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BBC news 2013-11-17

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Sri Lanka and Britain have clashed over how to do with allegations of war crimes at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war. President Mahinda Rajapaksa reacted frostily to a call by the British Prime Minister David Cameron for an independent inquiry. Charles Haviland reports from Colombo.

David Cameron said before leaving Sri Lanka that if the country didn't hold transparent investigations into possible crimes by its military by March, Britain would press for an international investigation. At a news conference later, president Mahinda Rajapaksa commented that's his view, they can say what they want, but added that people in glass houses must not throw stones. In an oblique reference to the Bloody Sunday killings in Northern Ireland, he said some inquiry reports took 40 years to emerge and he knew the difficulty is involved.

The opposition leader in the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed has acknowledged his defeat in the country's presidential election. Earlier results showed the run-off vote to be won by Abdulla Yameen, a close relative of the country's former ruler Maumoon Abdul Gayoom who was President for three decades until 2008. Anbarasan Ethirajan reports.

It was a sharp defeat for Mohamed Nasheed who had been seen by many as a clear front runner. But the latest results had showed that Mr. Yameen has secured more than 51% of the votes. Just days before the run-off, Mr. Yemen was able to get the support of other political parties which seemed to have turned the result in his favor. The immediate challenge for Mr. Yameen will be to convince the international community that he is not simply a puppet of his half-brother and former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. With Mr. Nasheed accepting defeat there is hope that there will be political stability in the Maldives.

Reinforcements from one of the most powerful militias in Libya have been pushed back from the capital Tripoli in heave fighting with rebel groups. At least one person has been killed and a dozen others wounded. The convoy had come from the city of Misrata to help their fellow militiaman who came under attack after opening fire on unarmed protesters on Friday. The Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said there should be no army presence in the capital except for the army and the police.

“We will contact the brothers in the armed groups in Tripoli and we will request that they prepare to leave the city to go far away to another location or back to where they came from then there will no armed presence except the army and the police.”

The former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has relaunched his old Forza Italia Party following a split in the center-right. The PDL party he led for six years fell apart over plans to expel Mr. Berlusconi from parliament following a conviction for tax fraud earlier. The break of a group proposed demand for toppling the government over the issue.

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A former director of the Brazilian state-run rank Banco do Brasil Henrique Pizzolato has fled the country to avoid being jailed along with other senior figures convicted in the country's biggest corruption trial. In a letter, Mr. Pizzolato, who has an Italian passport said he’d ran away because he wanted a fair trial in Italy. On Friday, the Brazilian Supreme Court issued 12 arrest warrants all the others have surrendered to the police including the chief of the staff for the former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

A suicide bomber has attacked a police checkpoint in the Afghan capital Kabul killing one police officer and nine other people. The attack took place near the site where hundreds of delegates are expected to gather next week to discuss future relations with the United States. From Kabul here's David Loyn.

The attack happened amid busy Saturday afternoon traffic. It appeared that the police at a checkpoint identified a vehicle as a threat and then opened fire. The suspects drive it and then crashed into a Hum-Vee police armed vehicle killing one police officer and wounding three others as its bomb detonated. As so after in Afghanistan it was civilians who took the brunt of the casualties and the dead and wounded among people walking or in other vehicles were taken to a nearby hospital.

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Nigeria has become the first African country to qualify for the football World Cup final in Brazil next year. Playing at home, the Nigerian team defeated Ethiopia 2-0 in the second leg play-off match. In the other qualifying matches for the four other African places, Senegal play Ivory Coast, and Cameroon face Tunisia on Sunday.

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