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The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Russia that its policy on Syria is contributing to civil war. She said President Assad's government might listen to the Russians, which was why she'd been pushing Moscow to abandon its non-interventionist stance and take a tougher line. Kim Ghattas reports from Washington.

Hillary Clinton said that unlike Libya, the factors for intervention in Syria were just not there at least for now, so the American secretary of state said there was no coalition being built other than one to help alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people. But Mrs Clinton also criticised Russia's policy towards Syria. Moscow's support for President Bashar al-Assad was only making things worse, she said, pushing the country towards civil war. Mrs Clinton's words will be comforting to Mr Assad, and the rebels will be dismayed to hear again that the cavalry is not coming.

Syria's commission of inquiry into the Houla massacre has blamed the atrocities on rebels trying to provoke international intervention. But the US ambassador to the United Nations called the Syrian account of the deaths a blatant lie.

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The former US presidential candidate John Edwards has been found not guilty of one charge of illegally using campaign donations to keep his pregnant mistress out of the public eye. The jury failed to reach a verdict on five other counts. Jonathan Blake reports from Washington.

After nine days of deliberations, the jury was only able to reach a verdict on one of the six counts against John Edwards. They found him not guilty of receiving illegally high campaign donations from an elderly heiress. On the five other counts, they were deadlocked, and the judge declared a mistrial. The trial centred around whether John Edwards used campaign donations to cover up an affair with his mistress Rielle Hunter and keep her in hiding from his wife, who at the time was dying of cancer. The trial has been the culmination of a protracted fall from grace for the former senator once considered a rising star of the Democratic Party.

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The President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, has told the BBC that football hooligans will not be allowed to disrupt the Euro 2012 football championships. He said there were far fewer hooligans in Ukraine than elsewhere. Earlier this week, a BBC report alleged that racism was so entrenched in Ukraine that black and Asian players and fans were at risk of being assaulted.

Experts in extreme right-wing ideology have told the trial of the self-confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik that his views should not be seen as the lone views of a madman. One expert said the ideas underpinning Mr Breivik's explanation for killing 77 people last year that he had to save Europe from multiculturalism and Islam were shared by other right-wing extremists. The trial in Oslo must definitively rule on his mental state.

Canadian police say a man suspected of sending the severed body parts of a murder victim to political party offices in the capital Ottawa might have fled North America. The case began on Tuesday when police found a human torso in a suitcase behind the apartment of Luka Rocco Magnotta. Lee Carter reports from Toronto.

Twenty-nine-year-old Luka Rocco Magnotta is now on Interpol's most wanted list. Police in Montreal say that a letter posted on a website has led them to believe that Mr Magnotta may have left Canada. And they say that evidence found in his apartment shows he may have fled to a different continent. Police have been trying to have an online video that they believe shows the suspect committing the murder removed from the Internet. The gruesome recording shows a victim being stabbed and dismembered.

And the first privately owned US space capsule, known as the Dragon, has splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after completing a landmark seven-day mission to the International Space Station. Nasa described the mission as marking a new era as private firms start to play a larger role in space transport.

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