Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 04 April 2015 | 20.18
Hardline Somali al Shabaab extremists who have carried out an armed raid on a university in eastern Kenya are responsible for a catalogue of deadly terror attacks in the region.
With the raid in Garissa the latest, here are some of the other atrocities committed by the group:
Guests flee the al Shabaab attack on the Maka Al-Mukarramah Hotel
March, 2015: At least 24 people, including six militants, were killed during a siege at the Maka Al-Mukarramah Hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
February, 2015: A suicide attack at the Central Hotel in Mogadishu killed 25 people and wounded 40 others. Government officials were meeting in the hotel at the time, and Mogadishu's deputy mayor and two legislators were among the dead.
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Gallery: Terror Attack At Kenyan University
A siege by militants at a university in eastern Kenya has ended after four gunmen were killed. At least 147 people have been killed, with 79 confirmed as wounded
Somalia's al Shabaab terror group has claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn attack, which began when many students were sleeping
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Video:Survivor Found Among Kenya Victims
A survivor of the Kenya university massacre which saw 148 people killed has been found two days after the attack.
Kenyan medical staff are reported to have found Cynthia Cheroitich during the grim task of dealing with the bodies of those killed by members of Somalia-based terror group al Shabaab.
The 19-year-old said from her hospital bed that she hid in a large cupboard, covering herself with clothes, refusing to emerge when some of her classmates came out of hiding at the demands of the gunmen.
She said she drank lotion to stave off thirst and hunger.
She said she did not believe that rescuers urging her to come out of her hiding place were there to help, suspecting at first that they were militants.
Video:"I Pretended To Be Dead"
It was only when Kenyan security forces had one of her teachers appeal to her that she did she come out, she said.
Ms Cheroitich, a Christian, said: "I was just praying to my God."
Fellow student Cheruiot Tiebafy told how he used the blood of his colleagues to survive the massacre.
He said: "Actually I am the only man who survived from all the boys who were held hostage.
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Gallery: Graphic Images From Kenya Massacre
This man was captured at the scene by Kenyan authorities
Mohamed Mohamud has been named as the mastermind behind the attack
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"I just smeared the blood of my colleagues, I ate the blood to be my lunch and I go to sleep there for around 13 good hours when we got to be hostage and I pretended to be dead.
"They turned me around, they kicked me but I'm alive."
Meanwhile, more details have emerged of those arrested or sought over the attack.
Police named militant Islamist Mohamed Mohamud, a quietly-spoken former teacher, as the alleged mastermind of the massacre in Garissa.
Video:Kenyans Protest After Massacre
The alleged al Shabaab member, a Kenyan of Somali origin, is also wanted in connection with a string of recent cross-border killings and massacres in Kenya's northeastern border region.
While Mohamud, thought to be in his late 50s, did not take part physically in the Garissa attack, survivors described the attackers as men like him: speaking Kenya's Swahili language well, with some suggesting they may have been Kenyan too.
Kenyan police have arrested five men in connection with the university massacre and four gunmen were killed on Thursday at the end of the day-long siege.
The name of the three suspected organisers were not given, but the two arrested on campus included university security guard Osman Ali Dagane and Tanzanian Rashid Charles Mberesero found hiding in the university's ceiling with hand grenades.
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Gallery: A Look At The History Of Somali Terrorist Group Al Shabaab
Al Shabaab ("the Youth") emerged from a group called the Union of Islamic Courts which controlled Mogadishu before being forced out by Ethiopian troops in 2006
The group has been banned by both the US and UK but has 7000-9000 fighters, many of them foreign, and it is thought to have close ties with al Qaeda
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The attack at the university, which is near the border with Somalia, left 148 dead, including 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers, and was Kenya's deadliest attack since the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi.
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Survivor Found Two Days After Kenya Massacre
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Video:Survivor Found Among Kenya Victims
A survivor of the Kenya university massacre which saw 148 people killed has been found two days after the attack.
Kenyan medical staff are reported to have found Cynthia Cheroitich during the grim task of dealing with the bodies of those killed by members of Somalia-based terror group al Shabaab.
The 19-year-old said from her hospital bed that she hid in a large cupboard, covering herself with clothes, refusing to emerge when some of her classmates came out of hiding at the demands of the gunmen.
She said she drank lotion to stave off thirst and hunger.
She said she did not believe that rescuers urging her to come out of her hiding place were there to help, suspecting at first that they were militants.
Video:"I Pretended To Be Dead"
It was only when Kenyan security forces had one of her teachers appeal to her that she did she come out, she said.
Ms Cheroitich, a Christian, said: "I was just praying to my God."
Fellow student Cheruiot Tiebafy told how he used the blood of his colleagues to survive the massacre.
He said: "Actually I am the only man who survived from all the boys who were held hostage.
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Gallery: Graphic Images From Kenya Massacre
This man was captured at the scene by Kenyan authorities
Mohamed Mohamud has been named as the mastermind behind the attack
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"I just smeared the blood of my colleagues, I ate the blood to be my lunch and I go to sleep there for around 13 good hours when we got to be hostage and I pretended to be dead.
"They turned me around, they kicked me but I'm alive."
Meanwhile, more details have emerged of those arrested or sought over the attack.
