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The ceasefire in South Sudan signed on Fridaybetween President Salva Kiir and rebel leader RiekMachar has come into effect. The spokesman forPresident Kiir has told the BBC that the governmenttroops reserve the right to return fire in self-defense if rebels breach 1 the agreement.However, Ateny Wek Ateny said the South Sudanese government was not planning for anyproblems. He went on to say that it was down to the rebel leader Riek Machar to rebuild thetrust lost during the five-month conflict.

Whether the government that is going to be formed in South Sudan, the fact is that you knowthe gap now between the leaders, especially the rebel leader and his commanders. And thepeople are so right, so this is something that the rebel the rebellion will have to build, theyhave to build the trust if they had, to remain in the political as a spectral 2 means in SouthSudan.

Residents of Northeastern Nigeria say suspected members of the Islamist group Boko Haramhave blown up a bridge near the area where more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted 3 almost amonth ago. Mark Doyle reports from Abuja.

The latest bridge to be blown up is on a key highway between two of Nigeria's northeasternstates worst hit by the insurgency 4. A man who lived near this bridge said most of the buildingsaround it had also been burnt down. Two days before this, another bridge on the edge of thearea where the girls were taken was also destroyed, reliable sources said Boko Haram fightersarrived in the area where a busy market was being held and opened fire indiscriminately beforedestroying the bridge. A total of nearly 300 people were killed in this single incident.

The First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, has described the abduction as anUnconscionable act.

Thousands of unidentified remains 5 of those killed in the 9/11 attacks have been returned tothe World Trade Center site in New York. The remains draped with the American flag weretransferred to a repository 20m below the building. A relative of one of the victims, Jim Caffreysaid the families should have been consulted.

I think the decision to put the human remains of the 9/11 dead in the basement of the 9/11Museum is just inheritedly disrespectful and totally offensive. Equally disgraceful is the factthat family members through this whole process have had virtually no input 6 as the hall, theremains of their loved ones would be interred 7

For a second day, Syrians have been returning to the devastated 8 old city of Homs after rebelfighters withdrew from districts that held for two years. Syrian television showed thousands ofpeople walking through the ruins with many trying to retrieve 9 any belongings 10 that mightremain in their houses. But an opposition 11 activist 12 told the BBC that the people were from onemainly Christian 13 district.

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Government supporters in Thailand have warned of a civil war if their opponents impose anunelected government on the country. The warning came during a mass rally on the outskirt ofBangkok to protest against the dismissal of the Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and nine ofher ministers. The protesters' leaders also called for a restraint.

The government of Mexico has started to swear in vigilantes for its newly created rural policeforce. The move is designed to bring under official control the self-defense groups fighting aKnights Templar drugs cartel. Our America's editor E C has more.

The Mexican government has set its deadline for Saturday and says those who've notregistered their weapons by then will be arrested, but many vigilantes are refusing to join,preferring to keep their autonomy and their illegal guns. The self-defense groups claimedthey have been more successful than the security forces in fighting the Knights 14 Templars,effectively pushing them out of some areas. The government says some of the groups haveturned to crime. It also remains to be seen how the new rural force will work alongside regularpolice officers, some of whom seek bribes 15 from the cartels.

The South African Electoral Commission has announced the final results of Wednesday'sgeneral election. It said the governing African National Congress won just over 62% of thevote, the Democratic Alliance came second with a little over 22%. The country's President JacobZuma said the result was a clear vote of confidence in the ANC.

Singers from 26 countries have taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest in the Danish capital,Copenhagen. A bearded drag queen, the Austrian singer Conchita Wurst has become one ofthe favorites, despite a petition against her in her own country. The current crisis in Ukraine isexpected to feature, the Russian participants, the Tolmachevy Sisters were jeered 16 on Tuesdaywhen they made it to the final.