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BBC news 2012-08-11

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The United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR says it's dealing with a big increase in the number of Syrians fleeing the conflict in their country particularly from the embattled city of Aleppo. The UNHCR said it had registered almost 150,000 refugees in four neighboring countries.

The United States has announced more sanctions on the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah which / had already designated as a terrorist organization. Washington accused the Hezbollah of helping in the supression of Syrian uprising. Kim Ghattas has more.

American officials have repeatedly made refernces to Hazbollah's support for the Syrian government's violent crackdown. But it is the first time that Washington has acted on those accusations. The move by the US treasury however is mostly symbolic because the Lebanese militant group has long been designated as a terrorist organization by the State Department. It's already under heavy sanctions and it does not have any assets in the United States. The announcement seems mostly designed to galvanize public opinion against the group in both Syria and Lebanon.

The US women's 4x100m relay team has broken one of the oldest world record to win gold at the London Olympics. They finished in the time of 40.82 secs more than half a second quicker than the East Germans who set the old record in 1985. Rob Broomby was in the stadium.

The United States' women sprint relay team has smashed the world record in the 4x100m. Carmelita Jeter crossed the line guaranteeing / her and teamates Felix, Knight and Madison a place in Olympic history. Jamaica finished second, Karron Stewart unable to close to gap as the women in red stormed to victory.

Meanwhile, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Paes says the London 2012 Olympic Games would be hard act to follow. Speaking in a news conference in London with Boris Jonathan, Mr. Paes, whose city hosts the next Olympics in Brazil in 2016, said London had done so many great things that Rio now had its work cutout. Mr. Jonathan said London would be doing all it could to pass on to Rio the wealth of experience and knowledge built over the past seven years.

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Reports from Libya say gunmen have shot dead an army general in the eastern city of Benghazi. They say Mohamed Hadia al-Feitouri, who was also a high ranking defense ministry official, was returning from the mosque when he was stopped by four men in a car. His son says his father was asked for his identity and then shot. General Hadia was one of the first officers to join the opposition in last year's uprising.

Police in Mexico have found a man who says he survived a mass killing near the northern city of San Luis Potosi, where officials discovered a van containing 14 bodies on Thursday. The man said he managed to survive by playing dead and letting the attackers piling into van alongside the other bodies. Will Grant reports from Mexico.

Stories of mass killings and bodies being dumped in public spaces are very common in Mexico. Normally, there are no survivors. But in this incident, one man did manage to escape the massacre. He fled into the surrounding countryside before being picked up by two police officers and taken to hospital. The motive for the brutal attack is still unclear, nor is it known which armed gang carried it out.

The United Nations and the African Union have issued a warning that the selection of the new Somali parliament is in danger of being undermined. In a joint statement, the UN representitive Augustine Mahiga and his African Union colleague say there are indications that bribery, intimadition and violence have been used to affect the seletion of Somalia's next president and parliament.

Tens of thousands of Ghanaians have attended the funeral of their late president John Atta Mills. African Heads of State and the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton witnessed the ceremony on Independent Square. Organizers set up large television screens so that the people arround the square could see the event. Mr.Mills' sudden death last month at the age of 68 shocked Ghanaians. The country is one of Africa's most stable democracies.

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