The revised assessment by intelligence analysts could help build a case for adding Anwar al-Awlaki to the U.S. target list to kill or capture top militants, though current and former officials said careful review was needed given his status as a U.S. citizen.

“It raises the bar dramatically,” a former intelligence official said of authorizing the CIA or U.S. Special Operations forces to strike an American on foreign soil.

Rajoelina gave the job to the same admiral who handed power to him in March, when popular protests and dissident soldiers drove former president Marc Ravalomanana from office.

The film will be made by the Soureh Cinema Institute, with the approval of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which oversees productions, the state-backed institute said in a report on its Web site late yesterday.

The movie will illustrate the “complexity” of the operation that led to the arrest of Abdolmalek Rigi and show that “foreign intelligence services supported and guided the Jundallah terrorist group,” the institute said. The feature film will be released in the new Iranian year, which begins March 21, it said.

Sarkozy’s trip here - the first by a French head of state in 25 years - came despite French arrest warrants for eight people close to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who hosted Sarkozy at his residence shortly after he visited the country’s main genocide museum.

Cuban President Raul Castro “regrets the death of Cuban prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who died yesterday after having been on a hunger strike,” a foreign ministry statement said.

But Castro denied allegations of repression in the Americas’ only one-party communist regime after the late dissident’s mother charged her son was tortured.

The demonstrations all over France gave a taste of what is to come, as unions have announced mass protests against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s planned reform of the costly pension system this year.

The National Council for Audiovisual Communication scrambled France 24’s signal late on Monday and it has not been restored.

The council (CNCA) President Franck Kouassi told Reuters the station would remain suspended until further notice.

The arrest was the third reported success for Philippine authorities in a week against the Abu Sayyaf, a group of militants that operates in the south of the country and is blamed for the nation’s worst terrorist attacks.

Mujibar Alih Amon, who had a 600,000 peso ($13,000) bounty on his head, was arrested at his hideout in the mainly Muslim island of Jolo on Saturday, national police chief Director General Jesus Verzosa said.

The European Commission has written to Google to find out how its search functions work, following allegations from the UK price comparison site Foundem, an online French guide to legal services, ejustice.fr and the Germany-based shopping portal Ciao, owned by Microsoft.

The fear is palpable in the headquarters of Europe’s largest tabloid. Bild Editor-in-Chief Kai Diekmann and the paper’s online marketing experts are concerned about their newest product: “Shake the Bild Girl.” The iPhone app allows users to “undress” the tabloid’s girl of the day merely by shaking their phones. The feature was to be the main attraction in Bild’s iPhone package, which went on the market in December of last year and has since been downloaded some 100,000 times.

The 20-year-old protester shouted “Viva Kurdistan” as he made the attack, although he missed his target as his shoe hit Mr Erdogan’s bodyguard.

The attacker was taken into custody and Turkey’s state-owned Anatolian news agency reported that the man was heavily intoxicated.

The note asked employees to bring “all activities of Romanians” to the attention of rail security services.

The note was distributed at the end of January in the Midi-Pyrenees region.