NBC affiliate in Boston nixes new Jay Leno show.

BOSTON -Boston's NBC affiliate says it will air a local newscast instead of Jay Leno's new 10 p.m. talk show.

The move by WHDH has prompted a threat from NBC to strip the TV station of its network affiliation.

Leno is leaving "The Tonight Show" in June, and his new prime-time program on NBC is scheduled to begin in September.

Ed Ansin, who owns WHDH's parent company, told The Boston Globe he did not believe Leno's new show would be successful. He said the station would do better financially with a news show that competes with Fox-affiliated WFXT-TV's highly rated 10 p.m. newscast.

NBC TV Network president John Eck said in a statement that WHDH's move is a "flagrant violation" of its contract with the network.

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US father 'shoots his children'

A father is suspected of having shot dead his five children at a trailer park in Washington state, then himself, after hearing his wife was leaving him.

Police were called to the mobile home on Saturday after a visiting relative found nobody answered the door and saw a child's body through a window.

Reports say the mother walked out during a row with her husband hours before the shooting.

The youngest of the three girls and two boys was aged seven, and the eldest 16.

Obama promotes nuclear-free world

Barack Obama has outlined his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons in a major speech in Europe.

The US president called for a global summit on nuclear security and the forging of new partnerships to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

He said he hoped to negotiate a new treaty to end the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons.

North Korea's "provocative" rocket launch earlier in the day underscored the need for action, he said.

ALERT:CORSICAN NATIONALIST COLONNA SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT

A Paris appeal court found Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna guilty in the 1998 murder of prefect Claude Erignac. He has been sentenced to life imprisonment, with a mandatory minimum sentence of 22 years.

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Deadly blast hits Pakistan mosque

A bomb has exploded at a mosque near the town of Jamrud in the Khyber agency in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 50 people, officials say.

The top administrator in the Khyber region, Tariq Hayat, said he feared the death toll could rise to 70.

Officials say the attack was a suicide bombing and the mosque has collapsed.

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Optimism about the future returns to Iraq

Poll shows dramatic increase in confidence in security

 30 Percent of Iraqis who report feeling satisfied with the mission of the U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq, still a bleak view of the United States.

 

Iraq, embroiled for the past six years in clashing factions and sectarian violence, may finally be making a turnaround, according to an opinion poll published yesterday.

The latest ABC News/BBC/NHK poll of Iraqi citizens reveals a startling optimism as death tolls dip and the country returns to a more solid economic footing. 

The survey, ABC’s sixth since 2004, is based on random, in-person interviews with Iraqi adults.

The gains represent a sharp contrast from the dark days of a few years prior, as 84 percent of polled Iraqis report a positive review of their own security, nearly double that of 2007 levels. Three times as many Iraqis feel safe moving about from place to place.

A report on ABC.com yesterday said: “While deep difficulties remain, the advances are remarkable. Eighty-four percent of Iraqis now rate security in their own area positively, nearly double its August 2007 level. Seventy-eight percent say their protection from crime is good, more than double its low. Three-quarters say they can go where they want safely — triple what it’s been.”

The poll counters the view in many U.S. political circles that little progress has been made in democratizing Iraq, and may provide comfort to those who claim that the military surges worked.

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