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The United States is to stop deporting illegal immigrants who come to the country as children provided they are under 30, have been enrolled in education and have no criminal convictions. President Obama said the move was neither amnesty nor a path to citizenship, but the right thing to do. From Washington, Paul Adams reports.
At a time when everyone says that America's immigration system is broken but no one can agree what to do about it, this is a significant step. Officials believe it could affect as many as 800,000 of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants currently in the country. Speaking at the White House, President Obama said it made no sense to expel talented young people who were to all intents and purposes already Americans. But Republicans are critical. Many believe the administration is not tough enough on illegal immigration.
Campaigning is coming to a close in Greece ahead of what's been described as the country's most crucial election for decades. The main contending parties, the left-wing Syriza and conservative New Democracy, are at odds on whether Greece should broadly stick with a tough bailout deal imposed by its European partners or reject it and boost social spending. Mark Lowen is in Athens.
A rousing final rally before Sunday's critical poll - New Democracy, the centre-right party that supports Greece's bailout, closed the campaign. Its leader Antonis Samaras told supporters that only his party could keep Greece in the euro, that while he would bring jobs and development, the alternative was unemployment and destruction. His target was the left-wing party Syriza that rejects the bailout and spending cuts. EU leaders argue that would lead the country out of the eurozone, a scenario that Mr Samaras said would make life three times worse than today.
A Bosnian court has jailed three Bosnian Serbs and one man from Slovenia for up to 43 years for their part in the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. They were found guilty of killing some 800 people at the Branjevo military farms. The site was one of several around Srebrenica where a total of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were shot dead.
One of the best-known names on Wall Street, Rajat Gupta, has been found guilty of insider trading by a court in New York. Mr Gupta is a former director of the investment bank Goldman Sachs and head of the management consultants McKinsey. Jill Martin reports.
Rajat Gupta was convicted on three counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy. He was charged with passing a long classified boardroom information to a hedge fund during the financial crisis in the autumn of 2008. Gupta's tips helped the Galleon Group make millions of dollars. That hedge fund's founder Raj Rajaratnam was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison last year after his own conviction for insider trading.
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A Canadian Supreme Court judge has ruled that a law that stops doctors helping critically ill patients to commit suicide is unconstitutional. Justice Lynn Smith in Vancouver suspended her ruling for a year to give the federal parliament time to draft new legislation. She gave permission to a high-profile patient, Gloria Taylor, to seek doctor-assisted suicide within the year if she chose.
The Burmese pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Norway 21 years after she was awarded a Nobel peace prize she was unable to collect in person. Speaking at a press conference alongside the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, she thanked the people of Norway and all others who'd helped her country along what she called a "very difficult path". But she admitted there was some way to go for Burma.
"We're certainly not at the end of the road by no means. We're just starting out. And this road is not going to be a straightforward, smooth one. There are going to be many twists and turns, and there will be obstacles, but we'll have to negotiate these in the spirit of national reconciliation ."
The interior minister of Paraguay says seven police officers and at least nine landless farmers have died in clashes. He said the officers were shot dead when they tried to evict landless protesters who'd occupied a property in the east of Paraguay. Scores more farmers and police have been injured.
The Mexican President Felipe Calderon says he's cancelling the construction of a huge tourist resort in Baja California over concerns that it could damage a nearby marine reserve. Mr Calderon said he had withdrawn the permits from the Spanish developers Hansa Baja because they hadn't been able to prove that the planned resort with its seven hotels, marina and two golf courses wouldn't harm the environment. Activists said it would have damaged the Cabo Pulmo reserve, the only coral reef in the gulf of California.
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