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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.blogger.com/null&quot; name=&quot;bookmark0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font5&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;BuLtdeAb o~§ BaUUH Apuca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;font3&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #eeeeee;&quot;&gt;/I N telling of the impressive contribution that Britain has made to the opening up V&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; of the world, to the filling in of the blank spaces on the maps and to the exploration of the continents, no part of the story is more fascinating than that of the development of Africa. While the discovery of America came about through the search for a new trade route to the Far East, exploration in Africa was due to the desire to discover in those unknown areas the wealth they might contain, to exploit the endless fecundity of the tropics. It is true that the work of men like Mungo Park and Bruce, Speke and Richard Burton, Baker and Stanley and—greatest of them all—David Livingstone was not undertaken essentially or even primarily for the direct purposes of trade. Yet the incentive behind it, the encouragement of it, very often the financing of it, came from the great trading organizations or from the men who backed them or the government whom they influenced. The history of African discovery throughout, save only in the ancient development of the Nile, is the history of the trading companies which established themselves perilously, precariously, on the beaches, poised on a narrow foothold between the palms and the sea, and yet were dependent on what came out from the vast, unseen hinterland.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;font3&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #eeeeee;&quot;&gt;The honour of the first great discoveries in Africa does not belong to Britain. Africa was known from the very earliest recorded times. Its long northern coast, balancing the south coast of Europe across the narrow basin of the Mediterranean, was a part of classical antiquity, a part even of classical mythology. From the Hesperides— if the islands of Canary were the Hesperides—to that narrow isthmus of sand at Suez which bridges Africa and Asia the ancients knew all that there was to be known. It is even possible that in that remote day Africa was circumnavigated. Stories of the Phoenicians who went down through the Red Sea and returned with the morning sun upon their right hand, are a traditional part of early African speculation. But it was the Portuguese in that strange, intensely romantic period of search and discovery that is the glory of their nation who first doubled the southernmost cape, and found the shape of Africa while they sought a route to India.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font3&quot;&gt;lO RI TAIN’S interest in Africa was originally aroused by Portuguese exiles who had &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font3&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;IJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font3&quot;&gt; settled in Exeter. In 1588 Queen Elizabeth granted a patent to “certain merchants of Exeter and others of the West parts and of London for a trade to the river Senegal and Gambia in Guinea.” The Company, despite its royal patronage, failed. To reach even Gambia, just round the corner of the first great bulge of Africa, was a perilous and difficult journey in Elizabethan days. James I gave a charter to another company— “ the Company of Adventurers of London trading into Africa ”—and for very nearly three hundred years the history of the merchants of Africa is one first of adventure and only secondly of trade. From George Thompson, who was murdered on his way to Timbuctoo, to Cecil John Rhodes, walking unarmed into the camp of the Matabele, the spirit of trade is illuminated by the flame of adventure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;font3&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #eeeeee;&quot;&gt;One of the earliest of voyages into Africa is admirably recorded in the pages of Hakluyt, and it is the more interesting for it illustrates both the manner and the methods of the first contacts that Britain had with the Dark Continent:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #eeeeee;&quot;&gt;“ The first voyage of the right worshipfull and valiant knight Sir John Haukins, sometimes treasurer of her Majesties navie Roial, made to the W. Indies 1562. Master John Haukins, having made divers voyages to the lies of the Canaries, and there by his good and upright dealing being growen in love and favour with the people, informed himself amongst them by diligent inquisition, of the state of the W. India, whereof hee had received some knowledge by the instructions of his father, but increased the same by the advertisements and reports of that people. And being&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.blogger.com/null&quot; name=&quot;bookmark1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font0&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;©.a^L &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font4&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;o-(. the ‘Pilate^, Mame&#39;iy, and Said&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot;&gt;amongst other particulars assured, that Negros were very good merchandise in Hispaniola, and that store of Negros might easily bee had upon the coast of Guinea, resolved with himselfe to make trial thereof, and communicated that devise to his worshipfull friendes of London : namely with Sir Lionell Ducket, Sir Thomas Lodge, M. Gumson his father in law, Sir William Winter, M. Bromfield, and others. All which persons liked so well of his intention, that they became liberall contributors and adventurers in the action. For which purpose there were three good ships immediately provided : the one called the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Salomon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot;&gt; of the burthen of 120 tunne, wherein M. Haukins himselfe went as Generali: the second the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Swallow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot;&gt; of 100 tunne, wherein went for Captaine M. Thomas Hampton : and the third the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Jonas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot;&gt; a barke of 40 tunne, wherein the Master supplied the Captaines room : in which small fleete M. Haukins tooke with him not above 100 men for feare of sicknesse and other inconveniences, whereunto men in long voyages are commonly subject.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #eeeeee;&quot;&gt;“ With this companie he put off and departed from the coast of England in the moneth of October 1562, and in his course touched first at Teneriffe, where hee received friendely intertainment. From thence he passed to Sierra Leona, upon the coast of Guinea, which place by the people of the countrey is called Tagarin, where he stayed some good time, and got into his possession, partly by the sworde, and partly by other meanes, to the number of 300 Negros at the least, besides other merchandises which that countrey yieldeth. With this praye hee sayled over the Ocean sea unto the Iland of Hispaniola, and arrived first at the port of Isabella : and there hee had reasonable utterance of his English commodities, as also of some part of his Negros, trusting the Spaniards not further than that by his own strength he was able to master them.” [From Isabella he went to Puerto de Plata and thence to Monte Christij, “ and so with prosperous successe and much gaine to himselfe and the afore-sayde adventurers, he came home, and arrived in the moneth of September 1563.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;font6&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #eeeeee;&quot;&gt;From the drawing by George Dance : National Portrait Gallery, London.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;font3&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #eeeeee;&quot;&gt;AKLUYT’S account of the voyage is probably reasonably accurate. It is quite certain that its success led to an immense encouragement in the interest of British merchants and British seamen in slaving. From then and for the next two hundred years the history of the coast is one of slavers and pirates, petty kings and native emperors, all mingled in an inextricable tangle of rum and gold and human flesh. There was trade of other sorts—ivory and indigo, maize and beeswax and nuts—but they were small things. Essentially West Africa was a place of violence, adventure, and slave trading.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;font3&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #eeeeee;&quot;&gt;The first charter which gave official cognizance to English commerce in western Africa was That of Elizabeth, granted three vears before the Invincible Armada swept up the English Channel to disaster. It was given for the purpose of slaving “ from the North part of Senegal to one hundred leagues beyond Sierra Leona.” Oddly enough Elizabeth at the time was worried “ lest any (of the natives) should be carried off without&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;The honour of the first great discoveries in Africa does not belong to Britain. Africa was known from the very earliest recorded times. Its long northern coast, balancing the south coast of Europe across the narrow basin of the Mediterranean, was a part of classical antiquity, a part even of classical mythology. From the Hesperides— if the islands of Canary were the Hesperides—to that narrow isthmus of sand at Suez which bridges Africa and Asia the ancients knew all that there was to be known. It is even possible that in that remote day Africa was circumnavigated. Stories of the Phoenicians who went down through the Red Sea and returned with the morning sun upon their right hand, are a traditional part of early African speculation. But it was the Portuguese in that strange, intensely romantic period of search and discovery that is the glory of their nation who first doubled the southernmost cape, and found the shape of Africa while they sought a route to India.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot;&gt;lO RI TAIN’S interest in Africa was originally aroused by Portuguese exiles who had &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;IJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot;&gt; settled in Exeter. In 1588 Queen Elizabeth granted a patent to “certain merchants of Exeter and others of the West parts and of London for a trade to the river Senegal and Gambia in Guinea.” The Company, despite its royal patronage, failed. To reach even Gambia, just round the corner of the first great bulge of Africa, was a perilous and difficult journey in Elizabethan days. James I gave a charter to another company— “ the Company of Adventurers of London trading into Africa ”—and for very nearly three hundred years the history of the merchants of Africa is one first of adventure and only secondly of trade. From George Thompson, who was murdered on his way to Timbuctoo, to Cecil John Rhodes, walking unarmed into the camp of the Matabele, the spirit of trade is illuminated by the flame of adventure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;font2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;One of the earliest of voyages into Africa is admirably recorded in the pages of Hakluyt, and it is the more interesting for it illustrates both the manner and the methods of the first contacts that Britain had with the Dark Continent:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;font1&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;“ The first voyage of the right worshipfull and valiant knight Sir John Haukins, sometimes treasurer of her Majesties navie Roial, made to the W. Indies 1562. Master John Haukins, having made divers voyages to the lies of the Canaries, and there by his good and upright dealing being growen in love and favour with the people, informed himself amongst them by diligent inquisition, of the state of the W. India, whereof hee had received some knowledge by the instructions of his father, but increased the same by the advertisements and reports of that people. And being&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;Family of Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey says she was &#39;let down&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;Ebola crisis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;The family of nurse Pauline Cafferkey says doctors &quot;missed a big opportunity&quot; to spot she had fallen ill again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;Ms Cafferkey is in an isolation unit in London after tests indicated the Ebola virus is still present in her body.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;The health board confirmed she was sent home by an out-of-hours doctor in Glasgow earlier this week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;In an&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;story-body__link-external&quot; href=&quot;http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/family-condemns-hospital-failures-after-6612236&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;interview with the Sunday Mail newspaper&lt;/a&gt;, her sister Toni Cafferkey said it was &quot;absolutely diabolical&quot; the way the nurse had been treated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;Ms Cafferkey, from Cambuslang in South Lanarkshire,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;story-body__link&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30629397&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;spent almost a month in isolation&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;at the beginning of the year after contracting the virus in December 2014.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;On Tuesday, the 39-year-old was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow after feeling unwell.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;She was later flown to the Royal Free Hospital in London where she&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;story-body__link&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34495250&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;remains in a serious condition in an isolation unit&lt;/a&gt;. She is not thought to be contagious.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;Toni Cafferkey told the Sunday Mail that her sister had gone to a GP out-of-hours clinic at the Victoria Hospital in Glasgow on Monday night but the doctor who assessed her diagnosed a virus and sent her home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;She said: &quot;At that point me and my family believe they missed a big opportunity to give the right diagnosis and we feel she was let down. Instead of being taken into hospital, she spent the whole of Tuesday very ill.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&quot;I think it is absolutely diabolical the way she has been treated... We don&#39;t know if the delays diagnosing Pauline have had an adverse effect on her health, but we intend to find out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&quot;It has not been good enough. We think there have been major failings and we just want her to pull through. This kind of recurrence seems to be rare but we don&#39;t yet know enough about it.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed that Ms Cafferkey did attend the New Victoria Hospital GP out-of-hours service on Monday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;A spokesman said: &quot;Her management and the clinical decisions taken based on the symptoms she was displaying at the time were entirely appropriate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&quot;All appropriate infection control procedures were carried out as part of this episode of care.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;On Friday, a statement from the Royal Free Hospital confirmed Ms Cafferkey had been transferred to the hospital &quot;due to an unusual late complication of her previous infection by the Ebola virus&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;It added: &quot;The Ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic, so the risk to the general public remains low and the NHS has well-established and practised infection control procedures in place.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Facebook is to launch a satellite that will provide internet access to remote parts of Africa, the social network&#39;s founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced.&lt;/div&gt;
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In partnership with French-based provider Eutelsat, Facebook hope the first satellite will be launched in 2016.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;We&#39;re going to keep working to connect the entire world -- even if that means looking beyond our planet,&quot; Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.&lt;/div&gt;
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The project is part of Facebook&#39;s Internet.org project, which has come under fierce criticism in some countries.&lt;/div&gt;
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In some areas, particularly India, businesses reacted angrily to the plans saying it gave Facebook, and its partners, an unfair advantage in developing internet markets.&lt;/div&gt;
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Internet.org is experimenting with different ways of providing internet to hard-to-reach places. Recently, the company told of how it was planning to use a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;story-body__link&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33728704&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;custom-built drone to beam down connectivity&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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&#39;Optimised for community&#39;&lt;/h2&gt;
