BBC News with Stewart Macintosh
Residents of the Syrian city of Deraa say the army has seized control of a mosque associated with anti-government protesters. Witnesses said troops backed by tanks stormed the Omari mosque. As Western journalists have been denied permission to enter Syria, Owen t-Jones reports from neighbouring Lebanon.
Residents of Deraa say the assault on the mosque involved sustained heavy gunfire, after which the army placed gunmen on the mosque's roof. Deraa has been under a virtual siege since Monday. With no one allowed to hold funerals, bodies are being stored in makeshift morgues. But as the residents try to cope with their worsening conditions, the new Syrian Prime Minister Adel Safar has been talking about political reforms. He said new important legislation would soon be approved concerning the law of the parties and the media. Syria is currently a one-party state with a tightly controlled media.
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt says it'll contest half of all the seats in the first parliamentary elections of the post-Mubarak era, which are due in September. But the movement, which was banned in 1954, says its new Freedom and Justice Party won'pete in the presidential election later in the year. From Cairo, Jonathan Head reports.
The Muslim Brotherhood's future role worries secular and non-Muslim Egyptians because of its Islamist roots and anisation
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