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NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- Ethnic fighting once again engulfed Kenya's western Rift Valley on Sunday as witnesses and Red Cross officials reported brutal attacks by members of President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe on other ethnic groups.

Police attempt to secure a street in Naivasha, where violence flared on Sunday.

The violence spread to the Rift Valley town of Naivasha on Sunday, where the Red Cross said there were reports of people being burned alive in their homes. Kenya's main opposition party and the Red Cross said as many as 30 people were killed.

Ethnic killings continued in the nearby Rift Valley town of Nakuru, where another 47 people have died since the latest wave of violence began on Thursday, according to the opposition Orange Democratic Movement.

The opposition death toll is much higher than police figures, which do not include Sunday's violence in Naivasha. Police say 31 people have died in the Rift Valley region since last Thursday.  Watch CNN's Zain Verjee report on the violence Â»

In a statement released Sunday, ODM leader Raila Odinga condemned reports of 30 people being burned alive in their Naivasha homes and blamed the Kibaki government for fomenting the violence in the region.

"I condemn this murderous and evil act in the strongest terms possible," he said.

"What is now emerging is that criminal gangs, in a killing spree, working under police protection, are part of a well-orchestrated plan of terror."

It is a dramatic turn of events, considering Odinga was shaking Kibaki's hand three days ago after the two met under the auspices of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Many had hoped Thursday's meeting, arranged by Annan who is mediating peace efforts, would bring an end to the outbreak of bloody ethnic battles that followed last month's contested presidential vote.

But it seems to have had the opposite effect.

Odinga blamed Kibaki's government for orchestrating the Rift Valley violence "to try to influence mediation efforts" and "to divert (attention) from election malpractice to security and violence."

"After stealing the elections from Kenyans, Kibaki now wishes to deny them justice and peace," Odinga said.

A Red Cross official said the agency had received reports of a non-Kikuyu family burned to death in their house in Naivasha.

Television footage showed a man in the back of a police vehicle covered in blood with a large machete wound on the side of his head. Kenyan police dispersed large gangs and cleared rocks littering the streets of the lakeside town, which is dominated by Kikuyu.

Tree branches, heavy boulders and oil drums littered the streets of Naivasha's town center as the Kikuyu gangs erected temporary road blocks, CNN correspondent Zain Verjee reported. She said the atmosphere was tense as the gangs checked cars to identify rival tribes.

Verjee said there was a heavy police presence on the outskirts of the town. Some shops remained open but the town center was almost deserted except for the roaming gangs.

It was a similar situation in Nakuru on Sunday, where ODM member the Rev. Mike Brawan said members of the Kikuyu tribe "are flushing out the non-Kikuyus from their houses."

He said Kikuyus are going house-to-house, attacking civilians who are not members of the tribe, as well as looting and burning their property. Police, he said, "are not doing much."

Brawan said he saw homes burned and people hacked to death in the violence.

"They just die with a lot of pain," he said.

It is estimated -- depending on the source -- that between 500 and 1,000 people have been killed in the violence that followed the December 27 election in which Kibaki kept his post.

Odinga, the OMD candidate for president, and his supporters claim the election was rigged. International observers noted some irregularities in the voting.

Fighting, centered in western Kenya and Nairobi's slums, broke out between tribes loyal to Kibaki and Odinga after Kibaki was declared the winner of recent elections. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Zain Verjee and Stephanie Halasz contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Eight former executives and agents of Siemens AG and its subsidiaries have been indicted in a bribery scheme alleging that they paid or promised Argentine officials $100 million to land a contract worth 10 times as much, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.

They are charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, wire fraud and money laundering.

None of the defendants named in the indictment is in the United States. Justice officials said those involved in the decade-long scheme are from Germany, Switzerland, Argentina and other countries.

According to the indictment, the Siemens executives paid millions in bribes in 1994 to secure a bid to create a national identity card system in Argentina. After the project faced suspension in 1999, the defendants are accused of promising even more bribes to the next presidential administration to keep the project afloat. To top it off, once the project met its demise in 2001, Siemens filed an arbitration claim against Argentina claiming wrongful termination of the contract and seeking $500 million in lost profits. The company hid from the proceedings that it had illegally acquired the contract in the first place, the indictment said.

