World News from the BBC.
A state-run Turkish news agency says a court in Istanbul has
indict
ed 196 people for planning to overthrow the government, which is run by a party with its roots in Islam. The suspects who were arrested earlier this year, and include serving and former military officers, some of them generals and admirals. They are said to have seen the government as a threat to
secularism
and plot the coup in 2003.
Greek police say a far-left militant group is likely to have been behind the killing of an investigator of journalist, Socratis Guiolias, who was shot dead outside his home in Athens. The police say bullet casings recovered from the scene match weapons used by the group, the Sect of Revolutionaries, which killed a policeman last year. The suggestion 's being viewed with skepticism by some politicians.
Parliament in the small South American country of Suriname has elected the former military leader, Desi Bouterse as its new president. Mr. Bouterse won the necessary 36 votes out of 50, after weeks of negotiations with political factions following his party's narrow general election victory in May. James Reed has the details.
Desi Bouterse's supporters cheered and waved flags outside the parliament in Paramaribo in celebration of what is, by any standards, an extraordinary political
comeback
. Mr. Bouterse is still waiting trial over the killing of political opponents during his time as military ruler in the 1980s. And internationally, he is a wanted drug trafficker, convicted in his absence in the Netherlands to 11 years in jail for cocaine smuggling. But nine years after he finally