PORTUGAL GIVES ITSELF A CLEAN-ENERGY MAKEOVER Five years ago, the leaders of Portugal made a bet: To reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels, they embarked on an array of ambitious renewable energy projects -- primarily harnessing the country's wind and hydropower but also its sunlight and ocean waves. Nearly 45 percent of the electricity in Portugal's grid will come from renewable sources this year, up from 17 percent just five years ago. Land-based wind power has expanded sevenfold in that time. And Portugal expects in 2011 to become the first country to inaugurate a national network of charging stations for electric cars. GERMAN AUTHORITIES CLOSE MOSQUE USED BY 9/11 PLOTTERS Authorities in Hamburg said Monday that they had shut down the mosque where several of the hijackers involved in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, had met, asserting that it remained a source of radicalization nearly a decade later. The Masjid Taiba mosque, known at the time of the hijackings in 2001 as Al Quds mosque, had been under surveillance for years, but efforts to close it received new urgency after a group of radicalized young people associated with the mosque, most of them German citizens with roots in Muslim countries, traveled last year to the region along the border shared by Afghanistan and Pakistan. RWANDAN LEADER HEADS TO NEW TERM UNDER SHADOW OF REPRESSION Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, who has been in control of this country since 1994 and helped resurrect it from genocide into one of the most orderly nations in Africa, appeared to have been re-elected on Monday by an overwhelming margin, according to incomplete election results released early Tuesday. Many Rwandans said they had voted for Kagame for delivering very tangible benefits to their lives, like more schools, more roads, decent Internet service and a sense of peace and security. However, some Rwandans complained about being forced to vote for him, and in the months leading up to the election, several opposition leaders and journalists were jailed or killed. AMID HEAT AND SMOKE, DEATHS DOUBLE IN MOSCOW The daily mortality rate in Moscow has nearly doubled in recent days, the city's chief health official said Monday, singling out the heat as the primary factor and not the culprit most people here suspected: the choking cloud of wildfire smoke. After denying statements from morgue workers and doctors last week that the morgues were filling, the health official, Andrei Seltsovsky, did an about-face. Speaking at a city council meeting that was broadcast on national television, he said that the daily death toll had risen from an average of between 360 and 380 to 'around 700.' SUPERMODEL'S COMPANIONS CHALLENGE TESTIMONY IN WAR CRIMES TRIAL As the war crimes trial of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor blended Monday with a celebrity spectacle, two witnesses, one of them the actress Mia Farrow, challenged testimony last week by the supermodel Naomi Campbell about whether Taylor made her a gift of diamonds after a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela 13 years ago. Farrow quoted Campbell as saying the day after the dinner in Pretoria, South Africa, that Taylor, who denies trading in so-called conflict diamonds, had sent her a 'huge diamond' during the night but that she planned to donate it to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. Campbell's former agent, Carole White, testified that Taylor appeared to be flirting at the dinner and Campbell had said, 'He's going to give me some diamonds.' HEZBOLLAH SAYS ISRAEL WAS INVOLVED IN LEBANESE ASSASSINATION In a television appearance, Hezbollah's leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, offered Monday what he contended was evidence proving Israel's involvement in the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri, in a 2005 bombing. The news conference was much anticipated in Lebanon, coming amid speculation that an international tribunal investigating Hariri's death would indict members of Hezbollah later this year. Israel was quick to dismiss the allegation. 'The international community, the Arab world, and most importantly, the people of Lebanon all know that these accusations are simply ridiculous,' a senior Israeli official told Reuters. RADICAL CLERIC ARRESTED IN INDONESIA One of Indonesia's top radical Muslim clerics was arrested Monday on accusations that he played an important role in terrorist training and had links to militants plotting a series of brazen attacks on the Indonesian authorities and foreigners. The cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, was arrested along with five bodyguards in West Java on accusations that he 'had an active role' in setting up a militant training camp in the northern Sumatran province of Aceh, said the national police spokesman, Inspector General Edward Aritonang said. Bashir is a founder of the radical Jemaah Islamiyah movement, which has been blamed for a series of terrorist attacks, including nightclub bombings that killed 202 people in Bali in 2002. NORTH KOREA FIRES ARTILLERY ROUNDS NEAR DISPUTED WATERS North Korea fired 110 artillery rounds at waters near a disputed western sea border with South Korea on Monday, escalating tensions already raised to a high pitch by aggressive South Korean naval exercises and the North's seizure of a squidding boat. About 10 shells landed near the South Korean border island of Byeongryeong, followed by an additional 100 rounds falling near another border island, Yeonpyeong, said a spokesman of the Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul, who insisted on anonymity until there was a formal government announcement. NETANYAHU TESTIFIES IN INQUIRY INTO RAID ON FLOTILLA Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told an Israeli commission examining the deadly flotilla raid in late May that Israel had acted in accordance with international law, but he appeared to shift at least some of the responsibility for the bloody episode to the Turkish government and his own defense minister, Ehud Barak. Hours later, however, in the face of domestic criticism over what was interpreted as an evasion of responsibility, Netanyahu made a statement clarifying that as prime minister, the 'overall responsibility' lay with him. 