Justice Department officials praised Siemen's cooperation and said the company that has 60,000 employees in the United States played a large and cooperative role in exposing the alleged conspiracy.

The eight indicted men include Uriel Sharef, former member of the central executive committee of Siemens AG; Herbert Steffen, former CEO of Siemens Argentina; and Andres Truppel, former CFO of Siemens Argentina.

Also named in the indictment are Ulrich Bock, Stephan Signer and Eberhard Reichert, former senior executives of Siemens Business Services; and Carlos Sergi and Miguel Czysch, who were agents of Siemens in the alleged bribe scheme.

"There were few lines these executives were not willing to cross," said Robert Khuzami, director of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer said, "Today's indictment alleges a shocking level of deception and corruption."

In short, the company committed to pay more than $100 million in bribes to win the $1 billion contract, Breuer said. About $60 million was allegedly paid, he said.

"Business should be won or lost on the merits of a company's products and services, not the amount of bribes paid to government officials," Breuer said.

Ronald Hosko, special agent in charge of the FBI in Washington, said corruption is among the FBI's highest investigative priorities, adding, "Foreign bribery is not an acceptable business practice. Backroom deals and corrupt payments to foreign officials to obtain business wear away public confidence in our global marketplace."

If convicted, the defendants could each be sentenced to 20 years in prison and face fines, officials said.

CNN's Jim Barnett contributed to this report.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A man in a wheelchair blew himself up Monday in a northern Iraqi police station, killing three National Police officers, including a commander, police said.

Soldiers stand by as pilgrims gather Sunday in Karbala for al-Arbaeen, one of holiest days on the Shiite calendar.

The attack also wounded nine officers on the police force, which the Iraqi Interior Ministry operates.

The bombing in Samarra raises concern about the recent tactics employed by insurgents in Iraq. Bombs have been placed inside dead animals and hidden in carts. And in recent days, vagrants have been involved in bombings.

"As a sign of desperation, some of those terrorists resorted to some new methods and techniques," said Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta, spokesman for Baghdad's security plan.

One of the tactics is the use of remote-controlled "sticky" bombs, small enough to tape under vehicles.

A high-ranking Samarra police official said the disabled man came to meet with Brig. Gen. Abdul Jabbar Rabei Muttar, deputy commander of security, at the security operations building in Samarra. The pair met last week as well.

The man was searched when he entered the building, but police didn't look under his wheelchair seat, where the explosives had been placed. The man, who police say was cogent, detonated the explosives when Muttar approached him.

Also Monday, a roadside bomb exploded in the middle of a crowd of Shiite Muslims in Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 15, an Interior Ministry official said.

The strike, in southeastern Baghdad's Zafaraniya district, is the latest attack against pilgrims trekking to Karbala for al-Arbaeen, one of the holiest days of the Shiite religious calendar. It falls on Wednesday.

On Sunday, a suicide bomber in Iskandariya killed at least 45 people and wounded 68 others, and armed militants attacked pilgrims in southern Baghdad, killing three and wounding more than 30 others.

Pilgrims traditionally make their way to Karbala on foot as a demonstration of piety, and those who head to the city from Baghdad go through Babil province, where Iskandariya is located.

Joint forces have stepped up patrols during the pilgrimage to protect the thousands headed to Karbala. Last year, more than 180 pilgrims were killed in a series of attacks, most during twin suicide bombings in Hilla, Babil province's capital.

Sunday's attack in Iskandariya, conducted by a bomber wearing an explosive vest, prompted authorities there to replace the police chief, Hilla police said.

More National Police officers have been deployed to Babil to ensure the safety of pilgrims heading to Karbala, a police official said.

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and American-led coalition forces condemned Sunday's "barbaric attacks in Baghdad and Iskandariya" against "innocent citizens participating in an important religious commemoration."

Every year, thousands of pilgrims amass in Karbala for al-Arbaeen, which commemorates the end of a 40-day mourning period for Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.

