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Mr Erdogan says the changes are a big step forward for democracy The people of Turkey are set to vote in a referendum on changing the nation’s constitution.
The government wants to make a number of alterations that would bring the constitution more in line with the European Union’s standards.
Some critics say the changes would give the government too much control over the judiciary, others that the process has been rushed.
Supporters of the move say the 28-year-old military constitution must change.
There are 26 amendments to the constitution on the table.
They are mostly small and somewhat technocratic alterations, which many find difficult to understand, says the BBC’s Jonathan Head in Istanbul.
The ruling conservative religious Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed the changes will strengthen Turkish democracy.
The EU has backed the changes.
The secular opposition say that they will vote against the plan and accuse Mr Erdogan’s party of trying to seize control of the judiciary as part of a back-door Islamist coup.
The changes are small and important, but are not the dramatic democratic leap forward that the government claims, says our correspondent.
The opposition might be joined by critics voting “no” to protest at the speed at which the reforms have been pushed through.
Opinion polls suggest the vote will be close.
The present constitution was introduced in 1982 by the military. Significant amendments have been made to it since then, but this is the first time it has been put to a referendum.
Mr Erdogan has been travelling around Turkey for the past three weeks, trying to drum up support for his reforms.
The AKP has clashed repeatedly with Turkey’s highest courts, which see themselves as guardians of the country’s secular values.
But Mr Erdogan told the BBC last week his party had never discriminated between secular or non-secular Turks.
He said he believed that secularism should apply to the state, not the people.
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Top tax official’s apology sparks debate
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Pope Benedict XVI is due to arrive on 16 September for a four-day visit Almost 70% of British Catholics expect the Pope’s visit to help the Catholic Church in the UK, a BBC poll suggests.
But the survey suggests they are less keen about some of his teaching.
Half of those questioned felt priests should no longer have to be celibate, and almost two-thirds thought women should have more authority and status.
And 52% of the 500 Catholics surveyed ahead of the Pope’s visit on Thursday said the sex abuse scandal had shaken their faith in the Church’s leadership.
The poll conducted by ComRes – a member of the British Polling Council – surveyed a random sample of 500 Roman Catholics across the UK between 6 and 9 September 2010.
Commenting on the results, Andrew Hawkins, ComRes chairman, said: “Overall there is a sense of strong support for the Pope’s visit but disquiet both about some aspects of Papal teaching and the perception of the Catholic Church in wider society having been harmed.”
In response to the question, “Do you feel your Catholic faith is generally valued by British society today, or not?” 57% answered that it was “not valued” compared with 30% who said it was, and 13% who said they did not know.
The poll results also suggest that a large number of Catholics think that the Pope should drop his insistence on clerical celibacy. Just under a half of those polled, 49%, said the celibacy rule should be relaxed, compared to 35%. A further 17% were uncommitted.
And 62% of those questioned say women should have more authority and status in the Catholic Church.
“Interestingly, the scores for men and women are exactly identical although older generations are least inclined to agree,” Mr Hawkins said.
The BBC’s religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott said the findings seemed to reveal some of the tensions between a Church anxious to preserve ancient traditions, and a secular society that finds them increasingly hard to understand.
Pope Benedict XVI is due to arrive on 16 September for a four-day visit, which has already sparked controversy over its cost and relevance.
On this first visit by a pope to the UK since John Paul II in 1982, the pontiff will go to Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Birmingham.
A series of sex abuse scandals have rocked the Catholic Church around the world in recent years, with the Church further accused of maintaining a culture of secrecy.
Pope Benedict’s supporters say he has been the most proactive Pope yet in confronting abuse.
Earlier this year he apologised to victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland, and later went on to promise “action” over child abuse by priests.
But some survivors say they still carry the psychological scars and that the Church should do more to fulfil its duty to them.
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Family and friends of the victims are struggling to understand the killings A US man has killed himself after shooting dead five people, including his wife and stepdaughter, in an argument about his breakfast.
Stanley Neace, 47, went on the killing spree in a trailer park in Jackson, rural Breathitt County, Kentucky.
He chased his wife into a neighbouring trailer where he shot her, her daughter and three witnesses, reports say.
State troopers found Mr Neace dead at the porch of his trailer, slumped over his own gun.
Mr Neace flew into a rage when his wife Sandra, 54, brought him some eggs for breakfast, a relative of the neighbours he killed said.
Mrs Neace’s daughter Sandra Strong, 28, was also killed.
The other victims were named as neighbours Dennis Turner, 31, Teresa Fugate, 30, and Tammy Kilborn, 40.
“Over eggs? I thought that was crazy. I mean just because his eggs weren’t hot?”
Sherri Anne Robinson Victim’s relative
Ms Fugate was shot in front of her seven-year-old daughter, who Mr Neace spared.
“Her daughter said, ‘Please, please don’t shoot me,’ and he said, ‘All right, you can leave,’ and she ran out,” Ms Fugate’s sister Sherri Anne Robinson told the Associated Press.
Mrs Kiborn was another neighbour who stepped out onto her porch during the commotion, reports said.
Mr Neace apparently waited an hour for the police to arrive before turning the gun on himself, police heard the shot as they drove up to the trailer.
Other neighbours had fled in terror during the rampage.
Breathitt county is Kentucky’s rural eastern region, where gun ownership numbers are high.
“Over eggs? I thought that was crazy. I mean just because his eggs weren’t hot?” Ms Robinson said.
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Planning permission for the new centre was granted in December 2009 A Conservative peer has donated £25m to the British Museum in what is thought to be the biggest gift to the arts for two decades.
