South Africans Line Up to Vote

The News Review:

- South Africans Line Up to Vote
- Two key Tamil Tigers ‘surrender’
- Lieberman: US to accept any Israeli policy decision

South Africans Line Up to Vote
Wall Street Journal
JHANNESBURG — South African voters queued quietly Wednesday morning to cast their votes in national legislative elections that are almost certain to thrust Jacob Zuma leader of the ruling African National Congress party into the presidency. But for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994 the ANC looks poised to lose the two-thirds majority in parliament that it needs to govern unopposed. By midday there were no reports of violence and only one report of marred ballots. In 2004 the last national election the ANC won 69% of the vote but this year with a record turnout expected the ANC’s solid majority is in jeopardy. Two other parties look poised to siphon off seats in parliament: the Democratic Alliance popular with middle-class whites and a new party that broke away from the ANC late last year the Congress of the People or Cope.
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Two key Tamil Tigers ‘surrender’
BBC News
It says that the rebels’ media co-ordinator Daya Master gave himself up along with a top interpreter named George who worked for senior rebels. Correspondents say that if the reports are true it will be a major setback for the rebel leadership. It has insisted that rebels should commit suicide by swallowing cyanide capsules rather than be captured. The army says that the pair were taken at Puthumathalan on Wednesday "in the company of fleeing civilians".

Lieberman: US to accept any Israeli policy decision
Ha'aretz
“Believe me America accepts all our decisions” Lieberman told the Russian daily Moskovskiy Komosolets. Lieberman granted his first major interview to Alexander Rosensaft the Israel correspondent of one of the oldest Russian dailies not to an Israeli newspaper. The role of Israel is to “bring the U.