods across Sudan

  Southern Afghanistan Coalition forces kill 100 insurgents  The ongoing battle is in Kandahar province's northern Sha Wali Kot district

  Greece Foreign firefighters aid Greece  A small fleet of foreign planes and helicopters is trying to battle dozens of wildfires that have killed at least 64 people

  Chile Ex-general Wenzel jailed for life  Supreme Court has confirmed the life sentence handed down to Hugo Salas Wenzel for his part in the murder of 12 opponents of Pinochet

  Sierra Leone President warns of state of emergency  Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has warned he could declare a state of emergency if violence ahead of presidential run-off vote worsens.

Evening News


  Baghdad     US frees seven Iranians  7 Iranians were detained in a swoop overnight from one of the main hotels in the capital
San Francisco Bay Area , August 28, 2007 Timeline