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The spiritual leaders of the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches have agreed to press for closer relations, following talks in Rome. It was their first meeting since the Pope announced he was setting up a special section within the Roman Catholic Church for disenchanted Anglicans. The Anglican leader, Rowan Williams, said he’d been concerned about the Pope’s overtures to Anglicans and was pleased to hear that his commitment to dialogue between the two churches was unchanged.

"I think it went just as well as I could’ve hoped really. I was able to express some of the concerns that many Anglicans feel about the way in which the Apostolic Constitution was handled and learn that it’s been made public. But we moved on from there to talk about more positive matters of cooperation and he was extremely enthusiastic about the next stage of official dialogue between our two churches."

Democrats in the United States Senate say they’ve secured the votes they needed to begin a full debate on a landmark health bill. The bill is designed to secure health care coverage for millions of uninsured Americans, but it’s staunchly opposed by the Republican minority because of the cost. From Washington, Kim Ghattas reports.

It looks like the Democrats will get all the 60 votes they need to pass the motion and send the bill to a floor debate in ten days. Three centrist Democrats have been wavering but have now joined their colleagues in the Senate. This may be just a procedural vote, but it was built as a crucial test of Democratic unity. Most of the time, bills that clear this hurdle in the Senate are eventually passed. Senate Republicans are united against the 2,000-page bill, which is designed to rein in cost and expand coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. Republicans say the bill is too costly and will mean heavy-handed government intrusion into the private insurance sector.

The Sri Lankan government says all the remaining civilians, who’ve been detained in special camps since the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, will be allowed to make visits outside from the beginning of next month. The government said it wanted to close the camps and resettle their inhabitants by the end of January. Charles Haviland reports from Colombo.

The Sri Lankan authorities say they’ve had to investigate each of the Tamil refugees to ensure they have no links to the defeated Tigers. They say those screened off are being rehabilitated, but this process and the screening methods haven’t yet been opened to outside scrutiny. Releases and resettlements are now happening more quickly. Many people are returning to devastated villages in depopulated countryside, much of it mined. But de-mining is also in progress. And a senior UN diplomat, visiting northern Sri Lanka this week, said returnees were highly resilient.

The only five-star hotel in the Afghan capital Kabul has been hit by a rocket which wounded at least two people. The rocket struck an outer wall of the heavily fortified Serena Hotel where visiting diplomats and officials often stay.

Rescuers are working through the night in northeast China to try to reach more than 60 people trapped by a gas explosion at a coal mine. At least 42 miners were killed in the blast early on Saturday at the colliery in Heilongjiang province, near the border with Russia.

Scientists at the CERN, nuclear research centre in Europe, say they are delighted with the progress made after they restarted the Large Hadron Collider on Friday night. They hope to use the collider to recreate conditions which existed at the start of the universe. Pallab Ghosh reports.

After the euphoria of last night was the euphoria of the morning debrief. Scientists here could scarcely believe their ears when they heard that the LHC had accelerated subatomic particles hundreds of thousands of times overnight in both directions. The particle accelerator has done more in a few short hours than it did in nine days last year before it broke down. The LHC's operating team believed that they may have the first low energy collisions by next week and higher energy’s early next year.

Saudi Arabia says four people taking part in the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca have died of swine flu. The Health Ministry said those who died had come from outside Saudi Arabia and that none had followed recommendations to have a vaccination against the disease. Three were in their 70s, and the fourth was said to be a 17-year-old Nigerian girl.

The Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip say they’ve reached agreement with other Palestinian factions to curb rocket fire into Israel. Fathi Hamad, who acts as Hamas’s interior minister, said the groups had agreed to halt all rocket attacks except those carried out in retaliation for Israeli military incursions into Gaza. Hamas has maintained the ceasefire for months, but other groups have carried out sporadic cross-border attacks, mostly without causing casualties or damage.

