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Ukraine's ministry of defense says seven soldiershave been killed in an ambush by separatists nearthe eastern city of Kramatorsk seven others wereinjured.Our reporter Richard Galpin is in the regionalcapital Donetsk.
The ministry said a rocket prepared grenade hits an armoured personnel carrier and a vehicleexploded. There was then a prolonged fire fight in which more soldiers were killed andinjured.The ministry said the attack had been carried out by about 30 men who'd hidden inbushes nearby.On Monday the pro-Russian separatist leaders in Donetsk who declaredindependence said that all Ukrainian troops in the region would be viewed as occupying forcesand should leave.
Russian has announced it will no longer let the United States use Russian-made rocket motorsfor military space launches. The Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin said the decision was aresponse to US sanctions against Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine. Separately Mr. Rogozinsaid Moscow would not prolong the use of the international space station after 2020 goingagainst a US request.
The governor of the Bono state in northeastern Nigeria has said all the school girls in a videoreleased by the Islamist group Boko Haram have been identified as those were abducted lastmonth.Boko Haram said it's willing to free some of them in exchange for militants held byauthorities.The Nigerian government said it's ready to talk to the militants and ask them tosend out a negotiating team.Here's Mark Doyle.
The plight of the girls has forced the Nigerian government into talks with the Islamists but thisis a very long term problem.The militants dream of a day thousand years ago when IslamicCaliphates were powerful here when the British colonialists later to conquer the southerncoastal regions of this country they introduced western education.As a result inevitably theChristian south the Nigeria advanced the expanse of the Muslim north.This long term issue willnot be resolved by a quick round of negotiations.
International Criminal Court in the Hague says new information has led it to start a preliminaryexamination into allegations of abuse by British Military personnel in Iraq. Human Rightslawyers presented to ICC with a dossier containing what they said was a evidence of morethan 400 cases of mistreatment or unlawful killings.Anna Holligan in the Hague has seen thedossier.
Some of the allegations needs allegations that British forces were involved in torture technicsincluding holding burning, electric shocks, mock executions, sexual abuse and religioushumiliation.If this goes right the top that could be the first time that we ever see westernleaders appear here at the Hague and further judges at the international Criminal Court.
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A French photo journalist has been killed in the Central African Republic.The French presidencysaid it will do everything possible to find the killers of Camille Lepage.She was 26.Sources fromthe French intervention force in base CAR said her body had been found along with fourothers in a truck driven by Christian militiamen.Ten people have been detained forquestioning.Camille Lepage's work had been published by the BBC as well as leadingnewspapers.
Turkish officials say at least 17 miners have been killed in an explosion and a fire at a mine inthe west of the counrty and rescue operation is under way to bring out more than 200 othersbelieved to be trapped on the ground.Oxygen has been pumped into the mine to help thembreathe.Large crowds of people have gathered near the site outside the town of Soma and thehospital where more than 25 rescued miners have been taken.
An underwater investigator says he believes he has found the wreck of the flagship ofChristopher Columbus which sunk during his expedition to the Americas. Barry Clifford saysthe evidence he collected strongly suggested a ship wreck for coast of Haiti was to SantaMaria.More in this report from Nick Davis.
Around Christmas of 1492 the large ship in Christopher Columbus' three vessel expedition tothe Americas sunk after hitting reefs.According to accounts from the time, timbers from theSanta Maria were used to construct a fortification close to shore and this has claimedprovided key evidence in finding what explorer Barry Clifford says is the historic ship. His teamfirst found the vessel in 2003 but misidentified a vital clue, a cannon on the sea floor. Only twoyears ago was the mistake discovered and using additional information from Columbus'sdiary, Clifford realized the location matched his description.
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