A study has found that incinerated remains from victims of the 9/11 attacks on the United States in 2001 ended up in landfill waste disposal sites. The partial remains were from people killed in the attack on the Pentagon and the hijacked airliner which crashed in Pennsylvania that day. The remains could not be identified.
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered his government to draft a new bill making it illegal to deny that genocide was pursued against Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915. Mr Sarkozy issued the statement after France's constitutional court had struck down an earlier law on genocide denial, saying it infringed freedom of expression. Here's Christian Fraser.
The decision of the constitutional court will be welcomed by the Turkish government, who warned the bill would risk a serious crisis in relations between the two countries. But Mr Sarkozy said it was a great disappointment to those who had supported the bill. Genocide denial, said his statement, is intolerable and so must be punished. The vote in parliament spurred angry protests by Turks both in Paris and in Ankara. The Turkish government suspended political and military cooperation with France after the Senate approved the bill. The Turkish foreign minister said it was still too early to decide whether to restart full diplomatic relations.
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The Venezuelan government says President Hugo Chavez has had a successful operation in Cuba to remove a potentially cancerous lesion from his pelvic area. Hugo Chavez had two operations and chemotherapy for cancer in the same area last year. His renewed illness has cast doubt on his ability to campaign for re-election in October. But the Vice-President Elias Jaua said Mr Chavez was in good shape after the operation.