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BBC news 2012-07-30

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The American Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said the United States has a solemn duty to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Addressing an audience in Jerusalem, he said the US recognized Irael's right to defend itself and that the two countries should employ any and all measures to prevent Iran from achieving its aims.

"When Iran's leaders deny the Holocaust, or speak of wiping this nation off the map, only the naive – or worse – will dismiss it as an excess of rhetoric . Make no mistake: the ayatollahs in Tehran are testing our moral defenses. They want to know who will object, and who will look the other way. My message to the people of Israel and the leaders of Iran is one and the same: we will not look away.”

Government forces in Syria have again been using heavy weapons to pound opposition strongholds in Aleppo. Troops are trying to push into rebel-held neighborhoods and there has been fierce fighting. Ian Pannell reports from Aleppo.

We are getting reports again, but cannot verify them. A very heavy fighting near the old fort, this is pretty much in the central part of Aleppo. State media are certainly saying that there has been a quoted major breakthrough in the area, not sure what they think that is and lots of rumors that they are nothing stronger in there that perhaps the military do not launch an offense in the countryside as well because of cost. Many of the fighters came from the countryside and may be attacking and take them out.

There's increasing speculation that the European Central Bank may intervene to ease the financial plight of Spain. It follows several statements from the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. From Berlin, Steve Evans.

When Mario Draghi said last week that the ECB would do whatever it takes to preserve the euro, stock market jumped because they read the words as a signal that the bank would start buying Spanish government bonds. In effect, it would take on some Spanish debts. Today, Chancellor Merkel echoed the words in a joint statement with the Italian prime minister. On Friday, she said the same in a joint statement with President Hollande of France. It's led to speculation that she signaled her approval of the buying of Spanish bonds by the ECB. The difficulty is that if turns out that the signals have been misread, stock markets might react badly.

In the Olympic swimming pool in London, France have won the final of the men's 4x100-meter freestyle relay. They held off the celebrated American team, which included the 14 times Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps and their new star Ryan Lochte. In another upset, gold medal favorite Spain were eliminated from men's football after losing to Honduras.

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Polls have closed in Romania where voters have been deciding whether to impeach their center-right President Traian Basescu. Three hours before voting ended, turnout was well short of the 50% needed to make the vote valid. The center-left government accuses Mr Basescu of undermining democracy as Nick Thorpe reports.

The Romanian public were actually asked two questions in this referendum. One was on the ballot paper: "Do you want to remove Traian Basescu from office?"; the other question was not written, but was on everyone's minds: do you care enough about it to actually go out and vote? Temperatures of 39°C on Romania's Black Sea coast are not much less in the capital, plus the growing distrust of the population in the whole political elite appeared to be keeping numbers down. But it's beginning to look as though President Traian Basescu has survived yet another attempt to unseat him.

Six people have been arrested in Kenya in connection with the murder of the most senior Venezuelan diplomat in the country. On Friday, Venezuela's acting ambassador to Kenya, Olga Fonseca, was found strangled to death in her official residence in Nairobi. Kenyan officials said staff of the residence had complained about being fired by Ms Fonseca after they refused to retract allegations about her predecessor who left Nairobi two months ago.

An Italian embassy security official has been kidnapped in Yemen. The man was seized in a street and forced into a car close to the Italian embassy in the Capital Sanaa. He was taken to an unknown destination. There are no reports of any demands by his abductors.

The Chilean miners who were trapped underground for 69 days in 2010 are launching a range of products under the name "The 33 of the miracle". They will be selling T-shirts, mugs and commemorative medals. One of the miners, Jose Ojeda, said that the items would be on sale at airports.

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