Police named militant Islamist Mohamed Mohamud, a quietly-spoken former teacher, as the alleged mastermind of the massacre in Garissa.
Video:Kenyans Protest After Massacre
The alleged al Shabaab member, a Kenyan of Somali origin, is also wanted in connection with a string of recent cross-border killings and massacres in Kenya's northeastern border region.
While Mohamud, thought to be in his late 50s, did not take part physically in the Garissa attack, survivors described the attackers as men like him: speaking Kenya's Swahili language well, with some suggesting they may have been Kenyan too.
Kenyan police have arrested five men in connection with the university massacre and four gunmen were killed on Thursday at the end of the day-long siege.
The name of the three suspected organisers were not given, but the two arrested on campus included university security guard Osman Ali Dagane and Tanzanian Rashid Charles Mberesero found hiding in the university's ceiling with hand grenades.
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Gallery: A Look At The History Of Somali Terrorist Group Al Shabaab
Al Shabaab ("the Youth") emerged from a group called the Union of Islamic Courts which controlled Mogadishu before being forced out by Ethiopian troops in 2006
The group has been banned by both the US and UK but has 7000-9000 fighters, many of them foreign, and it is thought to have close ties with al Qaeda
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The attack at the university, which is near the border with Somalia, left 148 dead, including 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers, and was Kenya's deadliest attack since the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi.
Written By Unknown on Kamis, 02 April 2015 | 20.18
Nine Britons arrested for trying to cross illegally from Turkey into Syria are expected to be deported today.
The Britons - including two women and four children - were held by Turkish officers at a military outpost at Ogulpinar in the south of the country.
Footage released this morning shows the Britons arriving at a police station in the Southern Hatay province.
Two children - a boy and a girl - could be seen inside the military vehicle. The Britons were then escorted inside the police station.
Detained British citizens leaving hospital after medical checks
Turkish MP Mehmet Ali Ediboglu said late on Wednesday: "They are being held at a paramilitary outpost. Probably, they will be deported to their country tomorrow (Thursday)."
It was not clear why the nine Britons were trying to cross the border.
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Thousands of foreigners have joined the ranks of Islamic State and other radical groups in Syria and Iraq, many of them crossing through Turkey.
UK security services alone estimate 600 Britons have gone to Syria or Iraq to join militant groups.
Turkey has faced criticism for not doing enough to control its southeastern borders.
The country has in turn accused European nations of failing to prevent would-be jihadists from travelling in the first place.
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The planned deportation comes as a new UN report says more than 25,000 foreign fighters have travelled to join al Qaeda, IS and other splinter groups.
The fighters, from more than 100 countries, have travelled to areas including Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya and the Philippines.
The report said its analysis indicates that the number of foreign terrorist fighters worldwide increased by 71% between mid-2014 and March 2015.
It added that the increased flow of foreign fighters "is higher than it has ever been historically".
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Fighters "pose an immediate and long-term threat" and are "an urgent global security problem" that needs to be tackled on many fronts, the UN insisted.
Among Britons who have previously travelled to Syria are thought to be three teenage girls from east London.
Bethnal Green Academy pupils Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana are now thought to be in the Syrian city of Raqqa, an IS stronghold.
The girls were last seen on CCTV at a bus station in Istanbul on 17 February.
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It is understood they were following another 15-year-old girl who travelled there in December.
A New York police detective who was heard on video berating an Uber driver will be transferred from the police anti-terrorism division.
Patrick Cherry was also stripped of his gun and badge after the video went viral and caused embarrassment to police.
"No good cop should watch that without a wince. Because all good cops know that officer just made their jobs a little bit harder," Police Commissioner William Bratton said.
The video was taken by a passenger in the cab, who commiserated the driver
"In any kind of encounter, discourtesy like that and language like that is unacceptable."
Mr Cherry pulled over the Uber driver on Monday in Manhattan.
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It is not clear exactly what spurred the traffic stop, but Mr Cherry is seen on the video accusing the driver of committing various traffic violations while the detective tried to park his car.
Mr Cherry swears, shouts at the driver and insults his accented English as the driver gives compliant responses, calling the detective "sir" and apologising at one point for interrupting to say, "OK".
"I don't care what you have to say. Do you understand that?" the detective says at one point.
At another point Mr Cherry asks: "How long have you been in this country?"
"The only reason you're not in handcuffs going to jail ... is because I have things to do," the officer yells.
"This isn't important enough for me. You're not important enough."
The three-and-a-half minute video appeared to have been captured by a passenger in the car, who commiserated with the driver when the officer had stepped away.
There has been no public comment from Mr Cherry.
City Detectives' Endowment Association President Michael J Palladino called Mr Cherry "a person of good character and an excellent detective".
"He really should not be judged by one isolated incident," he said.
An "unknown number of student hostages" have been taken by masked terrorists who have killed at least 15 people after storming a university in eastern Kenya.
Two police officers are among the dead following heavy gunfire and explosions in a campus building at Garissa University.
At least 65 others have been wounded.
Somalia's al Shabaab militant group has claimed responsibility.
"We sorted people out and released the Muslims," said spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab.
"There are many dead bodies of Christians inside the building. We are also holding many Christians alive. Fighting still goes on inside the college."
