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BBC News with Jonathan Izard.
The United States says it’s speeding up the delivery of weapons to a Saudi-led coalition confronting Houthi fighters in Yemen. As the coalition continues its airstrikes on Houthi rebels, many Yemenis and foreigners are fleeing to neighboring Djibouti, from where XXX reports.
On the dockside in Djibouti, two warships drop anchor, one Indian, one Pakistani, bringing more evacuees from Yemen. As the latest arrivals came ashore today, the US Ambassador to Djibouti Tom Kelly was at the docks. With the crisis in Yemen escalating, he told us the Houthi rebels must enter peace talks. There is no sign that the rebels are ready for talks,and no indication that they have been seriously weakened after almost two weeks of airstrikes.
A temporary shrine of crosses and candles has been set up in a park in the Kenyan capital Nairobi to remember the victims of last week’s attack at Garissa University by Al-Shabab gunmen. Photographs of the 148 victims have gone on displayed at the vigil which marks the end of three days’ official mourning. One of the organizers of the vigil XXX said the government had a lot to answer for.
“The deaths are preventable. If there is no corruption in the country, that could have been prevented. Because corruption …this country has no hope, has no future. Corruption has led to marginalization of communities in this country. And the government’s response to that is violence and brutal force that won’t help anyone. So we are here to mourn. And it’s a big tragedy. It’s one of the biggest terrorist attacks in this country.But the President is like nothing happened.”
The Kenyan authorities said they have frozen the bank accounts of 86 individuals and entities they suspected of financing terrorism. There are names being placed on a government watch list. 13 informal money transfers, known as Hawalas have also been closed. The Kenyan government has advised Muslims who want their banking affairs to remain compliant with Islam law to only use institutions that are regulated by Kenya’s central bank.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Italy violated EU Rules Against Torture during a G8 summit in 2001. The court in Strasbourg awarded damages to an Italian man seriously injured by police at the summit. James Reynolds reports.
During the G8 summits in Genoa in 2001, the Italian police carried out a late-night raid on a school used by anti-summit demonstrators. Arnaldo Cestaro was among those who surrendered, but the police kicked him and beat him with truncheons. The officers who carried out the attack were never identified. Now, after three years of investigations, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Mr. Cestaro’s beating counts as torture. It’s awarded him 45 thousand euros in damages.
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The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has arrived in Moscow ahead of formal talks with President Putin on Wednesday.Greece says the meeting will deal with relations between the European Union and Russia, but analysts say Athens is seeking to improve relations with Moscow in case troubled bailout negotiations with its western creditors fail.
The Republican Senator Rand Paul has announced that he intends to stand in next year’s US presidential election. At present in a rally in Louisville Kentucky, Mr. Paul pledged to take the country back from special interests. The message went down well with these supporters.
“I like it he’s for a smaller government,less spend-and-borrow government, more state control.” “Someone speculate a battle for the heart and soul of the party, yeah this one-side there is very much kind of adventurous, specially on the world stage, Rand Paul's gonna bring that back, I'm very much with that.”
Mexican prosecutors say 15 police officers have been killed and 5 wounded in an ambush by suspected gang members in the state of Jalisco. The State Security Commissioner said the attack took place as a convoy of elite police officers is traveling on a highway toward the state capital Guadalajara.
Militants have killed four Tunisian soldiers in an attack in the Kasserine area near the country’s border with Algeria. This mountainous region is known for Islamist militant activity. Tunisians are still coming to terms with last month’s attack on the museum in the capital Tunis, in which more than twenty people were killed, many of them tourists.
A judge in Florida has dismissed court documents which accused Queen Elizabeth II’s son Prince Andrew of having sexual relations with a young woman who had been trafficked. The British Prince has strongly denied the accusations which had been filed by a woman named Virginia Roberts.Ms. Roberts has made the claim as part of the evidence relating to a wider case of alleged sex trafficking scheme involving a businessman and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was a former friend of Prince Andrew.
And that’s the latest BBC World Service News.