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This latest initiative looks to use existing satellite technology to provide affordable internet access.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;Over the last year Facebook has been exploring ways to use aircraft and satellites to beam internet access down into communities from the sky,&quot; Mr Zuckerberg wrote.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;To connect people living in remote regions, traditional connectivity infrastructure is often difficult and inefficient, so we need to invent new technologies.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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In a statement, Eutelsat said users on the ground would be able to use &quot;off the shelf&quot; products to access the service when it launches in the second half of 2016.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;The capacity is optimised for community and Direct-to-User Internet access using affordable, off-the-shelf customer equipment,&quot; the company said.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;Eutelsat and Facebook will each deploy Internet services designed to relieve pent-up demand for connectivity from the many users in Africa beyond range of fixed and mobile terrestrial networks.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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Several companies already provide internet-by-satellite, but it is a costly option beyond the reach of most people in the developing world.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;helmet&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;freesans&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;Nigeria will need three years without polio cases to be declared free of the disease&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; display: block; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0.5em 15px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;Sunday, 27 September 2015&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;Nigeria will need three years without polio cases to be declared free of the disease&lt;span class=&quot;post-labels&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Labels:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rich-biofool.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/health%20.polio&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;health .polio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 32px 0px 0px -54.2188px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;image-and-copyright-container&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;story-image-copyright&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; bottom: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.5625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.25px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px 1px; position: absolute; right: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;WHO/T.Moran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width lead&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 32px 0px 0px -54.2188px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption class=&quot;media-caption&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;off-screen&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;Image caption&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width lead&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 32px 0px 0px -54.2188px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption class=&quot;media-caption&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;media-caption__text&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.23077; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;Nigeria will need three years without polio cases to be declared free of the disease&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;Nigeria has been removed from the list of polio endemic countries in what is being regarded as a &quot;milestone&quot; on the quest to eradicate the disease.The announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO), was made at a meeting of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in New York.It follows Nigeria going more than a year without a case of wild - naturally occurring - polio.Three years without cases are required before it can be declared polio free.The decision means there are just two endemic countries - Pakistan and Afghanistan - where transmission of the paralysing virus has never been interrupted.Jean Gough, Unicef country representative in Nigeria, told me: &quot;This is an important milestone, but it is too early to celebrate. We need to continue the efforts at every level if polio is to be eradicated.&quot;Polio is spread by poor sanitation and contaminated water and usually affects children.The virus attacks the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis - usually of the legs - within hours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;image-and-copyright-container&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Ancient Egyptian Polio sufferer&quot; class=&quot;js-image-replace&quot; datasrc=&quot;http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/320/media/images/58517000/gif/_58517091_ancient.gif&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/58517000/gif/_58517091_ancient.gif&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616.203px;&quot; width=&quot;624&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;image-and-copyright-container&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;off-screen&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;Image copyright&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;image-and-copyright-container&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;story-image-copyright&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; bottom: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.5625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.25px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px 1px; position: absolute; right: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;Getty Images&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption class=&quot;media-caption&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;off-screen&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;Image caption&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption class=&quot;media-caption&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;media-caption__text&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.23077; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;This Egyptian stele (an upright stone carving) dating from 1403-1365 BC shows a priest with a walking stick and foot, deformities characteristic of polio. The disease was given its first clinical description in 1789 by the British physician Michael Underwood, and recognised as a condition by Jakob Heine in 1840. The first modern epidemics were fuelled by the growth of cities after the industrial revolution.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;GPEI was established in 1988 when tens of thousands of children in more than 125 countries were paralysed by polio each year.Partner organisations include the WHO, Rotary International and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.ChallengeNigeria&#39;s progress against polio has been hard-fought.In 2003, some northern states boycotted the oral polio vaccine for nearly a year after scare stories that it caused sterilisation.It led to the virus spreading to many countries that had been declared polio free.In 2013 nine vaccinators were shot dead in Kano. But instead of being a deterrent, it galvanised support at every level.The Nigerian government declared polio a national health emergency and greatly increased the number of vaccinators.And community and religious leaders voiced their support.As a result, the number of families refusing to have their children immunised has decreased sharply.Boko HaramThe success has come despite the Islamist militant insurgency in north-east Nigeria.Earlier this month Unicef said half a million children had fled attacks by Boko Haram over the past five months.Vaccine teams have been focussing attention on displaced families who have moved elsewhere in Nigeria, as well as fleeing to neighbouring countries like Cameroon, Chad and Niger.&lt;a class=&quot;story-body__link&quot; href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4609635.stm&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;I last visited Kano&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in northern Nigeria in 2005 and met Aminu Ahmed, and his son Umar - both of whom have been paralysed by polio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;image-and-copyright-container&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Aminu Ahmed and his son Umar both have polio&quot; class=&quot;js-image-replace&quot; datasrc=&quot;http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/3809/production/_85754341_aminu_umar_ahmed.jpg&quot; height=&quot;549&quot; src=&quot;https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/3809/production/_85754341_aminu_umar_ahmed.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616.203px;&quot; width=&quot;976&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;image-and-copyright-container&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;off-screen&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Image copyright&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;image-and-copyright-container&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;story-image-copyright&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; bottom: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.5625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.25px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px 1px; position: absolute; right: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Fergus Walsh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption class=&quot;media-caption&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;off-screen&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Image caption&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption class=&quot;media-caption&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;media-caption__text&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.23077; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Aminu Ahmed and his son Umar both have been paralysed by polio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Like other children, Umar did not get the drops of polio vaccine and was infected, partially paralysing his right leg.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;His father - who runs a charity making hand-operated tricycles for polio sufferers - has become a campaigner for polio immunisation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;I went back to meet the family. Umar is doing well at school and he now joins his father in persuading families to be immunised.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Aminu Ahmed told me: &quot;Ten years ago, it was very common to see families saying no to the vaccine - now they all want it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;&quot;We say you do not want your children to be unable to walk, like me.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;hr class=&quot;story-body__line&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; height: 1px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 16px; width: 591.563px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Polio progress&lt;/span&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;image-and-copyright-container&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Map: Polio in 1988&quot; class=&quot;js-image-replace&quot; datasrc=&quot;http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/DE21/production/_85756865_polio_maps_624_v2_1988.png&quot; height=&quot;381&quot; src=&quot;https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/DE21/production/_85756865_polio_maps_624_v2_1988.png&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616.203px;&quot; width=&quot;624&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption class=&quot;media-caption&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;off-screen&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Image caption&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption class=&quot;media-caption&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;media-caption__text&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.23077; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;By 1988, polio had disappeared from the US, UK, Australia and much of Europe but remained prevalent in more than 125 countries. The same year, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to eradicate the disease completely by the year 2000.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;image-and-copyright-container&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Map: Polio in 2015&quot; class=&quot;js-image-replace&quot; datasrc=&quot;http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/12C41/production/_85756867_polio_maps_624_v2_2015.png&quot; height=&quot;381&quot; src=&quot;https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/12C41/production/_85756867_polio_maps_624_v2_2015.png&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616.203px;&quot; width=&quot;624&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption class=&quot;media-caption&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;off-screen&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Image caption&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=&quot;media-landscape has-caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px -24.6406px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption class=&quot;media-caption&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;media-caption__text&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.23077; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;In 2015, polio remains endemic in only two countries - Pakistan and Afghanistan. No new cases have been reported in Africa for the past year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;hr class=&quot;story-body__line&quot; style=&quot;border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; height: 1px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 16px; width: 591.563px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Wild polio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Nigeria, like the rest of the world, is switching from the oral polio vaccine, given in two drops into the mouth, to an injectable, inactivated form of polio vaccine (IPV).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;The oral vaccine, which contains a weakened vaccine virus, can in extremely rare cases, cause a form of polio - circulation vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;There has been one case of cVDPV in Nigeria this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;I met the family of the last child to be infected with wild polio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Isau was 16 months old when he was infected in July 2014.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;His right arm lies lifeless at his side - the muscles have withered and he cannot use them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;His mother, Kanduwa Ahmadu, has just given birth to another boy. She told me: &quot;I will make sure my baby son gets all the doses of polio vaccine he needs. I know that life will be very hard for Isau.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s more than a year since there has been a case of wild polio in Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Eradicating the disease from the continent would be a huge achievement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;tahoma&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;freesans&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;But health officials fear a resurgence of the disease unless efforts are continued to immunise every child.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;India was declared polio free last year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;So far this year there have been&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;story-body__link-external&quot; href=&quot;http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;41 cases of wild polio worldwide&lt;/a&gt;, compared to 200 at the same point last year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Boko Haram timeline: From preachers to slave raiders&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;A picture taken from a video distributed to Nigerian journalists in the country&#39;s north and obtained by AFP on March 5, 2013 reportedly shows Abubakar Shekau (C), the suspected leader of Nigerian Islamist  group Boko Haram&quot; height=&quot;351&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67622000/jpg/_67622890_67615370.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;624&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Boko Haram&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Nigeria&#39;s President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three north-eastern states as militant Islamists intensify their offensive against the government.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The insurgency, led by Boko Haram, has killed some 2,000 people since 2009. It has spread across the mainly Muslim north and central Nigeria.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;With the attacks becoming increasingly sophisticated, there is growing concern that Boko Haram is receiving backing from al-Qaeda-linked militants in other countries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Here, BBC Africa&#39;s Farouk Chothia looks at the changing nature of the conflict.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;First large-scale incursion: May 2013&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Boko Haram has increased its focus on smaller towns in north-eastern Nigeria in recent months after the military drove many of its fighters out of Maiduguri - the capital of Borno state, which was the group&#39;s main base.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Boko Haram militants have since infiltrated nearby towns, with little resistance from the army.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;In a well-planned attack on 7 May 2013 in Bama, some 70km (44 miles) from Maiduguri, about 200 heavily armed men stormed a military barracks, police station and government buildings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Fifty-five people were killed and 105 prisoners were freed in the raids. Significantly, the militants launched the attack in armoured vehicles mounted with machine guns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;It suggests that they are becoming better-resourced and they can adapt to the changing terrain. Easy to use motorcycles are the trademark for Boko Haram attacks in cities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;A Nigerian soldiers stands beside a burnt house after the army clashed with Boko Haram insurgents in Borno state. Photo: April 2013&quot; height=&quot;171&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67615000/jpg/_67615372_67608831.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;304&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 304px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The military attacked Baga, near Chad&#39;s border, where militants had reportedly built up a presence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The Bama violence came a few weeks after Boko Haram attacked a military patrol in Baga, a nearby town in which it is said to have also built a presence, forcibly recruiting youth into its ranks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The military retaliated by launching a raid on the town, accusing residents of harbouring the militants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Nearly 200 people died in the raid, and thousands of buildings were destroyed, leading to claims by rights groups that the military had used excessive force - an allegation it has repeatedly faced as it tries to quell the insurgency launched in 2009.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The army denied the allegation, and blamed Boko Haram for the deaths of 37 people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;First &#39;slaves captured&#39;: May 2013&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video on 13 May 2013, saying Boko Haram had taken women and children - including teenage girls - hostage in response to the arrest of its members&#39; wives and children.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;It is unclear whether the hostages are the relatives of government officials or civilians.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mr Shekau said the hostages would be treated as &quot;slaves&quot;, fuelling concern that Boko Haram is adhering to the ancient Islamic belief that women captured during war are slaves with whom their &quot;masters&quot; can have sex.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;First cross-border raid and kidnapping: February 2013&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Now established in remote areas close to Nigeria&#39;s north-eastern border, Boko Haram launched its first operation in neighbouring Cameroon in February 2013.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Still from the video alleged to show the French victims&quot; height=&quot;171&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67106000/jpg/_67106648_videostillafp.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;304&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 304px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The French family was kidnapped in February and freed in April&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Its fighters abducted French nationals as they were returning from a visit to Waza National Park.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The group said it took them hostage in response to France&#39;s military intervention against militant Islamists in Mali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The French family of seven, including four children aged between five and 12, were freed some two months later.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;A Nigerian government report, seen by Reuters news agency, said Boko Haram was paid a ransom of more than $3m (£2m) to release the hostages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The French and Cameroonian governments denied any ransom was paid.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;This was the first time Boko Haram had said that it had taken hostages. Another northern Nigerian Islamist group, Ansaru - which was formed in 2012 and is believed to have links to al-Qaeda - has been involved in abducting foreigners.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;It is unclear where Boko Haram held the French family captive; some analysts believe it was in one of the towns which fell under the militants&#39; control this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;First mosque bombing: 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Muslims attending prayers by the palace of the Shehu of Borno in Maiduguri in Nigeria (Archive shot: May 2012)&quot; height=&quot;171&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67623000/jpg/_67623021_afp.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;304&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 304px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The palace of the Shehu of Borno is in the centre of Maiduguri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;A suicide bomber detonated himself at a mosque in Maiduguri in July 2012, after Friday prayers. His target was believed to have been the most senior Muslim leader in Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Garbai El-Kanemi. He narrowly escaped death, but five other worshippers were killed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Boko Haram did not comment on the attack, but many residents believed that the suicide bomber came from its ranks and the attack was aimed at eliminating or intimidating moderate Muslims opposed to the group.