Video:Gunmen Storm University Campus
One of the suspected gunmen was arrested as he tried to flee, according to Kenya's interior ministry.
The Red Cross said 50 students have been safely freed, while the interior ministry said 280 of 815 students had been accounted for.
Kenya Police Chief Joseph Boinet said: "Gunmen forced their way into Garissa University by shooting at the guards manning the main gate at around 5.30am.
"The gunmen shot indiscriminately while inside the university compound.
"Police... engaged the gunmen in a fierce shootout; however, the attackers retreated and gained entry into one of the hostels."
A gunfight between security services and the perpetrators lasted several hours, according to the Red Cross.
The area has been sealed off and the army called in to try and "flush out" the attackers.
The National Disaster Operations Center said on Twitter that students had been evacuated from three of four dorms.
The gunmen have been cornered in the other.
Students reported seeing five masked attackers.
Collins Wetangula, the vice chairman of the student union, said he was preparing to take a shower when he heard gunshots coming from a dorm.
"All I could hear were footsteps and gunshots; nobody was screaming because they thought this would lead the gunmen to know where they are," he said.
"The gunmen were saying sisi ni al-Shabab (Swahili for we are al-Shabab).
"If you were a Christian you were shot on the spot. With each blast of the gun I thought I was going to die."
Grace Kai, a student at a neighbouring college, said there had been warnings of an imminent attack.
"Some strangers had been spotted in Garissa town and were suspected to be terrorists," she said.
"Then on Monday our college principal told us... that strangers had been spotted in our college. On Tuesday we were released to go home, and our college closed, but the campus remained in session, and now they have been attacked."
Kenya's northern and eastern regions, which border Somalia, have been most affected by attacks blamed on al Shabaab Islamists from Somalia.
The militants, who have links to al Qaeda, have vowed to take retribution against Kenya for sending its troops to Somalia.
Al Shabaab was responsible for the deadly attack in 2013 on the Westgate shopping mall. At least 67 people were killed when a group of gunmen rampaged through the centre in Nairobi.
Investigators say they have found mobile phones amongst the debris of the German passenger jet that crashed in the French Alps.
So far the devices have not produced any clues as to what happened when the Germanwings A320 went down, killing all 150 people on board.
However, Lt. Col Jean-Marc Menichini said they had yet to be given a full examination. He declined to elaborate.
Search teams have been looking for the second black box flight recorder
Earlier this week French magazine Paris-Match and German tabloid Bild said they had seen a video of the final moments of the flight recorded on a mobile phone.
Paris Match, which has not published the video, reported: "The sounds of the screaming passengers made it perfectly clear that they were aware of what was about to happen to them."
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A lead investigator into the crash later called on anyone with footage of the disaster to hand it over to authorities.
Special mountain troops are continuing to search the area for personal belongings and the second black box flight recorder.
Investigators believe the 27-year-old co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately steered the plane into the mountainside after locking the pilot out of the cockpit.
It has also emerged Lubitz had been treated for suicidal tendencies before he got his pilot's licence and had torn up sick notes.
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Germany is to set up a task force to examine safety issues such as the cockpit door mechanism and pilots' mental health.
It follows a meeting between Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt and the German Aviation Association, which represents airlines.
"We want to look at psychological criteria and procedures. We also want to look at the question - how do we recognise any indication of psychological issues," Mr Dobrindt said.
Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said on Wednesday it will take a "long time" to fully establish what led to the crash.
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"We are learning more every day about the causes of the accident," he said in a statement near the crash site.
But he added: "It will take a long, long time for all of us to understand how this could happen."
He refused to answer questions on what Lufthansa knew about Lubitz's mental health.
On Tuesday, French President Francois Hollande said all 150 victims will be identified by the end of the week.
Video:New Details Of Co-Pilot's History
This contradicted an earlier report in Bild that said relatives may have to wait much longer, with no guarantees their loved ones will be found.
The violence with which the Airbus smashed into the French Alps last week has severely hampered the DNA identification process.
Flight 4U 9525 was on its way from Barcelona to Dusseldorf when it came down. To date not a single body has been found intact.
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Lufthansa chief executive lays flowers near the site of the crash
Mobile phone footage taken from inside the Germanwings flight during its final moments has reportedly been recovered from the crash site in the French Alps.
European newspapers Paris Match and Bild have reported that the video, which Sky News has not seen, was discovered on a mobile phone found among the wreckage of flight 4U 9525.
Paris Match, which has not published the video, reported: "The scene was so chaotic that it was hard to identify people, but the sounds of the screaming passengers made it perfectly clear that they were aware of what was about to happen to them.
"One can hear cries of 'My God' in several languages."
The newspaper added that metallic banging can be heard in the footage, before the screaming gets louder and the video ends.
Video:New Details Of Co-Pilot's History
A lead investigator into the crash later called on anyone with footage of the disaster to hand it over to authorities.
Prosecutor Brice Robin said videos were not yet an official part of the probe, but that anyone with footage "must hand it over immediately to investigators".
It comes after Lufthansa revealed the co-pilot accused of deliberately crashing the Germanwings plane told officials at a training school he had gone through an "episode of severe depression".
