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Gunmen in northeastern Nigeria have attacked awedding convoy killing more than 30 people includingthe groom. The group was travelling along a stretchroad in Borno state known for attacks by Islamistmilitants. Will Rose reports.
Eyewitness reports seeing about 30 dead bodies by the roadside, most of them have beenshot. In recent weeks there have been frequent attacks in rural areas of Borno and Yobestates which authorities have blamed on the Islamist militant group popularly known as BokoHaram. Last May, a state of emergency was declared in northeast Nigeria and thousand ofadditional troops were sent there to fight Boko Haram, but attacks on civilians have continued.A week ago, dozens of people were killed during a lengthy gun fight after suspected militantsattacked the town of Damaturu where burnt police and military buildings.
Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo are attacking the last areas held by therebel M23 movement close to Congo's eastern border with Rwanda and Uganda. A BBCcorrespondent says that hundreds of refugees are fleeing into Uganda. Earlier, the leader ofM23 rebels declared a ceasefire with the government.
Iran Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has rejected criticism from some IranianConservatives about forthcoming talks on Iran's nuclear program, saying that the governmentnegotiators deserved the country's full support. His comments come ahead next week'sconference between Iran and world powers include the US on Iran's nuclear program whichTehran says is not for military purposes. Here's Kasra Naji.
The talks have raised fears among its Islamist hardliners who criticised Iran's negotiators fortheir alleged a secret agenda to compromise with the West. Iran's leader said no one shouldcriticise Iran's negotiating team for allegedly being ready to compromise, they were just doingthe job, he said, but he went on to say he had a little hope for the negotiations. Experience hasshown, he said, backtracking will not produce the desired results.
An investigation by the German magazine Focus has revealed the authorities holding about1,500 Work of art by Pablo Picasso, Matisse and Chagall they recovered two years from anapartment in Munich. The paintings are thought were being looted from Jews by the Nazis.Experts are trying to work out who they belong to. From Berlin Stephen Evans.
The collections of works are Nazi stolen from Jews was consigned to a dealer to be sold beforethe war, but the paintings then vanished presume destroyed. The works consisted of what theNazi's deemed degenerate art that is modern art. It's not transpires that two years ago, theauthorities discovered these amazing and priceless collections in darkened rooms at the homeof a reclusive relative of the pre-war dealer, it seems a relative have been selling paintingsoccasionally when he needed money. The Paintings could be worth of billions of dollars.
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The police in Bahrain have charged the head of the main opposition group Ali Salman withinsulting the authorities after his Al Wefaq party opened the Revolution Museum on theoutskirts of the capital Manama. The exhibit showed photos of 2011 uprising as well aspaintings and installations depicting the violent unrest and alleged torture of pro-democracyprotesters by the Bahraini authorities.
The US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Saudi Arabia on the second stop of tour inthe Middle East and North Africa. He travelled from Cairo where he'd urged Egypt's interimleaders not to extend the country's state of emergency beyond the end of this month. He alsocalled on the Egyptian authorities to ensure a fair judicial process in the country ahead of thetrial of the ousted leader Mohammed Morsi that begins on Monday.
Voting in Kosovo's municipal elections has ended in disarray because of an attack on a pollingstation in the main ethnic Serb town of Mitrovica. Guy De Launey reports from northernKosovo.
As darkness fell, chaos arrived in the shape of masked men hurling tear gas canisters. Theyattacked the polling stations at a primary school in the north of Mitrovica and they started tobreak the bullet boxes, the staff fled. The security organization the OSCE have been providingtechnical assistance to the election but immediately withdrew its staff on safety grounds andclosed all the polling stations in north Mitrovica. Even before the incident, there have beenaccusations of intimidation of polling stations, there have been a well-organized boycottcampaign but the leaders of the known movement have denied they were behind the attack.
And there has been a double Kenyan victory in the New York marathon. Geoffrey Mutai won themen's race for the second time in a row in an official time of 2 hours, 8 minutes. And in thewomen's race, Priscah Jeptoo was the first time adding the title to her London Marathon winearlier this year. The two Kenyans beat Ethiopian runners into second place and each weretaken a $100,000 prize money. The race was cancelled last year because of damage caused byHurricane Sandy.
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