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Opposition leaders in Ukraine have denounced an agreement that the President VictorYanukovych signed with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow.Mr.Putin has agreedto buy $15bn-worth of Ukrainian government bonds and taken a third of the price Russiacharges Ukraine for gas.The Ukrainian opposition leader and former boxer Vitali Klitschko toldpro-European demonstrators in Kiev that Mr.Yanukovych was betraying the country'sindependence.David Stern reports from Kiev.
Mr.Klitschko has said he will challenge Mr.Yanukovych in presidential elections which theopposition hopes to move up by one year to the spring of 2014.Mr.Klitschko who on Tuesdayretired his boxing title said he would meet Mr.Yanukovych in the ring.Opposition leaders alsodemanded to know what Ukrainian president offered Moscow in return for the loans and gasdiscount deal，details in which are still unknown.
A British minister has said that a London surgeon who died in detention in Syria had in effectbeen murdered by the Syrian regime.Foreign office minister Hugn Robertson said that it wasclear that doctor Abbas Khan had met his death in circumstances that were at best extremelysuspicious.
The fact remains that he went to Syria,to help the people of Syria who affected by the civilwar,there is no excuse what so ever for the treatment that he has suffered by the Syrianauthorities who have in effect murdered a British national who was in that country to helppeople injured during their civil war.
A Syrian government official told the BBC that the surgeon had hanged himself,but his familydon't believe it.Doctor Khan was in prison in Syria for more than a year and died shortly beforehe was to be released.
Hospitals in Syrian second city Aleppo have been overwhelmed by casualties after several daysof government air strikes on rebel areas.The humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontiers saysthe attacks in which helicopters have been dropping barrels of explosives have stretched theAleppo medical resources to breaking point.
In Italy,a political row has erupted over the treatment of migrants at a reception center on theisland of Lampedusa.Images purportedly filmed in secret show detainees being forced to stripwhile a camp worker hoses them down.The man who took the picture says staff routinely insultthe migrants,here's Alan Jonhston.
The footage was shot on a cellphone by a Syrian refugee at the camp,and now his images havebeen aired on an Italian television.They show migrants queuing up in a crowded,open-aircourtyard,one after another in cold winter conditions.In front of everyone else they have tostrip completely naked,there's no privacy at all,then a camp employee hoses them down.Themayor of Lampedusa has said the island and Italy as a whole should be ashamed.
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The government of South Sudan says the former Vice President Riek Machar has fled the capitalJuba with soldiers have backed what it says was an attempted military coup.The head of amilitary hospital in Juba said that 66 soldiers have been killed in clashes on Sunday.The UnitedNations in Juba says as many as 13,000 civilians have taken shelter in UN compounds.The UNSecretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on the South Sudanese government to protect allcivilians regardless of ethnicity.
North Korean has cleared much of the archive on the website of the state news agency andmain party newspaper amid concern it's trying to manipulate historical record.A search for theleader's uncle and former mentor,Jang Sung-taek who was executed last week found only onearticle in which he's vilified as a traitor and counterrevolutionary.Almost all articles publishedbefore October this year have disappeared.
Australian geologists summoned the hunt for precious minerals in Antartic say they have forthe first time discovered the deposits of the igneous rock that yields diamonds.Here's MattMcGrath.
Diamonds have been found in every part of the world apart from the frozen continent ofAntartica.Now researchers say they've discovered a type of rock called kimberlite as known tocontain diamond deposits.Even if the rocks in Antartica turn out to be rich in diamond,there'sa legal ban on the exploitation of minerals there for commercial purposes.However,countriesthat haven't signed the Antartica Treaty could in theory attempt to recover the icy gems.
Prostitutes in the Netherlands have gone to courts to fight for the same pension rights asfootballers who can put up to 5,000 Euros a month tax-free into their pension plans.Theirlawyer say that like footballers,prostitutes do difficult physical work in the prime of their livesand their careers don't tend to last long.
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