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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed outrage at the latest reported mass killing in Syria and said any failure by the international community to take action would be a license for further massacres. In a letter to the UN Security Council, the international peace envoy Kofi Annan said the Syrian government had violated its commitment to stop using heavy weapons in population center. From UN, here is here is Nata Tophic.

Western nations are pushing for a new UN resolution to strengthen sanctions on Syrian if it does not stop the use of heavy weapons. The draft resolution calls for diplomatic and economic but not military sanctions under chapter 7 of the UN charter. This will give President Assad ten days to cease violence before the sanctions are imposed. Russia has said it will veto such a move but western diplomats said there was no room for negotiation on the issue, insisting Russia need to realize now with the time for more pressure on its Syrian ally.

Police in Nigeria say five people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack outside a mosque in the city of Maiduguri. The blast took place after prayers at the central mosque -- narrowly missing government officials and the spiritual leader of Borno state who was left splattered with blood. The bombing happened in a stronghold of the Islamist group Boko Haram.

The first cargo ship to sail from Miami to Cuba in 50 years has arrived in Havana. The ship was carrying humanitarian supplies such as food medicine that are exempted from the US trade embargo against the communist-run island. Its cargo was made up of charitable donations and gifts to relatives from Miami's large Cuban exile population. The vessel will now operate a weekly service linking Miami and Havana for the first time since 1962.

The Lower House of the Russian parliament the Duma has voted in favor of two laws which the government says are needed to protect Russia from outside interference. Critics accused the authorities of trying to crash dissident. Steve Rosenberg reports from Moscow.

Well here at the Duma, Russian MPs have approved two controversial new laws before breaking for the summit. The first one tightens state regulation of non-governmental organizations: receiving funding from abroad and engaged in political activities. Such NGOs will be forced to label themselves foreign agents. That’s a phrase which in the Russian language is anonymous with spies. The second bill makes slander a criminal offense and punishable by heavy fine.

Italy’s highest court has confirmed verdicts against a group of activists who were found guilty of looting and causing destruction during a G8 summit in Geneva 11 years ago. Five are to be jailed immediately. The BBC Roman correspondent says the * in Geneva during the summit which shocked Italy also saw violence by the police. A number of police officers were convicted last week but will not be jailed.

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A man from Uzbekistan has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the United States for threatening to kill President Obama. Ulugbek Kodirov who is 22 pleaded guilty to the charge in February. A court in Birmingham, Alabama heard Mr Kodirov came up with the plan after making contact online with the member of an Uzbek Islamic group which the US considers a terrorist organization.

The German government says it wants to ensure that Jewish and Muslim parents can get their sons circumcised despite a local court ruling that the operation is a crime when performed for religious reasons. A spokesman for the chancellor said the government was committed to protecting religious freedom and circumcisions carried out in a responsible way should not lead to prosecution.

The former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been appointed United Nations' special envoy for education. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Mr Brown would work with key partners to help galvanize support for UN efforts to achieve quality education for each child by 2015. Mr Brown said expanding education had been a longstanding passion of his.

Former fighters in the Tamil Tiger guerrilla force in Sri Lanka have been selected to represent the country in competitive sport. More from Charles Haviland in Colombo.

Former members of the LTTE or Tamil Tigers have, it seems, swapped their battlefield guns for sports ground rifles. The secretary of the sports ministry Nishantha Ranatunga told the BBC a successful sports talents footing camp among former Tigers was held last month. Out of 135 people, 16 including one or two women were selected for a national sports coup, four each in the disciplines of shooting, swimming, athletics and cricket. Mr Ranatunga pointed out that some of the shooters used to be LTTE snipers and some of the top swimmers used to be in the Sea Tigers, the LTTE’s naval wing.
 

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