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· BAKU, Azerbaijan -- Azerbaijani and Armenian forces exchanged heavy gun and mortar fire at several points along their border in the most serious fighting in months. Azerbaijan said one of its soldiers was killed and one seriously wounded in the fighting late Monday and early Tuesday. Armenian forces said several of their troops were wounded. The two countries remain at odds over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan.
· BEIJING -- China on Wednesday reported its 10th human death from bird flu, a 9-year-old girl in the country's southeast.
AFRICA
· KAMPALA, Uganda -- Uganda's High Court on Tuesday cleared opposition leader Kizza Besigye of rape charges, saying the prosecution failed "dismally" to prove its case. A judge described the investigation as "crude and amateurish, betraying the motives behind the case."
Besigye and his attorneys had argued that the government fabricated the charges to keep him from challenging President Yoweri Museveni, who has held power for more than 20 years. Museveni won a new term in February, and Besigye's party has pledged a court challenge. Besigye also faces treason charges.
· NAIROBI -- Thousands of opposition supporters and human rights activists demonstrated in Kenya's capital to protest last week's raids on the country's oldest newspaper and its sister television station.
-- From News Services
