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BBC news 2012-07-09

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In an apparent challenge to the powerful military in Egypt, the country’s newly-elected Islamist President Mohammed Mursi has ordered parliament to reconvene. His order goes against the ruling last month by the Constitutional Court that the Parliament was illegitimate. Jon Leyne reports from Cairo.

This move by President Mursi suggests his on course for a new confrontation with the military council, barely a week after he was sworn in to the office. Just before he was elected, the military dissolved the parliament following ruling by the Constitutional Court. Mohammed Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood who dominated parliament have never accepted to the decision. Now it appears to the new president wants to assert his power. According to the political party of the Muslim Brotherhood, parliament could be reconvened as early as tomorrow.

The authorities in Nigeria have imposed an overnight curfew in Plateau state after two Nigerian politicians died during an attack by gunmen on a funeral for dozens of people killed near the city of Jos. The official said the attack was carried out by heardsmen from Fulani ethnic group. Will Ross reports from Lagos.

A military spokesman confirmed the dead of the senator from the governing party, Gyang Dantong, and another politician from the regional government. The two men are just attending the funeral for 37 people from their Birom ethnic group. They were killed by gunmen on Saturday. The spokesman said after the burial, shooting broke out. And the two politicians died, not from bullets, but from shock. The Christian Birom people have been in a cycle of violence with the Muslim Fulani herdsmen, they are in dispute over the ownership of land in Plateau state and over the access to resources.

The Likud Party of the Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unanimously approved a plan that would end exemptions from conscription for ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arab Israelis. The issue has become increasingly controversial in Israel with demonstrations by thousands who serve in the army demanding that all Israelis share the burden of military service.

The international envoy to Syria Kofi Anna has arrived in Damascus on his third visit aimed trying to resolve the crisis in Syria. On Saturday, Mr Anna acknowledged that his peace plan had so far failed to stop the violence. Here’s Jim Muir.

The ceasefire which’s the centre peace of Mr Anna’s six-point plan has collapsed completely. In recognition of that, the UN observer mission which was supposed to be monitoring compliance with it has been grounded. Having failed to pave the way for political dialogue by ending the violence, the emphasis is now the other way round on trying to get the politics right and hope that that will help pacify the situation on the ground. So Mr Anna is focusing on the arrangement for a political transition through the creation of some kind of unity government that would bring together loyalists and opposition elements.

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Six American soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in the east of Afghanistan according to the US officials. One Nato soldier in another attack earlier on Sunday, and 18 Afghan civilians were killed by three roadside bombs in the province of Kandahar.

Several thousand survivors of the Srebrenica massacre have marked its 17th anniversary by marching through the hills of eastern Bosnia, reenacting their grueling escape from the Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic. Around 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Serb troops after they’d overrun the United Nations’ enclave of Srebrenica. Local Serbs have their own rival event today, commemorating more than 3,000 of their soldiers and civilians who died in the three-year war.

It’s now known that over 170 people were killed by the recent flooding in Russian southern Krasnodar region. A BBC correspondent to reach the worst affected town of Krymsk, said it looks as though a tsunami had struck.

The Swiss tennis star Roger Federer has won his seventh Wimbledon singles title, dashing British hope. And his Scottish player, Andy Murray, might become the first Britain to win the championship in over 70 years. The Swiss won three consecutive sets after Murray claimed the first. He’s now equal Peter Sampras’s record of seven wins at Wimbledon. In an emotional speech on the Centre Court, Murray thanked the British public for their support and jokingly told the crowd he was getting closer to a Grand Slam win before giving this emotional message.

Every body always talks about the pressure playing at Wimbledon, how tough is. But I’m … But it’s not the people watching. They make it so much easier to play. The support is being incredible, so, thank you.

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