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Novak Djokovic withstands an Andy Murray fightback to continue his magnificent unbeaten run and reach the final of the Rome Masters.
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The news comes amid tense US-Pakistan ties over the Bin Laden raid Authorities in the US have charged six people with providing financial support to the Pakistani Taliban.
Three are US citizens, including two imams at Florida mosques, while three are at large in Pakistan.
The news comes amid heightened tension in relations between Pakistan and the US following the US raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
The Pakistani Taliban said it was behind a revenge attack on Friday that killed 80 in north-western Pakistan.
Pakistani MPs on Saturday passed a resolution condemning the US special forces raid in the town of Abbottabad and demanding a review of the bilateral relationship.
US Senator John Kerry, who is about to visit Pakistan, insisted the US wanted to “build, not break” ties with Pakistan but said there were “serious questions that need to be answered” in the relationship.
The four-count indictment against the six people was announced by the US attorney for the Southern District of Florida and local FBI agents.
The three Florida citizens were named as Hafiz Khan, 76, and his sons Irfan Khan, 37, and Izhar Khan, 24. The latter was reportedly arrested in Los Angeles.
Hafiz Khan is the imam at the Flagler Mosque in Miami, while Izhar Khan is the imam at the Jamaat al-Mumineen Mosque in nearby Margate.
Ali Rehman, Alam Zeb and Amina Khan, who live in Pakistan, were also charged.
Amina Khan is the daughter of Hafiz Khan. Alam Zeb is her son.
The six are accused of conspiring to provide material support to a conspiracy to murder, injure and kidnap people abroad and conspiring to provide support to a terrorist organisation, the Pakistani Taliban.
Each of the four counts carries a possible 15-year jail term.
Miami FBI special agent John Gillies said: “Today terrorists have lost another funding source to use against innocent people and US interests. We will not allow this country to be used as a base for funding and recruiting terrorists.”
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A diver is taken to hospital after he is believed to have surfaced too quickly off Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire.
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The British woman stabbed and beheaded in a shop on the Spanish island of Tenerife is named by her family as 62-year-old Jennifer Mills-Westley.
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Authorities in the US charge three people in Florida and three in Pakistan with providing financial support to the Pakistani Taliban.
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Chief Superintendent Nigel Grimshaw called the murder ‘a tragedy for Bangor’.
The man shot dead in Bangor, County Down, on Friday was 56-year-old Duncan Morrison.
The shooting happened at Hazelbrook Avenue off the Clandeboye Road at about 1220 BST.
Another man in his 40s was also shot and is in a stable condition in hospital.
Police investigating Mr Morrison’s death are understood to be linking the attack to the drugs trade.
One man has been arrested.
It is understood the two men did not live in the house where they were shot.
The PSNI said that both victims were known to police.
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Syrian officials say soldiers and tanks are being pulled out of the coastal city of Baniyas and the area around Deraa in the south.
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Singapore founding father Lee Kuan Yew has resigned from the country’s Cabinet, ceding leadership to his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
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Michel Martelly has pledged a break with Haiti’s violent past Haitian pop star Michel Martelly is due to be sworn in as president of the poorest country in the Americas.
Mr Martelly, 50, has pledged to speed up earthquake reconstruction, develop the impoverished countryside and build a modern army.
The political novice was elected president in March in a run-off poll after a first round marred by fraud.
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians still live in tent cities after the devastating January 2010 earthquake.
Mr Martelly, known to Haitians as Sweet Micky, is due to be inaugurated in front of Haiti’s badly-damaged National Palace.
In what is being seen as an attempt to reconcile the country’s divisive politics, he has invited former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. It is not clear if they will attend.
Former US President Bill Clinton is expected to be present. He is co-chair of Haiti Reconstruction Commission, which controls billions of dollars in aid pledged to rebuild earthquake damage.
In addition to the challenge of rebuilding the quake-shattered capital, Port-au-Prince, Haiti faces a cholera epidemic, an economy in ruins and the legacy of a violent past.
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Belarus opposition leader Andrei Sannikov is jailed for five years for organising mass disturbances after President Alexander Lukashenko’s re-election.
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The Syrian government says it is pursuing “armed terrorist gangs” Syrian officials say troops and tanks are being pulled out of the cities of Baniyas and Deraa after operations to quell anti-government protests.