The money, from Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover – a former chairman of the supermarket chain – will go towards a major redevelopment of the London museum’s facilities.
It will help fund a new World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre.
A spokeswoman for the museum described the donation as “incredibly generous”.
She said the gift was a “vital” part of a project which would “benefit future generations”.
“This is an incredibly important project for the British Museum and has been planned for a long time,” she said.
She said donations from other private donors and a government grant were also being used to fund the centre, which will include a state of the art conservation and science centre, with new science laboratories in which exhibits can be researched and restored.
The centre, which will cost over £125m, will also include a gallery to house temporary collections which can compete with other UK and international institutions.
The government has also awarded a £22.5m grant towards the centre.
The gift comes at a time when many cultural organisations are facing a funding squeeze amid financial cutbacks.
The Sunday Times reported Lord Sainsbury’s gift was the biggest to the arts in Britain since philanthropist Sir Paul Getty pledged £50m to the National Gallery and £40m to the British Film Institute in 1985.
In the same year Lord Sainsbury and his brothers The Hon Simon Sainsbury and Sir Timothy Sainsbury financed the construction of the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery, which cost a total of about £50m and opened in 1991.
The Sunday Times said Lord Sainsbury’s other donations include £10m for a recent renovation of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and money for the Linbury studio theatre at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
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More than 200 journalists and media workers have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to French report.
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Prime Minister George Papandreou has said he is not going to give up on his government’s austerity plans following mass union-led protests in Thessaloniki.
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A new generation of armed drug-trafficking groups in Colombia has replaced a right-wing paramilitary army demobilized in 2006, a local think-tank says.
A report by Indepaz found the new armed groups had overtaken left-wing rebels as the main perpetrators of violence.
It said they were present in 29 of Colombia’s 32 provinces.
Indepaz’s study was based on its own field work as well as date from government agencies and the media.
The demobilisation of the right-wing paramilitary United Self Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) in 2006 was one of the main successes of former President Alvaro Uribe, who left office in August.
But Indepaz says a dozen or so new armed groups – which it calls narco-paramilitaries – have quickly replaced the AUC in much of Colombia.
With names like “Black Eagles” and “Rastrojos,” they combine control of cocaine production and smuggling with extreme violence, though with less of a political agenda.
Indepaz estimates they have as many as 13,000 members.
The BBC’s Jeremy McDermott in Colombia says the cocaine trade is still the principal motor of the armed conflict, providing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the illegal armed groups
The AUC was formed by landowners and drug lords to battle the left-wing rebels of the Farc and ELN.
It was also heavily involved in drug trafficking and committed widespread human rights abuses against civilians, including massacres and forced displacement.
More than 30,000 paramilitaries were demobilized and many leaders extradited to the US to face drugs charges.
But the legal process underlying the demobilisation has been criticised for allowing many to escape punishment for serious crimes.
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Sofia Coppola wins the coveted Golden Lion award for her new film Somewhere as the Venice Film Festival comes to a close.
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Some of the miners were desperate for a smoke Miners trapped deep underground in Chile for more than a month have been given permission to smoke.
Health officials had previously refused to send the men cigarettes, saying smoking would pollute the air in the refuge where they are sheltering.
But rescuers have now improved the ventilation system so they can pump fresh air in from the surface.
The 33 miners will be sent two packets of cigarettes a day through a supply tube to share between them.
When they were found alive on 22 August after 17 days underground some of the miners were desperate for a smoke.
But until now they have had to make do with nicotine patches and gum, sent to them through a supply tube.
Now the smokers among them will be able to light up, at least occasionally, while they wait to be rescued.
“We are not going to give a pack of cigarettes, but rather a limited amount,” a member of the rescue team, Dr Jorge Diaz, told the AFP news agency.
“Regardless of how good the ventilation system is now, they are still trapped, and ventilation cannot be optimal.”
Frequent requests by some of the miners for alcohol have so far been refused.
Engineers are drilling two separate rescue shafts to try to reach the miners trapped at 700m (2,300ft) below the ground.
The work is expected to take at least two months.
Each drill has so far penetrated around 260m, but both have broken down in recent days and though one is now back in action, engineers say they might not be able to repair the other.
A third, more powerful, drill is being assembled at the mine head, but it is not due to begin working for another 10 days.
The miners have become national heroes in Chile since a drill probe reached the underground shelter where they had survived for 17 days without contact with the outside world.
Many had given them up for lost, but they had kept alive underground by rationing emergency food supplies.
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The clashes followed Serbia’s defeat in the basketball world championships in Turkey There have been clashes in the Kosovan city of Mitrovica after Albanians jeered Serbs following Serbian defeat in a international basketball game.
Mobs from the city’s divided Albanian and Serbian populations hurled stones at each other over the river that runs through the city.
The two groups were prevented from reaching each other over a bridge by a European Union police force.
One policeman was injured and several police vehicles were damaged.
The city remains bitterly divided 10 years after the end of the Kosovo war.
The clashes came after the Serbian national basketball team were defeated by Turkey in the semi-finals of the basketball world championship in Istanbul.
A mob from the Albanian side of the Ibar river tried to march over the bridge between the two sides, shouting “Turkey Turkey!”, witnesses said.
They were met by a hail of stones from the Serbian side.
“Luckily there was no direct clash between the two communities,” police spokesman Besim Hoti said.
The EU police force was called in to help local officers keep the two groups apart.
One French police officer was shot in the leg, the Associated Press reported.
Mitrovica was divided into two parts 11 years ago when peacekeepers sought to protect Serbs living in the city from Albanians trying to get revenge for attacks by Serbian troops during the war.
Subsequent attempts at reconciliation have so far failed.
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