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The United Nations mediator Lakhdar Brahimi hasannounced the representatives of the Syriangovernment and opposition will meet in the sameroom on Saturday at the peace conference inGeneva. Mr. Brahimi said he believed that both parties understood what was at stake. He madethe announcement after meeting them separately. From Geneva, Bridget Kendall reports.
Today was supposed to be the launch of formal negotiations. Instead, Mr. Brahimi was forcedto shuttle between the two rival delegations abhorrently knocking heads together to iron outlast-minute disagreements. Finally, he emerged to announce that they would now meet in thesame room tomorrow morning. Then when asked if their agreement was definite, he replied, "That's a good question", an indication of just how fragile every aspect of this process is.
A wave of bombings in Cairo has sparked violence across Egypt between supporters andopponents of the Muslim Brotherhood. The bombs killed at least 6 people and wounded 100more. At least 12 people died in the clashes that followed. The biggest blast was at the policeheadquarters. From Cairo, here is Orla Guerin.
The bomber has delivered a message to the heart of the security establishment. Insurgentshave been carrying out attacks since President Mohamed Morsi was ousted last July, but thiswas the most significant strike so far in the capital. Crowds chanted their support for the armychief and their fury at the Muslim Brotherhood. Many put the blame on the Islamists thoughthey condemned the attack.
The violence comes a day before rival rallies to mark the third anniversary of the uprising thattoppled Hosni Mubarak.
There has been a drop in stock markets across the world sparked by alarm over a slowdown inemerging economies. Many investors seem to have bought safer assets instead. More fromour economics correspondent Andrew Walker.
There are some fact that have had an impact across the emerging markets-disappointingmanufacturing data from China, and the expectation that investment will return to USgovernment bonds. But there are also countries' specific issues-some including Turkey andSouth Africa have large deficits in their international balance of payments. Argentina is seen ashaving poor polities and recent moves suggested it's willing to accept a weak currency. Somecentral banks have gone into the markets to support their currencies but there is a limit to whatthey can do.
American Airlines and Copa Airlines of Panama have become the latest to suspend the sale oftickets to and from Venezuela because of unpaid debts. On Thursday, Ecuador's Tame Airlinessuspended flights to Venezuela and Air Canada stopped selling tickets. The Venezuelangovernment is said to owe millions of dollars to several airlines. Tough currency controls inVenezuela make it difficult for foreign airlines to repatriate money obtained from tickets sellsthere.
World News from the BBC.
A survey of women serving in the German armed forces has found that more than half saythey've suffered sexual abuse at work.In a poll conducted in 2011, 45% of service womenreported some kind of sexual mistreatment, from being confronted with pornography to sexualassault. The new German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said the report showed moremust be done to address problems faced by women in the military.
A German newspaper says it's uncovered a horde of private documents belonging to one ofthe most powerful man in Nazi Germany, the SS leader Heinrich Himmler. The Paper Die Weltsays they include letters, dairies and photographs and had currently stored in a bank vault inTel Aviv in Israel. Die Welt says experts have been studying the documents for 2 years andthere is no reason to doubt their authenticity. ()was one of those working on the archive.
Now that we have access to the collection of Himmler's 700 private letters for the first time.We are able to understand this bureaucrat criminal and mass murderer by across, betterthan ever before. That does not mean that we can sympathize with him or what he did. But itgets us a better understanding of what drove him.
The Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has promised to reshuffle his government inresponse to demands from protesters, but has warned of tough measures if the crisisgripping the country doesn't ease. He said he would do all he could including holding moretalks with the opposition to halt the violence, but he was quoted as telling religious leadersthat he was prepared to use all legal methods if his efforts failed.
Platon Levedev, the business partner of the former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovskyhas been released from jail. The two men were imprisoned in 2005 for tax evasion. Mr.Khodorkovsky was freed last month. Mr. Levedev's release comes two weeks before the WinterOlympics in Sochi.
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