Officials also said a “comprehensive national dialogue” on the unrest would begin in all provinces next week.
It comes after at least six people were killed as thousands attended anti-government protests after Friday prayers, human rights activists said.
The figure is much lower than after recent similar protests.
Syrian activists say at least 700 people have been killed in a crackdown by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, in response to protests against his rule that began two months ago.
A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has described that figure as credible.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it fears hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people have been detained in Syria in recent weeks.
Reports from Syria are hard to verify independently as foreign journalists are not allowed into the country.
The Syrian government says it is pursuing “armed terrorist gangs”, which it blames for the deaths of about 98 soldiers and members of the security services nationwide, and 22 police officers.
Confirming the troop withdrawal, Information Minister Adnan Hassan Mahmoud said army units had completed their pullout from the southern city of Deraa and started a gradual withdrawal from the coastal city of Baniyas.
There’s a clear shift of tactics by President Assad’s embattled regime.
It let it be known on Thursday that security forces had been given strict orders not to open fire on demonstrators after Friday prayers. In general that pledge was held, though it seems to have slipped in a few areas.
State TV for the first time reported the demonstrations, though it played down their size, showed distant shots of only a few small ones, and kept the sound down so that viewers could not hear the chants – mainly calling for the regime to fall.
Although protesters say vigils and defiance – and repression in many forms – continue, the government is saying things are back to normal.
It’s not clear who will take part in the government’s national dialogue. Activists are suspicious that it’s a cosmetic move, aimed at appeasing outside pressures while real dissent continues to be stifled.
They want to see the thousands of detainees and political prisoners freed and the grip of security forces loosened, before they’ll believe the regime is serious about reforming itself.
He also promised that “the coming days will witness a comprehensive national dialogue” in all Syrian provinces.
President Assad would meet with “popular delegations” from around the country and listen to “their opinions, demands, and visions about what has currently been taking place in Syria”, Mr Mahmoud said.
It is not clear who will form the “popular delegations”, but the BBC’s Jim Muir in Beirut says the moves are a clear shift in tactics by President Assad.
Residents of Deraa said there were still tanks outside mosques after the conclusion of Friday prayers and that troops had fired into the air to disperse a large demonstration. Information from residents of Baniyas suggested that hundreds of troops were still there during Friday.
Before Friday prayers – which have become a rallying point for protesters in Syria as they have in several other Arab countries in recent months – an opposition leader said President Bashar al-Assad had promised troops would not fire on protesters.
Louai al-Hussain was quoting a presidential adviser, Buthaina Shaaban, after talks with officials to negotiate an end to the crisis.
Ms Shaaban made a similar statement when demonstrations began in mid-March.
As Friday prayers came to an end, reports started to come in of protest marches leaving mosques in many parts of the country.
Some protesters carried banners or flags with “freedom” written on them while others were reported to chant: “We want the overthrow of the regime.”
Despite the apparent pledge of restraint, three people were killed in the country’s third largest city, Homs, when security forces opened fire on demonstrators.
Amateur footage has emerged of various demonstrations on Friday
Homs has been the scene of a major military operation since Monday. Areas of the city have been shelled by tanks, and troops have been conducting house-to-house searches and arrests to find or intimidate protesters.
Two people were killed in al-Qaboun, a northern suburb of the capital, Damascus, activists said, when plainclothes gunmen opened fire on protesters.
Activists also said one person was killed in a village outside Deraa, the epicentre of the anti-government unrest.
Protests elsewhere in the country were broken up by security forces using tear gas, water cannons and batons.
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A mobile phone snapshot, reportedly taken in Qamishli on 29 April, shows protesters carrying banners written in Arabic and Kurdish demanding democracy.
This footage, which the BBC cannot verify, seems to show demonstrators in Midan, central Damascus, on Friday afternoon. A source in Damascus says he could see a lot of security and police officers in the main areas of Damascus after protests began after Friday prayers finished.
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This unverified video seems to show a peaceful protest in Talbisah. Moments into the footage, tanks fire on unarmed civilians. Wyre Davis reports.
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A soldier walks past men in civilian clothes lying on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs in this still photo taken from an amateur video.
11 May: The Times’ chief foreign correspondent, Martin Fletcher, tells the BBC Radio Four’s Today programme how he was detained in Homs and the hard line that Syria is taking with protesters.
