BBC News with Julie Candler.
The head of the army in Burkina Faso has announced the dissolution of the government. It follows a day of violent unrest in which protestors set fire to the Parliament Building and demanded the resignation of the President who's been in power for 27 years. Our West Africa correspondent Tomas F. reports.
The people in Burkina Faso are still waiting to hear who is ruling their country. First came a statement attributed to President Blaise compaore saying he had sacked the government, declared a state of emergency and he would be holding talks with the opposition, but he did not step down; and then came a news conference held by the army Chief of Staff, who announced that the National Assembly had been dissolved, and that a transitional government would be set up for the next 12 months. But there was no answer to the questions who was now in charge and who would lead the transition. As confusion prevails, violence may spread further.
The governor of the US state of Maine has vowed to use his full authority to protect the public after an American nurse who had been treating Ebola patients defied instructions to stay at home. Governor P. P. told the WGAM Radio that the state would allow the nurse K. H. to go out provided she did not come close to other people.
She's been there almost 14 days. And they say that the incubation is between 8 and 14 days. And on the 14th day they checked her. She had run earlier. There are no signs of Ebola on the 14th day. I would be comfortable if they will have a little more space. The problem with it is she just doesn't care. She, we negotiated all day yesterday. Two or three times she accepted something and then she backed out. So she just doesn't want any restrictions. She's pushing my patience.
Two mass graves have been found in the western Iraqi province of Ambark. containing the bodies of Sunni fighters who are believed to have been shot at close range by Islamic State militants. Some reports say as many as 220 fighters were killed. Wallen Garry is in Baghdad.
There was an agreement on the fact that there were two separate locations that these were men from a tribe called the A. Tribe. Now this tribe had been one of the Sunni tribes which is supporting the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government in trying to oppose the march of Islamic State and that is a critical platform for the government here and for the Americans. They need the Sunni tribes to get involved. And this tribe has got involved and has evidently paid a horrible price.
The Israeli authorities have announced that they are reopening a main Jerusalem holy site for Muslim worshipers after a day of clashes between security forces and Palestinian demonstrators. The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas compared Israel's decision to bar access to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound to a declaration of war. The clashes followed the killing by police of a man they believed shot an outspoken Jewish activist.
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A United Nation's human rights expert has urged Britain to reconsider its decision not to support rescue operations for migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean. In a statement issued in Geneva, the UN expert on the rights of migrants Francois Cripple described the decision as appalling and said it showed complete disregard for human life.
The authorities in France are trying to discover who has been sending drones into the air above some of the country's nuclear power stations. From Paris H. S. reports.
The first over-flight was reported on October 5th above a nuclear site in southeast France. Since then seven power stations, situated all over the country have reported drones, some more than once. The National Nuclear Research Center outside Paris had also been a target. The energy company EDF which runs the nuclear sites says there's absolutely no danger because the drones are too small to cause even superficial damage. However, the environmental campaigners say the over-flights raise new questions about safety at France's 19 nuclear power stations.
Residents of the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo said 14 civilians have been killed in the latest massacre in the region. Local activists said the attackers used machetes to kill the inhabitants of a village about 70 kilometers from the town of Beni. The incident happened while the president of the DRC Joseph Cabila was visiting Beni. Nearly 100 people have now been killed in the area in just a month. The Uganda rebel group the Allied Democratic Forces has been accused of carrying out the killings.
Israel has recalled its ambassador in Sweden for consultations hours after Stockholm's decision to officially recognize Palestine as a state. Israel has condemned the move while the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the decision as brave and historic. The Swedish foreign minister Margot Wallstrom said she hoped more countries would follow Sweden's lead.