Hussein, one of the most revered Shiite martyrs, is buried in Karbala, about 60 miles southwest of Baghdad. Karbala's main holy site is the gold-domed Imam Hussein Shrine.

Other developments

CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Over-the-counter cold and cough medicines don't work for children under age 6, and giving the common medicine to young children cannot be recommended, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee said in October.

An FDA panel has called for more studies on how cold medicines affect children.

The panel of health experts, which looked at how safe and effective antihistamines, decongestants, antitussins and expectorants are in children, said it is not appropriate to take data from adults and apply it to children under 12.

After a two-day hearing, the panel called for more studies about how the medicines affect children.

Although the panel's recommendation is nonbinding, it could lead to changes in how cough and cold medicines are used. The votes are to be taken into consideration by FDA regulators, who might take action against the products at a later time.

Dr. Jeff Jenkins, of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said it could take a year or even years for the agency to make a final decision on the recommendations.

During the panel's meeting, the experts looked at a number of proposals, including whether multiple-symptom over-the-counter pediatric cough and cold medicines should be banned for children under 6 years old.

FDA experts voted 13-9 that certain cold medicines with certain ingredients should not be used by young children. The committee said medicines with the same ingredients could be used by children ages 6 to 12.

The experts voted unanimously to require that standardized dosing devices accompany all liquid medicines, in an effort to reduce the likelihood of excessive or unintentional overdosing.

Separately, the committee voted to allow marketing of multiple-symptom products to children between the ages of 2 and 12 if new research showed the products to be safe and effective. Combination products can be particularly susceptible to problems with overdosing because parents sometimes don't realize they are duplicating ingredients.

Committee members also emphasized the importance of proper and easy-to-read labels.

Dr. Daniel Rausch, director of the pediatric hospital program for New York University, said that cold medicine is effective only at doses that are too strong for young children.

Rausch recommends a more traditional treatment where dosing isn't a problem: chicken soup.

"A cold does not kill, so people should just relax," Rausch said. "Kids get sick and there's nothing that people can do about it, but they will get better."

About 800 pediatric cough and cold products are sold in the United States, many using multiple ingredients that have been marketed for use in children for some 30 years.

Earlier this year, the FDA completed a review that found that between 1969 and the fall of 2006, there were 54 reported child deaths from decongestants and 69 from antihistamines.   Watch one family's tragic ending Â»

Most of the deaths occurred in children under 2.

In August, federal health officials recommended the "consult your physician" advice to parents on the labels of cold and cough medicines aimed at young children be replaced by a warning not to use the medications in children under 2 unless directed to do so by a health care provider.

Before the FDA hearings, some of the leading manufacturers of cold and cough medicines announced a voluntary recall of more than a dozen cold medicines for infants.

The Consumer Healthcare Products Association said the products were being pulled "out of an abundance of caution."

Potential misuse of the medications, not product safety, is driving the voluntary withdrawal, the group said.

The American Academy of Pediatrics applauded last week's decision to pull those products, saying, "These medicines are ineffective and can have serious side effects. There are other ways to treat cold symptoms."

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When the drug industry voluntarily withdrew products last week, it insisted that when used as directed, the drugs are safe, and they work. "Parents can continue to trust over-the-counter cough and cold remedies for their children," said Linda A. Suydam, president of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association.

"We strongly encourage parents to adhere to the recommended dosing instructions for all medicines, recognizing that the vast majority of adverse events associated with their use are due to inadvertent overdosing and misuse."

Suydam said CHPA will be launching a major educational campaign for parents and caregivers in coming months.

Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Joshua Sharfstein headed the push that led to the FDA hearing. He became alarmed when four Baltimore children died after their parents gave them excessive doses of cold medicines.

