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1. Partial results from a referendum in France suggest voters have decisively rejected a draft constitution for the European Union. One projection said 55% had voted against the constitution with 44% in favor. The vote had been avertedly watched in Europe where more countries were also planning parliamentary or popular votes on the constitution. From Paris, here is Caroline Wyatt.
"Grassroots No Campaign" took the leads several months ago though it had no official support and no government money. Unlike the lavishly-funded campaign for a Yes vote, banked by the French government, the opposition socialist and much of the French media. Many voters fear the treaty could mean greater competition between EU states with Eastern Europeans winning out of the expensive French work force on its lavish welfare system. This referendum also became a vote of confidence in President Jacques Chirac whose leadership has now been dealt a humiliating blow.

2. President Jacques Chirac speaking on French Television, said he took note of the sovereign decision of French voters. Harriet here through a translator, Mr. Chirac said that it was time for France to show unity.
Jacques Chirac (Through translator): France's decision inevitably creates a difficult context to defend our interests in Europe and we have to respond by gathering together and taking to consideration one necessity-national interest.

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3. Anti-Syrian candidates say they've won a clean sweep of the seats being contested in the first round of Lebanon's general election. The first poll in decades to be held without Syrian troops in the country. Candidates led by Saad Hariri, the son of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri claimed the victory in all 19 seats in the capital Beirut. Official results come out tomorrow. From Beirut, Jim Muir reports.
Barely three hours after the polls were closed, supporters crowded around Mr. Hariri's house in west Beirut. There're noisy celebrations as words spread to their listed swept board in the capital. That had been widely expected. Many competitors have withdrawn, sensing defeat. Nine of the seats were won by default before the vote even began. Although Mr. Hariri is of course a Sunni Muslim, the Beirut seats are allocated to a total of ten different sects including Christians, Jews and Shiite Muslims. So his alliance had to cast its net wide and did so successfully.

4. At least 11 people including 9 Iraqi soldiers have been killed in suicide attacks in and around Baghdad as Iraqi security forces prepared for a bake countering insurgency operation in the city. An Internet statement attributed to one insurgent group described the Baghdad's security plan as futile. It said that group was responding directly with the campaign of attacks led by the Jordanian born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi although he was reported last week to have been wounded by American military action.

5. The US most senior general Richard Myers has described the report by the human rights group Amnesty International on the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay as "Absolutely irresponsible". In its report, Amnesty described Guantanamo Bay as "a gulag of our time", a reference to the notorious Soviet era Labor Camps. But General Myers said the US military had tried to treat detainees humanely, giving them the Muslim Holy book- the Koran to read and feeding them Muslim approved food. The camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been the focus of recent demonstrations in the Muslim world.

6. The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has visited southern Sudan to support a peace deal to end more than two decades of civil war there. The agreement was signed by the Sudanese government and southern rebels in January. The rebel leader John Garang is due to head the size of autonomous government when he takes office in July. Mr. Annan visits, used his visit to urge Mr. Garang not to let the peace process get bogs down.
Kofi Annan: He does have influence with the movements there and once he's in the government, I think he should be able to use his influence to help accelerate the peace process and might be able to advise rebels to organize themselves to find and negotiate in position and go to the table to try and get it and really give antique, and I think he does have an important role to play and I suspect he's ready to play.

7. Thousands of mourners have attended the funeral in Taiwan of a veteran gangster Hsu Hai Ching. Members of Taiwan's four major criminal gangs, sporting blackshirts and tattoos joining the funeral possession with stretch for several kilometers. Hsu Hai Ching who died aged at 93 was better known as the "ultimate arbitrator", because of his talent for settling disputes between gangsters.