The opposition have described the results as "predetermined" and have alleged "massive rigging" in 30 constituencies.With President Robert Mugabe appointing 30 MPs, Zanu- PF will have the two-thirds majority required to amend the constitution.The MDC said it was going to court after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission failed to explain glaring discrepancies between initial voting figures and the later totals it announced.Although regional electoral observers from the Southern African Development Community endorsed the poll, the African Union has called for an investigation into the results after initially describing the outcome as "free and fair".Both the US and the EU have denounced the election as flawed.. I fully support the church's teachings on the use of condoms, [but] faced with the sad prospect of families being wiped out, the use of condoms to prolong life may seem useful in the long run."R Scott Appleby, professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, US"The church must select a Pope who can proclaim the gospel to secularised and religiously agnostic political leaders, economists, genetic engineers and [others] who recommend decisions on questions of life and death.". A rapist, a killer is going to get capital punishment." He also denied Mr Hassan's claim that the six were not told they were to die "This story .. is complete garbage Every person who is to be executed will be told. They are given ample time."However, a spokesman for Amnesty said: "Any rise in executions is worrying, but the secrecy and lack of fairness makes these figures even more frightening.". According to the Saudi embassy in London, the six "committed hundreds of crimes". But when the five years were up, they remained in jail, despite protests from Amnesty International, which says they were never told of the death penalty.Abshir Hassan claims his brother and five friends were innocent and were forced to sign confessions in Arabic, a language none of them could read, after being tortured.

We don't have a government in Somalia - no one can help us."Dr Ali al-Qarni, a spokesman for the Saudi embassy in London, dismissed concerns over the increasing number of executions "The death penalty is not an issue for discussion," he said "It is Islamic law. "The next day Amnesty called and said they had been killed," he said.A Sudanese beheaded in Saudi Arabia yesterday for drug smuggling brought the total so far this year to 40, more than the country's 33 executions in the whole of 2004.Abdel Hassan was among six Somalis who were jailed for five years in 1999 and sentenced to 3,000 lashes for "abducting and robbing" taxi drivers. Leaders of the armed factions were careful last night not to say they were calling off the truce, but Islamic Jihad said it intended a "re-evaluation" of its position. Hamas said the "crime" would not "pass without punishment".The army said that after the shooting, around 25 mortar shells had been fired into and towards the Jewish settlement block of Gush Katif.Ali Abu Zeid, a 22-year-old Rafah resident, said two 15-year-olds and one boy of 14 had been playing football when the ball went towards a border fence "The kids ran after it, and we heard gunfire," he said. Abshir Hassan, a 29-year-old London bus driver, has accused Saudi Arabia of executing his brother Abdel-Fatteh and five other Somalis last week without ever telling them that they had been condemned to death. Only when they were about to be beheaded did they learn their fate, he told The Independent on Sunday.Mr Hassan, an Arsenal fan, said he had joked with his brother, who supported Manchester United, about the state of their respective teams in a telephone call last Monday, just hours before Abdel was executed. Three had got up when they reached the area and ignored warning shots before the army opened fire on them. An Israeli military source said that the other two had been arrested, and claimed they admitted seeking ammunition from Egypt.The incident came on the eve of today's planned demonstration in Jerusalem at which pro-settler Jewish extremists intend to march on the holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount, to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif.The Interior minister, Gideon Ezra, said: "Under no circumstances will we allow provocations They will not enter the Temple Mount.".

An Israeli army spokeswoman said five Palestinians had been seen crawling towards a 300 metre prohibited area close to the border, near where Palestinians had brought assault rifles and ammunition from Egypt a week ago. Three Palestinian teenagers were killed in Gaza by Israeli troops yesterday in the worst fatal incident since Ariel Sharon and the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, declared a truce in February. After more than a month of calm in Gaza, the deaths in the southern border town of Rafah put the de facto ceasefire under fresh strain.The incident was described in sharply conflicting terms by Palestinian residents and the Israeli army. The whole issue of casualties and the toll has been very much hidden.". Parents of dead soldiers have also often been banned from meeting the coffins. Controversy raged last year when the Pentagon released a series of photographs following a Freedom of Information Act filing, but later withdrew them.But officials have also banned the media from taking pictures of the wounded being delivered to either Walter Reed or the National Naval Medical Centre in nearby Bethesda.

Ms Kurkal told The Independent on Sunday: "We no longer allow such photos for patient-privacy reasons." However, a reporter from the online journal Salon was recently able to enter Walter Reed and photograph wounded troops without revealing their identities.Nancy Lessin of Military Families Speak Out, a group made up of relatives of US troops, said: "The entire Bush administration has been trying to keep the cost of this away from the public. It would be part of an effort to keep the cost of this war away from the American public It is not surprising, but it is depressing. It should piss people off."At the beginning of 2003, Mr Bush issued a presidential order that the media should be banned from photographing the return of troops' coffins when they are flown into the US, usually at Dover air base in Delaware. But, given the six-hour time difference between the US and Germany, the wounded soldiers could leave at noon from Ramstein and still arrive at Andrews Air Force base near Washington by 4pm.Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Operation Truth, a group set up for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, said: "[A cover-up] would fit in with everything else they have done. Neither public relations nor public perception play a role in flight schedules."The flights from Germany on a C-141 Starlifter aircraft can take up to 10 hours.