Until those deaths, he did not realize that a dose of cold medicine could turn into a life-and-death issue among young children, he said. E-mail to a friend

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text: FDA

text: hearing

text: He

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text: parents

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text: them

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text: deaths

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text: did

text: not

text: realize

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text: a

text: dose

text: of

text: cold

text: medicine

text: could

text: turn

text: into

text: a

text: life

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text: death

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question: what did the study do

answer: looked at how safe and effective antihistamines, decongestants, antitussins and expectorants are in children,

text: looked at how safe and effective antihistamines, decongestants, antitussins and expectorants are in children,

question: how many pediatric cough and cold products are sold in the United States?

answer: 800

question: what is more study sought for?

answer: how cold medicines affect children.

text: how cold medicines affect children.

question: what helps young children

answer: chicken soup.

text: chicken soup.


text:
Editor's note: Jack Cafferty is the author of a new book, "Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our American Dream." He provides commentary on CNN's "The Situation Room" daily from 4 to 7 p.m. ET. You can also visit Jack's Cafferty File blog.

CNN's Jack Cafferty says "the pain won't go away" until Bush administration's misdeeds are addressed.

(CNN) -- It doesn't go away by itself.

Watergate "went away" when Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace and left town never to be heard from in an official capacity again.

The Bush presidency is thankfully over...but the damage he and Dick Cheney did continues to press on the nerve of the American people like an impacted wisdom tooth. And until the questions surrounding arguably the most arrogant and perhaps most corrupt administration in our history are addressed, the pain won't go away.

From Nancy ("Impeachment is off the table") Pelosi to President Barack ("I want to look forward, not backward") Obama, the country is being poorly served by their Democratic government. And on this subject President Obama is dead wrong.

George W. Bush and his accomplices damaged this country like it's never been damaged before. And it's not just the phony war in Iraq or the torture memos that justified waterboarding. It's millions of missing emails and the constant use of executive privilege and signing statements.

It's the secretive meetings with Enron and other energy executives and the wholesale firing of federal prosecutors. It's trying to get the president's personal attorney seated on the Supreme Court and that despicable Alberto Gonzales sitting in front of congressional investigators whining, "I don't remember, I don't know, I...etc."

It's the domestic eavesdropping in violation of the FISA Court, the rendition prisons, and the lying. It's looking the other way while the City of New Orleans drowned and its people were left to fend for themselves.

It's the violations of the Geneva Conventions, the soiling of our international reputation and the shredding of the U.S. Constitution. It's the handing over of $700 billion to the Wall Street fat cats last fall, no questions asked. Where is that money? What was it used for?

It's the no-bid contracts to firms like Halliburton and Blackwater and the shoddy construction and lack of oversight of reconstruction in Iraq that cost American taxpayers untold billions.

If the Republicans were serious about restoring their reputation, they would join the call for a special prosecutor to be appointed so that at long last justice can be done.

It's too late for George W. Bush to resign the presidency. But it's not too late to put the people responsible for this national disgrace in prison.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jack Cafferty.

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text: note

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text: is

text: the

text: author

text: of

text: a

text: new

text: book

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text: or

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text: Getting

text: Down

text: to

text: the

text: Business

text: of

text: Saving

text: Our

text: American

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text: CNN

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text: The

text: Situation

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text: also

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text: Jack

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text: Cafferty

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text: 's

text: Jack

text: Cafferty

text: says

text: the

text: pain

text: wo

text: n't

text: go

text: away

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text: Bush

text: administration

text: 's

text: misdeeds

text: are

text: addressed

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text: It

text: does

text: n't

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text: itself

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text: Richard

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text: resigned

text: the

text: presidency

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text: disgrace

text: and

text: left

text: town

text: never

text: to

text: be

text: heard

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text: capacity

text: again

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text: Bush

text: presidency

text: is

text: thankfully

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text: to

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text: And

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text: missing

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text: constant

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text: wholesale

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text: president

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text: personal

text: attorney

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text: Supreme

text: Court

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text: City

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text: U.S.

text: Constitution

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text: billion

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text: construction

text: and

text: lack

text: of

text: oversight

text: of

text: reconstruction

text: in

text: Iraq

text: that

text: cost

text: American

text: taxpayers

text: untold

text: billions

text: If

text: the

text: Republicans

text: were

text: serious

text: about

text: restoring

text: their

text: reputation

text: they

text: would

text: join

text: the

text: call

text: for

text: a

text: special

text: prosecutor

text: to

text: be

text: appointed

text: so

text: that

text: at

text: long

text: last

text: justice

text: can

text: be

text: done

text: It

text: 's

text: too

text: late

text: for

text: George

text: W.

