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BBC News, I'm Marian Marshall.

A woman who gave birth to a boy while she was being held hostage in the Colombian jungle has been reunited with her small son after her release from captivity. The hostage, Clara Rojas, had the boy, Emmanuel, who was fathered by one of rebels in April, 2004. At the age of 8 months, he was taken from her. Clara Rojas was released as a goodwill gesture by the FARC to force the government into making concessions. Our correspondent, Jeremy McDermott, is in Bogota.
"As she stepped back onto her native soil, free here for the first time in six years, her thoughts were with her son who she hasn't seen for three of those years. Emmanuel, who was wrenched by guerillas under the name of Juan David, was delivered to a hospital in the jungle province of Guaviare where his mother was being held more than two years ago. His condition was so bad that social services identified him as an abused child. Psychologists have been preparing little Emmanuel over the last few days for the reunion with the mother he didn't know he had and the name he was given at birth. His luck has now changed, reunited with his mother and assured of love from a family together again. "

The European Union has admitted that it failed to foresee problems that will be triggered by its policy to encourage motorists to drive vehicles which run on fuel from plants. Last year, the EU aGREed to increase the share of bio-fuels used in transport to 10% by 2020, in order to tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions. Since then reports have warned that some bio-fuels barely cut emissions at all, and others can lead to rain forest destruction. Admitting the problems in a BBC interview, the EU’s environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas, said new guidelines would be issued to ensure the target was met using only sustainable bio-fuels.
"We have to move very carefully. We have to have a clear idea for sustainability including both social and environmental issues and to move carefully because there are some benefits from bio-fuels. "

President Bush has made an outspoken attack on Iran in what aides are calling the keynote speech of his tour of the Middle East. Speaking in Abu Dhabi he accused Iran of being the world's leading exporter of terrorism. "It sends hundreds of millions of dollars to extremists around the world while its own people face repression and economic hardship at home. It undermines Lebanese hopes for peace by arming and aiding the terrorist group Hezbollah. It subverts the hopes for peace in other parts of the region by funding terrorist groups like Hamas and the Palestine Islamic Jihad. It sends arms to the Taliban in Afghanistan and Shiite militants in Iraq. "

A ship loaded with release supplies for flood victims in Mozambique has arrived in the port of Beira. The vessel is carrying three thousand tons of food, enough to support a quarter of a million people for a month. The UN's World Food Program plans to move the supplies north overland.

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Two Palestinian militants have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip. The car in which they were traveling was struck by a missile in Gaza City. The Israeli military said both men had been involved in attacks on Israel. One of the two has been named as Nidal al-Amudi who is said to be a senior member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, which is linked to the Fatah faction of the Palestinian President Muhammad Abbas.

The South African Police Chief, Jackie Selebi, who's accused of corruption, has resigned as president of the International Police Organization, Interpol. His resignation from the largely ceremonial post came a day after he was given extended leave of absence as South Africa's National Police Commissioner. On Friday, prosecutors said they would charge Mr. Selebi with corruption. He denies the allegations. From Johannesburg, Peter Bowes reports.
"In a letter to Interpol, Jackie Selebi says he's resigning as president of the organization because he doesn't wish the allegations leveled against him to bring the good work of Interpol into disrepute. He said he was going to devote his energies to clearing his name. Interpol has made it clear that the allegations have nothing to do with Mr. Selebi’s position as President of the International Police body, but he said that corruption was one of the most serious offences that any police official could be accused of. "

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are due to meet today to begin discussions on what're regarded as core issues in the peace process. These include the status of Jerusalem, the future borders of the Palestinian state, Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the sharing of water resources. The negotiating teams will be led by the former Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmed Qurie, and the Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. Prospects for a comprehensive settlement were given a fresh impetus by a big Middle East conference in the United States in November. President Bush who visited Israel and the West Bank last week said Israel and the Palestinians could sign a peace treaty within a year.

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