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Ukrainian police have used teargas, smoke bombs and water cannons against tens ofthousands of anti-government protesters in Kiev. Demonstrators gathered earlier to hearopposition leaders denouncing a new anti-protest law. Daniel Standford is in central Kiev.
What started as one of the regular Sunday protests in Kiev has descended into clashes sincechaos. The weekly rallies against the government's decision to halt its progress towards theEuropean Union took on a new twist this week, when President Yanukovych signed into law aseries of new measures. This made many of the pro-European demonstrators' actions illegal.This evening, the frustration boiled over,part of the protesters are throwing rocks and molotovcocktails at police. The officers are throwing * and choking gas back.
A day before the planned election of an interim president, the Central African Republic hasbeen hit by more violence. The international committee of the Red Cross says at least 50people have been killed in the northwest over the last two days. Thomas Fessy has more fromBangui.
The violence is daily here, and today was no exception. The attacks are also ongoingelsewhere in the country, we've heard reports of violence in several remote towns. It'sobviously very hard to know exactly what's happening in those places because informationdoesn't reach the capital very easily. But everybody here is now waiting for the election of anew interim president, the hope is that it will ease the ongoing tension, but there are hugefears that it might actually trigger more violence.
The leader of a powerful al-Qaeda linked group in Syria appears to have called for reconciliationwith rival rebel groups that had been fighting against it for several weeks. An audio messagepurportedly from the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as ISIS urgedSunni Islamist rebels to focus instead on fighting President Assad's regime. Sebastian Usherreports.
The battle between Islamist extremists extensively fighting on the same side against PresidentAssad has been fierce. More than 1,000 fighters and civilians have been killed in the past 2weeks. On one level, it's a specific show down between rebel Jahadists with ISIS and itsleaders seem by other militant is needed to be taken down after getting too greedy of territoryand influence.But it's also threatened to derail the wider course of the rebels and oppositionagainst Syrian government which is urged at this week's long-awaited talks to focus on fightingterrorism rather than arranging a transition from President Assad's rule.
Jordan says it will allow the United States to train Iraqi soldiers on its soils so that it can fightal-Qaeda militants more effectively. The Iraqi government has been trying to regain control oftwo cities west of Baghdad after they were taken over by al-Qaeda linked militants earlier thismonth.
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Afghanistan National Security Council has accused foreign intelligence services of being behindin an attack on a restaurant in Kabul. It killed 20 people on Friday. The council which is cheeredby President Hamid Karzai said the attack had been too sophisticated to have been carried outby the Taliban as was widely believed. Correspondents say the term foreign intelligence is anapparent reference to the security services of neighboring Pakistan.
Here in Britain, the right-wing UK Independence Party ha suspended one of its local councilorswho has blamed recent flooding on the government's decision to legalize gay marriage. DavidSilvester, a devout Christian said the floods were God's retribution for a Christian nation inabandoning its faith. UK initially said it backed to his right to express his views, but asked himnot to repeat them which he subsequently has in a BBC interview. Mr.Silvester left thegoverning Conservative Party last year because of his opposition to same-sex marriage.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has told the BBC that he isn't prejudiced against gaypeople in anyway. In an interview ahead of next month's Olympics in Sochi, Mr.Putin was askedabout his own views after the Russian parliament passed laws that fine anyone passinginformation on homosexuality to children under the age of 18.
“If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about the person'sorientation,and I myself know some people who are gay. We are on friendly terms, I'm notprejudiced in anyway ,and I've honored several members of the gay community in thiscountry but for their personal achievements regardless of their sexual orientation.”
A fire in South Norway has ripped through a village which is famous for its historic woodenbuildings. The fire began overnight in a house in Laerdalsoyri village, more than 20 buildingswere completely destroyed.
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