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BBC news 2012-07-27

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Syrian troops are surrounding the country's biggest city Aleppo, where rebel troops are still holding out. Our correspondent Ian Pannell reports from the outskirts of the city.

In unverified footage, rebel fighters are seen celebrating after overrunning a police station in the south of the city. The armed opposition now claims to control more than half of Aleppo. There've been further heavy clashes between the two sides in a number of districts. Reports from inside the city say government artillery and mortar rounds have been fired as helicopter gunships flew over a number of areas, sporadically shelling targets. Neither side can afford to lose Aleppo as weapons and fighters mass and prepare for what is likely to be a major battle. What does seem guaranteed is that large numbers of civilians will be caught in the crossfire and significant numbers could be killed.

Rebels fighting the Sudanese government in areas close to the border with South Sudan say 150 people a day are dying of disease and hunger. The rebels are in talks with the Sudanese government in Ethiopia to allow humanitarian access to the areas in most need. Martin Plaut reports.

Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Malik Agar, the head of the rebel SPLM North, said the situation was catastrophic even before the current rains. Now, women, children and the elderly are dying every day. His rebels in the Nuba Mountains in the Blue Nile have been fighting the Sudanese government for the past year. Attacked from the air and the ground, their people had little chance to cultivate. The rains have turned large areas into an inaccessible swamp .

A member of a South African white extremist group accused of plotting to kill Nelson Mandela and attempting to overthrow the government in a bombing campaign has been found guilty of high treason in Pretoria. Mike du Toit, a former academic, is the first of 20 men from an organization called Boeremag or Boer Power to be convicted.

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A senior United Nations official has told the BBC that Democratic Republic of Congo army units supported by UN forces have pushed Congolese rebels out of the towns of Rugari and Rumangabo in the east of the country. Helicopter gunships and armored vehicles were used in the operation which took place about 55km north of Goma.

A gunman has killed at least four people and injured another nine at festivities in Huehuetan in southern Mexico. Witnesses described a man armed with a rifle walked up to a group of people celebrating the feast of St James the Apostle and shot dead two men and two women. Police say they're searching for the attacker whose identity is known to them.

The Olympic flame has been carried to Buckingham Place, where it was met by Prince William, his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry. It's now arrived at Hyde Park for a concert in front of 60,000 people, marking the finale of the torch relay . The Mayor of London Boris Johnson gave a rally in cry.

"Team GB is ready, they're gonna win more gold, silver, bronze medals than you need to bailout Greece and Spain together. Let me ask you in conclusion: can we, final question, are you, can we put on the greatest Olympic Games that have ever been held in this city?"

The remains of one of Italy's greatest heroes, Giuseppe Garibaldi, one of the founding fathers of the nation, are to be exhumed from his tomb on an island of Sardinia. Garibaldi played a key role in the unification of Italy in 1861. But now, his descendants say there's some doubt whether the body in the grave is really him. They say there's evidence that at some point after his death in 1882, the tomb was tampered with and that the body may not even be there.

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