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;In a second attack a few weeks later, a suicide bomber tried to kill the traditional leader of the Fika emirate in Yobe state, Alhaji Muhammed Abali Ibn Mohammed Idrisa. The bomber blew himself up after he was confronted by bodyguards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The attack on Mr Idrissa did not come as a surprise, as he is a former state security officer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;In January 2012, Boko Haram carried out its bloodiest assault in a single day - the killing of about 185 people in co-ordinated bombing and gun attacks across Kano, the biggest city in the north with a majority Muslim population.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;In June, it assassinated the retired police Deputy Inspector General Saleh Abubakar Ningi after ambushing his vehicle in Kano. He is the most senior security official to be killed by Boko Haram so far.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;In the same year, the group also carried out attacks on schools, the offices of the highly respected ThisDay newspaper and mobile phone firms, which it accused of colluding with the security forces by handing over data to them - an allegation the companies denied.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;First suicide bombing: 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Rescue workers at UN building in Abuja, Nigeria - 26 August 2011&quot; height=&quot;171&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67623000/jpg/_67623024_012732860-1.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;304&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 304px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The bomb at the UN headquarters was the first time the group had hit a foreign target&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;In June 2011, a suicide bomber rammed a car into the police headquarters in the capital, Abuja, killing eight people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The bomber is alleged to have joined the convoy of then-police chief Gen Hafiz Ringim, before detonating himself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Gen Ringim was later sacked, as critics rounded on him for his failure to protect the heart of Nigeria&#39;s security establishment, let alone the rest of the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Some two months after the bombing, Boko Haram attacked the UN headquarters in Abuja, killing 23 people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;It was the first time the group had hit a foreign target. It released a video, describing the UN as a &quot;forum of all the global evil&quot; and offering praise for Osama Bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader killed by US special forces in Pakistan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;This was the clearest indication that Boko Haram saw itself as part of a global jihadist movement, though some analysts believe its roots can be traced to 2001 when a group calling itself the Taleban emerged in northern Nigeria in response to the US military campaign in Afghanistan following the al-Qaeda-linked attacks in New York and Washington in the same year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;First Christmas bombings: 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Worshippers in Maiduguri, Nigeria&quot; height=&quot;171&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63819000/jpg/_63819495_worshippers_afp.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;304&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 304px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Women at some congregations in the north have been banned from carrying handbags to church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;At least 32 people were killed in bomb blasts targeting churches on Christmas Eve 2010 in central Plateau state, which straddles Nigeria&#39;s mainly Muslim north and the Christian south.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Christmas Day services were also targeted in 2011, killing dozens of people just outside Abuja and other cities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;There have been many other attacks on churches, including an Easter bomb attack in the northern city of Kaduna in 2012. At least 41 people were killed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The attacks have forced many churches to tighten security, and some have even banned women from carrying hand bags.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;First ever attack: 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Mohammed Yusuf, bare-chested and with a bandage on his arm, surrounded by soldiers&quot; height=&quot;299&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67623000/jpg/_67623025_yusuf.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;224&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf died in police custody&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Launched in 2002, Boko Haram - which in the local Hausa language means &quot;Western education is forbidden&quot;, a reference to the initial focus of its Islamist agenda - became a force to be reckoned with in 2009 when it raided police stations and government buildings in Maiduguri, and other northern cities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Hundreds of people were killed in the ensuing clashes between the security forces and its members.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Soldiers raided Boko Haram&#39;s headquarters, an Islamic centre in Maiduguri where children from poor families, including those from neighbouring Chad and Niger, enrolled for religious studies, only to be recruited as fighters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;When the security forces seized control of the centre, they captured its leader, Mohammed Yusuf, who then died in police custody.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The military declared victory over Boko Haram, only to find the group reorganising itself under the leadership of Abubakar Shekau, who took it on a more militant path in the campaign to establish a puritanical Islamic state across Nigeria.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Dr Stephen Davis left his home in Perth to travel to the African country after being recruited by the country&#39;s president for his hostage negotiation expertise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;The girls were taken in a raid on their school in Chibok, in Nigeria’s north-east, by the violent group who want to impose Sharia law on the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Dr Davis, a friend of The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, has been working secretly in Nigeria for almost a month now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The 250 girls are being held by Islamic group Boko Haram after they were abducted from Chibok, in north eastern Nigeria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;The former Canon Emeritus at Coventry Cathedral in the UK, who moved back to Australia last year, told MailOnline: &#39;I am encouraged by the progress.&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;He was asked to come to Nigeria after previously brokering a truce between violent rebels and the government in the Niger Delta in 2004.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Along with Mr Welby, he was frequently blindfolded and held at gunpoint during his peace work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;In an email from Nigeria, the Doctor revealed he has had &#39;ongoing contact&#39; with the groups involved in the kidnapping in Nigeria&#39;s north for seven years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;&#39;This is a long process of building trust on both sides,&#39; he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;&#39;There are several groups to deal with as the girls are held in several camps. This makes any thought of a rescue highly improbable. To attempt to rescue one group would only endanger the others.&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Despite the difficulties of a rescue operation, Dr Davis remains hopeful that the schoolgirls will be freed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;&#39;Every day there is the possibility of the release of the girls,&#39; he revealed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;&#39;This is painful for the parents and the nation. The well-being of the girls is constantly on our minds and we want to see their release as soon as possible.&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The Boko Haram leader has declared he would sell the girls into slavery, or marry them off to their kidnappers, if members of his sect were not released from prison&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;However, he warned: &#39;We must not endanger their lives any further.&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Speaking about his recent negotiation work, he explained he has been to forward military position in the northeast of Nigeria in recent days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;He believes &#39;the troops and their field commanders are doing all that can be done at this point&#39;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;On Sunday, a heartbreaking new video of the Nigerian schoolgirls showed them bravely speaking out about their ordeal for the first time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;The footage, not released publicly but seen by The Mail on Sunday, was taken in a jungle clearing a month after their abduction.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;The girls in the video look healthy, but it is understood that fraught negotiations are under way to broker the release several pupils who have fallen ill, including one with a broken wrist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Deborah Peter told US congress members how Boko Haram killed her family in 2011 and called for the release of the kidnapped girls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;In the video, eight girls, dressed in their home-made school uniforms of pale blue gingham, plead for release as they stand courageously in front of the camera. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;They are clearly scared, upset and trying to be brave. Each of them walks in turn to a spot in front of a white sheet fixed to a crude frame between the trees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Four of them can be heard clearly, in their Hausa language, stating that they were taken by force and that they are hungry. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;A tall girl, aged about 18, says tearfully: &#39;My family will be so worried.&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Another, speaking softly, says: &#39;I never expected to suffer like this in my life.&#39; A third says: &#39;They have taken us away by force.&#39; The fourth girl complains: &#39;We are not getting enough food.&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;The video, taken by an intermediary on May 19, has been shown to President Goodluck Jonathan. It was intended to serve as &#39;proof of life&#39; for the girls and to encourage the President to accede to the terrorists&#39; demands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Two earlier videos showed the girls seated on the ground, dressed in hijabs, reciting the Koran, and Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau declaring he would sell them into slavery, or marry them off to their kidnappers, if members of his sect were not released from prison.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Pressure from the international community and criticism of the President&#39;s slow response to the kidnapping have led to a series of contradictory pronouncements from his government. &lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Ministers have declared they will not negotiate with Boko Haram, or consider the release of prisoners, while official spokesmen have said ‘the window is always open for dialogue’.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;At a Paris peace summit, several West African countries neighbouring Nigeria vowed to join in ‘outright war’ against the terrorists. Britain, France and America pledged their support and have sent teams of military experts and advisers to the region.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Intelligence sources have told the MoS of several rescue attempts, one involving the release of suspected low-level Boko Haram members detained without charges or trial.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Two attempts were aborted at the last minute when the terrorists took fright while delivering a group of girls to a safe location. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Last week Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Alex Badeh said the government knew the location of the girls and claimed that police and military had been ‘following them’ since the abduction. He refused to divulge details, saying it would put the girls in further danger.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Sources said Mr Badeh’s announcement may have been the result of government officials seeing the new, unpublished video. They may have been able to persuade Boko Haram’s intermediary to provide details of the location. It is believed the hostages have been split into at least four groups. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The Nigerian government has been engaged in negotiations with Boko Haram&#39;s spiritual leader Abubakar Shekau in a bid to secure the girls&#39; release&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;&#39;The vast majority of the Chibok girls are not being held in Nigeria,’ Dr Davis said. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;&#39;They are in camps across the Nigerian border in Cameroon, Chad and Niger. I say the “vast majority” as I know a small group was confirmed to me to be in Nigeria last week when we sought to have them released.&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;He described how fraught the negotiation process has been.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;‘One of that small group of girls is ill and we had hoped we might convince the commander of the group holding her that she should be released so we could give her medical treatment,’ Dr Davis said. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;‘There are other girls who are not well and we have come close to having them released but their captors fear a trap in which they will be captured in the handover process.‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;&#39;One girl has what I assume is a broken wrist as they demonstrate to me how she holds her hand. I have been told that others are sick and in need of medical attention.’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;A military source said: ‘This has been a race against time from the minute they were captured. As soon as the girls left Nigerian soil it was always going to be more difficult.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;&#39;The government made no attempt at a rescue until a month after they were taken. Now the situation gets more serious by the day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;‘Any sort of attempt to get to them would have to be cleared by the governments of the other nations.’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Scathing condemnations of Nigeria’s failure to address the menace of Boko Haram, ever since a proposed peace deal failed last August – leading to the extension of a state of emergency in three northern states – continued worldwide last week. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;US Senator Robert Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Nigeria had been ‘tragically and unacceptably slow’ to begin a search.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt;Others say the clock really being watched by Nigerian politicians is not the six weeks and counting since the kidnap but the 11 months to the country’s elections.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 1.2em;&quot;&gt; Opposition politician Nuhu Ribadu has accused the government of ‘total failure’.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Nigeria U-turn on kidnapped schoolgirl rallies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;In this photo taken from video by Nigeria&#39;s Boko Haram group released on Monday 12 May 2014 shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the north-eastern town of Chibok&quot; height=&quot;351&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/75107000/jpg/_75107908_022230424-1.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;624&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 624px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The schoolgirls are believed to be held in a remote part of Borno state&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Nigerian police say peaceful rallies to demand the release of more than 200 schoolgirls seized by Islamist militants will be allowed, after earlier banning them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;But campaigners were warned to exercise caution during protests.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Abuja police commissioner Joseph Mbu said the rallies were &quot;now posing a serious security threat&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Nigeria has seen almost daily rallies calling for the government to take firmer action to rescue the girls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Boko Haram militants snatched the girls from the remote Chibok village near the Cameroon border on 14 April.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Demonstrators in Abuja demand the government to act firmer to release the schoolgirls. Photo: 26 May 2014&quot; height=&quot;351&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/75259000/jpg/_75259614_022431695-1.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;624&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 624px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The #ReleaseOurGirls group was set up by the government&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The government earlier banned public protests across Nigeria after scuffles broke out last week between demonstrators organised under the #BringBackOurGirls and a new government-sponsored group called #ReleaseOurGirls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mr Mbu said that public protests had &quot;degenerated&quot; and were now a security threat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;Protests on the Chibok Girls is hereby banned with immediate effect,&quot; he said in a statement on Monday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Presidential advisor Doyin Okupe says Nigeria will rescue the schoolgirls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;But a day later, another police statement denied issuing any protest banning order, insisting that they had only released an &quot;advisory notice&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;It said that there was a risk of the protest rallies being attacked by &quot;criminal elements having links with insurgents&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Those wanting to attend such gatherings should &quot;seek proper advice and guidance from the police&quot; in order to &quot;avoid any unpleasant circumstances&quot;, the statement said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The about-turn came as the #BringBackOurGirls groups sought a court order against the ban.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Nigeria&#39;s government has been facing growing pressure both at home and abroad to do more to tackle the group and bring about the girls&#39; release.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;A deal for the release of some of the abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria was close to being secured when the Nigerian government called it off late last month, the BBC has learned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Thousands of people have died since Boko Haram began a violent campaign against the Nigerian government in 2009 and in the subsequent security crackdown.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;line&quot; height=&quot;2&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/74982000/jpg/_74982323_line976.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;624&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;cross-head&quot; style=&quot;display: block; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Who are Boko Haram?