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Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been sworn in as Kyrgyzstan 's new president after winning nearly 90 percent of the vote last month in an election to find a successor to President Askar Akayev , who was ousted during protests in March. (Reuters)

Thirty bodies are found in a Mass Grave south of Baghdad after the interrogation of Iraqi Insurgent s captured in a raid yesterday. (Newsday; AP)

Time Magazine cites United States Military Intelligence documents that an Iran ian-backed Iraqi Insurgent network, led by Abu Mustafa Al-Sheibani , had introduced a bomb design based on Iranian-backed Lebanese Militia Hizbollah plans in last eight months. (Reuters)

U.S. Forces In Iraq raid a warehouse in Mosul . They uncover a suspected Chemical Weapon s Factory . (Boston Globe)

Helios Airways Flight 522 en route from Larnaca , Cyprus via Athens, Greece to Prague , Czech Republic crashes near Athens , with at least 121 onboard. Observations from Greek fighter aircraft indicate a decompression problem. (BBC)

Uganda n journalist Andrew Mwenda has been charged with Sedition after a radio debate speculating on the death of Sudan 's vice-president John Garang . (BBC)

Liberia n football hero George Weah has been given the go-ahead to Contest The Country's Presidency . Liberia's election commission dismissed a complaint that his French Citizenship barred him from standing. (BBC)