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The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution expressing its willingness to impose sanctions on individuals recruiting, financing, supplying weapons or fighting for extremist groups. The move is aimed at weakening the Islamic State insurgents in Iraq and Syria.Nick Bryant reports from the UN in New York.
Drafted by Britain the resolution is aimed at choking the funding for the Islamic group as well as other militants affiliated with al-Qaeda and also to thwart its recruitment efforts.The resolution threatened sanctions for those who finance and supply weapons to the insurgents as well as those who helped recruit new fighters. It also blacklist six people including a spokesman for Islamic State who will now be subjected to a travel ban and asset freeze and arms embargo.
Some news just in Kurdish officials in Iraq say militants from the Islamic State have massacred around 80 members of the Yazidi religious minority in a village in the north of the country.There are also reports that some women in the village were kidnapped.Spokesman for the Islamic State has said those under their control can convert live or die.
Sunni tribal leaders in Iraq have said they are all ready to work with the new Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and fight against the Islamic State Jihadists as long as this government restore Sunni rights. At a new conference Sheikh Ali al-Suleiman called for a popular referendum on moral autonomy for Sunni areas including the right to set up a provincial guards to protect them.
The head of the aid agency Medicin Sans Frontiers says it will take about six months to bring the Ebola epidemic in West Africa under control.Joanne Liu said tackling the disease in Liberia was essential if the epidemic was to be contained. Speaking in Geneva she said the latest outbreak was different to previous ones.
It’s like a front guard. It is moving, it is advancing but we have no cue where it’s going around. We used to have Ebola, that when it was, in some of the isolated village and it was business for between six or eight weeks and died afterwards.
The governor of the US state of Missouri says a thorough investigation will be carried out into the death of an unarmed black teenager shot by police in St.Louis last weekend.Earlier police said the teenager Michael Brown was the prime suspect in a robbery.His death triggered a violent protest as Aleem Maqbool reports there atmosphere is now changed.
All of us feel like the extraordinary moment like focus has been transformed gone are the armed security vehicles gone are the heavily armed police.Instead,hundreds of people have taken to the street to express themselves about how they feel about after the killing of Michael Brown without fear at intimidation.
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Ukraine's President Petrol Poroshenko says the Ukrainian military has destroyed a significant part of a Russian armoured column that crossed into the country at Thursday night.He made the statement after discussing earlier reports of a Russian military incursion with the British Prime Minister. Russia denied that any forces had crossed the border.
Boko Haram militants have kidnapped dozens of people in a raid on remote villages in northeastern Nigeria. Details of the attacks took days to emerge because of poor telephone coverage.Will Ross reports from Lagos.
According to witnesses the Boko Haram fighters came to the extremely remote fishing village of Doron Baga dressed in military uniforms. 26 people were killed and many houses burned. At gunpoint they ordered women as well as young boys and girls onto lorries. Other recounts say young men were also taken possibly to be turned into Boko Haram fighters. It's unclear exactly how many were seized,but some survivors say at least 50 people were taken away, some were forced onto motor boats then sped off across the lake into Chad.
The European Union has said it is willing to relaunch its border assistance mission to monitor the Rhafa crossing between Gaza and Egypt. EU foreign minister said that if given a mandate by the united nations,the scope of the mission could possibly be expanded to other border crossings to help stabilize Gaza,prevent arms smuggling and improve living conditions. The EU minister said that the return to the status quo plus of the latest conflict is not an option.
The Brazilian airforce has said the blackbox recovered from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed tha Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos did not record its flight.It said the audio recording of the copied was not related to the flight that crashed on Wednesday.Mr.Campos and six others died when his private jet came down in bad weather in the Brazilian port city of Santos near Sao Paolo.