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The interim Prime Minister of Ukraine ArseniyYatsenyuk has told the UN security council that hiscountry is the victim of aggression from Russia.Mr. Yatsenyuk said it was unacceptable in the 21stcentury to resolve any situation with military force. And he urged Russia to pull back itstroops from Crimea and start real negotiations. Addressing the Russian delegate directly, heasked him to clarify whether or not Moscow wanted war. Vitaly Churkin gave this reply.
“I'm going to respond directly to a direct question to me by Mr. Yatsenyuk. Russia does notwant war and nor do the Russians, and I'm convinced that Ukrainians don't want this either.”
There have been violent clashes between rival groups of protesters in the eastern Ukrainiancity of Donetsk. One person was killed and a number were wounded when hundreds ofdemonstrators chanting pro-Russian slogans are said to have confronted a rival rally by peopleopposed to the Russian military intervention in Crimea. It’s thought the protesters brokethrough a police cordon. Ukrainian television reported that some people were carrying knivesand metal rods.
The White House says the search for a Malaysian airliner that disappeared on its way to Beijingon Saturday maybe moving to a new area in the Indian Ocean. The US navy is deploying adestroyer there in response to new information. Rajini Vaidyanathan reports.
“As a mystery around the disappearance of Flight 370 continues, the search for the aircrafthas been expanded. The US naval ship, the USS Kidd, has been moved from its search positionon the Gulf of Thailand to the west coast of Malaysia. And the Indian navy, air force and coastguard say they've been asked to assist. Officials say they received the request for help fromthe Malaysian government and that the focus of the search has now moved to west towardsthe Andaman Sea.”
At least 69 people have been killed in an attack in northwestern Nigeria. Witnesses said theattackers went into villages and started killing people indiscriminately. Will Ross reports.
“According to witnesses, the men targeted several villages in the Faskari area of Katsina state.They rode in on motorbikes and started shooting sporadically. They didn't go into people'shomes, but anyone they came across was killed. The attackers are believed to be from theFulani cattle herding community and they've been in dispute with farmers in the area overgrazing rights. Security forces were not there to protect the civilians and appeared unable tostop the violence whenever it flares up.”
The American Secretary of State John Kerry has said the government of Venezuela must end,what he called, its terror campaign against its own citizens. Addressing the US Congress, Mr.Kerry said it was time the organization of American States, allies and neighbours of Venezuelademanded proper accountability over its response to opposition protests. Twenty-eightpeople have died since the unrest began a month ago.
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The founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has accused the United States government ofdamaging the future of the internet. Mr. Zuckerberg said the government should be achampion of the internet, not a threat. He said he had called President Obama to express hisfrustration and appeal for more transparency. Mr. Zuckerberg's remarks follow revelations ofmass surveillance by the US National Security Agency. He said Facebook engineers working toimprove security, imagine they were protecting people from criminals, not from their owngovernment.
The human rights groups have welcomed the decision by the judicial authorities in Egypt to puta doctor on trial for allegedly performing a circumcision on a 13-year-old girl, she subsequentlydied. Sebastian Usher reports.
“There are differing accounts of how Suhair al Bata'a died. A forensic report blamed an allergyreaction to penicillin. The doctor who performed the operation said she was being treated forgenital warts, but the activist group Equality Now believes the official version may have beenhiding the fact which she was actually being circumcised. They launched a campaign for thecase to be fully investigated which has now led the charges against the doctor and her father.Equality Now says that even though female genital mutilations has been a crime in Egypt forseveral years, it’s still prevalent and increasingly carried out at private clinics.”
One of the most powerful figures in football, the Bayern Munich President Uli Hoeness, has beensentenced to 3.5 years in prison in Germany for tax evasion. Mr Hoeness was a World Cup-winning player in his youth and turned Bayern Munich into European Football champions.
The former President of Sierra Leone Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has died at the age of 82. Mr.Kabbah was widely regarded as the man who led the nation to peace after a brutal civil war, inwhich thousands of people had their limbs hacked off and 120,000 died. The conflicts officiallyended in 2002.
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