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China's official news agency Xinhua says the government in Beijing has begun evacuating thousands of its citizens from Vietnam.It follows a wave of anti-Chinese riots triggered by a maritime row. XX reports.
Xinhua said it had learned from the foreign ministry that 3,000 Chinese personnel had been evacuated from Vietnam by Saturday afternoon local time.It said the Chinese government was organizing chartered flights and ships to help more Chinese people to leave.Beijing says at least two Chinese nationals have been killed and 100 injured in days of violent protests over China's deployment of an oil rig in disputed waters in the South China Sea.
The French president Francois Hollande has been hosting an emergency summit with west African leaders to discuss the threat posed by the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram.Mr Hollande said that at the time when over 200 school girls had been held in barbaric conditions, actions had to be taken.There were two attacks by suspected Boko Haram fighters in Nigeria and Cameroon hours before the summit began.Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.
The talks produced agreements there will be greater coordination in particular between Nigeria and Cameroon,two countries that have not always got on and across whose common frontier Boko Haram has been able to escape pursuit. There will be joint border patrols,intelligence sharing and some kind of rapid reaction capability.Whether the arrangement agreed here in Paris will do anything to bring back the more than 200 missing Nigerian girls is maybe too much to expect.But looking ahead,everyone agrees that the answer to the Boko Haram threat lies with a regional more than national response.
A region in eastern Ukraine that says it's voted to break away has appointed a prime minister Alexander Borodai.Mr Borodai said that what he called the People of Republic of Donetsk would apply to join Russia and would merge with Luhansk,another breakaway region.In the nearby city of Kharkiv,leaders supporting Ukrainian unity held talks.
The man who will become India's next Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi has offered prayers on the banks of river Ganges in Varanasi,regarded as sacred by India's majority Hindus. Mr Modi who led the BJP to a landslide victory in the general elections prayed at a Hindu temple and then performed a series of rituals. XX reports.
Hundreds and thousands of people have been waiting here in blistering heat to hear and have a glimpse of their newly elected member of parliament who did not disappoint them actually.He did give a speech and talked about why he had come to Varanasi this holy city which was considered a place for Hindus and he said that it was River Ganges flowing right behind us which actually invited him to come here and do work and to help the people of the city.
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Graphic pictures have been posted online showing an extreme Jihadist group in Syria beheading a leading member of another Islamist rebel group.Activists say the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant or ISIS carried out the execution of XX,known as the Tank Sniper,because of his attacks on government tanks.It's the latest evidence of the battle between ISIS and other Islamist rebel groups which denounce its excessive brutality.
Protests over perceived inadequate safety measures have taken place in several major cities in Turkey four days after a mining accident in Soma which killed 301 people.XX has more.
Here in central XX several hundred people are marching through the city centre.Some people are wearing miner's hats,in remembrance of the victims of the Soma mine.And they are chanting slogans against the Turkish government who they blame for not preventing the disaster.Tonight in Turkey's two other main cities of Ankara and Istanbul,there are also reports of protests. And earlier today for a while, there was tension between Turkish riot police and protesters in the town of Soma,near the site of the now infamous Soma mine.
The former financial trader Jerome Kerviel who faces three years in jail for fraud has said he won't return to France from Italy until he receives a response from president Francois Hollande.Mr Kerviel wants immunity for potential witnesses who could testify in his favor over the near collapse of his former employer Societe Generale.
Atletico Madrid have won the Spanish Football League by drawing 1:0 with Barcelona.It's the 10th time the club has won the league and the first time for ten years as a team other than Barcelona or Real Madrid has taken the title. In England,Arsenal have won the FA cup.The London club beat Hull City 3:2 after extra time.