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The powerful Shia Muslim rebel group in Yemen known as the Houthis says it’s mobilized its forces in order to step up the fight against Al-Qaeda and Islamic State. The Houthi leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi, whose group now controls large sways of northern Yemen, was speaking just before an UN Security Council meeting on the crisis in Yemen. Alan Johnston reports.

The Shia Muslim Houthis and Sunni Muslim militants of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State have opposed each other very violently. And now the Houthi leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi has made very clear that intents to strike even harder of IS and Al-Qaeda. And he also rounded on Yemen’s president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi accusing him of being a puppet in the hands of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. And earlier Houthi fighters pushed Southwards, putting them within striking distance of the president’s forces.

The former republican presidential candidate John McCain has told president Obama he should get over his tempered tantrum with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Senator McCain described Mr. Netanyahu’s suggestion, that he would not allow a Palestinian state as election campaign rhetoric. From Washington Gerald Alnihiu.

The fallout from Israel’s general election continues to reverberate through American politics. Even though Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to roll back from his comments, president Obama has said he’s reevaluating US policy which includes support for Israel of the UN, but John McCain said the rhetoric from the Israeli leader paled in comparison to the threat from ISIS, adding the president had his priority so screwed-up, it was unbelievable. He warned the president against considering for support for Palestinian state and UN resolution. He said that might contradict policy which was stood for at least last ten presidents.

A first round of voting in France’s local election has seen another big increase in support for the far right National Front. Exit polls give the party run by Marine Le Pen nearly a quarter of the vote, however it’s behind the mainstream central-right UMP party of Nicolas Sarkozy. Hugh Scofield is in Paris.

It’s another big vote for the French far right, following municipal and European elections last year. In this first round of departmental or county council elections, nationwide 24.5% of voters chose the National Front. It is a figure that shows yet again, how Marine Le Pen’s strategy of building a system of local organization and shutting down the party’s overtly racist elements is paying off. However opinion polls had suggested that the far right could have done better - even emerging as the top party in the election. That didn’t happen, which has some calls for cheer for mainstream opposition party led by former President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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The Moroccan government says its security services have dismantled a network militant, linked to the Islamic State group. The interior ministry said the network is planning attacks across nine towns and cities including Arcadia, Tangier and Marrakech. There have been growing security fears in North Africa since the attack in Bardo museum in Tunis last week as well as the destabilization of Libya.

Archaeologists in Argentina are trying to confirm whether the ruins of three buildings found in a remote T nature reserve were built to potential hideout for top officers fleeing from Nazi Germany. Researchers from the University of Buenos Aires are reported to have found German coins minted during the second world war and a fragment of German porcelain from the era. Thousands of Nazis and fascists were welcomed to Argentina in the 1940s by president HP.

Hundreds of people have gathered in England’s midlands to see the coffin of one of the England’s most famous kings, Richard III, who died over 500 years ago in the battle of Bosworth. At the time his body was hastily buried was only discovered 3 years ago under a car park in Leicester. Richard III is a devised figure in English’s history, portrayed as a hunchback valian by Shakespeare, but some of stories praised him for his enlighten thinking, as Martin Krocsoul reports.

“The introduction of the idea of bail in the legal system, so a potentially innocent man didn't languish in prison for years waiting to come to trial, and also land tenure act which meant that people who owned a land didn’t automatically have it taken from him, so he was apparently a man who was trying to make the law applicable to everybody too. He is also a very keen reader, and he promoted printing and books became much available to people, and he usually has a Bible that was written in English being translated from Latin which is very unusually too. Martin Krocsoul reports.

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