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Silvio Berlusconi who has won Italy's general election says he feels great responsibility that warns of difficult months ahead. The centre-right leader's first public comments since his rival Walter Veltroni admitted defeat came in a telephone call to a talk show on RAI television. From Rome. David Willey reports.

He declared he is willing to push through reforms with the help of the opposition. Mr. Berlusconi plans a slimmed-down cabinet of only twelve ministers including four women, thus fulfilling one of his election promises. Despite having won a governing majority in both Houses of Parliament, analysts predict that his Freedom Party Coalition would have to pay more than lip service this time to the demands of the Northern League which made significant gains in the election results declared so far. In past power-sharing arrangements, the Northern League has often been an uncomfortable bedfellow.

The United States is making two hundred million dollars available for emergency aid to alleviate food shortages in Africa and other parts of the world. The White House said the money would be used to meet unanticipated needs for food aid. Rising food prices have already led to violent demonstrations in Haiti and warnings of potential unrest elsewhere. David Bamford reports

President Bush has ordered this additional food aid a day after senior finance and development officials from around the world called for urgent action to stem rising food prices, warning that social unrest would spread unless the cost of basic stables was contained. The World Bank said on Sunday that the doubling of food prices over the past three years could push a hundred million people in developing countries deeper into poverty. Two hundred million dollars are being made available to help alleviate food shortages in Africa but also other seriously affected areas.

The main opposition party in Zimbabwe, The Movement for Democratic Change/, has called for a general strike beginning on Tuesday in protest of the decision of the High Court to reject its request that the long-delayed results of last month's presidential election be released. The judge in Harare said he accepted the argument by the electoral commission ZEC that it should first investigate anonymously in the vote. The MDC's vice president Thokhozani Khupe called on opposition supporters to stage a mass stay-in.

"The National Executive Council does resolve/ to stage a mass stay-in. We are therefore calling upon the public to speak out against the arrogance of ZEC in its failure to release the presidential results."

The government of Ivory Coast has again delayed long-awaited presidential elections, a key part of last year's peace deal aimed at reuniting the country. The first round of the presidential poll will be held in late November, missing a previously agreed deadline by five months. The delay has been welcomed by all sides.

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The Israeli President Shimon Peres is in Poland for ceremonies to mark the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazi occupation during the World War Two. Mr. Peres will join his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski and Holocaust survivors on Tuesday in a Jewish prayer for the dead. The ceremony will take place at the Warsaw Ghetto Fighters Monument where in 1943, hundreds of young Jews held up for two months against the German army."

Three inmates have been killed during riots at a prison in Jordan. Officials said prisoners at a jail near Ammen set fire to their cells to protest against the move to segregate al-Qaeda-linked militants from other convicts. Jordanian police said the three died from smoke inhalation.

The author of the Harry Potter books J.K.Rowling has appeared in /court in New York to try to block plans to publish an unofficial encyclopedia on the fictional world of the boy wizard. The material in question has already appeared on the website called The Harry Potter Lexicon, but Ms Rowling says publishing it in the form of a book would violate her intellectual copyright. Rob Norris reports.

This case is all about whether material that’s freely available on the internet compiled using material from the seven Harry Potter novels can be printed and sold commercially as a book. J.K. Rowling told the court in Manhattan that that amounts to wholesale theft. She plans to write her own encyclopedia, which she says, will raise money for charity. The man she is suing, Steve Vander Ark and his publisher, say that if she wins, the future publication of any reference guides to works of fiction could be threatened. They say her injunction would dramatically extend the reach of copyright protection.

People in Cuba are buying their own mobile phones openly for the first time. State-owned telephone officials have begun to sell them as part of a series of economic liberalization measures introduced by Raul Castro who took over the presidency in February.

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