text: Bush

text: to

text: resign

text: the

text: presidency

text: But

text: it

text: 's

text: not

text: too

text: late

text: to

text: put

text: the

text: people

text: responsible

text: for

text: this

text: national

text: disgrace

text: in

text: prison

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

text: are

text: solely

text: those

text: of

text: Jack

text: Cafferty

question: Which administration left a trail of misdeeds?

answer: Bush

text: Bush

question: Who should be investigated by a special prosecutor?

answer: George W. Bush

text: George W. Bush

question: What needs to be addressed?

answer: Bush administration's misdeeds

text: Bush administration's misdeeds

question: What did Cafferty say?

answer: "the pain won't go away"

text: "the pain won't go away"

question: Who is Cafferty?

answer: author of a new book, "Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business

text: author of a new book, "Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business

question: Who says the Bush administration has left behind a trail of misdeeds?

answer: CNN's Jack Cafferty

text: CNN's Jack Cafferty


text:
(CNN)  -- Members of the international community have reacted to the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran and the oppostion protests which have accompanied the result.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pictured at a rally held in Tehran Sunday to celebrate his re-election as Iranian president.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement Saturday: "We are monitoring the situation as it unfolds in Iran but we, like the rest of the world, are waiting and watching to see what the Iranian people decide.

"The United States has refrained from commenting on the election in Iran. We obviously hope that the outcome reflects the genuine will and desire of the Iranian people."  White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Saturday  the administration was "impressed by the vigorous debate and enthusiasm that this election generated, particularly among young Iranians."

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, commenting on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday, said: "I have doubts, but withhold comment."  He added that the Iranian government had suppressed crowds and limited free speech, which raised questions.  He also said that the strong showing by Ahmadinejad was  "unlikely," based on pre-election analysis.  Gallery: Emotions run high after election Â»

Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman said in a statement that "the problem which Iran poses for the international community is not personal in nature, but derives from its policy.

"In any case, in light of Tehran's ongoing policy, and even more so after Ahmadinejad's re-election, the international community must continue to act uncompromisingly to prevent the nuclearization of Iran, and to halt its activity in support of terror organizations and undermining stability in the Middle East.

In a statement Saturday the EU Presidency said it was "concerned about alleged irregularities during the election process and post-electional violence that broke out immediately after the release of the official election results on 13 June 2009.

"The Presidency hopes that outcome of the Presidential elections will bring the opportunity to resume the dialogue on nuclear issue and clear up Iranian position in this regard. The Presidency expects the new Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran will take its responsibility towards international community and respect its international obligations."

UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Saturday that the UK government had "followed carefully, and admired, the passion and debate during the Iranian election campaign.

"We have also heard the concerns about the counting of ballots expressed by two of the candidates. This is a matter for the Iranian authorities to address. We will continue to follow developments. Our priority is that Iran engages with the concerns of the world community, above all on the issue of nuclear proliferation."

Fawzi Barhoum, spokesman for Hamas, the militant Palestinian movement backed by Iran, welcomed the results. He urged the world to respect Iranian democracy and accept the results of the elections.

The office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in a statement Sunday that he had congratulated  Ahmadinejad on his victory.

It added that Karzai believed "relations between the two Muslim nations of Afghanistan and Iran expanded during Mr. Ahmadinejad's first term and hoped that these relations get stronger during his second term."

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told ARD Sunday that the Iranian ambassador in Berlin would be summoned to explain the treatment of protesters against the result.

"I have already prompted Iran, together with European colleagues today, to quickly shed light on what has happened there -- if one can take the announced election results there seriously or not," he added.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have offered their congratulations to Ahmadinejad, the official Anatolian Agency reported Monday.

It said that they "called Ahmadinejad on the phone and congratulated him for his success in the election."

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon told reporters in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, Saturday, that Canada was "deeply concerned" about allegations of voting irregularities.

"We're troubled by reports of intimidation of opposition candidates' offices by security forces. We've asked our embassy officials in Tehran to closely monitor the situation, and Canada is calling on Iranian authorities to conduct fair and transparent counting of all ballots."

