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BBC news 2012-09-29

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The American State Department has removed the Iranian opposition group, the People's Mujahideen of Iran, or MEK, from its list of terrorist organizations. The move comes after intense lobbying by the MEK and its renunciation of violence. MEK's assets will be unfrozen, and /  Americans can have contact with the group, which was established in the 1960s to oppose the Shah. The MEK now says it wants to overthrow the government in Tehran through peaceful means.

The Nigerian ambassador to Saudi Arabia says he's been denied access to hundreds of Nigerian women being held under detention at Jeddah airport. Saudi officials say they'd arrived as Hajj pilgrims without the required male escort, and a spokesman said they violated Saudi regulations. More than 1,000 have already been deported. One of the Nigerian women, who was detained, said they'd received discriminatory treatment.

"The way they are treating us is unfair. Firstly, they said that all the men should go to Medina. They went first cleanly (went forth accordingly) and they went off successfully and they left us there. Then they blocked us for four days."

Kenyan and Somali government forces are confronting Islamist fighters of al-Shabab after landing on the outskirts of the Somali port of Kismayo. The city is the last main urban stronghold of the Shabab rebels. Gabriel Gatehouse reports.

Kenyan troops launched airborne and amphibious landings before dawn, supported by Somali government forces. But despite an early declaration of victory from the Kenyan military, by late afternoon, the fighting was still some miles distant from the city center. Residents said they could hear and see military aircraft overhead, but that inside Kismayo itself, al-Shabab was still in charge. It is probably a matter of when, not if Kismayo falls, and when it does, it will be a severe blow to the Islamists.

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Fighting over Syria's second city Aleppo has intensified with reports of some of the fiercest battles in several weeks. Rebel forces launched a new offensive against the Syrian army on Thursday, saying the decisive battle for Aleppo had begun; but reports from the city suggest they have struggled to make any significant advances. Activists and residents of Aleppo say fighting has spread to several previously peaceful districts.

An independent audit of Spain's banks has calculated that they need an extra injection of more than 50bn euros of reserve capital to be able to survive any sudden, new economic downturn. The findings will help the Spanish government decide how much money it needs from the eurozone rescue fund.

A man armed with a replica pistol has fired several plastic pellets at the Czech President Vaclav Klaus. Mr Klaus suffered minor bruising in the incident, which took place while he was opening a bridge in the north of the country. Rob Cameron reports.

Serious questions have been asked about the president's security after a young man in camouflage gear pushed through a crowd and fired several plastic pellets at him at close range. Television footage shows Mr Klaus recoiling slightly in surprise before going on his way – apparently unhurt. But it's the reaction of his bodyguards – or lack of it – that's caused uproar. It's unclear how the man was able to get so close to the president, and why his bodyguards failed to react when a gun was pulled on him.

A man convicted of smuggling in Sweden has outwitted the authorities by sneaking in a friend to serve most of his sentence. Swedish media reported that the 37-year-old man from Gothenburg, paid his friend to serve the year-long prison sentence using a forged driving license as identification. Prison officials said they only discovered the real identity of the man in their custody when he was released. The convicted smuggler himself had long since fled Sweden.

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