Andreas Lubitz, 27, informed instructors in 2009 that he had to break off from his pilot training for several months because of his illness.
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Gallery: Tributes Laid Near Crash Site
A memorial, carved in French, German, Spanish and English, in memory of the victims of the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash, in the small village of Le Vernet, French Alps
The chapel prepared for the families of the victims and the medico-legal tents for investigators at Seyne les Alpes near the crash site
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After resuming training six years ago, he provided the school with medical documents which showed he had gone through a "previous episode of severe depression," Lufthansa said.
Dusseldorf state prosecutors said on Monday Lubitz had been treated for suicidal tendencies before getting his pilot's licence.
Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said it will take a "long time" to establish the events that led to the crash.
"We are learning more every day about the causes of the accident," he said in a statement near the crash site on Wednesday.
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Gallery: The Victims Of The Germanwings Crash
American Emily Selke, a recent graduate, was on the plane with her mother Yvonne. Raymond Selke has described his wife and daughter as 'amazing people'. Pic: Facebook
Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi was on his way to Austria to cover a football match. A friend said he was 'a kind, loving, caring man'. Pic: Maysam Bizær/Hossein Javadi
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"It will take a long, long time for all of us to understand how this could happen."
He refused to answer questions on what Lufthansa knew about Lubitz's mental health.
French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday all 150 victims of the plane crash will be identified by the end of the week.
This contradicted an earlier report in Bild that said the relatives of the victims may have to wait months for their loved ones to be identified, with no guarantees they will all be found.
Video:Co-Pilot's Motives 'Not Relevant'
The head of the Criminal Research Institute at France's National Gendarmerie told the newspaper it would take forensic teams between two and four months to complete the DNA identification process.
The violence with which the Airbus A320 crashed into the mountainside in the French Alps last week has severely hampered the identification of the remains of those on board.
Recovery teams scouring the crash site have said not a single body has been found intact.
Some 78 different DNA profiles have been isolated so far from around 400 body parts, although none have been directly linked to the victims.
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Family members have been asked to provide forensic teams with DNA samples to help in the identification.
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Video Captures Final Moments Of Alps Crash
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Lufthansa chief executive lays flowers near the site of the crash
Mobile phone footage taken from inside the Germanwings flight during its final moments has reportedly been recovered from the crash site in the French Alps.
European newspapers Paris Match and Bild have reported that the video, which Sky News has not seen, was discovered on a mobile phone found among the wreckage of flight 4U 9525.
Paris Match, which has not published the video, reported: "The scene was so chaotic that it was hard to identify people, but the sounds of the screaming passengers made it perfectly clear that they were aware of what was about to happen to them.
"One can hear cries of 'My God' in several languages."
The newspaper added that metallic banging can be heard in the footage, before the screaming gets louder and the video ends.
Video:New Details Of Co-Pilot's History
A lead investigator into the crash later called on anyone with footage of the disaster to hand it over to authorities.
Prosecutor Brice Robin said videos were not yet an official part of the probe, but that anyone with footage "must hand it over immediately to investigators".
It comes after Lufthansa revealed the co-pilot accused of deliberately crashing the Germanwings plane told officials at a training school he had gone through an "episode of severe depression".
Andreas Lubitz, 27, informed instructors in 2009 that he had to break off from his pilot training for several months because of his illness.
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Gallery: Tributes Laid Near Crash Site
A memorial, carved in French, German, Spanish and English, in memory of the victims of the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash, in the small village of Le Vernet, French Alps
The chapel prepared for the families of the victims and the medico-legal tents for investigators at Seyne les Alpes near the crash site
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Investigators gathered near the scene
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Emergency crews stand aside as relatives pay their respects at the memorial for the victims
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After resuming training six years ago, he provided the school with medical documents which showed he had gone through a "previous episode of severe depression," Lufthansa said.
Dusseldorf state prosecutors said on Monday Lubitz had been treated for suicidal tendencies before getting his pilot's licence.
Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said it will take a "long time" to establish the events that led to the crash.
"We are learning more every day about the causes of the accident," he said in a statement near the crash site on Wednesday.
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Gallery: The Victims Of The Germanwings Crash
American Emily Selke, a recent graduate, was on the plane with her mother Yvonne. Raymond Selke has described his wife and daughter as 'amazing people'. Pic: Facebook
Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi was on his way to Austria to cover a football match. A friend said he was 'a kind, loving, caring man'. Pic: Maysam Bizær/Hossein Javadi
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"It will take a long, long time for all of us to understand how this could happen."
He refused to answer questions on what Lufthansa knew about Lubitz's mental health.
French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday all 150 victims of the plane crash will be identified by the end of the week.
This contradicted an earlier report in Bild that said the relatives of the victims may have to wait months for their loved ones to be identified, with no guarantees they will all be found.
Video:Co-Pilot's Motives 'Not Relevant'
The head of the Criminal Research Institute at France's National Gendarmerie told the newspaper it would take forensic teams between two and four months to complete the DNA identification process.
The violence with which the Airbus A320 crashed into the mountainside in the French Alps last week has severely hampered the identification of the remains of those on board.
Recovery teams scouring the crash site have said not a single body has been found intact.
