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BBC news 2012-09-28

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The Spanish cabinet has unveiled new spending cuts which it hopes will reduce the budget deficit by a total of 50 billion dollars, but at the same time officials said pensions will rise using money drawn from reserves. Tom Burridge reports from Madrid.

The Spanish government says the economy here is expected to remain in recession throughout next year, and it predicts unemployment will keep rising. It's in that context that three senior government ministers announced Spain's budget for next year. It includes a cut to government department budgets of 12% and a freeze on public sector’s salaries for a third consecutive year. The Spanish finance minister said this budget would make Spain's debt more sustainable. But the figures and the reforms published today made the chances of a second Spanish bailout all the more likely.

Burma’s reformist President Thein Sein has praised the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a speech at the United Nations. In front of the U.N. General Assembly he referred to Aung San Suu Kyi for the first time as a Nobel laureate, and congratulated her on the honours she recently received in the United States. She was detained for 15 years by the previous military government. Barbara Plett has more from New York.

The president told the U.N. that Burma had left behind its system of authoritarian government, but he said the democratic transformation would be a complex and delicate task that requires patience. He paid tribute to the longtime dissident Aung San Suu Kyi for her efforts to promote democracy. And he said the government placed high priority on ending armed conflicts with its ethnic minorities through peace talks and confidence-building measures.

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of following a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, Mr. Abbas said Israel was demolishing Palestinians' homes in the occupied territories and preventing construction of new ones while continuing to build and expand Jewish settlements on Palestinian land.

Also at the U.N. the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu has told the General Assembly that what it called the Iranian nuclear threat puts the future of the world at stake. Mr. Netanyahu said a red line must be drawn.

Scientists in the U.S. say they've developed a new kind of electronics which can dissolve naturally. They believe it could have a major impact on medicine. Our science correspondent Malcolm Grary reports.

The conventional approach to developing electronics is to build devices that last as long as possible. This new method seeks to produce circuitry made from silicon magnesium and silk that physically vanishes in a controlled manner. The researchers believe the new technology can be used to create medical implants that could monitor organ activity and deliver drugs. After a set period they would dissolve with no ill effects.

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The Nigerian senators called on President Goodluck Jonathan to make a personal call to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to try to end the crisis between the two countries over the Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj. The Saudi has deported more than 170 Nigerian women who had arrived without (a) male escort. A further 1,000 women were under detention until they can be sent home.

Police in Brazil are looking for the killers of the former leader of a death squad in Sao Paulo who was shot a month after being released from a lengthy jail term. The man, a former Brazilian policeman known as Corporal Bruno, had served nearly 30 years for murdering at least 50 people as well as numerous cases of extortion.

The former England football captain John Terry has been found guilty of racially abusing another player during a match. The Football Association's Disciplinary panel has fined him and banned him for four matches. Mr. Terry said he was disappointed that the panel had reached a different conclusion to the lower courts which cleared him of the same offence. Paul [Motima] is a former footballer and now works for the organization show racism the red card. He says it is about time that the footballer (in) authorities took action about the language used on the pitch.

We have to comment the FA for showing that it take(s) it seriously. There is no place for racism or any kind of that kind of language within football. As for those… you know, what was said, [you know,] there is a lot of allegation about it. The simple fact of the merits, especially with the FA, it is about the words being used. Players have a duty to conduct themselves properly.

Prosecutors in Germany have charged two Russians with espionage, alleging that the pair had been operating in the country as spies for more than 20 years. The Germans say the man and woman entered the country with false Austrian documentation and led a middle-class existence to cover up their activity. Prosecutors claimed that, in return for annual salary, they were collecting intelligence on the European Union and/or NATO, and on Germany's relations with both.