CNN's Shira Medding in Jerusalem and Greg Clary in Washington contributed to this report.

text: CNN

text: Members

text: of

text: the

text: international

text: community

text: have

text: reacted

text: to

text: the

text: re

text: election

text: of

text: Mahmoud

text: Ahmadinejad

text: as

text: president

text: of

text: Iran

text: and

text: the

text: oppostion

text: protests

text: which

text: have

text: accompanied

text: the

text: result

text: Mahmoud

text: Ahmadinejad

text: pictured

text: at

text: a

text: rally

text: held

text: in

text: Tehran

text: Sunday

text: to

text: celebrate

text: his

text: re

text: election

text: as

text: Iranian

text: president

text: U.S.

text: Secretary

text: of

text: State

text: Hillary

text: Clinton

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: Saturday

text: We

text: are

text: monitoring

text: the

text: situation

text: as

text: it

text: unfolds

text: in

text: Iran

text: but

text: we

text: like

text: the

text: rest

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: are

text: waiting

text: and

text: watching

text: to

text: see

text: what

text: the

text: Iranian

text: people

text: decide

text: The

text: United

text: States

text: has

text: refrained

text: from

text: commenting

text: on

text: the

text: election

text: in

text: Iran

text: We

text: obviously

text: hope

text: that

text: the

text: outcome

text: reflects

text: the

text: genuine

text: will

text: and

text: desire

text: of

text: the

text: Iranian

text: people

text: White

text: House

text: spokesman

text: Robert

text: Gibbs

text: said

text: Saturday

text: the

text: administration

text: was

text: impressed

text: by

text: the

text: vigorous

text: debate

text: and

text: enthusiasm

text: that

text: this

text: election

text: generated

text: particularly

text: among

text: young

text: Iranians

text: U.S.