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; float: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;A screen-grab taken on 12 May 2014, from a video released by Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram &quot; height=&quot;351&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/75007000/jpg/_75007900_75007899.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;624&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 624px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has threatened to treat the girls as slaves&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_19/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Founded in 2002&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_19/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Initially focused on opposing Western education - Boko Haram means &quot;Western education is forbidden&quot; in the Hausa language&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_19/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Launched military operations in 2009 to create Islamic state&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_19/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Thousands killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria - also attacked police and UN headquarters in capital, Abuja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_19/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Some three million people affected&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_19/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Declared terrorist group by US in 2013&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13809501&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Who are Nigeria&#39;s Boko Haram Islamists?&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Who are Boko Haram?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18020349&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Profile: Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27396702&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Why Nigeria has not defeated Boko Haram&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The girls, who were mainly Christian, were taken from their school in Chibok, in north-eastern Borno state and are thought to be held in a remote forested area of the state, close to the border with Chad and Cameroon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Last month, Boko Haram&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27373287&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Video &#39;shows missing Nigeria girls&#39;&quot;&gt;released a video of some of the girls&lt;/a&gt;. The footage was interspersed with militants explaining that the girls had &quot;converted&quot; to Islam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The UK, the US, China and France are among the countries to have sent teams of experts and equipment to help to locate them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/videos/corporate-information/conflict-free-sub-sahara-africa-video.mp4.rendition.cq5dam.thumbnail.384.216.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; outline: 0px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;big-play-icon&quot; style=&quot;background-image: url(http://www.intel.com/etc/designs/ver/4.5.6/intel/us/en/images/video-play-btn-big.png); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; height: 155px; left: 192px; margin: -78px 0px 0px -78px; outline: 0px; position: absolute; top: 424px; width: 155px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;caption&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 12px !important; font-style: italic; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Efforts on the ground and across the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Most electronic devices, including cell phones, PCs, servers, and the processors that power them, contain gold, tantalum, tin, or tungsten. Some of these minerals, referred to as conflict minerals&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 8px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;, originate in the DRC, where violence, genocide, and other crimes against humanity occur. Armed militias and rebel groups exploit Congolese workers who mine the minerals, while reaping millions of dollars in profits for themselves. These profits are often used to fuel further violence.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Starting several years ago, Intel engaged in a thorough supply-chain effort to address the use of these conflict minerals in the manufacture of our products.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 8px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;A simple ban on minerals from DRC was not the answer, since it would deprive Congolese people of one of their few sources of income. Instead, Intel developed and implemented systems and processes to ensure the gold, tantalum, tin, and tungsten used in our products are not inadvertently supporting conflict in the DRC.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;In support of our efforts, Intel led the development with industry partners of an audit and verification system at smelters where raw ore is refined into metals. To date, Intel has visited more than 70 smelters in 20 countries to provide education on conflict minerals and encourage participation in the Conflict Free Smelter Program and other independent 3rd party smelter validation audits. Intel continues to support efforts to develop strong systems that enable responsible sourcing from the DRC.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Leading the way toward conflict-free&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;While many industries and companies use these minerals, Intel is recognized as a leader for its commitment, collaboration, and innovation in support of conflict-free supply chains and products. Intel has co-chaired industry working groups on the issue of conflict metals, recognizing that broad collaborative efforts are needed to solve this complex problem. In addition to a call-to-action to the electronics industry, the company has rallied for cross-industry action—calling on jewelry, automotive, medical instrumentation, and other manufacturers to put the systems in place to remove conflict metals from their supply chains and ultimately their products.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;As a result of its efforts, Intel is manufacturing the world&#39;s first microprocessors validated as&amp;nbsp;conflict-free&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 8px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;for gold, tantalum, tin, and tungsten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;However, Intel also understands this journey is far from complete. This problem cannot be solved by one company alone, and Intel encourages others, both industry and consumers alike, to join our continuing efforts to tackle this important global issue. By making faster and deeper strides toward conflict-free supply chains and fostering greater understanding and curiosity about what’s inside the products we buy, we can move more quickly toward improving the situation in the DRC and the surrounding region.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Man in yellow hard hat holds minerals&quot; src=&quot;http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/images/photography-business/3x2/mineral-man-yellow-hat-200x132.jpg.rendition.cq5dam.webintel.200.132.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; outline: 0px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The people of Intel are working to do the right thing when it comes to sourcing ethically produced materials, even when it’s the hard thing to do. We are compelled by an obligation to implement changes in our supply chain that ensures our business and our products are not inadvertently funding human atrocities in the world.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Lab worker in clean room views computer monitor.&quot; src=&quot;http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/images/photography-business/3x2/lab-worker-views-screen-200x132.jpg.rendition.cq5dam.webintel.200.132.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; outline: 0px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Product choice matters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;We take pride in the fact that when consumers purchase products made with Intel® processors inside, they have taken an important step in making a responsible purchase choice. But Intel can’t do it alone. We invite other companies to join the cause to create conflict-free products. If we can do it, so can you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Woman with Ultrabook&quot; src=&quot;http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/program/it-center/34663-girl-sit-floor-laptop.jpg.rendition.cq5dam.webintel.200.132.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; outline: 0px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Your voice matters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Individuals have the greatest potential to drive change. As consumers, we can get curious about what is in the products we buy and ask the companies we buy from where they stand on conflict-free. Individuals who choose products that are not causing harm in other regions of the world can help drive necessary change&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Gold market breaches &#39;covered up&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Kaloti gold bars&quot; height=&quot;351&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73208000/jpg/_73208524_gold3.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;624&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 624px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Kaloti is currently building the biggest refinery in the world in Dubai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Dubai&#39;s biggest gold refiner committed serious breaches of the rules designed to stop gold mined in conflict zones from entering the global supply chain, a whistleblower has revealed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Amjad Rihan led an Ernst &amp;amp; Young team that audited Kaloti and found it was failing to carry out the proper checks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;But after he told the Dubai regulator, it changed its audit procedures. He said that allowed details of the most serious findings to be covered up, with Ernst &amp;amp; Young turning a blind eye.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;The regulator, Ernst &amp;amp; Young and Kaloti all say they acted properly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Mr Rihan told Newsnight: &quot;The risk of conflict gold entering Dubai and entering the global supply chain is extremely high.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;The audit team, which visited Kaloti last year, alerted the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) and also urged superiors at Ernst &amp;amp; Young to notify other regulators and the gold-buying public.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;In May the DMCC&#39;s guidance required the audit team&#39;s initial findings to be made public. By November that requirement had disappeared.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;That allowed details of the most serious findings to be hidden and Ernst &amp;amp; Young&#39;s managers went along with that, Mr Rihan said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Angry with the regulator and his firm, Mr Rihan decided to resign and blow the whistle, taking his story to the campaigning group Global Witness, which passed key documents to Newsnight. His disclosures have also been reported by the Guardian and Al-Jazeera.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Amjad Rihan tells BBC Newsnight why he felt he had to resign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;I wouldn&#39;t be able to lived with a decision like that. I wouldn&#39;t be able to come back home at the end of the day and look at my children in the eyes and tell them I&#39;m proud of myself. I will never feel at peace with myself,&quot; he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;The audit found Kaloti had breached a number of international rules for the responsible sourcing of gold, including:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Paying tens millions of dollars in cash without proper documentation - a total of $5.2bn (£3.1bn) - or 40% of its business&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Importing more than four tonnes of gold-painted silver that arrived in Dubai declared as gold - a practice Kaloti described as &quot;normal&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Dealing with a supplier that had been linked to conflict zones in eastern Congo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Conflict-free gold is described as gold that has not caused, supported or benefited unlawful armed conflict during its production.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Dubai is an important global hub for the gold trade, with more than one-fifth of the world&#39;s trade in physical gold.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;As well as being used for jewellery or gold bars, about 300 tonnes of gold a year is used for components in electronic devices, such as computer leads and smartphones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Dubai has been named in reports by Global Witness and the United Nations as a big destination for conflict gold. So the DMCC has adopted the international standards designed to show its gold traders and refiners are sourcing gold responsibly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Ernst &amp;amp; Young&#39;s team in Dubai was engaged to carry out an audit of Kaloti against two standards - one set by DMCC and one set by the London Bullion Markets Association (LBMA), the standard gold sellers have to meet to sell on the London market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;Refiners - those who melt the gold down into bars or other forms - are the choke point in the supply chain,&quot; Annie Dunnebacke, from Global Witness, said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;hidden&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26341072#story_continues_2&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; left: -5000px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -5000px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Continue reading the main story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2 style=&quot;border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 1.231em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 11px 0px 12px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;• Conflict minerals are minerals mined in conditions of armed conflict and human rights abuses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;• Armed groups earn hundreds of millions of dollars every year by trading conflict minerals. These minerals can be found in all our electronic devices, from mobile phones to gaming systems&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;• A law passed in 2010 gave companies a May 2014 deadline for reporting the source of its raw materials&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;•&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25636001&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;In January computing company Intel announced that it would no longer use conflict minerals in its microprocessors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;•&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26144981&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;US technology giant Apple began publicising which of its suppliers may be sourcing minerals from conflict zones in February&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;• Apple&#39;s first published list detailed 104 suppliers that were unverified for compliance with ethical guidelines&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;They must carry out checks all the way... back to the mine to find out what the conditions of extraction were, whether the gold has funded conflict, and what&#39;s happened along the way.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Mr Rihan said his audit team made &quot;severe and disturbing findings&quot; at Kaloti but he discovered the DMCC was far from keen on publicly shaming Kaloti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;cross-head&quot; style=&quot;display: block; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&#39;High risk&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Mr Rihan said: &quot;We told them about the severity of our findings as well as our final conclusion which would state that the risk of conflict minerals entering Dubai is extremely high.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;The Dubai-based regulator was not happy about that, and when they realised that we will not alter our findings, they went ahead and they changed their own guidelines in such a way that our findings and our final conclusions are not made public.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;The DMCC denies changing its rules in order to keep the detail of the damaging findings out of public view. It says the rule changes were based on a consultant&#39;s advice, to bring itself into line with international standards like those required to sell on the London bullion market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Concerned that his firm was letting a cover-up take place, Mr Rihan wrote to Ernst &amp;amp; Young&#39;s head of Europe, Middle East and Africa, Mark Otty, urging him to notify the UK regulator of the findings. He copied it to the firm&#39;s global chairman and chief executive, Mark Weinberger.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Ernst &amp;amp; Young took the view that it did not need to notify the UK-based regulator.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Workers up a mountain in the DR Congo&quot; height=&quot;351&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73208000/jpg/_73208531_72914206.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;624&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 624px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Conflict-ravaged DR Congo has provided large amounts of gold for the global chain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Ernst &amp;amp; Young said the firm was not bound by the UK regulator&#39;s rules to notify the LBMA of its findings and claimed it would be a breach of confidentiality to do so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;cross-head&quot; style=&quot;display: block; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&#39;Goalposts moved&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Newsnight has seen confidential documents, which show the audit team&#39;s findings were initially accepted by the refiner, Kaloti, which privately acknowledged the most serious category of rule breach.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;But in November, after what Mr Rihan described as a move of the &quot;auditing goalposts&quot;, Kaloti was able to declare itself &quot;fully compliant&quot;. And Ernst &amp;amp; Young publicly endorsed that as a &quot;fair view&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;img alt=&quot;Gold - symbol, atomic number and weight&quot; height=&quot;171&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71578000/jpg/_71578894_71578893.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; display: block; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: -9px 0px 17px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;304&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Symbol: Au (from Latin aurum)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Atomic number: 79&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Weight: 196.97&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;One of the &quot;noble&quot; metals that do not oxidise under ordinary conditions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Used in jewellery, electronics, aerospace and medicine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Most gold in the earth&#39;s crust&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22904141&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;is thought to derive from meteors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Biggest producers: China, Australia, US, Russia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Annie Dunnebacke, from Global Witness says: &quot;Ernst &amp;amp; Young&#39;s actions are not illegal but they raise questions about the firm&#39;s ethical commitments.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;She said Ernst &amp;amp; Young&#39;s own code of conduct encouraged employees to consider whether their decisions were the most ethical they could make.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;Reviewing the events of this case one has to ask whether that happened here,&quot; she said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;In a statement, DMCC said it &quot;utterly rejects any suggestion that it has acted in any way improperly in the application of responsible sourcing guidelines for gold and the review process for member refineries&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;It added: &quot;We have never concealed instances of non-compliance or protocol breaches, nor sought to influence [Ernst &amp;amp; Young] or any independent reviewer in carrying out their duties in the review process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;We have also never altered, amended or diluted our responsible sourcing guidelines or review protocol to favour any member refinery or otherwise interfered with the review process.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Kaloti said any allegations relating to its non-compliance in the gold trade business were &quot;without merit&quot;. It said it was proud to have led the &quot;transparency drive&quot; in Dubai&#39;s physical gold market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;Kaloti has followed and adhered at all stages to the requirements of the audit and the DMCC review protocol and remains fully compliant,&quot; it added.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Ernst &amp;amp; Young Dubai said it &quot;refutes entirely the suggestion that we did anything but highly professional work in relation to our compliance engagement with Kaloti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;The instances of non-compliance we found were fully reported by EY Dubai to the client and separately to the regulator.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;EY Dubai took the views of our former partner very seriously... consulting with internal and external experts, who supported the actions we took.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;We firmly believe... we have played an important role in achieving improvements in the client&#39;s supply chain controls.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: black; line-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;You can see Andrew Verity&#39;s film in full on Newsnight on Tuesday, 25 February, at 22:30 GMT on BBC Two.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Syrian rebel &#39;beheaded in case of mistaken identity&lt;/h3&gt;