Some 78 different DNA profiles have been isolated so far from around 400 body parts, although none have been directly linked to the victims.
Video:Airbus Video On Anti-Terror Doors
Family members have been asked to provide forensic teams with DNA samples to help in the identification.
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China has called for both sides to compromise in nuclear talks between Iran and world powers, warning that all previous efforts will be wasted if a deadlock continues.
Negotiations have resumed in Lausanne, Switzerland, hours after midnight deadline passed without any definitive agreement being reached, although negotiators agreed to a one-day extension.
But after Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi left the meeting, a rare statement from his delegation said: "It is important to give political guidance to the negotiations ... it is important to narrow down the differences.
"If the negotiations are stuck, all previous efforts will be wasted.
"All parties must be prepared to meet each other half way to reach an agreement."
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Mr Wang was one of three foreign ministers to leave the negotiations in the hands of representatives, with Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and France's Laurent Fabius also departing.
The significance of their absence was not clear.
Iran's foreign minister said earlier he was hopeful Tehran and the six world powers - the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China - could begin drafting a preliminary deal after the negotiations were extended.
Mohammad Javad Zarif described the late-night talks as "very good", saying: "We hope to start drafting the text on Wednesday."
Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: "We have made some very significant progress over the last few days, but it has been slow going.
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"We decided to break last night. Some of the staff had been working through the previous night. We wanted people to be fresh as we started the last few issues that remain.
"We are now working on them this morning. I'm optimistic that we will make further progress this morning, but it does mean the Iranians being willing to meet us where there are issues that we still need to deal with.
"So fingers crossed and we hope to get there during the course of the day."
Western powers aim to stop Iran from having the capacity to develop a nuclear bomb, in exchange for easing international sanctions that are crippling its economy.
Stumbling blocks related to Iran's enrichment research and the speed of lifting the sanctions are threatening to scupper an agreement.
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The aim is to reach an understanding that could serve as the basis for a final accord to be reached by the end of June.
The talks, which have lasted nearly two years, have already been extended twice since an interim agreement was reached in November 2013.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposes the negotiations, said the agreement being put together in Lausanne sends the message "that Iran stands to gain by its aggression".
A gunman who smashed a window and unveiled a flag at the offices of Turkey's ruling party the day after a siege in which a prosecutor died has been arrested.
Turkey's Dogan news agency had earlier reported that two people had been seen entering the office of the AK Party carrying weapons.
Police sealed off the road around the office in an industrial suburb of Istanbul but later said just one man had been detained.
It came the day after prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz was taken hostage in revenge for a teenager's death during anti-government protests in 2014.
Two members of the banned Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) were killed when security forces went into the office where he was being held.
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The prosecutor, who was responsible for the investigation into the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, also died.
The arrest in Istanbul came on a day when a number of left wing activists from the DHKP-C were held in the southern Turkish city of Antalya.
Counter terrorism police carried out a series of early morning raids and took 22 suspected radicals into custody.
The Dogan news agency reported authorities had received a tip-off they were planning further attacks.
A lawyer for the suspects told Dogan that the claims were baseless and the group would release a statement later in the day.
The DHKP-C is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States and has carried out a string of attacks in Turkey in the past.
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Meanwhile, ceremonies to remember Mr Kiraz started on Wednesday morning.
A memorial to the prosecutor took place at the Istanbul Caglayan Palace of Justice where he worked and the hostage drama unfolded.
Hundreds of lawyers, prosecutors and staff stood in respect on every floor of the giant building - said to be the largest courthouse in Europe - and unfurled a giant Turkish flag from the top floor.
His funeral was due to take place later at the Eyup Sultan Mosque in Istanbul with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu due to attend, the official Anatolia news agency said.
No one has yet been arrested over the death of Berkin Elvan, who died in March last year after spending 269 days in a coma from injuries inflicted by police in anti-government protests in the summer of 2013.
Mr Kiraz's captors demanded he hand over the names of the suspects and force them to confess.
A German former policeman who murdered a man he met on a cannibalism fetish website has been sentenced to eight years and six months in jail.
Detlev Guenzel, 57, killed his willing victim before cutting the body into small pieces and burying them in the garden of his bed and breakfast guest house.
There was no evidence that he ate any part of Polish-born business consultant Wojciech Stempniewicz.
The crime took place at the defendant's home, a B&B inn in the mountain town of Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau near the Czech border, in November 2013.
The bed and breakfast in a mountain town where Guenzel murdered his victim
The men had come across each other a month earlier on a website for slaughter and cannibalism fantasies which billed itself as the "#1 site for exotic meat" and boasted more than 3,000 members.
Former police forensic handwriting expert Guenzel, 57, went on trial in August last year.
Dresden chief prosecutor Andreas Feron told the trial: "He killed and dismembered him to get sexual stimulation."
Guenzel retracted a confession originally made to police in which he admitted killing Mr Stempniewicz by cutting his throat.
An autopsy determined that the cause of death was asphyxiation and it was alleged Guenzel took a knife, then an electrical saw, to Mr Stempniewicz's body.
The defence team argued that the victim, who had long expressed a death wish, hanged himself in Guenzel's custom-designed "S&M studio" in his cellar.