text: Vice

text: President

text: Joe

text: Biden

text: commenting

text: on

text: NBC

text: 's

text: Meet

text: the

text: Press

text: Sunday

text: said

text: I

text: have

text: doubts

text: but

text: withhold

text: comment

text: He

text: added

text: that

text: the

text: Iranian

text: government

text: had

text: suppressed

text: crowds

text: and

text: limited

text: free

text: speech

text: which

text: raised

text: questions

text: He

text: also

text: said

text: that

text: the

text: strong

text: showing

text: by

text: Ahmadinejad

text: was

text: unlikely

text: based

text: on

text: pre

text: election

text: analysis

text: Gallery

text: Emotions

text: run

text: high

text: after

text: election

text: Â

text: Israel

text: 's

text: Deputy

text: Prime

text: Minister

text: and

text: Minister

text: of

text: Foreign

text: Affairs

text: Avigdor

text: Liberman

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: that

text: the

text: problem

text: which

text: Iran

text: poses

text: for

text: the

text: international

text: community

text: is

text: not

text: personal

text: in

text: nature

text: but

text: derives

text: from

text: its

text: policy

text: In

text: any

text: case

text: in

text: light

text: of

text: Tehran

text: 's

text: ongoing

text: policy

text: and

text: even

text: more

text: so

text: after

text: Ahmadinejad

text: 's

text: re

text: election

text: the

text: international

text: community

text: must

text: continue

text: to

text: act

text: uncompromisingly

text: to

text: prevent

text: the

text: nuclearization

text: of

text: Iran

text: and

text: to

text: halt

text: its

text: activity

text: in

text: support

text: of

text: terror

text: organizations

text: and

text: undermining

text: stability

text: in

text: the

text: Middle

text: East

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text: a

text: statement

text: Saturday

text: the

text: EU

text: Presidency

text: said

text: it

text: was

text: concerned

text: about

text: alleged

text: irregularities

text: during

text: the

text: election

text: process

text: and

text: post

text: electional

text: violence

text: that

text: broke

text: out

text: immediately

text: after

text: the

text: release

text: of

text: the

text: official

text: election

text: results

text: on

text: June

text: The

text: Presidency

text: hopes

text: that

text: outcome

text: of

text: the

text: Presidential

text: elections

text: will

text: bring

text: the

text: opportunity

text: to

text: resume

text: the

text: dialogue

text: on

text: nuclear

text: issue

text: and

text: clear

text: up

text: Iranian

text: position

text: in

text: this

text: regard

text: The

text: Presidency

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text: the

text: new

text: Government

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text: the

text: Islamic

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text: of

text: Iran

text: will

text: take

text: its

text: responsibility

text: towards

text: international

text: community

text: and

text: respect

text: its

text: international

text: obligations

text: UK

text: Foreign

text: Secretary

text: David

text: Miliband

text: said

text: Saturday

text: that

text: the

text: UK

text: government

text: had

text: followed

text: carefully

text: and

text: admired

text: the

text: passion

text: and

text: debate

text: during

text: the

text: Iranian

text: election

text: campaign

text: We

text: have

text: also

text: heard

text: the

text: concerns

text: about

text: the

text: counting

text: of

text: ballots

text: expressed

text: by

text: two

text: of

text: the

text: candidates

text: This

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text: a

text: matter

text: for

text: the

text: Iranian

text: authorities

text: to

text: address

text: We

text: will

text: continue

text: to

text: follow

text: developments

text: Our

text: priority

text: is

text: that

text: Iran

text: engages

text: with

text: the

text: concerns

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: community

text: above

text: all

text: on

text: the

text: issue

text: of

text: nuclear

text: proliferation

text: Fawzi

text: Barhoum

text: spokesman

text: for

text: Hamas

text: the

text: militant

text: Palestinian

text: movement

text: backed

text: by

text: Iran

text: welcomed

text: the

text: results

text: He

text: urged

text: the

text: world

text: to

text: respect

text: Iranian

text: democracy

text: and

text: accept

text: the

text: results

text: of

text: the

text: elections

text: The

text: office

text: of

text: Afghan

text: President

text: Hamid

text: Karzai

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: Sunday

text: that

text: he

text: had

text: congratulated

text: Ahmadinejad

text: on

text: his

text: victory

text: It

text: added

text: that

text: Karzai

text: believed

text: relations

text: between

text: the

text: two

text: Muslim

text: nations

text: of

text: Afghanistan

text: and

text: Iran

text: expanded

text: during

text: Mr.

text: Ahmadinejad

text: 's

text: first

text: term

text: and

text: hoped

text: that

text: these

text: relations

text: get

text: stronger

text: during

text: his

text: second

text: term

text: German

text: Foreign

text: Minister

text: Frank

text: Walter

text: Steinmeier

text: told

text: ARD

text: Sunday

text: that

text: the

text: Iranian

text: ambassador

text: in

text: Berlin

text: would

text: be

text: summoned

text: to

text: explain

text: the

text: treatment

text: of

text: protesters

text: against

text: the

text: result

text: I

text: have

text: already

text: prompted

text: Iran

text: together

text: with

text: European

text: colleagues

text: today

text: to

text: quickly

text: shed

text: light

text: on

text: what

text: has

text: happened

text: there

text: if

text: one

text: can

text: take

text: the

text: announced

text: election

text: results

text: there

text: seriously

text: or

text: not

text: he

text: added

text: Turkish

text: President

text: Abdullah

text: Gul

text: and

text: Prime

text: Minister

text: Recep

text: Tayyip

text: Erdogan

text: have

text: offered

text: their

text: congratulations

text: to

text: Ahmadinejad

text: the

text: official

text: Anatolian

text: Agency

text: reported

text: Monday

text: It

text: said

text: that

text: they

text: called

text: Ahmadinejad

text: on

text: the

text: phone

text: and

text: congratulated

text: him

text: for

text: his

text: success

text: in

text: the

text: election

text: Canadian

text: Foreign

text: Affairs

text: Minister

text: Lawrence

text: Cannon

text: told

text: reporters

text: in

text: Niagara

text: Falls

text: Ontario

text: Canada

text: Saturday

text: that

text: Canada

text: was

text: deeply

text: concerned

text: about

text: allegations

text: of

text: voting

text: irregularities

text: We

text: 're

text: troubled

text: by

text: reports

text: of

text: intimidation

text: of

text: opposition

text: candidates

text: offices

text: by

text: security

text: forces

text: We

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(CNN) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson ended a trip to the Ivory Coast on Friday, after he spoke to leaders from the nation's political parties and was honored as a prince by a tribe in the West African nation.

