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BBC news 2012-09-21

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Syrian opposition group said at least 30 people were killed when a petrol station in the north of the country was hit in a government air strike. The petrol station is near the town of Ain Issa about 30km from the border crossing with Turkey which was seized by rebel fighters on Wednesday. Jim Muir reports from Beirut.

Activists said there was a big crowd waiting for fuel at the petrol station near Ain Issa. They said it was then hit by a bomb believed to be a barrel of explosives dropped by a military aircraft. It caused a huge explosion and fire. Activists posted video on the internet showing a burning petrol station surrounded by wrecked and smoldering vehicles. In recent weeks the regime has increasingly exploited its monopoly over air power and the use of hugely destructive, but crude bombs involving barrels packed with TNT has become increasingly common.

A court in California has dismissed a plea from one of the actors in the anti-Islamic video which has sparked protests across the Muslim world to remove the clips from YouTube. Cindy Lee Garcia said she and fellow actors were duped into appearing. From Los Angeles, here is Alastair Leithead.

The film was badly made and low budget with insults and offensive inferences to the Prophet Muhammad in Islam crudely adapted on afterwards. Cindy Lee Garcia's civil lawsuit against the film makers accuses them of fraud and slander. But the judge refused to order YouTube or its parent company Google to remove the video. The judge refused Cindy Lee Garcia's request to block the film because the man behind it had not been served with the copy of the lawsuit. She has not been able to produce an agreement in relation to her role in the film. And federal law protects third party liability that's Google and YouTube.

The United States has run a series of advertisements on television stations in Pakistan in an attempt to calm protest against the controversial anti-Islam film. The advertisements in advert feature clips of President Obama and the Secretary of States Hillary Clinton condemning the video.

The Georgian Interior Minister Bacho Akhalaia has resigned after a wave of protest fired by video showing prison officers abusing inmates. He is the second minister to lose his job over the scandal. The prison's minister resigned on Wednesday. Protesters who took to the streets of the Georgian capital Tbilisi said the whole government should go.

Government should be changed. I mean President Saakashvili should be changed. Every minister should be changed. Every person who works in government is supposed to be. The situation in Georgia should be changed.

Police in Britain have charged a man with murder of two policewomen who were lured to a house by bogus report of the burglary and then killed in a gun and grenade attack. Dale Cregan is also accused of two other killings earlier this year. He also faces four charges of attempted murder relating to another case.

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Sixteen members of a breakaway group from the Amish community in the US state of Ohio have been convicted of hate crimes for a series of attacks in which they forcibly cut the beards and hair of fellow Amish. The group's leader and self staff bishop Samuel Mullet ordered the assaults on nine people as punishment for questioning his authority. BBC correspondent says this were deeply humiliating attacks in the community where violence is uncommon.

Two suicide bombers have blown themselves up in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least 14 people. A former editor of Somali national television, as well as two other journalists, and two policemen were among those killed. David Bamford reports.

A security official in Mogadishu said the two suicide attackers breached the zone very close to the presidential palace detonating their bombs in a just outside restaurant and theatre frequented by journalists and some politicians. A spokesman for the Islamist group al-Shabab said that, while they didn't order the attack, it had been carried out by their supporters angry about the intervention of foreign troops in Somalia.

India has formally implemented its plans to open the country's retail sector to global supermarket chains defying protests from opposition groups and local traders. The government notification came on the day of strikes in many parts of India against the plans announced last week. Businesses and offices remain shut in many cities and railway tracks were blocked in some places. The government says the reforms are essential to revive the slowing economy. But critics say the changes threaten the livelihood of millions.

One person has been killed and four have been injured in clashes between police and protesters at a gold mine in Peru. The Canadian firm, Barrick Gold, said it would temporarily suspend production at its Pierina mine following the clash. The protesters are demanding that the firm provide neighboring towns with water.

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