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Syrian rebel &#39;beheaded in case of mistaken identity&#39;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;img alt=&quot;An photograph purportedly showing Ahrar  al-Sham fighter Mohammed Fares (left)&quot; height=&quot;261&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71134000/jpg/_71134023_71134018.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; -webkit-user-select: none; background-color: #222222; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;464&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 464px;&quot;&gt;Members of Harakat Ahrar al-Sham recognised Mohammed Fares (left)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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An al-Qaeda affiliated rebel group in Syria is reported to have asked for forgiveness after beheading a fellow rebel in a case of mistaken identity.&lt;/div&gt;
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A video recently posted online showed members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) brandishing the severed, bearded head of a man.&lt;/div&gt;
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They said was an Iraqi Shia caught fighting on the government side.&lt;/div&gt;
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But other rebel fighters watching the video recognised the man and said he was one of their commanders.&lt;/div&gt;
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The video shows two ISIS fighters in Aleppo province - one holding a knife - brandish a severed, bearded head, denouncing their victim as an Iraqi volunteer for President Bashar al-Assad&#39;s forces.&lt;/div&gt;
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They decry his immorality, saying he is a heathen - one of those who have threatened rape of men as much as women.&lt;/div&gt;
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Horrifying videos like this stream out of Syria every day from the rebel and government side - each with the aim of sowing terror.&lt;/div&gt;
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What makes this one stand out is that other rebels watching the video recognised the beheaded man.&lt;/div&gt;
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Members of the hardline Islamist rebel group, Harakat Ahrar al-Sham, said he was not a government fighter at all, but one of their own. They said he was a commander called Mohammed Fares.&lt;/div&gt;
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The story appears to be that he was wounded in the recent battle for Base 80, south of Aleppo, with government forces and was being taken for medical treatment by rebel fighters.&lt;/div&gt;
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But he seems to have thought he had been captured by government militiamen from the much feared shabiha. The militia is dominated by Alawites, members of the president&#39;s heterodox Shia sect.&lt;/div&gt;
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Mr Fares is reported to have offered prayers that would have made him seem a Shia rather than a Sunni - and therefore on their side.&lt;/div&gt;
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This was heard by ISIS fighters, and in the growing atmosphere of sectarian hatred, he was then subjected to his savage fate.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10449815/Al-Qaeda-linked-rebels-apologise-after-cutting-off-head-of-wrong-person.html&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The Daily Telegraph quoted&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;ISIS spokesman Omar al-Qahtani as conceding the error.&lt;/div&gt;
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According to the newspaper, he alluded to a saying by the Prophet Muhammad that Allah forgives those who kill a believer by mistake.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Features and analysis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot; medium-image first-child&quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: both; margin: -2px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 7px 160px; position: relative; width: 304px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24116042&quot; rel=&quot;published-1379640863581&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;UN inspector&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69928000/jpg/_69928242_inspector_ap.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; -webkit-user-select: none; background-color: #222222; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; height: 81px; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-left: -160px; padding: 8px; position: relative; top: 2px; width: 144px;&quot; /&gt;Arms destruction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
How might the international community dispose of Syria&#39;s chemical arsenal&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;hr style=&quot;border-color: transparent; clear: both; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; margin: -1px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: hidden;&quot; /&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-1 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22307705&quot; rel=&quot;published-1366983754262&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Chemical stockpile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-1 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24628442&quot; rel=&quot;published-1382454044151&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Q&amp;amp;A: Geneva II&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-1 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24288698&quot; rel=&quot;published-1380502493199&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&#39;Please let it be over&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-1 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24403003&quot; rel=&quot;published-1382005133015&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Assad opponents&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-1 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24179084&quot; rel=&quot;published-1379684865717&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Profile: Isis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-1 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24130181&quot; rel=&quot;published-1379430567863&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;UN report analysis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot;column-1 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24272977&quot; rel=&quot;published-1380124122756&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Rebel rifts deepen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-1 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24148322&quot; rel=&quot;published-1379526058043&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&#39;No sectarianism&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-1 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24114746&quot; rel=&quot;published-1379346371924&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Back from brink&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-2 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24096397&quot; rel=&quot;published-1379182976922&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Surprise success?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-2 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24160189&quot; rel=&quot;published-1379599559237&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Rebel rifts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot;column-2 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24045650&quot; rel=&quot;published-1378890567396&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Russian coup?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot;column-2 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23876085&quot; rel=&quot;published-1377777077121&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Key questions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot;column-2 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23927399&quot; rel=&quot;published-1378137241339&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;What we know&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot;column-2 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24044464&quot; rel=&quot;published-1378909350481&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Damascus diaries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-2 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24063187&quot; rel=&quot;published-1378986700096&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Putin&#39;s plea to Americans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-2 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24045429&quot; rel=&quot;published-1378989016831&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Viewpoints on Russia plan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot;column-2 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23959505&quot; rel=&quot;published-1378296126433&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;What our readers say&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;hyper-related-assets&quot; id=&quot;group-title-2&quot; style=&quot;border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px 0px 2px; overflow: visible; padding-top: 11px; position: relative; width: 464px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;h4 class=&quot;hyper-depth-stories-header&quot; style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 3px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Video and audio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul style=&quot;line-height: 1.4; list-style: none; margin: -3px 0px 4px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 0px 240px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot; medium-image first-child&quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: both; margin: -2px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 7px 160px; position: relative; width: 304px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot; hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24561698&quot; rel=&quot;published-1381992621375&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Lina Sinjab with a map of Syria&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70531000/jpg/_70531076_70531037.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; -webkit-user-select: none; background-color: #222222; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; height: 81px; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-left: -160px; padding: 8px; position: relative; top: 2px; width: 144px;&quot; /&gt;Who is fighting whom in Syria?&lt;span class=&quot;gvl3-icon-wrapper&quot; style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/transparencies/rgba-0-0-0-07.png); background-repeat: repeat repeat; cursor: pointer; font-size: 1px; left: -160px; line-height: 1px; padding: 8px 10px; position: absolute; top: 2px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;gvl3-icon gvl3-icon-invert-watch&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/gvl3-icons-0-2.png); background-position: -5px -32px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 15px; left: auto; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-indent: -5000px; top: auto; width: 11px; z-index: 10;&quot;&gt;Watch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
The BBC&#39;s Lina Sinjab explains who the different groups fighting inside Syria are&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;hr style=&quot;border-color: transparent; clear: both; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; margin: -1px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: hidden;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot;column-1 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot;has-icon-boxedwatch hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 21px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24340151&quot; rel=&quot;published-1380575876788&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&#39;Interference slowing Syria peace&#39;&lt;span class=&quot;gvl3-icon gvl3-icon-boxedwatch&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/gvl3-icons-0-2.png); background-position: -1301px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 1px; height: 15px; left: 0px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px 8px 5px 0px; opacity: 0.85; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-indent: -5000px; top: -1px; width: 16px; z-index: 10;&quot;&gt;Watch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot;column-1 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px -240px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot;has-icon-boxedwatch hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 21px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24360946&quot; rel=&quot;published-1380678119486&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&#39;Decade of challenges&#39;&lt;span class=&quot;gvl3-icon gvl3-icon-boxedwatch&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/gvl3-icons-0-2.png); background-position: -1301px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 1px; height: 15px; left: 0px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px 8px 5px 0px; opacity: 0.85; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-indent: -5000px; top: -1px; width: 16px; z-index: 10;&quot;&gt;Watch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;li class=&quot;column-2 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot;has-icon-boxedwatch hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 21px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24361297&quot; rel=&quot;published-1380703239957&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Israel&#39;s missing radicals&lt;span class=&quot;gvl3-icon gvl3-icon-boxedwatch&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/gvl3-icons-0-2.png); background-position: -1301px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 1px; height: 15px; left: 0px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px 8px 5px 0px; opacity: 0.85; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-indent: -5000px; top: -1px; width: 16px; z-index: 10;&quot;&gt;Watch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot;column-2 &quot; style=&quot;border: none; clear: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;&lt;h5 class=&quot;has-icon-boxedwatch hyper-story-header&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 21px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24330521&quot; rel=&quot;published-1380543669139&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;BBC crew returns to Syria attack city&lt;span class=&quot;gvl3-icon gvl3-icon-boxedwatch&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_18/cream/hi/shared/img/gvl3-icons-0-2.png); background-position: -1301px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 1px; height: 15px; left: 0px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px 8px 5px 0px; opacity: 0.85; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-indent: -5000px; top: -1px; width: 16px; z-index: 10;&quot;&gt;Watch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;hyper-related-assets&quot; id=&quot;group-title-3&quot; style=&quot;border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px 0px 2px; overflow: visible; padding-top: 11px; position: relative; width: 464px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;h4 class=&quot;hyper-depth-stories-header&quot; style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 3px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Backgrounders&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul style=&quot;line-height: 1.4; list-style: none; margin: -3px 0px 4px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 0px 240px; position: relative; width: 224px;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19331551&quot; rel=&quot;published-1346330623016&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;A Syrian woman runs through the debris after an air strike&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69697000/jpg/_69697516_150309522.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; -webkit-user-select: none; background-color: #222222; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; height: 81px; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-left: -160px; padding: 8px; position: relative; top: 2px; width: 144px;&quot; /&gt;Guide to conflict&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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Multi-media explainer on how anti-government protests in Syria led to civil war which has claimed more than 100,000 lives.