refer to
the gulf. The Saudi Arabian based games federation said the Iranian organizers had failed to address its concerns, particularly over the planned logo and medals The Israel's strip with the words Persian Gulf. Arab countries rejected this as the description, calling it the Arabian Gulf.
Exit polls published after the end of voting in the Ukrainian presidential election, suggest that no candidate has won an outright majority.But the current president Viktor Yushchenko has been eliminated. There will be a second round of voting on February 7th. Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Kiev.
If the exit polls are correct, then Viktor Yanukovych will face the current Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in a run-off on the 7th of February. She was
instrumental
in bringing the current President, Viktor Yushchenko to power during the Orange Revolution. Now though, his support has
evaporate
d, and she is portraying herself as the inheritor of the Orange Mental. But the most
remarkable
transformation has been for Viktor Yanukovych. Five years ago, he was portraited as the villain of the Orange Revolution,
tarnish
ed by allegation of vote-rigging and open support from Moscow. Now though, both leading candidates here favor a closer ties with the Kremlin after five years of rising tentions.
Pope Banedict has once again defended the Vatican's conduct during the Second World War, saying that the Roman Catholic Church often provided what he called hidden and discreet help to Jews threaten by the Nazis' holocaust. The Pope was speaking while visiting Rome's main synagogue, only the second time a Roman Catholic Premier has done so. The visit has caused controversy among some Jewish groups. The Pope's decision to move his wartime predecessor piors the 12th closed synagogue had angered some Jewish groups.