BBC News with Julie Candler
The United States says the release of international observers abducted by pro-Russian militants in Ukraine is a step in the right direction, but that the Kremlin needs to do much more to deescalate the situation. Secretary of State John Kerry said Moscow should now withdraw its support for the militants and help remove them from the official buildings they occupy. The observers who've now arrived safely in Berlin were freed less than a day after a Russian envoy Vladimir Lukin arrived in Slaviansk where they have been detained more than a week. After their release, Mr. Lukin said he expected reciprocal actions.
They were not in exchange for anyone else. This is a voluntary act and I would very much like to believe that this voluntary and noble act will be followed by reciprocal voluntary, noble actions from those of the other side of this confrontation. I would very much like military actions to end.
Fighting has been intensifying in eastern Ukraine, there have been more clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian militants in and around the town of Kramatorsk, where at least two people are said to have been killed. The Ukrainian Interior Minister, Arsen Avakov, said troops had recaptured a security services building and a television tower. Elsewhere, pro-Russian militants have reported to attack an army recruitment center in Luhansk wounding two Ukrainian soldiers.
Security officials in Kenya say at least three people have been killed in two explosions in the city of Mombasa. There are reports a third device left in a cinema which failed to explode. Mohamud Ali from the BBC’s Somali Service reports.
According to the police boss in Mombasa Robert Kitur, one person tried to get access to a bus in the evening, the explosives exploded killing three people in a busy market in the coastal town of Mombasa. There was also a simultaneous attack on a resort hotel that frequented at by tourists in N* beach, nobody was inside are killed in that blast and the police at the scene.
Hundreds of illegal migrants have arrived in the northern Sudanese town of Dongola after being rescued from the dessert by the Sudanese army. Most are said to be Ethiopian and Eritrean while others are South Asian. Mary Harper reports.
Six army trucks drove the migrants hundreds of kilometer through the Sahara desert to the town of Dongola. They were found earlier this week near the border with Libya, where they have been abandoned by traffickers. They lacked food and water and at least nine of them died. Every year, tens of thousands of migrants cross the Sahara trying to make their way to Europe. Many of them pay significant amounts to traffickers. Last year, dozens of migrants from Niger died from thirst in the desert after their vehicle broke down.
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Afghan officials has said they've ended the search for more victims of a landslide in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, and the area will now stand a mass grave yard. One of the Afghanistan Vice Presidents visited the scene and said it was not possible to bring out any more bodies. David Loyn sent this report from valley.
The ridden area desolated feel at the bottom of the valley where thousands of people are now buried under mud that is about 17 meters deep, the landscape has been altered a stream is rapidly threatening to flood remaining houses since this course have been dug up. Several government ministers came with Vice President to look at the devastation. Food and basic shelter including tents have arrived. International agencies drawing on stock stored in the northeast of Afghanistan, but there are not many survivors, not many people left alive from the house at the bottom of the valley.
A panel advising Pope Francis has called for Roman Catholic bishops to be held accountable if they failed to report suspected sexual abuse or failed to protect children from pedophile priests. After holding its first meeting, the new Vatican advisory border said current Church laws were out of the date and it would develop clear and effective rules to deal with the problem.
An Indian regional politician in the state of Uttar Pradesh has died of his injuries after been seized by a man who'd set himself blaze. The local leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Kamruzzama Fauji suffered the injures during a television debate early in the week, when a member of the audience doused himself in petrol, set himself alight and grabbed Mr. Fauji.
Brazil's Football Association has banned matches in a stadium in the northeastern city of Recife after a man was killed by a toilet bowl hurled by rival fans. The clashes on a second division match on Friday night, led the authorities to closed down the Arruda stadium. Recife is hosting five World Cup matches but they will be played at the newly built Arena Pernambuco.