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Israel has authorized the construction of 3,000 new homes on occupied Palestinian land a day after the United Nations General Assembly voted to revise the status of the Palestinians to that of non-member observer state. US officials have condemned the Israeli move as counterproductive. Kevin Connolly reports.
Israel has been struggling to calibrate its reactions to the Palestinian campaign for upgraded status of the United Nations. But it clearly felt that allowing the development to pass without some form of political response would be seen as a sign of weakness. So it has announced its granting permission for 3,000 new homes in the west bank in eastern Jerusalem and speeding up the processing of a further 1,000 existing planning applications. The Palestinians and the overwhelming majority of the international community see the area in question as land occupied by Israel.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians have been protesting in Cairo against the country's President Mohamed Mursi and a new draft constitution. The demonstrators already critical of sweeping powers assumed by Mr. Mursi are angry the draft was rushed through in just 16 hours. Bethany Bell spent the day in Tahrir Square.
President Morsi has said the reason he took the step to given himself powers, because he was worried the court, the judges will trying to preparing legal challenge to the body that was writing the constitution and they will going to hold everything up. So a real tussle going on here, and it's really a question of: who you believe more, whether you believe the suspicions of the opposition, or whether you do believe President Morsi is going to give up those powers. So a real chanting march over the Egypt future taking place on the streets of Cairo and other cities across the country.
Russia's powerful investigative committee says it has evidence the number of opposition activists were training to broad as part of alleged foreign sponsor plans to provoke unrest. Here is Tom Esslemont.
In the 12 months since mass opposition demonstrations began in Russia with aim of ending Vladimir Putin's rule, the leader of the both protests have grown more determined and more defiant. Among them, 35-year-old Sergey Udaltsov, he and fellow activists, Leonid Razvozzhayev, and Konstantin Lebedevhe have already been charged with organizing mass disorder. Now the investigative committee, a state body with the extended powers said it has further evidence including witness testimony showing how the men were seeking cash from abroad to fund mass unrest in Russia. The men denied the charged.
The Spanish authorities have for the first time shown some of the treasure from a frigate that sank more than 200 year ago. The treasure estimated to be worth $500m which discovered by a US salvage company. The Spain successfully claimed owner ship.
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The authorities in northern Pakistan say at least 18 people are missing including eight soldiers after they were hit by an avalanche. An official in the Neelum valley in Pakistan-administered Kashmir said a party had been on a mission to find three soldiers who are hit by an earlier avalanche when another avalanche struck.
The governor of Nigeria central bank has defend his call for the number of civil servants to be halved. The governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi told the BBC that the Nigerian government spends 70% of its income on less than 1% of the population. He said spending should be towards education, health and improve power supplies.
The Italian government have moved to tackle the crisis that threaten to end production at one of Europe biggest steel mills in the Southern city of Taranto. Pollution from the Ilva plant has long been blamed for causing high than average rates of caner in the area. The owner has denied this but at Monday announced that that because of a legal pressure, it would close the plant down. The government has now issued a decree forcing the company to invest in the technology needed to clean the plant up. Here's Ellen Johnston.
The mill will be allow to continue operating while this work has been done. The government's obviously desperate to ensure that there is no shut down and no job losses. The mill is the only major employer in an area which is already economically depressed. At the same time, the plant produces about one third of Italy's steel and even a temporary halt to production might have had an impact on many areas of the country's manufacturing industry.
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An American company says it has found a way to make bread stay mold-free for two months. Tests showed that putting slices in a sophisticated microwave oven for around ten seconds kill the spores that turn bread black. Food waste is a huge problem in most developed countries.
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