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Somalia’s judicious Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed won the presidency on Saturday and promised to end conflict in the Horn of Africa nation, make peace with neighbors and rule with honesty and justice. Legislators celebrated, after winning the election around 4 a.m. local time (0100) in a run-off vote during an all-night parliament session and Ahmed smiled and raised his arms aloft.

However, analysts say Ahmed has a real chance of reuniting Somalis, given his Islamist roots and the backing of parliament. But reconciling the country’s 10 million people and stopping 18 years of bloodshed remain an overwhelming task even for him.

Ahmed the headed to the sharia courts movement that brought some stability to Mogadishu and most of south Somalia in 2006, before Ethiopian troops invaded and ousted them from power. He told parliament that, “The conflict in Somalia will be resolved. We are urging our brothers in armed conflict to join us in peace-building,” and also added, “We will govern the Somali people with honesty and justice, and give them back their rights.”

On this Monday, at Bellflower a woman gave birth to eight babies in Southern California which is the world’s second live-born set of octuplets.

Massive 46-person team of doctors was assisting the birth and four delivery rooms were used for the births. The hospital had programmed a caesarean section for seven babies, but doctors were astonished by the eighth. The last baby came five minutes after the first was born. “My eyes were wide,” Dr. Karen Maples said, explaining her reaction to the very last birth. Dr. Harold Henry, chief of maternal and fetal medicine at the hospital said, “It is quite easy to miss a baby when you’re anticipating seven babies. Ultrasound doesn’t show you everything.”

The mother, whose name the hospital did not release, gave birth to six boys and two girls weighing between 1 pound, 8 ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces, doctors at Kaiser Permanante Bellflower Medical Center told the associated press. Doctors also said the babies were born nine weeks premature but are in stable condition. Two newborns were placed on ventilators and a third needs oxygen.

The first live born octuplets were born in Houston in 1998, and one baby died about a week later. But now everyone wishes that this octuplets will be live well with good health and happy life.

As a president of U.S., it is the great tragedy for George W. Bush, which comes to an end at noon on Tuesday with historically low endorsement ratings. U.S. President George W. Bush is going back to his hometown in Texas after his successor Barack Obama takes office on Jan. 20. President George W. Bush blew a kiss out the window of his presidential limousine, when he was leaving the White House for the last time on Tuesday. After the inauguration ceremony, lots of in the crowd at the capitol cheered noisily and waved goodbye at Bush’s helicopter as it flew over throngs of people.

Bush’s whole career was full of critic work. His eight-year administration was marked by two wars, recession and the biggest terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and also brings a big failure in economic condition. So for that his exit was also bittersweet. He left office with low endorsement ratings, but he remained positive, smiling and joining in the celebration of President Barack Obama’s. Bush thinks that he was right on his own way, he said,

I never took an opinion poll to tell me what to think, and I’m coming home with my head held high and a sense of accomplishment.

The Central Elections Committee (CEC) yesterday on Monday banned the Arab parties from running in next month’s parliamentary elections. The Arab parties, ‘Balad’ and ‘United Arab List – Ta’al’, were banned by the committee in a vote that reflected sharp polarization among country’s Jewish majority and Arab minority who live on the Israeli side of the 1948 ceasefire line.

‘Balad’ is banned by a vote of 26 to three, with a single no vote, while 21 of committee members voted in favor of except for the ‘United Arab List Ta’al’, with eight members voting against and two members no vote.

The decision does not affect Arab lawmakers in mainly Jewish parties or the country’s communist party. Roughly one-fifth of Israel’s 7 million citizens are Arabs. Israeli Arabs take pleasure full citizenship rights, but have suffered from discrimination and lots of shortage.

Arab politician Ahmed Tibi and Jamal Zahalka, political rivals who head the two Arab communities in parliament, joined together in condemning Monday’s decision. The chairman of Balad’s, Jamal Zahalka declaring that,

Israeli democracy, not Balad, is being put to the test today. Balad is a democratic and progressive party, and we believe in the basic principle of equality for all people. All we demand is democracy! What are you afraid of when we ask for equality? We are the sons of this country, we were born here and we are willing to treat you with equality, so why don’t you?

Others, Tibi said,

It was a political trial led by a group of Fascists and racists who are willing to see the Knesset without Arabs and want to see the country without Arabs.