Guenzel did not eat any of the victim's body
The men's email exchanges had the title "Schlachtfest", the German word for a country feast after the slaughter of a pig.
Defence lawyer Endrik Wilhelm told the trial in August: "In our eyes, and in the eyes of our client, it is about a suicide."
The defendant, who has children from the first of his two marriages, the second of which was to a man, sat impassively with arms folded as the verdict was read out.
Presiding judge at the sentencing at the regional court in the eastern city of Dresden Birgit Wiegand said: "He was found guilty of murder and disturbing the peace of the dead."
State prosecutors had wanted a jail sentence of 10-and-a-half years.
Lawyers representing the family of Mr Stempniewicz, 59, had requested a 15-year sentence, which is typically the maximum in a German murder case.
But prosecutors said they stopped short of this demand because he said he wanted to die.
Written By Unknown on Selasa, 31 Maret 2015 | 20.18
A major terrorism trial in Uganda has been suspended after one of the senior prosecutors in the case was shot dead in what police say could be a targeted killing.
Joan Kagezi was one of the lead members of the prosecution team in the trial of 13 people suspected of involvement in twin bombings by the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab in Kampala in 2010.
Ms Kagezi was fatally wounded at around 8pm on Monday in Kiwatule, a suburb of the Ugandan capital, after stopping to buy fruit at the side of the road.
A police spokesman said it appeared she was shot through her car window by two men who had followed her on a motorbike.
Her three children, who were also in the vehicle, escaped unhurt.
"Her death is a big loss to the country," Uganda's police chief Kale Kayihura said.
Security has been boosted in Uganda amid a heightened terror threat.
"The murder of Joan Kagezi should only serve to increase our resolve to hunt down and bring to justice all those elements bent on disturbing the security and development of our country."
Officers are now looking into the possibility that the killing was linked to Ms Kagezi's work in finding those responsible for the bomb attacks in 2010, which killed at least 79 people watching the football World Cup final at a restaurant and sports club.
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This image of the car park under the shopping centre was taken by German scientist Eike Luedeling. His Kenyan wife and two children survived the attack.
This image was also taken by Mr Luedeling when he collected his car on Sunday, September 29.
Urgent diplomatic talks are being held in a bid to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, with a deadline to secure an agreement fast approaching.
Significant differences reportedly remain between the two sides meeting in the Swiss town of Lausanne.
For nearly a week the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China have been trying to break the deadlock in negotiations aimed at stopping Iran from having the capacity to develop a nuclear bomb, in exchange for an easing of international sanctions that are crippling its economy.
But stumbling blocks of enrichment research and the speed of lifting sanctions is threatening to scupper an agreement that could end a 12-year standoff between Iran and the West over Tehran's nuclear ambitions and reduce the risk of another Middle East war.
All sides say an agreement is possible but uncertain
Meetings are being held in an attempt to try and bridge the remaining gaps by the deadline of midnight local time on Tuesday (11pm UK time).
The aim is to reach an understanding that could serve as the basis for a final accord to be reached by the end of June.
All sides say an agreement is possible but uncertain.
It is unclear what missing the 11pm deadline would mean for the talks which have lasted nearly two years and been extended twice since an interim agreement was reached in November 2013.
Most of the parties have indicated they do not want another extension, although they have also said the interim agreement will remain in place until 1 July, suggesting talks could continue.
Meetings are being held in an attempt to try and bridge the remaining gaps
As talks resumed on Tuesday, the spokeswoman for the US State Department tweeted: "Long day ahead."
On Monday night, Secretary of State John Kerry admitted: "There are still some tricky issues.
"We are working very hard to work those through. We are working into the night."
The six powers want more than a 10-year suspension of Iran's most sensitive nuclear work.
Tehran, which denies it is trying to develop a nuclear weapons capability, is demanding a swift end to sanctions in exchange for temporary limits on its atomic activities.
Iran says it wants nuclear enrichment only for energy, science, industry and medicine.
The world's nuclear nations
But many countries fear Iran could use the technology to make weapons-grade uranium.
There is a sense of added urgency with the US Congress warning it will consider imposing new sanctions on Iran if no agreement is reached this week.
In turn, US President Barack Obama has threatened to veto any sanctions moves by the Republican-dominated Congress.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposes the negotiations, said the agreement being put together in Lausanne sends the message "that Iran stands to gain by its aggression".
Iran said the key issue was lifting sanctions quickly.
The country's nuclear negiotiator Majid Takhteravanchi said: "There will be no agreement if the sanctions issue cannot be resolved.
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The violence of the crash has hampered the identification of victims
The relatives of the Germanwings victims may have to wait months for their loved ones to be identified, with no guarantees they will all be found, Germany's Bild newspaper has reported.
The head of the Criminal Research Institute at France's National Gendarmerie said it would take forensic teams between two and four months to complete the DNA identification process, according to Bild.
Even then, "we cannot promise that we will be able to identify all of the victims," Colonel Francois Daoust said.
Colonel Francois Daoust said they may not be able to find all the victims
The violence with which the plane crashed into the mountainside in the French Alps last week has severely hampered the identification of the remains of the 150 people on board.
Recovery teams scouring the crash site have said not a single body has been found intact.
