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The international envoy Kofi Annan says Syria has failed to send any signal of peace, and told the UN Security Council its army is continuing rolling military operations against civilian targets despite its promise to stop. In a letter to the council, Mr Annan said Syria must implement significant and visible change if a ceasefire is to be implemented before Thursday's deadline.
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The Prime Minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, has called on Bahrain to release a jailed human rights campaigner who's been refusing food for two months. Mrs Thorning-Schmidt told journalists in Copenhagen that Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who has Danish citizenship, was now in a very critical condition. Earlier, the Bahraini authorities said Mr al-Khawaja was in good health.
The constitutional court in Mali has paved the way for an
interim
civilian president to take over from military leaders who recently staged a coup in the country. The court ruled that the post of president was vacant, leaving the speaker of parliament, Dioncounda Traore, to take over as head of state. On Sunday, the
deposed
President Amadou Toumani Toure stepped down. Tiebile Drame is head of Mali's political party Parena. He told the BBC he welcomed the ruling.
"First of all, the 1992 constitution has been restored; and the second step should be the implementation of the article 36 of the constitution. This means we're