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The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says Europe has acted to secure the future of the single currency by agreeing to open up a line of credit to Spain's troubled banking sector. In Brussels, the European commissioner of economic affairs, Olli Rehn, said it was a clear signal that the eurozone was ready to take action to calm the financial markets. From Madrid, here's our Europe editor Gavin Hewitt.
Internationally, there has been relief that Spain's banks are to get a rescue. The view is that one of the eurozone's biggest risks has been reduced. In Spain itself, the reaction has been much more cautious. There has been criticism at the Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy for not making the announcement himself that the country's banks were to have access to loans of up to 100bn euros. Ten days ago, he said there would be no rescue of Spanish banks; today, he decided to face the press and defended the rescue as the right thing to do.
Exit polls in France suggest that President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party is heading for a majority in Parliament with its Green Party allies. There'll be a decisive second round of voting next week. From Paris, Christian Fraser.
Another good night for the Socialists in France with the new President Francois Hollande consolidating his grip on power. The final parliamentary balance is still hard to predict accurately, but with the support of the Greens and perhaps also the backing of the hard left lines, Mr Hollande will have a working majority. The vote means the Socialists will control the lower house for the first time in ten years that the low turnout perhaps denied the new president a bigger triumph.
Police in Chile have used teargas and water cannon to try to break up a protest against the screening of a documentary that praises the former military government of General Augusto Pinochet. Reports in the Chilean media say many of the anti-Pinochet demonstrators were arrested. Gideon Long is Santiago.
The first protest there came across with a group of pro-Pinochet supporters who were gathered outside. They have flags saying 'Long live Pinochet', and some of them were carrying a momento from the 1970s, from the 1980s – they were lording Pinochet. And they walked a couple of hundred meters up the street, and came across 'fell Augusto Pinochet', people who were protesting against the event. There was a very heavy police presence, and generally, it seemed that the two sides had been kept apart, but there have been very serious clashes between the protesters and the police.
The Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles has formally registered to run in October's presidential elections. After leading tens of thousands of his supporters on a 10km march through the streets of the capital Caracas, Mr Capriles vowed to fight crime and root out corruption. President Hugo Chavez who's recovering from cancer is due to announce his candidature on Monday.
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A state of emergency has been declared in a part of western Burma hit by deadly violence between Buddhists and Muslims. A curfew had already been imposed in four cities in Rakhine state, including its capital Sittwe after the deaths of 17 people. The trouble follows reports that a Buddhist woman had been raped and murdered in an attack blamed on Muslims.
The Red Cross in Nigeria says that six people have been killed in central Nigeria by an angry crowd which took to the streets after a suicide bombing of a church. Will Ross reports from Lagos.
In the central Nigerian city of Jos, a suicide bomber drove a car as close as he could get to a church. It's thought that the explosion killed no one else, but at least 50 people were injured, several of them are in a critical condition. Angry young men then protested in the streets, setting fire to tires. The Red Cross says the demonstrators then killed six people. On the same morning, a church in the village of Tabra in northeast Nigeria was targeted. The police say five gunmen walked in as the service was in full swing . They opened fire on the congregation and the police report that one woman was killed and three people were wounded.
Fresh details are emerging of fierce clashes between opposition fighters and Syrian government forces in the capital Damascus on Friday. A power station was attacked, leaving areas of the city without electricity for several hours. And a bus carrying Russian oil workers was reportedly hit. Casualty figures are not known.
The British Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton has won the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal from McLaren. It's his first win of the season. Romain Grosjean from France came second in a Lotus with the Mexican driver Sergio Perez for Sauber in third.
In the European Football Championship, Spain and Italy have drawn 1-1, while Croatia have beaten Republic of Ireland 3-1.
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