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BBC news with Sumount Gamery
The leaders and US and Cuba have held the first formal talks in more than half a century. President Mr. Obama and his Cuba counterpart Raul Castro met face to face on the sideline of Summit of the Americas in Panama. The meeting clears the way for normalization relations after decades of disunity between the US and the communist-ruled island. President Obama said he wanted to see Cuba proper and it is time to change the relations.
“After 50 years of policy that have not changed on a partner of US. It was my believe that was time to try something new.but it was important for us to engage more directly with the Cuban government and Cuban people”.
President Castro said Cuba was open to building a friendship with US,but he said the two countries have many differences.
Kenya’s deputy president William Ruto has given the UN three months to move about hundreds of thousands of Somalian refuges back to Somalia,the ultimatum comes after the Somalia- based Islamic group al-Shabab killed 148 people in a Kenya university. Karen Allen is in northeastern Kenya.
“Investigations continued but only one of the four gunmen has been identified so far,he was a Kenya law student who was been recruited by al-Shabab. It comes as a time of increasing concern that the armed group is not only recruiting in Somalia,but inside Kenya as well.It revived calls by the Kenya government for hundreds of thousands of Somalian refugees in Dadaab camp in the Kenya side of border to be sent back into the Somalia. But UN points out the Kenya-side international conventions prevented the expulsion of refugees.
The authority of Bangladesh have executed a senior Islamist leader for war crimes committed during the war of independence from Pakistan. Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, the third most senior figure in the Islamist opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party,was hanged after the country supreme court rejected the final appeal,he was sentenced to death in May 2013 for torture , abduction and murder.
IS has posted a video online that shows its militants destroying artifacts in the ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud. Here is Bastin Russel.
“In this new video,the militants were showing hacking of wall curbings and sculptures in what was once the capital of Assyrian empire .They used bulldozers and explosives to blow up the walls.The video commentate in montage explosions ,many of the treasures of Nimrud are safe elsewhere in museums around the world, but not remains on sites to make the latest destruction wreaked by IS in a self declared war against false idols on a stage in a attempted annihilation ,not only the rocks destroyed of the rich past ,but the world’s earliest civilizations.
BBC news.
The Saudi Defense ministry says three Saudi army officers have been killed by mortar round,fired across the border by Houthi rebels in Yemen. An official statement said the blast in the army posted not drive in Saudi Arabia.The Saudi news agency also reported that 502 Houthis have been killed since the start of Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen last month.
Hundreds of mourners attended the funerals in US of Walter Scott,a black man who was shot in back while running away from a white police officer.The pastor of the service in South Carolina say the shooting was a act motivated by overt racism. One of the family said the death could act as catalyst to change. A policeman has been charged with murder, Mr. Scott’s death was the latest case of policeman in US shooting dead on unarmed black men.
Women rowers have made history by taking part in the Oxford and Cambridge University boat race on the teams on the same day and the same course as the men. The women's event days back to 1927 but it was the first time their rowing authorities have dropped the opposition to making it a joint occasion. Oxford won both races.
BBC news.