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Ukraine's ministry of defense says seven soldiers have been killed in an ambush by separatists near the eastern city of Kramatorsk seven others were injured.Our reporter Richard Galpin is in the regional capital Donetsk.
The ministry said a rocket prepared grenade hits an armoured personnel carrier and a vehicle exploded. There was then a prolonged fire fight in which more soldiers were killed and injured.The ministry said the attack had been carried out by about 30 men who'd hidden in bushes nearby.On Monday the pro-Russian separatist leaders in Donetsk who declared independence said that all Ukrainian troops in the region would be viewed as occupying forces and should leave.
Russian has announced it will no longer let the United States use Russian-made rocket motors for military space launches. The Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin said the decision was a response to US sanctions against Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine. Separately Mr. Rogozin said Moscow would not prolong the use of the international space station after 2020 going against a US request.
The governor of the Bono state in northeastern Nigeria has said all the school girls in a video released by the Islamist group Boko Haram have been identified as those were abducted last month.Boko Haram said it's willing to free some of them in exchange for militants held by authorities.The Nigerian government said it's ready to talk to the militants and ask them to send out a negotiating team.Here's Mark Doyle.
The plight of the girls has forced the Nigerian government into talks with the Islamists but this is a very long term problem.The militants dream of a day thousand years ago when Islamic Caliphates were powerful here when the British colonialists later to conquer the southern coastal regions of this country they introduced western education.As a result inevitably the Christian south the Nigeria advanced the expanse of the Muslim north.This long term issue will not be resolved by a quick round of negotiations.
International Criminal Court in the Hague says new information has led it to start a preliminary examination into allegations of abuse by British Military personnel in Iraq. Human Rights lawyers presented to ICC with a dossier containing what they said was a evidence of more than 400 cases of mistreatment or unlawful killings.Anna Holligan in the Hague has seen the dossier.
Some of the allegations needs allegations that British forces were involved in torture technics including holding burning, electric shocks, mock executions, sexual abuse and religious humiliation.If this goes right the top that could be the first time that we ever see western leaders 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 presidency said it will do everything possible to find the killers of Camille Lepage.She was 26.Sources from the French intervention force in base CAR said her body had been found along with four others in a truck driven by Christian militiamen.Ten people have been detained for questioning.Camille Lepage's work had been published by the BBC as well as leading newspapers.
Turkish officials say at least 17 miners have been killed in an explosion and a fire at a mine in the west of the counrty and rescue operation is under way to bring out more than 200 others believed to be trapped on the ground.Oxygen has been pumped into the mine to help them breathe.Large crowds of people have gathered near the site outside the town of Soma and the hospital where more than 25 rescued miners have been taken.
An underwater investigator says he believes he has found the wreck of the flagship of Christopher Columbus which sunk during his expedition to the Americas. Barry Clifford says the evidence he collected strongly suggested a ship wreck for coast of Haiti was to Santa Maria.More in this report from Nick Davis.
Around Christmas of 1492 the large ship in Christopher Columbus' three vessel expedition to the Americas sunk after hitting reefs.According to accounts from the time, timbers from the Santa Maria were used to construct a fortification close to shore and this has claimed provided key evidence in finding what explorer Barry Clifford says is the historic ship. His team first found the vessel in 2003 but misidentified a vital clue, a cannon on the sea floor. Only two years ago was the mistake discovered and using additional information from Columbus's diary, Clifford realized the location matched his description.