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2010-04-14 BBC

BBC News with David Austin

President Barack Obama says the summitconference on nuclear security which has just ended in Washington was atestament to what is possible when nations come together. He said the49 countries who attended had come to a four-point plan for future success in securing the security of all nuclear materials produced or stockpiled around the globe. Mr Obama said the summit had made a real contribution to a safer world.

"First, we agreed on the urgency andseriousness of the threat. Today, we are declaring that nuclearterrorism is one of the most challenging threats to internationalsecurity. We also agreed that the most effective way to preventterrorists and criminals from acquiring nuclear materials is throughstrong nuclear security - protecting nuclear materials and preventingnuclear smuggling. Second, to secure all vulnerable nuclear materialsaround the world in four years' time. Third, we reaffirmedthat it is the fundamental responsibility of nations, consistent withtheir international obligations, to maintain effective security of thenuclear materials and facilities under our control. And fourth, werecognized that thisthread could not be addressed by countries working in isolation. So we'vecommitted ourselves to a sustained, effective program of internationalcooperation on national security and we call on other nations to joinus."

The self-declared interim government inKyrgyzstan has yet to give a response to President Kurmanbek Bakiyev'sannouncement that he would be willing to step down if certainconditions were met. Itheld a late-night meeting in the capital Bishkek, but made noannouncement afterwards. Our correspondent in Kyrgyzstan RayhanDemytrie has more.

An opposition delegate had told the BBCthat they were planning to discuss a response to the president's offerof resignation. However, Temir Sariyev, the deputy head of the interim government came out of the meeting and said the issue had not been on their agenda.President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said he was willing to speak to the head ofthe self-declared government Roza Otunbayeva. It follows an earlierdecision by the interim government to strip Mr Bakiyev of hispresidential immunity and to issue arrest warrants for members of hisfamily.

There have been new allegations of votingfraud in Sudan on the third day of nationwide elections. A BBC reporterin Khartoum says the party of President Omar al-Bashir is accused ofgiving voters ballot papers based on fake documents. At the same time,a senior politician in southern Sudan Lam Akol accused the former southern rebels of trying to rig the poll.

"Another form of rigging is the threats and intimidation and detention of voters by the SPLM and its various intelligence organ and attempting to threaten them to vote in a particular manner."

Lam Akol speaking in southern Sudan.

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Gay rights groups have criticized a seniormember of the Vatican for remarks he made linking homosexuality withpaedophilia in the child sex abuse scandal facing the Roman CatholicChurch. The British group Stonewall said it was astonishing that in2010 the gay community should still be dealing with such an offensive myth.

A Pakistani official has told the BBC that aPakistani air force attack near the Afghan border on Saturday killed 73civilians. A Pakistani military spokesman had earlier insisted that theattack targeted militants. It's impossible to verify either accountbecause of the remoteness of the region. From Islamabad, Orla Guerinreports.

The bombing took place on Saturday in aremote village in the Khyber tribal region. It has taken several daysfor detailed accounts to emerge. Now a local official has told the BBCthat all of those killed, more than 70 people, were innocent civilians.He said the fighter jet may have strayed from nearby Orakzai wherethe army is targeting Taliban positions. The official spoke oncondition of anonymity, saying the military had tried to gag him.

One of the fastest growing sites on theInternet, the messaging service Twitter, is for the first time to allowlimited advertising. Twitter, where users keep in touch by sendingshort messages known as tweets, says businesses willbe able to pay for promotional messages that will appear among theresults of searchers on the site. But Twitter says it will not runadverts that prove unpopular with users.

Rival political leaders in Lebanon havemarked the 35th anniversary of the outbreak of the civil war in 1975with a football match to demonstrate their unity. The Prime MinisterSaad Hariri captained his team against the sideled by a Hezbollah member of the parliament. A BBC correspondent inBeirut said commentators had to stifle their laughter as the unfitpoliticians quickly ran out of breath.

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