Jesse Jackson says ceremony to name him a prince of the Agni people was "very exciting."

Jackson said he met with President Laurent Gbagbo and leading members of two opposition parties, Henri Konan Bedie and Alassane Ouattara. Bedie is a former president of the nation and Ouattara is a former prime minister.

Jackson said his mission was not to endorse a candidate, "but a process."

"I wanted the three of them to agree ... [to] campaign vigorously ... not to create divisive language, to each agree to support the winner, [and] end the [U.N.] sanctions," he said.

"I think there's a common agreement on these points. This country has so much to offer the world and Africa."

The United Nations imposed sanctions on the nation in 2004, among them, a ban on arms and diamond trades, a travel ban and asset freezes for some individuals. The sanctions, renewed last year, are in effect until October 29.

Earlier in Jackson's trip, Amon N'Douffou V, king of the Krindjabo kingdom, named Jackson a prince of the Agni people, news reports said.

Jackson said it was a "very exciting ceremony."

Jackson's wife, Jacqueline, suffered a broken leg during the trip when a stage she and her husband were on collapsed, Jackson told CNN in a telephone interview.

"We had excellent medical care," the pastor said, adding that the collapse was "not the fault of the organizers," but that too many people had gathered on the stage.

Official news agency Agence Ivoirienne de Presse reported that the stage collapse occurred in a sports complex in Yopougon, north of Abidjan.

A doctor was to accompany them on their Friday night flight back to the United States, Jackson said.

The coming elections in the Ivory Coast are being closely watched by U.N. officials.

In a July 30 statement, the U.N. Security Council said "any postponement of the elections of 29 November would be inconsistent with a credible process" and with a peace agreement that had followed an armed rebellion in 2002 that had divided the country in two.

The Security Council said it would review progress toward elections before October 15.

In March, U.S. State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid said the "United States believes that long-delayed presidential elections are still technically possible in 2009 and calls on all parties to take every step necessary to ensure that credible elections go forward as promised."

The statement said more than 5.7 million people had been enrolled as voters on a "preliminary basis."

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Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Sri Lanka's response to a scathing United Nations report alleging war crimes and human rights violations has reached the president's desk.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa received the 400-page document on Sunday night. The response, compiled by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, will be presented to Parliament, though Rajapaksa did not say when.

At their president's urging, Sri Lankans took to the streets in May to rail against the U.N. report, which cites "credible allegations" that crimes were committed by both sides during the final stages of the country's civil war.

A three-member U.N. panel recommended that Sri Lanka immediately conduct an investigation into the alleged violations of international law.

Human rights groups have already alleged both government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels violated humanitarian laws and that thousands of civilians were killed during the war, which ended in May 2009 after the government declared victory. The rebels had fought a 26-year bloody separatist war that left thousands dead and large numbers of others internally displaced, according to the United Nations.

The U.N. report concluded there were "credible allegations, which, if proven, indicate that a wide range of serious violations of international humanitarian law and international humanitarian rights law was committed both by the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE (rebels), some of which would amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity."

In the war's final stage, which lasted from September 2008 to May 2009, the Sri Lankan army advanced into an area of northern Sri Lanka known as the Vanni, where about 330,000 people were trapped by fighting.

The report said the government used "large-scale and widespread shelling" that left many civilians dead.

Some of the shelling happened in no-fire zones where the government had encouraged civilians to congregate, the report said. Government forces also shelled a U.N. hub and food distribution lines and fired near International Committee of the Red Cross ships that were picking up the wounded, the report said.

The government also shelled hospitals on the front lines, some of them repeatedly, the report said.

"Most civilian casualties in the final phases of the war were caused by government shelling," the report said.

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Ban hopes the U.N. report "will make a contribution to full accountability and justice so that the Sri Lankan government and people will be able to proceed towards national reconciliation and peace."

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