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BBC news 2012-11-06

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Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney are making urgent appeals to voters on the last four-day of an extremely close American presidential election race. Mr Romney's team say he would extend his campaigning into polling day with additional appearances in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Jane Little has more.

By the end of today, Mitt Romney will have campaigned in Florida, Virginia, Ohio and New Hampshire, most of which he needs to win in order to take the White House. President Obama is concentrating his energies in Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio. The last day he is so called fire war. No Republican has won the presidency without it. Polls suggest Barack Obama retains a slim lead there, but Mitt Romney claims he has the intensity factor or the enthusiasm of the voters. And at this late stage it all comes down to turnout, is that will decide who wins this closest of elections since 1960.

The authorities in the United States say some 1.4 million homes and businesses are still without power. A week after a huge storm caused massive damage on the country's east coast. The authorities in New Jersey say they will allow people displaced by the storm to vote by email amid growing concerns that some won't be able to reach polling stations. State officials said the facility would also be granted to rescue workers. Experts have warned that email voting has not been tested on a large scale and could be vulnerable to hacking.

Syrian state media and opposition activists say a suicide car bomb has killed a number of people in a village in Hama province. The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 50 members of the security forces died. Here's James Reynolds.

Reports from Syria say that a suicide car bomber detonated explosives outside a military post in the village of Ziyara in the country's central Hama province. The post is reported to be one of the biggest military positions in the area. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group based in the UK says that the bomber came from the al-Nusra Front, that's an Islamist group which acts independently from other Syrian rebel factions. If the number of the dead are confirmed, the attack would be one of the biggest single strikes against Syrian government forces in the country's year and a half long conflict.

Rights groups have praised the suspension in Malawi of laws criminalizing homosexuality. Parliament is due to hold a debate in whether to repeal the legislation. Amnesty International described the decision as historic, but there was more cautious welcome from of Ndulim Mahsu Kusungula of Malawi center for human rights.

We believe this is a delight direction although the majority of Malawi are under still homophobic and they feel that gay communities have no rights and no space in the publican life.

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The anti-corruption commission in Bangladesh has filed charges against 14 people accusing them of involvement in a multi-million dollar telecoms fraud. Six of the accused used to work for the state-owned Bangladesh telecommunication company including a former managing director. The other eight represented international companies which provided internet-based telephone services. The accused deny any wrongdoing.

A large crowd has protested in the Sri Lanka capital Colombo against government moves to impeach the country's chief justice. Here's Charles Haviland.

A crowd of more than 1,000 people including hundreds of lawyers moved through the city center denouncing what they say are moves by the executive headed by the all powerful President Mahinda Rajapaksa to cut the judiciary down to size. It came four days after government MPs handed the speaker a motion to impeach the chief justice, Shirani Bandaranayake. He'll decide soon on whether to take the process further. The government hasn't said exactly why it seeks to impeach the top judge. Opposition figures say the government is furious that she delayed passage of a key bill that centralizes development funds.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered an urgent investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at children's homes in Wales in the 1970s and 80s, although this has been examined before, there is renewed concern after a victim alleged recently that he was abused by a senior politician from the governing Conservative Party at that time.

One of Argentina's best known film directors Leonardo Favio who was also an actor and singer has died in Buenos Aires. He was 74. His most successful film the Nazarene Cross and the Wolf was released in 1975 and depicts a boy who turns into a wolf on nights with the full moon, soon after he went into exile after a military coup.

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