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In a result which compounds its heavy losses in local elections in England and Wales, the governing Labor Party in Britain has been defeated in the contest for Mayor of London. The veteran politician Ken Livingstone lost the job he had held for eight years to the candidate of the main opposition Conservative Party Boris Johnson. Lyle Gramley reports.
Boris Johnson is one of the most colourful characters in British politics. Boris or Boza, as he is affectionately known by friends, is famous for playing the fool. But although he often acts like an upper-class bumbling English gentleman who can't get his words out, he is in fact a very ambitious man. The city wanted a change in the style of the man that leads them and a change is what they will certainly get.
In the local elections that were held, Labor lost more than 300 seats, Labor's worst local election performance for more than 40 years.
The government in Zimbabwe says President Robert Mugabe has accepted the official result, confirming he lost the first round of the presidential election five weeks ago and / is willing to take part in a run-off. The BBC's southern Africa correspondent says that although the outcome was not conclusive, it's a humiliation for the Zimbabwean leader. The opposition MDC, however, remains convinced Mr Tsvangirai won the first round outright and will meet over the weekend to decide whether to take part in a second round of voting. Tendai Biti is General Secretary of the MDC.
"Their announcement today confirms the grand thefts in an attempt to reverse the people's gains of the 29th of March, 2008. This does not surprise us, This is consistent with the regime. That is not ready to let go of power."
The new United Nations advisor on the rights to food, Olivier de Schutter, has called for an immediate freeze on investments in biofuels, the policy of growing food crops to make alternative sources of energy. Their rapid increase has been blamed as a major factor in the recent sharp increase in food prices. Mr de Schutter said it was time for a radical rethink on biofuels.
"It is irresponsible to continue pursuing in such a blind/reliant? fashion our bio-energey policies. I believe that any new investments in first generation agrifuels should be freezed immediately."
The UN Security Council has urged the military government in Burma to ensure that the constitutional referendum due to be held later this month is free, fair and credible. The Council said fundamental political freedoms must be respected and all political forces should be allowed to participate. But there is no specific mention in the Council's statement of the opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is on the house arrest. The references to her in earlier drafts were removed at the insistence of China.
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Police in Columbia say that they've captured one of the country's most notorious drug smugglers only days after his twin brother was killed by the security forces. The man, Miguel Angel Mejia, and his brother, Victor Manuel, were both commanders in Columbia's far right-wing paramilitaries. Jeremy McDermott reports from Columbia.
The Mejia twins with the US extradition warrants pending, a $ 5 million reward offered for their capture, were responsible for exporting hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US and Europe. The killing of one and the capture of another are just belated blows to Columbia's multibillion-dollar drugs trade. However, there is little interruption to the flow of cocaine, which US authorities now put it as high as 1000 tons a year.
Media reports in southern Sudan say three days of the national mourning have been declared after a plane crash killed a number of government officials and senior army officers. The Defense Minister, Dominic Dim, was among those killed. None of the passengers or crew survived the crash.
Voters in the remote US Pacific territory of Guam are meeting to choose which of the Democratic Party presidential candidates they support. Only four delegates to the party's convention are at stake. Neither of the two candidates, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton braved the 24-hour flight from Washington to campaign personally on Guam.
Personal computers have gone on sale to the general public for the first time in Cuba. One electrical shop in the capital Havana began selling Chinese-made Q-tech PCs on Friday. Correspondents say only a handful were bought because few Cubans can afford the price of nearly 800 dollars. Previously banned consumer goods now are being made available to Cubans under reforms introduced by the country's new leader Raul Castro, who succeeded his elder brother Fidel in February.