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23849587&quot; rel=&quot;published-1377609177522&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Where key countries stand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22798391&quot; rel=&quot;published-1370540127250&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Mapping the conflict&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23801200&quot; rel=&quot;published-1377187665941&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Zaatari refugee camp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15798218&quot; rel=&quot;published-1321736405168&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Syrian opposition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10338256&quot; rel=&quot;published-1276764751862&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Bashar al-Assad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13216195&quot; rel=&quot;published-1303939937579&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;President&#39;s inner circle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;BBC Arabic website&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/Syrian.Revolution&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Revolution 2011 on Facebook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://sana.sy/index_eng.html&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Syrian state news agency&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.syriahr.com/&quot; style=&quot;color: cyan; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Human Rights Observatory (Arabic)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Mirror.co.uk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z10360414905&amp;amp;z=1600249594&quot; style=&quot;background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: cyan; display: block; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Al-Qaeda rebels apologise for accidentally decapitating the wrong man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;1 hr ago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Mail Online UK&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z10360098250&amp;amp;z=1600249594&quot; style=&quot;background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: cyan; display: block; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Al Qaeda decapitate WRONG man, beg for &#39;forgiveness&#39; after killing Syria rebel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;2 hrs ago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Melbourne Age&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z10359440674&amp;amp;z=1600249438&quot; style=&quot;background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: cyan; display: block; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Al-Qaeda-linked rebels behead wrong man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;3 hrs ago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;The Northern Times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z10354155207&amp;amp;z=1600249365&quot; style=&quot;background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: cyan; display: block; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Al-Qaeda-linked rebels apologise after mistakenly cutting off head of fellow extremist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;16 hrs ago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Telegraph&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z10353811577&amp;amp;z=1600249594&quot; style=&quot;background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: cyan; display: block; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Al-Qaeda rebels decapitate wrong person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;17 hrs ago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Ethiopians &#39;surrender&#39; in Saudi after clamp down&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;About 23,000 Ethiopians have surrendered to Saudi authorities since a clampdown on illegal migrant workers began in the oil-rich kingdom last week, officials have said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The clampdown has led to clashes in the capital, Riyadh, with at least five people killed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Saudi authorities say they are trying to reduce the 12% unemployment rate among native Saudis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;An estimated nine million migrant workers are in Saudi Arabia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;They are said to make up more than half the workforce, filling manual, clerical and service jobs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Ethiopia&#39;s ambassador in Riyadh, Muhammed Hassan Kabiera, said the embassy had been informed by Saudi officials that some 23,000 Ethiopians had so far handed themselves in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Some of them have already been repatriated, with the first group arriving in Ethiopia&#39;s capital, Addis Ababa, on Wednesday, reports from Ethiopia say.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;In renewed clashes on Wednesday in Riyadh&#39;s Manfuhah district, a Sudanese national was killed, Saudi Arabia&#39;s state-owned SPA news agency reports.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Illegal migrants &quot;rioted, hurling rocks at passersby and cars&quot;, it quoted police as saying.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Foreign workers wait for a taxi as they leave the Manfuhah neighbourhood of Riyadh. 10 Nov 2013&quot; height=&quot;261&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71023000/jpg/_71023863_019937336.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;464&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 464px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Many migrants do low-paid jobs in Saudi Arabia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Police said they intervened and &quot;controlled&quot; the situation, SPA reports.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Manfuhah is home to many migrants, mostly from East Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;On Sunday, Ethiopia&#39;s Foreign Affairs Minister Tedros Adhanom said he had information that three Ethiopian citizens had been killed in clashes since last week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;However, Saudi authorities say two foreigners have been killed, along with three Saudis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Riyadh governor Prince Khaled bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz said the clamp down was aimed at illegal migrants, and not any &quot;specific group&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;We will continue these campaigns until we ensure all residents in our country are staying legally,&quot; he is quoted by al-Riyadh newspaper as saying.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Earlier this month, the authorities began rounding up the migrants following the expiry of a seven-month amnesty for them to formalise their status.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Nearly a million Bangladeshis, Indians, Filipinos, Nepalis, Pakistanis and Yemenis are estimated to have left the country in the past three months.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;More than 30,000 Yemenis have reportedly crossed to their home country in the past two weeks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Four million other migrants obtained work permits before the deadline expired.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Recession hits family spending on fresh food&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Girl eating a strawberry&quot; height=&quot;351&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70851000/jpg/_70851305_95846967.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;624&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 624px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Fruit has risen in price by 34% since 2007, according to the Office for National Statistics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Many young families cut back on fresh fruit and vegetables and switched to less healthy processed food as the recession squeezed budgets, a UK study of 15,000 households&#39; data suggests.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;It showed rising food prices and stagnating wages had led people to buy less food and choose cheaper products.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The Institute for Fiscal Studies said pensioners, single parent households and families had the biggest drop in the nutritional quality of their diets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Food campaigners expressed concern.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The Children&#39;s Food Trust said the move to processed food was a &quot;huge worry&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The report&#39;s authors used food purchasing data from 15,850 British households from 2005 to 2012, enabling them to analyse the impact on spending of the recession.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;They found that households spent 8.5% less on food in real terms across the period as disposable incomes failed to keep pace with rising food prices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Over the recession households have responded to higher food prices and the squeezes on their incomes by switching to cheaper calories”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;People also swapped the type of food they bought, shifting from fresh fruit and vegetables to &quot;calorie dense&quot; processed food, with a resulting increase in saturated fat and sugar content, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/6919&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Food Expenditure and Nutritional Quality over the Great Recession&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;report said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Food prices rose by 33% between 2007 and 2013, official figures show. Butter, meat and fruit prices all increased by more than average while processed food rose by 28%.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The IFS researchers found that on every measure, pensioner households, single parents and families with young children experienced a worse-than-average decline in nutritional quality.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Pensioners tended to increase their purchases of fatty foods while households with young children chose more sugary products.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;IFS research economist Kate Smith, one of the authors of the report, said: &quot;Over the recession households have responded to higher food prices and the squeezes on their incomes by switching to cheaper calories.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;This has coincided with a fall in the nutritional quality of foods purchased, with moves away from fresh fruit and vegetables and towards processed foods. As a result, the average saturated fat and sugar content of food purchases has increased over this period.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Children&#39;s Food Trust chief executive Linda Cregan said: &quot;Feeding children well is absolutely crucial for their future health - these figures are an indication of just how tough this has become for many families in recent years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;Some of the trends in this report are a huge worry - we need to see the foods children eat containing less saturated fat, salt and sugar, not more.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;A second report from the IFS, looked at longer term trends.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Between 1980 and 2009, households bought 15% to 30% fewer calories, but average weight continued to climb.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;During this time there was a big rise in snacking and eating out, but an even bigger fall in calories bought for the home during the 30-year period.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;We were surprised to find that there has been a substantial decline in total calories purchased at a time when obesity has increased,&quot; said one of this study&#39;s authors Melanie Luhrmann.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;This does not mean that poor diet plays no part in rising obesity. But understanding the interaction between diet and physical activity is clearly crucial.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Both reports are being presented as part of the Economic and Social Research Council&#39;s Festival of Social Science in London.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Elephant society &#39;still disrupted decades after cull&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;byline&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; display: block; margin: -1px -160px 21px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; position: relative;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;byline-name&quot; style=&quot;display: block; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;By Victoria Gill&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;byline-title&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-bottom: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Science reporter, BBC News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;caption full-width&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; float: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;African elephants&quot; height=&quot;351&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70827000/jpg/_70827755_70818172.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;624&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 624px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;African elephants live in close-knit groups led by a matriarch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;African elephants&#39; decision-making abilities are left impaired by culling operations that ended decades ago, University of Sussex research suggests.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;A study found that elephant herds that lost adults to culls during the 1970s and 1980s were less able to respond appropriately to other elephant calls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Lead researcher Prof Karen McComb said the animals&#39; &quot;social understanding&quot; had been impaired by the loss of adults.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The results are published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Prof Karen McComb explains how the team tested the elephants&#39; reactions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The scientists, from the University of Sussex, say this is the first &quot;systematic evidence that fundamental social skills may be significantly impaired by man-made disruption&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;To study this, the researchers compared the behaviour of two herds of elephants: those in the Amboseli National Park, in Kenya, which have been relatively undisturbed by culling operations and a population in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The herd at Pilanesberg was made up of young orphaned elephants introduced during the early 1980s and 1990s, after management culls of adult and older juvenile animals in the Kruger National Park.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Their social understanding has been impaired”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;quote-credit&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 8px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Prof Karen McComb&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;quote-credit-title&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 8px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;University if Sussex&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;There is already evidence that the loss of these adult elephants had dramatic social consequences on South Africa&#39;s elephants; the researchers describe these effects as akin to post traumatic stress disorder.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;In two protected areas in South Africa, Prof McComb told BBC News, &quot;young, orphaned male elephants became hyper-aggressive and attacked and killed rhinoceroses&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Nature&#39;s giants&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;img alt=&quot;African elephant (Image: Graeme Shannon)&quot; height=&quot;500&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70846000/jpg/_70846741_70827687.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; display: block; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: -9px 0px 17px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;304&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_17/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;African elephants are the largest living land animals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_17/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Until recently there was one species of elephant in Africa - but they are now classified as either forest or bush (or savannah) elephants&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_17/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Forest elephants, as the name suggests, are found in equatorial forests and have straighter trunks and rounded ears&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_17/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Bush elephants are more widespread, mostly south of the Sahara in a range of habitats including savannah, swamps and deserts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BBC Nature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Dr Graeme Shannon, who led this study, used sound to test the animals&#39; social understanding - playing recordings of other elephants calls to monitor their response.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;When Amboseli elephants heard the call of an unfamiliar elephant, they reacted in a defensive way - bunching together and moving towards the sound.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;This, Prof McComb explained is an appropriate response. &quot;It&#39;s what elephants should do when faced with a genuine stranger,&quot; she said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Equally appropriately, Amboseli elephants &quot;remain relaxed when faced with the calls of more familiar animals&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;In Pilanesberg, by contrast, the elephants&#39; reactions were &quot;completely random&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;There was no pattern at all to their responses,&quot; Prof McComb told BBC News, suggesting that these elephants could not tell the difference between friend and foe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;This really suggests that the breakdown in their social fabric, even though it occurred decades ago, has had a real effect on their decision-making processes,&quot; she added.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;Their social understanding has been impaired.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Their second playback experiment reinforced this conclusion, revealing that the Pilanesberg elephants did not distinguish between the call of a mature, dominant elephant and that of a much less threatening youngster.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;African elephants can live for up to 70 years and form close-knit groups that are dominated by a matriarch. So the researchers say that the loss of experienced adults can have long-term negative consequences on a herd.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;This, they add, is &quot;the first direct evidence&quot; that these important social abilities in elephants are &quot;severely compromised&quot; in animals that had been separated from family members decades before.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Richard Byrne, professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of St Andrews, said this was a &quot;very important piece of work&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;He told BBC News: &quot;By probing directly into the social knowledge of elephants years after translocations shows that the long-term unfortunate effects have indeed not been underestimated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;I hope the results will be taken into account in any further plans to cull locally &#39;unwanted&#39; elephants.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Kenya&#39;s Kenyatta and and China&#39;s Xi sign $5bn deals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Kenya&#39;s President Uhuru Kenyatta  and China&#39;s President Xi Jinping  shake hands in  Beijing on 19 August 2013 &quot; height=&quot;261&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69388000/jpg/_69388102_kenya.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;464&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 464px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Uhuru Kenyatta said the deals were a &quot;massive boost&quot; to his government&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Kenya has signed deals worth $5bn (£3bn) with China to build a railway line, an energy project and to improve wildlife protection, officials say.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;They were signed during Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta&#39;s first visit to China since his election in March.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mr Kenyatta&#39;s &quot;vigour&quot; would lead Kenya to &quot;greater accomplishments&quot;, China&#39;s President Xi Jinping said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mr Kenyatta has a strained relationship with the West as he is facing violence-related charges at The Hague.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;He is due to go on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) later this year for allegedly fuelling violence after disputed elections in 2007, charges he denies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;During Kenya&#39;s election campaign, the European Union said it would have limited contact with him if he was elected president.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The US warned Kenyans of &quot;consequences&quot; if he was voted into office.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mr Kenyatta accused them of meddling in Kenya&#39;s internal affairs, and pledged to strengthen ties with the East.