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The International Monetary Fund has called on Spain to carry out urgent and far-reaching reforms to its economy, with growing concern about the country’s debt and signs of only a fragile economic recovery. The IMF said changes must be made to the labour market which it described as dysfunctional.

Police in Iraq say a newly elected Member of Parliament has been shot dead in the city of Mosul. Bashar al-Ageidi was elected in March and was part of the secular alliance headed by the former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Officials said he was killed outside his house by two gunmen, one of whom has been captured. Jim Muir reports from Baghdad.

Mr al-Ageidi is the first of the new-elected deputies to be killed. In his mid-thirties with three young daughters, he was one of twenty Sunni leaders elected from Mosul in alliance with Iyad Allawi’s secular coalition, helping give him the narrow 2-seat lead with which he emerged from the polls. Although Mr Allawi has complained about harassment and victimisation of his followers by forces loyal to his chief rival – the incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The most obvious suspects in an assassination like this are militant Sunni insurgents, bent on disrupting the political process and deterring people from taking part in it.

Left-wing rebels in Colombia have ambushed a military patrol killing at least nine marines. The troops were attacked as they approached the guerrilla camp in the Amazon rain forest in the southern region of Caqueta, a stronghold of the Farc rebel group. The bloodshed comes six days before elections to choose a successor to President Alvaro Uribe.