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The Red Cross has said that the fighting in Syria is so widespread that it's in effect a civil war, meaning that those involved in the fighting are much more likely to be prosecuted for war crimes. In the next forty eight hours, Kofi Annan, UN Special Envoy to Syria, is travelling to Russia to meet President Putin.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just left Egypt after a 48 hour visit, during which she held talks with new President

Mohamed Morsi and the man in charge of the current military regime, Field Marshal Tantawi.

For the first time a woman is leading the African Union.

We look at the fallout in France where the singer Madonna has offended the National Front leader Marine le Pen.
At least 25 people have been killed by flooding in Japan.