The latest news from Congo is the historic elections being held there. There are 58 million people that live in Congo and this is the first elections there in more than forty years. There have been gunfights at the polls and more than seventy percent of the population has voted. There is a runoff election scheduled for October.

The latest news from Iraq is war. The war is the latest news and also the oldest news. There was another group of people killed today. Someone opened fire on a group of Shiite pilgrims and twenty were killed on the streets of Baghdad.

The latest news from Japan is that they are making sweeping changes to their legal system. Japanese society has been heavily influenced by Western culture and this includes being litigious. More and more Japanese people are using the court system to solve their problems. This move towards are larger legal system is changing the number of lawyers that are needed in Japan.

The latest news from London is a large terrorism arrest. Twenty three people have been arrested in connection to a plot to blow up passenger airplanes bound for the United States.

The latest news from Mexico is election related. There are a lot of voting irregularities that are coming to light. Preliminary results in the southern state of Chiapas show a tight race between leftist candidate Juan Sabines of the Democratic Revolution Party and Jose Antonio Aguilar Bodegas of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.


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