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;China supports Kenya&#39;s quest for industrialisation”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;quote-credit&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 8px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Xi Jinping&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;quote-credit-title&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 8px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;China&#39;s president&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;In a statement, his office said the deals with China were a &quot;massive boost&quot; to his government.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;The rail link, particularly, is important in the context of East Africa&#39;s shared goal of ensuring quicker movement of peoples, goods and services,&quot; it quoted Mr Kenyatta as saying.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;It will link the Kenyan border town of Malaba with the port of Mombasa, one of the busiest in Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mr Xi said China was also exploring other areas of investment, including in agribusiness, irrigation, fertiliser production and purchases, and technology.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;These agreements deepen our practical co-operation. China supports Kenya&#39;s quest for industrialisation,&quot; he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The two presidents also pledged to increase contact between China&#39;s ruling party and Kenya&#39;s ruling Jubilee coalition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;They agreed that party-to-party contact was essential to bolster political and economic partnerships,&quot; Mr Kenyatta&#39;s office said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The statement did not give details about the energy-related projects that China would spearhead or how it would help improve wildlife protection in Kenya, where criminal gangs often ship elephant tusks and rhino horns to east Asia for use in ornaments and medicines.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Police also confirmed an address in south-east London is being searched.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Four of those arrested have been bailed, two released without charge and four remain in custody over the killing on Wednesday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Two suspects, Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22 - both Britons of Nigerian descent who are understood to be converts to Islam - remain in custody in hospital in a stable condition after being shot and wounded by police at the scene after the killing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Three other men arrested in south London on Saturday have been bailed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The men, aged 21, 24 and 28, were held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;A 22-year-old man arrested in north London on Sunday, also on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, is still being held.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Three others - a 29-year-old man, a 31-year-old woman, and a 29-year-old woman - were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The two women were released without charge on Friday, and the man was released on bail on Saturday pending further inquiries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Supporters of the far-right English Defence League (EDL) marched in central London earlier, pushing through a police cordon on their way to Trafalgar Square.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;More than 1,000 EDL protesters, some of whom chanted &quot;there&#39;s only one Lee Rigby&quot;, took up a position near Downing Street.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;A smaller group of anti-fascist demonstrators gathered opposite them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Drummer Lee Rigby is remembered in church services in London and Greater Manchester.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-22640173&quot; rel=&quot;published-1369326163733&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Killed soldier was &#39;loving father&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22636624&quot; rel=&quot;published-1369301870755&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Woolwich murder: The suspects&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;How it unfolded&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22658398&quot; rel=&quot;published-1369401276739&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Michael Adebolajo&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67811000/jpg/_67811065_4gd28ba3.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; height: 81px; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-left: -160px; position: relative; top: 2px; width: 144px;&quot; /&gt;The investigation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;What do we know about the investigation into the Woolwich attack?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22636231&quot; rel=&quot;published-1369303652868&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Map and eyewitness accounts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22631274&quot; rel=&quot;published-1369241364642&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;In pictures: Woolwich terror attack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22633269&quot; rel=&quot;published-1369247609119&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Man with bloodied hands&lt;span class=&quot;gvl3-icon gvl3-icon-boxedwatch&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_16/cream/hi/shared/img/gvl3-icons-0-2.png); background-position: -1301px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 1px; height: 15px; left: 0px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px 8px 5px 0px; opacity: 0.85; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-indent: -5000px; top: -1px; width: 16px; z-index: 10;&quot;&gt;Watch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Reaction and analysis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22639297&quot; rel=&quot;published-1369307087821&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Flowers&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67772000/jpg/_67772953_woolwich2.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; height: 81px; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-left: -160px; position: relative; top: 2px; width: 144px;&quot; /&gt;Woolwich mourns&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Disbelief and mourning engulfs Woolwich after &quot;one of its own&quot; soldiers is murdered in a suspected terror attack.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22641541&quot; rel=&quot;published-1369310077288&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Woolwich attack: A new template&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;a class=&quot;story&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22624100&quot; rel=&quot;published-1369265317761&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The long-feared attack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;In Britain each year, we throw away a million tonnes of electronic waste - enough to fill Wembley Stadium six times over. So what happens to our broken TVs and computers - our e-waste - once we have dumped it? Raphael Rowe reports from Ghana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;When he turns his hand over, 10-year-old Mohammed reveals the deep open cut on his thumb, visible through the black soot that covers his small hands. Two other cuts have been covered up with blackened, filthy plasters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;He tells me that the wounds are from the sharp copper wire that he is scavenging from the biggest digital graveyard in Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;The Agbogbloshie dumpsite is where the poorest of nearby Accra stream in order to scrape out a living from the tons of electrical waste piled here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;UK ELECTRONICS BUYING 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;UK consumers bought more than 17 million TVs and computers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Computer sales: 8.2 million&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Alfred, 12, said he has no choice but to eke out a living at the dumpsite since his mother died. He complained of headaches from the toxic fumes as he and the others use their hands, hammers and fire to extract precious metals from the scrap heap.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Activists told me the nearby river is dead owing to the contamination from this crude form of recycling.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;And, they add, much of this electronic garbage - known as e-waste - originates in the UK.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Mike Anane is a campaigner with the League of Environmental Journalists which is trying to stop e-waste pouring into Ghana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;We are destroying the lives of children, we are destroying the environment, the rivers no longer have fish, just because of the illegal shipments and dumping of electronic waste from the UK,&quot; he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Tracking devices&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;It is estimated that 100,000 tons of e-waste is leaking out of the UK each year via the ports that see seven million containers exported each year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;13&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/start_quote_rb.gif&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 5px 10px;&quot; width=&quot;24&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;There needs to be a lot more enforcement, but there also needs to be a shake-up of how we handle electronic waste in the UK&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;13&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/end_quote_rb.gif&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 5px 10px;&quot; vspace=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;23&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;A confidential report obtained by Panorama suggests that 77% of e-waste from England and Wales ends up in West Africa, primarily Ghana and Nigeria.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Environmental law states that broken electronics, everything from fridges to televisions to computer monitors, should be responsibly recycled within the UK. Discarded electronics need to be tested to ensure they work before they can be legally exported for resale, usually to the developing world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;But a BBC Panorama investigation that involved putting hidden tracking devices in broken televisions found evidence of large amounts of e-waste being illegally shipped to West Africa where boys like Mohammed and Alfred are risking their health for scraps of copper and pennies a day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;The Environment Agency, which has a special investigations unit dedicated to halting these illegal exports, said the reason behind the trade is obvious.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;There is a vast sum of money to be made by exporting abroad illegally,&quot; said Chris Smith, National Intelligence Manager at the EA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;The government estimates that a 40-foot container of used televisions can contain as many as 600 sets and is worth £7,000 in the street markets of West Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;It estimates that one in eight containers claiming to be working electronics, is in fact broken e-waste.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;The maximum penalty for the illegal export of e-waste is an unlimited fine and two years in prison. But in practice the maximum fine has been around £12,000 and no one has been sent to prison.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Margaret Bates, a lecturer in sustainable waste management at Northampton University, said that while other streams of waste are being reduced owing to recycling efforts, e-waste is going in the opposite direction - growing at a rate of 5% a year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Raphael Rowe presents Panorama: Track My Trash&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Monday, 16 May&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;8.30 on BBC One&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;She said the cost and time it takes to safely recycle e-waste is fuelling the illegal trade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Ms Bates said it is time for a message to be sent to illegal exporters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;Until fairly recently a lot of the criminals involved in the e-waste trade didn&#39;t think they were going to get caught. We need to see people who are doing this sort of thing coming through regularly in the courts and being made to suffer for it.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Posing as a small business, Panorama placed a hidden tracking device in a broken television set and then paid a private recycling firm, Sanak Ventures, to dispose of the set.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;From the company&#39;s warehouse in Wembley, the tracker showed that the television was soon on the move to Felixstowe Docks, then shipped to Ghana before if finally ended up in Lagos, Nigeria.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;And it was in Lagos, in a street market, that we found it - still broken - and for sale for £40.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Taking responsibility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;When asked about how a broken television managed to be exported, Sanak Ventures said they were a respectable company and denied any wrong-doing, but they failed to answer our question of how our broken JVC television ended up in Nigeria.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Campaigner Mike Anane says the onus is on the UK to halt e-waste&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;Activist Mike Anane said while governments in Africa are attempting to legislate against the e-waste trade, the source of the broken electronics needs to be addressed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;I think that the onus and greater part of the responsibility rest with the people in the UK,&quot; he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;It is a sentiment echoed by the Environmental Investigation Agency - a campaign group.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;A spokeswoman for the group, which has also attempted to track e-waste from the UK to West Africa, said: &quot;There needs to be a lot more enforcement, but there also needs to be a shake-up of how we handle electronic waste in the UK and our waste needs to be much more closely monitored than it ever has been.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Panorama: Track My Trash, BBC One, Monday, 16 May at 2030BST and then available in the UK on the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;bodl&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0116gw0&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: white; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;&quot;&gt;BBC iPlayer.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Britons should leave the Libyan city of Benghazi immediately in response to a &quot;specific, imminent threat&quot; to Westerners, the Foreign Office says.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The British Embassy in Tripoli has been in contact with a &quot;small number&quot; of British nationals whose details it had.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Germany and the Netherlands have also urged their citizens to leave Benghazi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;But Libya&#39;s deputy interior minister Abdullah Massoud insisted the security problems in Benghazi did not warrant such a response.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;He told the BBC the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Libya had not been informed about the change in travel advice for British nationals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The minister added he would be contacting the Foreign Office for further clarification and insisted such actions added to instability in the region.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The UK Foreign Office has been advising against travel to Benghazi and most parts of Libya since September.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/middle-east-north-africa/libya&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: initial;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;In its updated travel advice&lt;/a&gt;, the Foreign Office said that after the recent French military intervention in Mali against Islamic extremists, there was the possibility of retaliatory attacks against Western interests in the region.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;There is also the threat of kidnapping in Libya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Burnt-out car during attack on US consulate in Benghazi&quot; height=&quot;171&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65486000/jpg/_65486907_benghazi-afp.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;304&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 304px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The September attack on the US consulate in Benghazi drew international condemnation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;A spokesman would not confirm how many Britons it had spoken to but said it was a &quot;small number&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;BBC world affairs reporter Richard Galpin understands that there are less than 50 British citizens in Benghazi, including teachers and business people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Foreign Office minister David Lidington told the BBC the government had received &quot;credible, serious and specific&quot; reports about a possible &quot;terrorist threat&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;He added: &quot;The terrorist risk in Benghazi and other parts of this region has been there for some time before Mali and the Algeria crisis of last weekend... the safety of British citizens is our top priority.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mr Lidington would not be drawn on whether the British government would charter flights to Benghazi to evacuate British nationals, but said: &quot;Our advice to people is not to delay, just leave.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;BBC correspondent in Libya Rana Jawad said only &quot;tens&quot; of nationals are registered with the British Embassy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;She said Britons would most likely be using commercial flights to leave the country from Benghazi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;What we are seeing is a sympathetic response to what occurred in Algeria and Mali, and therefore a threat to Westerners”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;quote-credit&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 8px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Prof George Joffe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;quote-credit-title&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 8px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Cambridge University&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Our correspondent added that Western diplomats had told the BBC the British School in Benghazi had closed on Wednesday and may be closed for the next few weeks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The German government said on its website that it had been &quot;made aware of a specific, imminent threat to Westerners in Benghazi&quot; and urged &quot;all German citizens to immediately leave the city and region of Benghazi&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Thijs van Son, a spokesman for the Dutch foreign ministry, told the Associated Press news agency that travel warnings for Benghazi had been upgraded as the ministry had &quot;reason to believe there was a serious threat&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Prime Minister David Cameron&#39;s spokesman said the UK continued to provide assistance and support to the Libyan government to reform and restructure its forces and strengthen democratic institutions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airmalta.com/newsdetails?l=1&amp;amp;n=476&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: initial;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Air Malta cancelled all flights to Benghazi&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;due to leave on Thursday, and will review in the coming days whether flights planned for next Tuesday should go ahead.