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South African police are sending reinforcements to the commercial capital Johannesburg to help end the violence against migrant communities. Police said at least 22 people have been killed since the violence first erupted a week ago. It has been sparked by the belief that foreign workers are taking scarce South African jobs. Peter Biles reports from Johannesburg.

The authorities in the province of Gauteng which contains Johannesburg say that there have been more than 200 arrests so far. According to aid workers, some 6,000 people, most of them migrants from other parts of Africa, have been forced to leave their homes. Many have taken refuge in local police stations and churches， but are short of food. The police are overstretched and reinforcements have been sent from elsewhere in the country. But there is no plan at present to deploy the army.

Britain and France have given their support to a new effort by ASEAN nations to mount a major aid effort for Burma more than two weeks after a devastating cyclone. The agreement to channel significantly more aid from abroad through Asian personnel and organizations was reached at a meeting of Southeast Asian foreign ministers and was accepted by the military government in Burma. The British Foreign Secretary David Miliband says progress is being made. "I hope that in the course of this week we'll see increasing amounts of aid going in and reaching the people who need it. And we'll also see increasing cooperation from the Burmese regime with the international community，which I believe genuinely has one interest in this, which is a humanitarian interest."

Members of Parliament in Britain have approved changes to the laws widening the use of human embryos in their very early stages for scientific research. They voted in favor of allowing scientists to carry out stem cell research using hybrid human-animal embryos. They also voted in favor of so-called "saviour siblings". Naomi Grimley reports. (Www.hxen.net)

Parliament debated whether more parents should be allowed to have so-called "saviour siblings". That's where compatible embryos are selected to help treat a serious condition in an older brother or sister. Opponents say it means a child can be born as a mere commodity. But in the end, MPs agree that it should also be allowed to happen but only using umbilical cord material or bone marrow from the saviour sibling not whole organs.

The United Nations Children's Agency says six million Ethiopian children are at risk of acute malnutrition after the failure of rains. Already more than 60,000 children need specialist feeding if they are to live.

Second World War. He says he was drafted into the Soviet army and later captured by the Nazis, but denies that he helped them. The US authorities stripped him in Demjanjuk of his citizenship and ordered his deportation after alleging he lied about working at three Nazi death camps in his immigration application. But it's unclear whether any other country will be willing to take him in or prosecute him again.

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Members of Parliament in Britain have approved changes to the laws widening the use of human embryos in their very early stages for scientific research. They voted in favor of allowing scientists to carry out stem cell research using hybrid human-animal embryos. And Parliament also gave the go-ahead to the creation of so-called "saviour siblings", genetically compatible embryos which are selected to help treat a serious condition in an older brother or sister.

The government of Cuba has accused the most senior United States diplomat in Havana of passing on funds from Cuban exiles to dissidents on the island. Cuban officials said the diplomat Michael Parmly passed envelopes with money to a leading dissident in Havana. Washington says it was only providing humanitarian assistance to families of political prisoners.

The Ukrainian man accused of being a Nazi camp guard has appealed an extradition implemented by the United States Supreme Court. John Demjanjuk, who. Er, we've already had that story, so we'll move on.

Iraq of violence here and Iraqi officials say eleven police recruits have been killed by gunmen in Northern Iraq and a mini bus was attacked near the northern city of Mosul. Iraqi government forces backed by the Americans have been carrying out major operations against Sunni insurgents in Mosul in recent days.

Earlier a senior commander of the al-Qaeda network in Iraq in the northern city of Mosul was arrested. The former Iraqi general Abdul Khaliq Sabawi was detained near Tikrit after fleeing from Mosul. And just to recap our main news once again.

The United Nations Children's Agency has warned that six million Ethiopian children are at risk of acute malnutrition after the failure of rains and the damage to crops that will follow. Already more than 60,000 children need specialist feeding if they are to survive. BBC News.