Video:New Details Of Co-Pilot's History
Some 78 different DNA profiles have been isolated so far from around 400 body parts, although none have been directly linked to the victims.
Family members have been asked to provide forensic teams with DNA samples to help in the identification.
Investigators are currently working on the theory that the 27-year-old co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately crashed the plane.
The voice recorder suggested he locked the pilot out of the cockpit and intentionally put the Airbus A320 into a descent.
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Gallery: The Victims Of The Germanwings Crash
American Emily Selke, a recent graduate, was on the plane with her mother Yvonne. Raymond Selke has described his wife and daughter as 'amazing people'. Pic: Facebook
Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi was on his way to Austria to cover a football match. A friend said he was 'a kind, loving, caring man'. Pic: Maysam Bizær/Hossein Javadi
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Argentinian Sebastian Greco was on board with his girlfriend. Pic: Facebook
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Argentinian Gabriela Maumus, 28, was the daughter of a firefighter. Pic: Facebook
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Spanish victim Carles Milla Masanas, 37. The businessman was on his way to a food industry fayre. Pic: Facebook
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German prosecutors revealed on Monday that Lubitz had been treated in the past for suicidal tendencies, although no evidence has been found to prove he felt suicidal at the time of the crash.
Christoph Kumpa, a spokesman for Dusseldorf prosecutor's office, said he was known to have paid several visits to doctors in the days and months before and nothing of this nature was found to have been documented.
He said: "There still is no evidence that the co-pilot told before that he'll do what we have to assume was done and we haven't found a letter or anything like that that contains a confession.
"Added to this, we have not found anything in the surrounding be it personal, or his family, or his professional surrounding, that is giving us any hints that enable us to say anything about his motivation.
Video:Crash Site - Latest Search Video
Lubitz had been given a sick note on the day of the crash, but the note was never submitted to Germanwings.
It has been reported he had also been receiving treatment for an unspecific vision problem which could have affected his ability to fly, although Mr Kumpa said nothing had been found to verify those claims.
Investigators have so far been unable to find the aircraft's second black box, which would provide technical flight data of its final moments.
A road to improve access to the crash site has been built by investigators, who resumed their search on Tuesday.
Video:How The Co-Pilot Took Control
Three trucks left the dropzone in Seyne-les-Alpes after a 48-hour road-building operation to ease access to the mountainside.
The vehicles now take 45 minutes to reach the base of the slope where debris is spread across some five acres (two hectares), while two helicopters fly overhead to check for pieces that might have been flung further.
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The violence of the crash has hampered the identification of victims
The relatives of the Germanwings victims may have to wait months for their loved ones to be identified, with no guarantees they will all be found, Germany's Bild newspaper has reported.
The head of the Criminal Research Institute at France's National Gendarmerie said it would take forensic teams between two and four months to complete the DNA identification process, according to Bild.
Even then, "we cannot promise that we will be able to identify all of the victims," Colonel Francois Daoust said.
Colonel Francois Daoust said they may not be able to find all the victims
The violence with which the plane crashed into the mountainside in the French Alps last week has severely hampered the identification of the remains of the 150 people on board.
Recovery teams scouring the crash site have said not a single body has been found intact.
Video:New Details Of Co-Pilot's History
Some 78 different DNA profiles have been isolated so far from around 400 body parts, although none have been directly linked to the victims.
Family members have been asked to provide forensic teams with DNA samples to help in the identification.
Investigators are currently working on the theory that the 27-year-old co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately crashed the plane.
The voice recorder suggested he locked the pilot out of the cockpit and intentionally put the Airbus A320 into a descent.
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Gallery: The Victims Of The Germanwings Crash
American Emily Selke, a recent graduate, was on the plane with her mother Yvonne. Raymond Selke has described his wife and daughter as 'amazing people'. Pic: Facebook
Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi was on his way to Austria to cover a football match. A friend said he was 'a kind, loving, caring man'. Pic: Maysam Bizær/Hossein Javadi
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Argentinian Sebastian Greco was on board with his girlfriend. Pic: Facebook
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Argentinian Gabriela Maumus, 28, was the daughter of a firefighter. Pic: Facebook
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Spanish victim Carles Milla Masanas, 37. The businessman was on his way to a food industry fayre. Pic: Facebook
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German prosecutors revealed on Monday that Lubitz had been treated in the past for suicidal tendencies, although no evidence has been found to prove he felt suicidal at the time of the crash.
Christoph Kumpa, a spokesman for Dusseldorf prosecutor's office, said he was known to have paid several visits to doctors in the days and months before and nothing of this nature was found to have been documented.
He said: "There still is no evidence that the co-pilot told before that he'll do what we have to assume was done and we haven't found a letter or anything like that that contains a confession.
"Added to this, we have not found anything in the surrounding be it personal, or his family, or his professional surrounding, that is giving us any hints that enable us to say anything about his motivation.
Video:Crash Site - Latest Search Video
Lubitz had been given a sick note on the day of the crash, but the note was never submitted to Germanwings.
It has been reported he had also been receiving treatment for an unspecific vision problem which could have affected his ability to fly, although Mr Kumpa said nothing had been found to verify those claims.
Investigators have so far been unable to find the aircraft's second black box, which would provide technical flight data of its final moments.