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;cross-head&quot; style=&quot;display: block; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&#39;Common ideology&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;clear: left; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;On 11 September, US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died during an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The ambassador died of smoke inhalation when he was trapped inside as the building burned, after armed men had attacked the compound.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Britain has not had a diplomatic presence in Benghazi - Libya&#39;s second largest city - since the attack.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Benghazi was the stronghold of the National Transitional Council, the rebel group whose revolt eventually ended Col Muammar Gaddafi&#39;s hold on power in Libya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Hillary Clinton gave an animated defence of how the US handled the Benghazi attack on Wednesday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Last week, in neighbouring Algeria, militants took over a gas plant, taking hundreds hostage and claiming they were acting in revenge for events in Mali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;It is thought 37 foreigners - including six UK nationals - died during the four-day siege, which ended after Algerian special forces stormed the compound.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Professor George Joffe, an expert in North African affairs at Cambridge University, said there had long been an extremist element in eastern Libya which has been &quot;unwilling to accept a democratic outcome&quot; to the civil war in Libya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;He said that, while the militants in Libya may share a &quot;common ideology&quot; with Islamic rebels in Mali and Algeria, it was not likely they shared any organisational links.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;What we are seeing is a sympathetic response to what occurred in Algeria and Mali, and therefore a threat to Westerners. I am not even certain that the threat is specific to Britain,&quot; Prof Joffe added.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Nations agree on legally binding mercury rules&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;byline&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; display: block; margin: -1px -160px 21px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; position: relative;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;byline-name&quot; style=&quot;display: block; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;By Mark Kinver&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;byline-title&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-bottom: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Environment reporter, BBC News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;caption body-narrow-width&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px -160px 16px 16px; position: relative;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Miner using mercury to pan for gold (Image: Science Photo Library)&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65212000/jpg/_65212093_c0133492-artisan_miner_panning_for_gold,_kenya-spl.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;304&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 304px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Rising gold prices has seen an increase in small-scale gold mines, most of which use mercury&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;More than 140 countries have agreed on a set of legally binding measures to curb mercury pollution, at UN talks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Delegates in Geneva approved measures to control the use of the highly toxic metal in order to reduce the amount of mercury released into the environment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mercury can produce a range of adverse human health effects, including permanent damage to the nervous system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The UN recently published data that showed mercury emissions were rising in a number of developing nations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The deal was agreed after all-night talks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;UN Environment Programme (Unep) spokesman Nick Nuttall told Reuters: &quot;A treaty to start to begin to rid the world of a notorious health-hazardous metal was agreed in the morning of Jan 19.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The rules, known as the Minamata Convention and named after the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/16/japan.jonathanwatts&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: initial;&quot;&gt;Japanese town that experienced one of the world&#39;s worst cases of mercury poisoning&lt;/a&gt;, will open for nations to sign at a diplomatic conference later this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The convention will regulate a range of areas, including:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_9/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;the supply of and trade in mercury;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Ahead of the five-day meeting, the UN Environment Programme (Unep) published a report warning that developing nations were facing growing health and environmental risks from increased exposure to mercury.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;It said a growth in small-scale mining and coal burning were the main reasons for the rise in emissions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;As a result of rapid industrialisation, South-East Asia was the largest regional emitter and accounted for almost half of the element&#39;s annual global emissions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;line-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Lasting effects&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mercury - a heavy, silvery white metal - is a liquid at room temperature and can evaporate easily. Within the environment, it is found in cinnabar deposits. It is also found in natural forms in a range of other rocks, including limestone and coal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Man sitting on coal sacks at a Chinese power station (Getty Images)&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65212000/jpg/_65212232_004689773.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;304&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 304px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Burning coal is another major source of mercury emissions, the report says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mercury can be released into the environment through a number of industrial processes including mining, metal and cement production, and the burning of fossil fuels.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Once emitted, it persists in the environment for a long time - circulating through air, water, soil and living organisms - and can be dispersed over vast distances.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The World Health Organization (WHO) says: &quot;Mercury is highly toxic to human health, posing a particular threat to the development of the (unborn) child and early in life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;The inhalation of mercury vapour can produce harmful effects on the nervous, digestive and immune systems, lungs and kidneys, and may be fatal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;The inorganic salts of mercury are corrosive to the skin, eyes and gastrointestinal tract, and may induce kidney toxicity if ingested.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The Unep assessment said the concentration of mercury in the top 100m of the world&#39;s oceans had doubled over the past century, and estimated that 260 tonnes of the toxic metal had made their way from soil into rivers and lakes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6152484680636921749/posts/default/6626061643840162505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6152484680636921749/posts/default/6626061643840162505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://westof-mengele-inter.blogspot.com/2013/01/nations.html' title='Nations '/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152484680636921749.post-3257618144296670760</id><published>2013-01-20T04:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2013-01-20T04:57:35.716-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius"/><title type='text'>French</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;France&#39;s Fabius says Africa &#39;must&#39; send troops to Mali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Benin soldiers prepare to leave Cotonou for Mali on 18 January 2013 at the Cotonu airport&quot; height=&quot;261&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65384000/jpg/_65384668_65384667.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;464&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 464px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The regional troops will be deployed in Mali under a UN Security Council resolution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mali: Divided nation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;West African leaders have been told they must &quot;pick up the baton&quot; in the military offensive to drive Islamist insurgents out of Mali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said France had been obliged to send in troops &quot;very, very rapidly otherwise there would be no more Mali&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;But he has told a meeting in the Ivory Coast that the deployment of African soldiers is now a priority.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara also called for more support for Mali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;He said &quot;the hour has come for a broader commitment by the major powers and more countries and organisations... to show greater solidarity with France and Africa in the total and multi-faceted war against terrorism in Mali&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;France&#39;s Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Saturday that 2,000 troops were now on the ground in Mali, and the final total could top the 2,500 originally pledged.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The troops will stay in Mali for as long as necessary &quot;to defeat terrorism&quot; in West Africa, President Francois Hollande has said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Islamist fighters on Friday withdrew from two towns in central Mali following French air strikes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Officials say the Islamists have now left the southern town of Diabaly, which they took on Monday, while Mali&#39;s army has also recaptured Konna, which was seized by rebels triggering the French intervention.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Laurent Fabius said upon his arrival in the Ivorian capital Abidjan that it was time for the African nations to take over &quot;as soon as possible&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;France was obliged to intervene very, very rapidly, otherwise there would have been no more Mali,&quot; he was quoted by the Agence France Presse as saying.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Foreign forces in Mali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_9/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Some 2,000 French troops on the ground in Mali, with 500 or more to come&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_9/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;French Mirage and Rafale jets, Gazelle helicopters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_9/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Nigeria to send 1,200 troops; Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo expected to send 500 each, and Benin 300&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/3_0_9/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; text-rendering: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Ghana and Guinea also to send troops&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;But it is well understood that it is the Africans that must pick up the baton,&quot; he added.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mr Fabius also confirmed that France would lead a European mission next month to help train and rebuild the Malian army.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;He has urged Africa&#39;s international partners to help with logistical and financial support and said a donors&#39; meeting in Addis Ababa at the end of the month would be crucial in addressing the needs of Mali and the region, the BBC&#39;s Thomas Fessy reports from Abidjan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The first 100 troops of an African force - from Togo and Nigeria - landed in Mali&#39;s capital, Bamako, on Thursday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;They are being deployed under&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/2085(2012)&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: initial;&quot; title=&quot;UN Security Council resolution 2085&quot;&gt;a UN Security Council resolution&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The original UN-backed strategy to reclaim northern Mali from Islamist rebels had France - among other Western powers - providing logistical support to an African-led force, adds our correspondent, but it is now clear that French troops will remain at the frontline of operations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Nigeria will lead the West African force, with Chad, Benin, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Togo also sending soldiers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Nigeria says it will increase its forces to 1,200.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Chad has confirmed it will send 2,000 soldiers and it may also contribute its air force, considered one of the most effective on the continent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Hostages at the gas facility&quot; height=&quot;261&quot; src=&quot;http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65394000/jpg/_65394813_65394812.jpg&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;&quot; width=&quot;464&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block; width: 464px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Militants took Algerian and foreign workers hostage at the desert complex on Wednesday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Three Britons are confirmed to have been killed and three more unaccounted for after the Algeria hostage crisis, the prime minister has said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;One further UK resident is also thought to be dead. The figures include a Briton who was killed on Wednesday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The 22 other Britons who survived the crisis are now back in the UK.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;A raid by Algerian troops ended a four-day siege at the In Amenas gas facility on Saturday. Algeria says at least 23 hostages and 32 militants died.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Algeria&#39;s minister of communications said the final death toll might rise and there would be an announcement in the next few hours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Its government also said the militants were from six different nationalities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Speaking at Chequers, Mr Cameron said the attack was a &quot;stark reminder&quot; of the continuing terrorist threat and said he would use Britain&#39;s chairmanship of the G8 to ensure that it was at the top of the international agenda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;David Cameron said the attack was a &quot;stark reminder&quot; of the continuing terrorist threat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;This is a global threat and it will require a global response. It will require a response that is about years, even decades, rather than months,&quot; he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;It requires a response that is patient and painstaking, that is tough but also intelligent, but above all has an absolutely iron resolve and that is what we will deliver over these coming years.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The British survivors had flown back to the UK on government and BP chartered flights overnight and were now being reunited with their families, Foreign Secretary William Hague said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The crisis began on Wednesday when militants attacked two buses carrying foreign workers to the remote site in south-eastern Algeria. A Briton and an Algerian reportedly died in the incident.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The militants then took Algerians and foreign workers hostage at the complex, which was quickly surrounded by the Algerian army.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The Algerian armed forces attacked on Thursday as militants tried to move some of their captives from the facility.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Mr Cameron paid his condolences to the bereaved families, who had undergone &quot;an absolutely dreadful ordeal&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;He said questions would be asked about the Algerian response to the crisis, but added: &quot;The responsibility for these deaths lies squarely with the terrorists who launched these vicious and cowardly attacks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Foreign citizens involved&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;When you are dealing with a terrorist incident on this scale, with up to 30 terrorists, it is extremely difficult to respond and get this right in every respect.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The prime minister said that there were clear similarities with the terrorist threat from Afghanistan and Pakistan, although it was on a different scale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&quot;What we face is an extremist, Islamist, al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group. Just as we had to deal with that in Pakistan and in Afghanistan so the world needs to come together to deal with this threat in north Africa,&quot; he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;A statement from the kidnappers said the assault on the gas plant was launched in retaliation for French intervention against Islamist groups in neighbouring Mali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;However, France decided only last week to intervene militarily in Mali. Analysts say the assault on the gas facility was well-planned and would have required advance research, as well as possibly inside help.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Algerian officials said the hostage-takers belonged to a new Islamist group formed by a veteran Algerian militant and kidnapper,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21061480&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: initial;&quot; title=&quot;Profile: Mokhtar Belmokhtar&quot;&gt;Mokhtar Belmokhtar,&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;who recently broke from al-Qaeda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Some freed British hostages told Algerian TV they were &quot;relieved to be out&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;State news agency APS said 685 Algerian workers and 107 out of 132 foreigners working at the plant had been freed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The nationalities of some of the hostages killed are still not known, but as well as the Britons, US, Norwegian, and Japanese nationals are still missing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;A Colombian citizen resident in the UK is believed to be among the dead, the Colombian president has said, adding the information about Carlos Estrada was &quot;not 100%&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;No details have been given of the British hostages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;On Saturday, some of the released Britons released spoke of their relief. Iain Strachan, 38, from Howwood in Renfrewshire, Scotland, said he was &quot;very relieved to be out&quot; and that the Algerian army&#39;s assistance had been &quot;fantastic&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The In Amenas gas field is situated at Tigantourine, about 40km (25 miles) south-west of the town of In Amenas and 1,300km (800 miles) south-east of Algiers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;The plant is jointly run by BP, Norway&#39;s Statoil and Algeria&#39;s state-owned oil company.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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