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Thousands of people have laid flowers and lit candles at the spot where the Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on Friday. European ambassadors were among those who pay tribute to the activist to the makeshift memorial on a bridge close to the Kremlin. Mr. Nemtsov was due to lead a protest rally on Sunday. Instead opposition supporters will now hold a march to mourn his death. From Moscow, here's Sarah Rainsford.
All day, people came to the bridge just beneath the Kremlin to lay flowers, to stand then stunt quiet at the spot of one of President Putin’s biggest critics, were shot 4 times in the back.
“we are in shock, we were crying all night, it is just impossible to believe, he was the most honest and open politician in our country.” Vladimir Putin has called the murder vile and cynical, investigators suspect the provocation are attempted to destabilize Russia. Mr. Putin spokesman is adamant that the Kremlin is not involved.
A Ukrainian photo journalist has been killed in shelling in eastern Ukraine. Its newspaper Segodnya says Serhiy Nikolayev died near the village of Pisky northwest of the rebel-held city of Donetsk. Sporadic fighting has continued since the ceasefire agreed earlier this month. Both sides have said they were continuing to withdraw heavy weapons from the frontline.
Thousands of supporters of Italy's right wing Northern League have poured to Rome for a rally against immigration. The party leader Matteo Salvini accused the government of selling out to the European Union, “I want to change Italy, I want the Italian economy to be able to move forward again, something that is obstructed by Brussels and mad European policies, I want to free the energies for the prisoned Italy.”
Mr. Salvini’s Northern League has been gaining support for attacks on the government’s austerity and immigration policies. But the center-left democratic party of the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is still ahead in the polls.
The vice president of Sierra Leone has put himself into quarantine because one of his body guards has died from Ebola. Samuel Samsumana said he would remain in isolation for 21 days. At the same time, the authorities have reinstated some restrictions due to an increase in confirmed Ebola cases. Mary Harper reports.
“The government said it was gravely concerned about the rising new cases, many of which were connected with maritime activities. It's increased checks on ferries and other vessels and imposed a ban on ships leaving shore at night. He is also limiting the number of people allowed to travel in taxies and introducing more rigorous health checks across the country. At the end of last year, there was optimism about decline in new cases in Sierra Leone, but that trend has been reversed, and the World Health Organization says it doesn’t yet know why.”
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The head of the Argentine national fire control agency has been sacked over a huge forest fire which is threatening to engulf a renowned national park in Patagonia. Jorge Barrionuevo was removed from office during a visit to the region by a senior government official. The flames have already destroyed 200 square kilometers of forest and are advancing to Los Alerces National Park, which is home to larch trees dating back more than 1,000 years.
One of Turky's best known novelist Yasar Kemal has died ,he was in his early 90s. Kemal who was of Kurdish origin was best known for his book “Memed, My Hawk”, a story about feudal life in southern Turkey, Mohammed al Wood reports.
“Yasar Kemal first entered the world literary scene in 1955 with “Memed, My Hawk”, it was translated into dozens of languages, earning him rapid international fame. He was nominated for the Nobel Literature Prize, but he also faced several trials in Turkey over his writings and his political activism, particularly his denunciations of racism against the Kurds. People across the globe have taken to social media to pay tribute to the man who many see as instrumental in recreating Turkish as a literary language.”
A film about jihadists in Mali is about to be screened for the first time in West Africa amid tight security. The Oscar-nominated movie Timbuktu is being shown at the first Fespaco African Film Festival, which just opened in Burkina Faso. The organizers of the Festival had earlier planned to withdraw the film for security reasons.
A commission of inquiry in Rwanda has found that a BBC television documentary, which questioned official accounts of the 1994 genocide, failed to meet the organisation's own editorial standards. It recommended that the Rwandan government take legal action against the BBC. Rwanda suspended broadcast by the BBC's Kinyarwanda’s language Service after the television documentary was aired. The BBC said it was extremely disappointed by the findings.