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BBC news 2012-07-11

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Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court has overruled president Mohammed Mursi's decision to reconvene parliament. Parliaments have met on Tuesday in defiance of the country's military council which ordered the dissolution after an earlier ruling by the court. Jon Leyne reports.

This decision by the constitutional court was expected by many experts. The court had already ruled that parliamentary elections were unconstitutional, a ruling that started the crisis and led the military council to dissolve parliament. What the lawyers will still have to decide is what happens next. According to some commentators, just by meeting today parliament may have transferred its powers from military to the president. So it will become a complicated legal wrangle that could go on for months or years.

Lawyers for the widow of Yasser Arafat say she will file a legal complain in France asking authorities to investigate his death after a television documentary alleged that he was poisoned.

Palestinian authorities gave final approval on Monday for late Palestinian leader's body to be exhumed and asked for an international inquiry into his death in a French military hospital in 2004. Last week, the Qatar based television station Al Jazeera suggested that Mr. Arafat may have been poisoned in polonium-a radioactive element.

The British government has delayed plans to reform the upper chamber of parliament-the House of Lords, just hours before a key vote. Dozens of MPs from the main coalition party-the Conservatives have threatened to join the opposition Labor party in voting to block the legislation. The reform is a key policy for the Conservatives junior partners the Liberal Democrats. The foreign secretary William Hague says the government will pressure ahead with these plans.

"We expect a substantial majority for the second reading of the bill. That is a moment hasn't happened in last hundreds years of debating the House of Lords reform. That isn't itself a big step forward. It will be quite wrong to withdraw a bill that has such support."

An indigenous leader in southwestern Colombia has urged the security forces, the members of the Columbia's largest rebel group the Farc, to take their fight elsewhere. Ten people have been killed and hundreds of trenches destroyed over the past a couple of days as well rebels shelled the town in an attempt to take its police station. Vanessa Buschschluter reports.

Members of the Nasa, Guambiano and Paez tribes said that the latest attack was the last straw. They demanded that both the Colombian security forces and the rebels leave their ancestral lands and take the fight to areas where civilians wouldn't get hurt. An indigenous commission marched to the rebel camps and gave them a two-week deadline. Another delegation removed the sand bags protecting the police station and threw them into the river. The tribes told Colombian officials they wanted to assume control of the area themselves.

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Islamist militants have destroyed two more ancient tombs in the Malian city of Timbuktu. About a dozen militants arrived in the truck at 14th century Djingareyber mosque fired in the air to keep people away and started smashing the tombs. Militants from the Ansar Dine movement linked to al-Qaeda say they will destroy all mausoleums that don't comply with Sharia law.

Jordan has opened new camps to cope with the increasing number of Syrians fleeing violence in their country. Aid workers said that within the past week some 3,600 Syrians have arrived in Jordan. Jordanian and UN refugee agency officials have expressed concern that humanitarian crisis could be on the way. Dale Gavlak reports.

A caravan camp has now opened in the border town of Ramtha to accommodate Syrian families. All Jordanian officials and UN are working furiously to prepare a camp to hall some 150,000 refugees in the nearby desert hamlet Zaatari in Mafraq. Meanwhile the Italian government has set up a few hospitals in the facility to treat Syrian refugees suffering manner injuries and diseases. Jordan's water minister Mohammed Nazard has also appealed other countries to provide funds for additional water supplies for the Syrian refugees.

A Russian mother has been jailed for 8 years for putting her nine-month-old son on a motorway in the hope that he would get run over. A court in Moscow heard that 24-year-old Elena Osina had tired of looking after her child after her boyfriend moved out. A driver stopped the car and retrieved the child up about 10 minutes after he had been abandoned.

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