BBC News:埃及前总统穆巴拉克将获释但仍在软禁中
The United Nations has formally requested the Syriangovernment to allow a UN team of weaponsinspectors in Syria to investigate Wednesday'salleged chemical attack in the suburb of Damascus.The UN chief, Ban Ki-moon said that he'd expected a positive response without delay. FromNew York here Nick Bryant.
"The UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has called on the Syrian authorities to allow that UNweapons inspections team that arrived on Sunday to go to the site without delay. There is aproblem, attack is, that indeed, is a couple of problems first, there is a safety concern that theUS acknowledge it's not safe to go there at the moment. And under the conditions of the UNweapons inspections team was allowed into the country, they are only allowed to visit threesites and that doesn't include other sites of this alleged atrocity. There's possibly anothercomplication as well, they are only allowed to stay there for 14 days, so the clock is alreadyticking."
Turkey and France have been leading international condemnation over the attack. TurkishForeign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has described it as a crime against humanity, saying alloptions are on the table in response. His French counterpart Laurent Fabius has said that theinternational community should react with force if the allegations are verified.
The former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak has been released after more than two years indetention although he remains under house arrest. Mr. Mubarak still faces a retrial on chargesof complicity in the killing of protesters during the uprising that forced him from power twoyears ago. Here's Bethany Bell.
"The state television showed a helicopter rising up carrying Mr. Mubarak to military hospital inthe Cairo district of Maadi and then he was taken on a stretcher from the helicopter into thehospital. Now what had happened was, as we understand, that the prosecution had given thegreen light saying that they had no more reason to be able to keep Mr. Mubarak in pre-trialdetention anymore, because he'd already served the maximum time, but now he's still underhouse arrest."
An American soldier who's admitted killing 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar province in 2012 hasapologized, calling the killings an act of cowardice. Alastair Leithead reports.
"For two days, staff sergeant Robert Bales has heard the testimony of some of those Afghanswhose lives he ruined in the overnight shooting spray close to his remote US base inKandahar last year. The prosecutor went through the graphic, minute by minute details of themen, women and children killed and injured and what they painted as a cold blooded andpremeditated attack on unarmed civilians sleeping in their homes. Taking the stand as finalwitness, Bales was emotional and he admitted that what he did was an act of cowardice,saying he was truly, truly sorry for those people whose families got taken away."
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A parliamentary inquiry has found that a series of racist murders committed by a neo-Nazicell in Germany went undetected for years because of a widespread institutional bias amongthe country's security services. The report found that police had assumed that the murder often people of Turkish background over a period of seven years had been the work of Turkishcriminals.
Police in Britain have launched a criminal investigation after seizing material thought includesthousands of classified electronic documents from a Brazilian man on Sunday. David Mirandawho is a partner of a journalist exposed secret information about the US surveillance wastemporarily detained under terrorist legislation at Heathrow airport. Danny Shaw reports.
"Lawyers for David Miranda went to the High Court as a part of what's likely to be a lengthylegal battle to secure a declaration that his detention under anti-terrorism powers wasunlawful. Lawyers for the Metropolitan Police said disclosure of the information would begravely injurious to public safety and that there's a result of what detectives had discovered,they'd begun a criminal investigation. The High Court said police could continue to examine theitems, but only to find out that Mr. Miranda was involved in terrorism and for the protection ofthe public."
The authorities in Mexico say a number of bodies found in a ranch east of Mexico City may bethose of 12 youngsters abducted in May. So far, they've recovered five bodies, but somereports say they may be up to 13. The police said the suspects left them in to two graves in aforested area near a park. The youngsters disappeared in May after visiting the Heaven bar inMexico City.
El-Salvador's Football Federation has provisionally suspended 22 of its international playersfanning an investigation into alleged match-fixing. The federation's president said they will notbe allowed to play for 30 days until the allegations were resolved.
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