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Germany is sending its intelligence chief to Washington next week to address allegations thatthe United States has been spying on its allies. The government said it wanted to make sure aninvestigation into the monitoring the Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone was going forward. EUleaders said growing distrust to the US could harm the fight against terrorism. From BerlinStephen Evans.
There is no doubt the angrying Germany over the spying allegations, the country's head of thestate President Gauck said President Obama should now explain clearly what happened and alsohow lost trust can be regained. To that end, senior officials in the German security services willtravel to Washington next week for talks to their American counterparts. What may be soughtare assurances that new tight rules in place to govern who's seen as a legitimate target forsurveillance and who is not.
A military curfew remains in force in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu after an attackby suspected militants from the Islamist group known as Boko Haram. Here's Will Ross.
The city of Damaturu was rocketed by gunfire for about seven hours by the time at ended, it'saround midnight, police, CID and army buildings have been burnt down. It's not clear how manypeople were killed but the police ambulance took the dead bodies to the mortuary. The streetsof the main city in Yobe state are now deserted after the military imposed a 24-hour curfew,one resident of the city said he saw 19 gunmen, some in military uniform raid the hospital.Meanwhile, the Nigerian army says it killed 74 suspected Boko Harm militants during ground andair strikes on the camps in Borno state.
Syrian state television is claiming that Mohammed al-Jolani, a leader in the Islamist rebel group,the Nusra Front, has been killed. There has been no independent verification of the report andan official Syrian news agency later withdrew a similar claim. The radical Islamist organization hasbeen seen as one of most powerful rebel groups in Syria.
The medical charity MSF says more than 130,000 Syrians have fled the heavy bombing in thenorthern Al Safira district in the past two weeks. They have been forced to flee to areas thatalready struggling to cope with a huge influx of displaced people. MSF says humanitarian aidisn't sufficient and medical establishments are often being targeted. In New York, the UnitedNations humanitarian chief Valerie Amos told the Security Council that about 2.5 million Syrianswere still trapped beyond the reach of aid workers and an action was urgently required.
It is a race against time, as we deliberate, people continue to die unnecessarily. I call upon allmembers of the council to exert influence and take the necessary action to stop thesebrutalities and violence.
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Hundreds of Eritrean refugees have held a mock funeral outside the Italian parliament toremember the victim of a shipwreck earlier this month. More than 350 people most of themfrom Eritrea drowned when their boat sank near the Italian island of Lampedusa. Italy's PrimeMinister Enrico Letta has pressed fellow European leaders to give more help to Mediterraneancountries to address the issue of illegal migration. But the EU pushed further discussion of theproblem back to following summits.
Roman leaders and right activists in Bulgaria have expressed concerns about media coverage ofthe case of a blonde girl removed from a Roman family in Greece. DNA tests have establishedthat the Bulgarian-Roman couple are the parents of the girl named Maria. This report by NickThorpe.
As police in Greece and Bulgaria tried to investigate whether any money changed handsbetween her natural parents and those with whom she was found. The case also illustrates thedepth of poverty in which the Roma still live throughout eastern Europe. The director ofBulgarian Helsinki Committee Krassimir Kanev told the BBC that the media attentionsurrounding Maria's case could undermine years of patient work integrating the Roma intomainstream society and overcoming negative stereotypes of the Roma as child traffickers orthieves.
Lawyers for the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta have asked the international criminal court topostpone his trial for crimes against humanity, citing last month’s attack on the Westgateshopping center. They want the hearing due to begin next month to be delayed until February.Mr. Kenyatta's defense team argued that the trail will prevent him from exercising leadershipdoing what they described as an International crisis. Earlier, the court ruled that Kenya's deputyPresident William Ruto has to attend most of his trial for crimes against humanity.
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