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Sudan and South Sudan have moved closer to full-scale war with the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir saying he wants to liberate the people ofSouth Sudan from their own government. Hiscomments at a rally in Khartoum follow days offighting on the border between the two countries.James Copnall reports from Khartoum.
President Omar al-Bashir said he had made a mistakeby putting the Sudan People's Liberation Movementin power in Juba. This is a reference to the 2005 peace agreement, which resulted in theformer rebel movement controlling South Sudan. The region then became an independentcountry last year. From now on, President Bashir told a fired-up crowd his main goal would beremoving the SPLM from power.
"We tell the SPLM we either end up in Juba and take everything, or you end up in Khartoum andtake everything," he said.
The United States and Nato have condemned the actions of US soldiers who posed inphotographs with the mangled remains of suicide bombers in Afghanistan. The White Housedescribed the soldiers' conduct as "reprehensible" while the Nato Secretary General AndersFogh Rasmussen promised a full investigation.
"These events took place apparently a couple of years ago. I consider them an isolated event.This event will be thoroughly investigated, and of course there will be taken necessary andappropriate steps to hold people to account."
The Los Angeles Times published the pictures taken by a US paratrooper in 2010 despite aPentagon request not to.
The main presidential candidate in Egypt for the Muslim Brotherhood who's just beendisqualified has warned the progress towards democracy is in danger. Khairat al-Shater saidthe Brotherhood would increase its pressure both inside and outside parliament to ensure thatthe transition to democracy goes ahead. The Brotherhood has already said that it's puttingits support behind its second-choice candidate.
There's growing outrage in South Africa over the spread of a video that appears to show ateenage girl being raped by a group of young men.
Police found the girl on Wednesday in Soweto, and have now arrested and charged eightsuspects. They say the girl is 17 but has a mental capacity of a five-year-old. Karen Allenreports from Johannesburg.
The video, which was uncovered by a South African newspaper, allegedly shows the teenagerbeing raped by seven men. They are reported to be laughing and joking during the teenager'sordeal, which allegedly took place in the township of Soweto last week. But what's prompted astern response by the ruling party and public health officials is that the film has been circulatingon the Internet and on mobile phones. In a country where a recent study by the MedicalResearch Council suggested that more than a quarter of men questioned here had admittedraping a female, this case has triggered outrage on social networking sites.
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Pakistan's army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has called for the demilitarisation of theSiachen Glacier area in the Himalayas, an area known as the world's highest battlefield. He wasspeaking after visiting an army base near the glacier, where an avalanche killed more than130 soldiers more than a week ago.
Just days before Bahrain's most prestigious international sporting event, the Formula 1 GrandPrix, security forces are reported to have used stun grenades to disperse anti-governmentprotesters at an exhibition about the race. The clashes saw the security forces chase thedemonstrators, who included the daughter of an activist who's been on a hunger strike for 70days.
The Guinea-Bissau military leaders who seized power last week say they have agreed a two-year transition period before presidential and parliamentary elections are held. The agreementwith the main opposition parties confirms the dissolution of parliament and the creation of anational transitional council, which will name an interim government. On Tuesday, the countrywas suspended from membership of the African Union until constitutional order is restored.
Researchers in Britain have published a study that they suggest could change the way in whichbreast cancer is treated. The study by Cancer Research UK divides breast cancer into at least10 new categories. The lead researcher Professor Carlos Caldas said it could lead to bettertreatments.
"I think that of course this is a very important advance and it's a big step forward by having amuch more precise assignment of a woman to a given sub-type of breast cancer that we willthen have much more tailored treatment that is targeting the particular type of breast cancerthat each woman will have."
The American television presenter Dick Clark, whose show American Bandstand helped rock 'n'roll music reach a mainstream audience, has died aged 82. He was also the long-standing hostof the annual New Year's Eve broadcast from Time Square in New York.
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