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In the latest stage of the race for the United States Presidential nominations, the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has beaten her main rival Barack Obama in Nevada. She gained just over 50% of the total vote to Mr. Obama's 45%. John Donaldson reports from Las Vegas.
At this stage of the race it is all about keeping up momentum. And the Clinton campaign will be keen to build on Nevada in the run-up to Super Tuesday, a key date on February 5th when more than 20 states will hold caucuses and primaries. In the Republican contest here the former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney was the only front running candidate to campaign seriously in Nevada and won comfortably securing around 50% of the vote.
Police in the Spanish City of Barcelona have arrested 14 suspected Islamist militants who they think were plotting an attack in the city. The men, 12 Pakistani nationals and 2 from India were detained in a series of raids. Bomb-making materials were also seized. From Madrid here's Steve Kinston.
'The Spanish interior minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba said the alleged cell(政治小组) appeared to have been in an active phase, although there was no evidence, at this stage, of a specific target. The Spanish newspaper El País has linked the arrests to a visit to Europe by Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf which will begin on Sunday. The newspaper says Spain's Intelligence Services have alerted their counterparts in France, Britain and Portugal to the risk of attacks by Islamist cells of Pakistani origin.
National and NATO led forces in Afghanistan say they fought a battle lasting more than 20 hours against insurgents in the east of the country, killing between 20 and 30 of them. The international security assistance force said it attacked a group of insurgents after receiving intelligence that they were preparing an assault on a military base in Kunar province.
The opposition orange Democratic movement in Kenya says it will resume mass rallies next week to protest against the disputed presidential election. Over the past three days at least 23 people have been killed in confrontations between police and opposition supporters. The European Unions development commissioner Louis Michel was in Nairobi today to try to mediate between the government and the opposition. He called for an end to the violence.
'All mass meetings which can lead to violence or which can lead to exasperations, and which can also call for responses are, of course, dangerous. Now there is a need for a military ceasefire, for a police ceasefire, for an aggressive ceasefire. We need just a little bit positive silence.'
A twin-engined passenger plane has crashed on a mountain in Angola killing at least 11 people. Report said they were no survivors. The French News Agency said the dead included the plane’s owner Valentim Amoes who was a member of the governing party in Angola.
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Thousands of people in the Turkish city of Istanbul have marked the first anniversary of the murder of the ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. Mr. Dink campaigned for Turkey to confront the mass killing of Ottoman Armenians during the First World War. He was convicted of the crime of insulting Turkishness, a charge some observers believed made him a target for extreme Turkish nationalists. Sarah Rainsford reports from Istanbul.
An Armenian pipe played as a vast crowd gathered at the spot where Hrant Dink was killed. Exactly one year on from the murder, the pipe and the crowd fell silent. They remembered a man who dared to try to discuss perhaps the most sensitive chapter of Turkey's past--the mass killing of Ottoman Armenians until he was murdered because of it.
The Russian military chief of staff says Moscow is ready to use preventative nuclear strikes to defend itself from attack. The general Yury Baluyevsky said Russia had no plans to attack anyone but it was important that other countries clearly understood the decisiveness of the top leadership in deploying all necessary means to defend the sovereignty of the country.
Police in Switzerland have detained about 200 demonstrators following clashes in the capital Bern. Those held were trying to stage an illegal demonstration against the world economic forum which opens on Wednesday in the resort of Davos. The march had been banned because its organizers did not disassociate themselves with the violence.
The Dutch City of Amsterdam known for its sex industry has come up with a novel way of rebranding its red-light district. Politicians have unveiled what they’re calling the red-light fashion project with some buildings in the area now housing young designers instead of prostitutes. The city paid around 40 million dollars for 16 buildings in the neighborhood.
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