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Suzanne Mubarak: seen as a powerful backer of son Gamal’s claims to succeed his father as president The wife of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has suffered a suspected heart attack after being detained as part of a corruption probe.
The 70-year-old also had high blood pressure and would be observed for 24 hours in intensive care, the director of Sharm el-Sheikh hospital said.
The Mubaraks are facing allegations of “illegal acquisition of wealth”.
Mr Mubarak, who stepped down in February, also had a suspected heart attack when first questioned in April.
The former president, who held power for 30 years but stepped down in February after weeks of protests, is currently receiving treatment in Sharm el-Sheikh hospital while under arrest.
Mr Mubarak has been detained by Egypt’s Illicit Gains Authority, on charges he abused his position to illegally acquire wealth.
He is also accused of involvement in the killings of anti-regime protesters.
The 83-year-old has been held under arrest in the hospital in the Red Sea resort since suffering heart problems. His detention was extended by 15 days early on Friday morning.
On Friday Mohammed Fathallah, the head of the hospital, said Mrs Mubarak had suffered a “suspected heart attack and a sharp increase in blood pressure” after she was told she would be detained.
Mrs Mubarak had kept an almost constant vigil by her husband’s side since he was admitted to hospital a month ago, says the BBC’s Jonathan Head, in Cairo.
Her detention marks a dramatic fall for a woman once seen as the most powerful influence on Egypt’s former ruler, and a further blow to Mr Mubarak, whose health is frail, our correspondent says.
While the initial period of her detention is 15 days, it could be extended, as it has been for her husband and their two sons since they were taken into custody, he adds.
Earlier this week, Mrs Mubarak was questioned about a bank account containing more than $3m (£1.9m) and a luxury house she owns.
Reformers in Egypt believe the Mubarak family accumulated a fortune worth tens of billions of dollars while in power.
Hosni Mubarak has denied this, and little hard evidence has yet been made public. However their bank accounts in Cairo and in Switzerland have been frozen.
Many Egyptians also believe the former first lady was instrumental in pushing for her eldest son, Gamal, to succeed his father – one of the grievances that mobilised opposition protesters, our correspondent says.
The military council which has been in power since Mr Mubarak stepped down has vowed to bring to justice all those accused of corruption.
The former president, his wife, their two sons and their wives have been banned from travel and had their assets frozen by general prosecutor Abdel Magid Mahmud.
More than 20 ministers and businessmen linked to Mr Mubarak’s regime have been detained since his departure from office.
Last week, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly was sentenced to 12 years in jail on charges of money-laundering and profiteering.
Adly also faces separate charges of ordering troops to fire on demonstrators. He could face the death penalty if convicted.
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Thousands of people have been walking the new Hindhead Tunnel in Surrey before it opens to traffic in July.
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The Morganza Floodway was completed in 1954 and is 20 miles (32.2km) long and five miles wide US engineers are preparing to flood up to three million acres in southern Louisiana in a bid to protect large cities along the Mississippi River.
The Army Corps of Engineers said it could open a floodway to divert water from the river this weekend. As many as 25,000 people are preparing to leave.
Opening the Morganza Floodway would ease pressure on levees protecting the cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
The Mississippi River has risen to levels not seen in decades this year.
Fed by rainwater and the spring thaw, the river and its tributaries have caused massive flooding upstream, and officials have said the flooding in Louisiana is the worst since 1927.
If, as expected, the Army Corps of Engineers this weekend opens the Morganza floodway for the first time in 38 years, it will unleash Mississippi River water through the Atchafalaya River basin, flooding parts of seven parishes in southern Louisiana near the Gulf of Mexico.
Much of the water would end up in swamplands, bayous and backwater lakes but several thousand homes are at risk of flooding.
“My message to our people is they don’t need to be delaying,” Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said on Thursday. “Move their valuables. Think about where they would go.”
Earlier this week, the Mississippi River flooded parts of Memphis, Tennessee, the city famed as one of the birthplaces of rock and roll and blues music.
Further upstream, the Army Corps of Engineers has opened floodways in Missouri to keep pressure off levees protecting the town of Cairo, Illinois.
The US government has said farmers whose land has been flooded will be reimbursed for destroyed crops.
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A chilli pepper has been removed from the lung of a man in China’s Heilongjiang province, one year after he choked on it.
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