John Kerry and William Hague fly to Geneva to try to seal Iran nuclear deal
Final few sticking points believed to be dwindling as officials note 'a strong will to find common ground'
John Kerry and William Hague were due to arrive in Geneva on Saturday morning to join other foreign ministers in negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme.
The Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov arrived on Friday afternoon for talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammed Javad Zarif.
France's Laurent Fabius arrived in Geneva on Saturday morning, where Germany's Guido Westerwelle and China's Wang Yi were expected to join him in what is hoped will be a final push towards a deal that has eluded diplomats for over a decade.
They are also expected to use the weekend for preparations for a Syrian peace conference in Geneva next week.
Revealed: Private companies making a killing destroying Syria's chemical weapons
UN tribunal sides with Arctic Sunrise activists
An international maritime court has called for the immediate release of the Arctic Sunrise activists and their vessel. The verdict was clear - but Russia's reaction to it remains to be seen.
The second session of the UN's International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea was held on Friday (22.11.2013) in Hamburg, following an appeal from the Netherlands against the detention of the Arctic Sunrise vessel and the 30 Greenpeace activists on board the ship. The activists had staged a protest at an oil rig owned by Russian oil giant Gazprom in mid September, before being arrested by Russian police.
The court proceedings didn't take long. Judge Shunji Yanai, president of the tribunal, read out the verdict in 35 minutes, pausing only to take a few sips of water. As he read, the four representatives from the Dutch Foreign Ministry, which had filed the appeal against the Russian Federation, exchanged glances several times and nodded in agreement.
Handshakes and hugs followed: the tribunal had met Dutch demands by calling on Russian authorities to immediately free the Arctic Sunrise vessel and all the detained activists in exchange for a 3.6 million euro ($4.9 million) bond from the Netherlands.
Antiterrorist unit 'must be cut off'
A Kenyan police squad, funded and trained by the UK and the US, stands accused of rights abuses.
A Kenyan human rights group has called on Britain and the United States to suspend their support for anti-terror police accused of a string of disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the country.
Illegal tactics allegedly used by Kenya’s antiterrorism police unit (ATPU), which receives finance and training from Britain and the US, may be strengthening support for radical Islamists in East Africa, a report by Muslims for Human Rights concludes.
The report, titled We Are Tired of Taking You to Court, documents six years of alleged abuses in the port city of Mombasa, which has become a recruiting ground for the al-Qaeda-linked Somali Islamist group al-Shabab.
Social programs tied to Rio de Janeiro Olympics stall
A slum upgrade program that was designed to improve Rio's poorest favelas by 2020, and reflect well on Olympics preparations, has seen little progress.
If you are one of this city’s 1.4 million (22 percent of the population) who live in a favela (slum), if you work as an architect, urbanist, or social scientist, or are simply a concerned carioca, now may well be the perfect moment to paint some new protest banners and get out on the streets to march.
Morar Carioca (Carioca Living), the favela upgrade program hailed only three years ago as a key social legacy of the Olympic Games – and which mobilized scores of architectural firms in a project contest held by the Brazilian Institute of Architects — was meant to bring the city’s favelas up to standard by 2020. In January 2011, mayor Eduardo Paes happily announced that work would begin in March of that year. Yet not much has happened, except for some scattered projects.
23 November 2013 Last updated at 01:35 GMT
England v Hungary - a football match that started a revolution
Sixty years ago, a football match shook the foundations of the British Empire and encouraged a previously unthinkable dream of freedom in Hungary, says Gellert Tamas.
The time was exactly 16:45. Wembley hosted a sold-out crowd. One hundred and twenty thousand spectators had gathered to see England play Hungary. The "Marvellous Magyars" had remained unbeaten for three years and England had never lost an international against a European side at home.
The two captains, Billy Wright and Ferenc Puskas, shook hands. The referee blew his whistle. The game, dubbed the "match of the century" by media all over the world, had started.
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