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BBC News with Iain Purdon
Divers searching a submerged cruise ship in Italysay they will work through
the night to try to findmore survivors. Fifteen people are still unaccountedfor
while five are known to have died. Earlier, two more bodies were found. Filippo
Marini is aspokesman for the Italian coast guard.
"The bodies of two elderly people have been found. They'll be identified as
soon as possible.The correct procedures will be observed, and then we will
proceed with identification. It's asad piece of news to give. Our divers have
found themselves with this very sad situation. Thebodies are being brought onto
the mainland. They're two elderly people found on the third floorin a meeting
area section of the ship."
The vessel, the Costa Concordia, smashed into rocks off the Italian coast
on Friday. The ship'scaptain has been questioned. He argues that nautical charts
failed to show any spike of rock,but the authorities say he brought the ship too
close to the island of Giglio, where it ranaground.
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has harshly criticised President
Bashar al-Assad ofSyria and the way he's handled the anti-government protests in
the country. Speaking inLebanon, Mr Ban said the Arab revolution showed that
people no longer accepted tyrannies.
"Today, I say again to President Assad of Syria: Stop killing your own
people. The path ofrepression is a dead end. The lessons of the past year are
eloquent and clear. The winds ofchange will not cease to blow. The flame ignited
in Tunisia will not be dimmed."
However, the French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe has attacked what he
called the silence of theUN Security Council over Syria.
The head of UN humanitarian operations in Somalia, Mark Bowden, has told
the BBC many morepeople will die of hunger before the famine there is brought
under control. He said thesituation was improving, but the crisis would continue
till July or August.
"The number of people facing strict famine conditions has been reduced from
750,000 toabout 250,000, but that doesn't mean that there's not a major crisis
in Somalia."
Mr Bowden said that the famine had killed tens of thousands of people since
it was declared sixmonths ago and some of the world's highest child malnutrition
rates had been recorded inSomalia with half of all children being
malnourished.
Two planes have attacked the Somali city of Jilib in the south of the
country, an area controlledby Islamists of al-Shabab. Elders in the city have
told the BBC that six children were killed in thebombing which was apparently
carried out by Kenyan military jets. There are reports that al-Shabab fighters
were among the casualties. The Kenyan military spokesman told the BBC thathe was
checking whether Kenyan aircraft were involved in the raid.
World News from the BBC
There's been a third day of fighting between rival Libyan militia groups
despite efforts of theinterim government to broker a ceasefire. At least three
people have been killed and morethan 40 wounded since Friday in clashes near the
town of Gharyan, south of the capital Tripoli.The interim government has been
struggling to control armed groups.
Voting has ended in parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan, which the party
of PresidentNursultan Nazarbayev is expected to win. International observers
have never deemed anyelection in Kazakhstan as free or fair. Rayhan Demytrie
reports.
In Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, the turnout was low. But nationwide
by 6pm local time,nearly 70% of voters had cast their ballots. The presidential
party Nur Otan is expected to winby a landslide. So far it has been the only
party represented in parliament. But a new electionlaw guarantees the party with
the second highest number of votes some seats. The six otherpolitical parties
that are standing do not pose a serious challenge to Nur Otan.
A Swiss-German consortium has announced a $2bn project to develop solar
technology inOman. The investors plan to build 400 megawatts of solar generating
capacity, and factories tomake solar panels for Oman and for export. Despite
plentiful sunshine, the Middle Eastregion's solar power production is
negligible, compared with that of Europe, China or theUnited States.
Russia says it believes debris from a spacecraft that failed in its mission
to Mars has crashedinto the Pacific Ocean. The probe, Phobos-Grunt, is one of
the heaviest and most toxic ever tofall back down to earth although the Russian
space agency says most of it will have burnt up onre-entry. The spacecraft was
launched last November in an ambitious bid to scoop up rockyfragments from a
Martian moon and bring them back for study. But it became stranded inEarth's
orbit after the launch went wrong.
BBC News
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