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Here's a summary of the main events so far today:

Tension over anti-Islam film and French cartoons

Pakistan

• One man died when police opened fire on rioters who were torching a cinema during a protest against an anti-Islam in the border city of Peshawar. Thousands of people protested in several other countries, some of them burning American flags and effigies of President Barack Obama. Protesters also clashed with riot police in the diplomatic quarter in the capital Islamabad. Richard Hoagland, the acting US ambassador in Pakistan, was summoned to Pakistan's foreign ministry over the film.

• Questions are being asked about the government’s decision to declare a national holiday and a Day of Love for the Prophet. Prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf called for peace but also urged the west to ban blasphemous material in what was seen as an attempt to court religious parties.

Malaysia

• Thousands of people took to the streets of Kuala Lumpur to vent their anger over the film. One of the organisers of the protest said: "America must take full responsibility for this issue."

Kashmir

• Police imposed a day-long curfew in parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city and chased away protesters. Authorities in the region also temporarily blocked mobile phone and internet services to prevent the film clips from being viewed.

France

• French embassies, schools, cultural associations and consulates are on lock-down in anticipation of protests over the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Interior minister Manuel Valls said any demonstrations would be broken up.

Egypt

• France and Germany have closed their diplomatic missions in Egypt as a precaution, despite no calls for protests by the country's most prominent Islamic groups over either the film or the cartoons, Ahram Online reports. Unlike last week, the Salafist Nour party and the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party, did not call for a protest.

Iran

• Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has lashed out at the west over the film and the cartoon, describing them as the "ugliest insults to the divine messenger". Speaking at a military parade in Tehran, he said western respect for free speech was deception, AP reports.

Libya

• A peace march against the Islamic brigade believed to be responsible for last week's deadly attacks on the US consulate is planned to take place in Benghazi. A rival demonstration by Islamists calling for the imposition of Sharia law is also expected.

United States

• For the first time the White House has declared last week's deadly assault on US consulate as a “terrorist attack", the LA Times reports. Jay Carney, Barack Obama's press secretary, said: “It is self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack. Our embassy was attacked violently and the result was four deaths of American officials."

Syria

• President Bashar al-Assad has claimed he is open to dialogue with the opposition but has vowed to continue to crush armed resistance to his rule. In an interview with the Egyptian magazine Al-Ahram Al-Araby, he said: "Violence ... is not allowed ... and the state will not stand with its hands tied in the face of those who bear arms against it."

• The US has demanded that Iraq take action to stop Iran supplying arms to Syria over Iraqi airspace. US state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said: "They [Iraq] either need to deny over-flight requests for Iranian aircraft going to Syria or to require that such flights land in Iraqi territory for inspection." At the UN's security council the US and the UK expressed serious concern at Iran's arms exports to Syria.