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BBC news 2013-05-10

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The prosecutor in the Cleveland kidnapping case has said he will press charges for each act of sexual violence allegedly committed by Ariel Castro. Mr Castro has already been charged with several accounts of kidnapping and rape for holding Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight captive for many years. The county prosecutor Tim McGinty said the victims had been through a traumatic  ordeal. "Based on the facts, I fully intend to seek charges for each and every act of sexual violence, rape, each day of kidnapping, every felonious assault, all his attempted murders, and each act of aggravated murder he committed by terminating pregnancies that the offender perpetuated against the hostages during this decade-long ordeal." Mr McGinty said he would consider whether to seek the death penalty in the case.

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has said Syria will supply it with what it says are game changing weapons. The group's leader Hassan Nasrallah said the new arms would been supplied in response to recent Israeli air strikes against what it believes to be covert arms shipments from Syria to Hezbollah. He made the comments in a televised speech. "We, the resistance in Lebanon, announced we are ready to receive any sophisticated weapons, even if they are weapons that would break the balance of force. And we are ready to safeguard these weapons and we will use them to defend our people, our country and holy sites from aggression." Mr Nasrallah also said his group would support Syria in any effort to drive Israel out of the Golan Heights.

The BBC has learnt that the Kenyan government has asked the United Nations Security Council to try to stop the prosecutions of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto at the International Criminal Court. They have been charged with orchestrating violence after the 2007 elections. Richard Hamilton reports. In a letter sent last week, the Kenyan ambassador to the UN said the cases against the two men were falling apart because of a lack of evidence and the withdrawal of witnesses. He also said that if the trials went ahead, the prevailing peace in Kenya could be undermined. For its part, the ICC appears to determine to go ahead with prosecutions and has amended the charges against Uhuru Kenyatta to include the use of guns by criminal gangs in the post-election violence.

The Rwandan authorities have vowed to tackle sex abuse in schools after a report revealed more than 40% of students have been victims of abuse including rape. The Education Minister said teachers were among the worst offenders. A government report said old man, known as sugar Daddies, were to blame for getting a large number of girls pregnant.

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A Tunisian man has been charged in the United States with attempting to stay in the country fraudulently so he could facilitate a terrorist network. Prosecutors say the man, Ahmed Abassi, arranged a meeting in New York with a fellow suspect Chiheb Esseghaier who was recently arrested in Canada in connection with a plot to derail a train. An undercover FBI officer was present at the meeting, and Mr Abassi allegedly made it clear: he wanted to obtain immigration documents to remain in the US, so he could engage in projects relating to future terrorist activities.

The video sharing site YouTube is launching its first pay channels which will allow content providers to sell its subscriptions through their videos. YouTube, one of the world's most visited websites, said the new service was a pilot one which would allow program makers to set their own distribution services through the site. The BBC's Amira Hussain in New York explains. "Right now if you go on to YouTube and you watch a video, you have to watch an advert, and the problem for those producers of some of the program that you see on YouTube is that the money that you get from those adverts are really out that much. And you also have people on YouTube that they've really made a name for themselves, really created a program that people actually go to YouTube to watch. So for people like that, they say, "well, we can probably make more money doing that, and for YouTube to now have channels, that means a lot more money for YouTube."

Campaigning in Pakistan has ended ahead of this weekend's general election. Violence has marred the campaign train with more than 100 deaths. On the final day, the son of the former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was abducted by gunmen in the city of Multan. Officials say tens of thousands of troops will be deployed at polling stations on Saturday after the Taliban threatened to carry out suicide attacks.

That's the latest BBC World News.