英国国教和罗马天主教堂精神领袖在罗马进行会谈之后同意双方之间发展更加紧密的关系。这是自教皇宣布在罗马天主教堂内部为幻想破灭的英国国教徒设立特别部门之后双方进行的首次会晤。英国国教领袖Rowan Williams表示，他非常关心教皇对英国国教徒的建议，并且很高兴听到教皇对双方之间进行对话的承诺并未改变。

“我认为事情的进展要好于我此前所希望的。我得以表达许多英国国教徒对Apostolic Constitutions (使徒宪法典) 被处理的方式的担忧，并得知已被公布。但是从这个问题开始，我们探讨了更多关于合作的积极问题，他对两大教堂之间下一阶段的官方对话非常热诚。”

美国参议院民主党称，他们已经获得了所需的选票，开始对里程碑式的医疗法案进行全面辩论。该法案旨在使数百万未参保的美国人获得医疗保险，但是由于成本问题，该法案受到共和党少数派的坚决反对。华盛顿，Kim Ghattas报道。

似乎民主党能够获得通过该法案需要的所有60张选票，并在十天之内针对该法案进行辩论。三名中立派民主党参议院曾经摇摆不定，但是现在他们已经加入参议院民主党同僚的行列。这可能仅仅是程序性的投票，但是这是对民主党团结性的关键测试。大多数时候，为参议院扫清障碍的法案最终能够得以通过。参议院共和党一致反对这份长达2,000页的法案。这项法案是为了控制成本，并将医保扩大至数百万未参保美国人。共和党称，该法案成本太高，并且意味着政府对私营保险部门的国度干预。

斯里兰卡政府表示，从下月初开始，自塔米尔猛虎组织被击败以来一直被关押在特殊营地中的所有平民均可外出活动。政府表示希望关闭这些营地，并在1月末之前将这些居民重新安置。Charles Haviland在科伦坡报道。

斯里兰卡当局称，他们必须对每一个塔米尔难民进行调查，确保他们与被击败的猛虎组织之间没有联系。他们说，那些被隔离的难民会得到重新安置，但是重新安置的过程和隔离方法尚未向外界公布。释放和重新安置的步伐已经加快。许多人回到人口减少的乡村地区被毁坏的村庄，大部分都还埋有地雷。但是排雷工作也取得了一定的进展。访问斯里兰卡北部的一名联合国高级外交官表示，这些归来者的适应性都非常强。

阿富汗首都喀布尔唯一一家五星级酒店遭遇火箭弹袭击，造成至少两人死亡。火箭弹击中了坚固的塞雷纳酒店的外墙。通常，进行访问的外交官和官员都住在这里。

中国东北部一座煤矿发生瓦斯爆炸事件，搜救人员正在努力试图救出60多名被困者。爆炸发生在俄罗斯边境附近的黑龙江省一座煤矿，时间是周六早上，至少已有42名矿工遇难。

CERN(欧洲原子核研究委员会)的科学家表示，他们对周五晚重启大型强子碰撞型加速装置(LHC)后所取得的进展非常高兴。他们希望希望利用该碰撞加速器来重新创造宇宙诞生之初的环境。Pallab Ghosh报道。

经过昨晚的喜悦之后就是今晨汇报时的喜悦。科学家们简直难以相信自己的耳朵：一夜之间，加速器居然让两个方向的亚原子粒子的速度都增加了几十万倍！在去年碰撞机出故障以前，粒子加速器所用的时间是九天，而现在，所用的时间少了几个小时，但是产生的效果更好。LHC操作小组相信，他们到下周之前可以完成首次低能量碰撞，而明年年初则可以完成更高能量的碰撞。

沙特阿拉伯表示，4名前往麦加参加一年一度的朝圣的穆斯林教徒因猪流感死亡。卫生部门表示，死者来自沙特阿拉伯以外，并且都没有接受建议，注射疫苗。其中三人已经70多岁，另外一人据说是17岁的尼日利亚女孩。

加沙地带哈马斯称，他们已经与其他巴勒斯坦派系达成协议，限制向以色列境内发射火箭弹。哈马斯内政部长Fathi Hamad称，哈玛纳斯已经同意停止所有火箭弹袭击，而对以色列军事入侵加沙地带的报复行动除外。哈马斯将停火协议坚持了几个月的时间，但是其他组织则发动零星的跨边境袭击，大部分并没有造成伤亡或损坏。