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Morning News


Oct.10   Northern Iraq     Turkey hits rebels in Iraq
  Turkey is shelling Kurdish rebel camps across the border in northern Iraq. The government unlikely to move toward sending ground troops


  Washington     Rice warns against Armenia bill  The administration has urged the Congress not to pass a resolution declaring the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire to be genocide

  Nigeria   Vaccine-linked polio hits Nigeria  Nigeria is fighting a rare outbreak of a form of polio. 69 children in the north have caught the disease from others who had already been immunised

  London All Blacks rugby star arrested  Doug Howlett was arrested by police after 2 cars were damaged outside the team hotel at Heathrow Airport

  Moscow Putin, Sarkozy bridge gap on Iran  Russian President said that Iran must be encouraged to make its nuclear program fully transparent

  Kazakhstan Landmark lift-off for space crew  A Russian spacecraft heading to the International Space Station has blasted off from Baikonur

  Washington Laura Bush to junta: Step aside  First lady called on Myanmar's military junta to give up the 'terror campaigns' against its people and allow for a democratic Myanmar

Day News


  U.S. Congress     US bill on Armenia moves forward
  A bill recognising the killing of Armenians in Ottoman times as genocide passed through the House Foreign Affairs Committee by 27 votes to 21
 The nonbinding resolution says the deportation of nearly 2 million Armenians from the Ottoman Empire between in 1915-1923, resulting in the deaths of 1.5 million, amounted to 'genocide' President Bush and key figures lobbied hard against the measure. Turkish President Gul carried is calling the decision 'unacceptable,' saying it 'doesn't fit a major power like the United States.'


  Myanmar   Dissident dies during interrogation  Opposition party member Win Shwe died during interrogation and two activists were arrested as the ruling junta pressed its crackdown

  Baghdad Freed Iraqis not rejoining insurgency  Marine general: None of the 1,000-plus Iraqi detainees freed in recent weeks have broken a pledge not to return to the insurgency

  Gaza Hamas ready for talks with rival  The Palestinian Islamist movement has said it has agreed to hold reconciliation talks with the rival Fatah group of President Abbas

  Washington Carter says U.S. tortures prisoners  Former President: The United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law

Evening News


  Turkey     Turkey condemns US Armenia vote
  Turkey has denounced a vote by a US congressional committee recognising as genocide the 1915-17 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks


  Washington     Armenia bill: Bush in damage control  Top administration officials are shifting into damage-control mode after a House committee approved a resolution that labels the killings as 'genocide'

  New Delhi Tibetans storm Chinese embassy  Some 30 exiles protesting Chinese religious policies stormed the Embassy, with several breaching the front gate

  Baghdad Contractor: Workers feared bombing  An Australian security company that fired on a car carrying two 2 women, said its team acted because they feared a suicide bombing attack
San Francisco Bay Area , October 10, 2007 Timeline