A road to improve access to the crash site has been built by investigators, who resumed their search on Tuesday.
Video:How The Co-Pilot Took Control
Three trucks left the dropzone in Seyne-les-Alpes after a 48-hour road-building operation to ease access to the mountainside.
The vehicles now take 45 minutes to reach the base of the slope where debris is spread across some five acres (two hectares), while two helicopters fly overhead to check for pieces that might have been flung further.
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Gunmen have taken a prosecutor hostage at a court in Istanbul, an official has confirmed - and Turkish special forces have entered the building.
An unverified image appears to show Mehmet Selim Kiraz with a gun to his head and a hand over his mouth - and his hands appear to be bound with cable ties. Sky News has decided not to show the hostage in distress.
The photograph was published online by the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) - a banned far-left organisation.
In the picture, one of the militants has concealed his face with a red and yellow scarf, while flags and posters bearing the organisation's insignia hang in the background.
The group, which has been listed as a terror organisation by the US, the EU and Turkey, has threatened to kill Mr Kiraz at 1.36pm UK time if their demands are not met. That deadline has since passed.
The courthouse in Istanbul has been evacuated and special forces are inside
According to Turkish media, shots have been fired inside the courthouse. The police are currently trying to negotiate with two militants via a mediator.
The chief prosecutor was investigating the death of Berkin Elvan - a teenager who died in March 2014 from injuries inflicted by the police.
He spent 269 days in a coma after being hit by a gas canister fired during anti-government protests, and his treatment by officers caused outrage nationwide.
Berkin Elvan died from his injuries after spending 269 days in a coma
The DHKP-C wants the officer it blames for the 15-year-old's death to "confess" on national television. Mr Kiraz was reportedly handed a list of suspect policemen by investigators two weeks ago.
It remains unclear how the group smuggled guns into the courthouse - however, many Turkish towns and cities were hit with the worst blackout in 15 years on Tuesday.
Some far-left groups in Turkey believe the authorities have orchestrated a cover-up by refusing to name the perpetrators responsible for Berkin's death.
An opposition politician, writing on Twitter, claimed he had spoken to Berkin's father, Sami, who said: "My son died but I don't want any other person to die. The prosecutor must be released. Blood cannot be washed away with blood."
Many Turkish news channels had been broadcasting live scenes from the courthouse, but have returned to their normal programming after a media blackout was imposed.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan previously sparked controversy when he branded Berkin a "thug" and encouraged his supporters to boo the teenager's mother at a rally.
In 2013, the DHKP-C was behind a suicide bombing outside the US Embassy.
Written By Unknown on Senin, 30 Maret 2015 | 20.18
More details of the final moments of Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 have emerged as investigators find the DNA of more than half the victims of the crash.
A summary of the transcript of recordings from the voice recorder on board the aircraft reveals co-pilot Andreas Lubitz began the descent after the captain left to cockpit.
In the transcript, published by German newspaper Bild, the captain apologises to passengers for a delay on leaving Barcelona.
He then tells Lubitz he has not had time to go to the toilet before departure, to which the co-pilot replies he can go "at any time".
After completing mid-flight checks for landing, Lubitz then tells the captain, named in reports as Patrick Sondheimer, that: "You can go now."
Video:Co-Pilot's Motives 'Not Relevant'
Minutes later the captain leaves the cockpit, saying: "You can take over."
The click of the cockpit door closing can then be heard.
But shortly afterwards there is a loud bang, believed to be the sound of someone trying to enter the cockpit, followed by the captain shouting "For God's sake, open the door!"
There are then repeated blows to the cockpit door, thought to have been made by an axe or crow bar.
An automated warning triggers in the cockpit as the plane continues to descend, saying: "Terrain. Pull up."
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The pilot can then be heard shouting: "Open the damn door."
The right wing of the aircraft then clips a mountain and the final sounds are those of passengers screaming, Bild reports.
French officials say the plane's black box voice recorder indicates Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit of the Airbus jet and deliberately crashed the plane.
Investigators have so far been unable to find the aircraft's second black box which would provide technical flight data on its final moments.
All 150 people on board the Germanwings plane, which was flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, were killed in the crash in southern France on Tuesday.
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French prosecutors said the DNA of 78 people of those on board have been identified.
But investigators have described the difficulty of the search for victims and the second black box as "unprecedented" because of both the mountainous terrain and the violence of the impact.
"We haven't found a single body intact," said Patrick Touron, deputy director of the French police's criminal research institute.
"We have slopes of 40 to 60 degrees, falling rocks, and ground that tends to crumble.
"Some things have to be done by abseiling. Since safety is key, the recovery process is a bit slow, which is a great regret," he added.
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Mr Touron added: "In catastrophes, normally around 90% of identifications are done through dental records", but in the case of Flight 4U 9525, DNA would most likely to play a greater role than normal.
Lubitz had been given a sick note on the day of the crash, but the note was never submitted to Germanwings.
Dusseldorf University Hospital said he had been evaluated at its clinic in February and on 10 March, but did not comment on why he was being treated because of patient privacy laws.
Police found medicines for the treatment of psychological conditions during searches of the 27-year-old's home in Dusseldorf and officials told the New York Times he had sought treatment for vision problems.
