16 June 2014 Last updated at 09:18
A caption on one of the pictures suggested that the victims - believed to be security personnel - were punished for fighting Sunnis. The Twitter account where the pictures were posted was suspended hours later.
Israeli army says Aziz Dweik among 40 arrested in West Bank, including 'Hamas leadership and operatives', bringing total to at least 150
Jun 16, 2014 2:47 PM GMT+0900
Kenya attack: Mpeketoni near Lamu hit by 'Islamist' raid
At least 48 people have died after suspected Islamist militants attacked hotels and a police station in a Kenyan coastal town, officials say.
Witnesses in Mpeketoni said gun battles went on for several hours and reported seeing buildings set on fire.
The town is on the mainland near Lamu island, a well-known tourist resort.
Kenya has suffered numerous militant attacks since 2011 when its forces entered neighbouring Somalia to combat al-Shabab fighters.
The BBC's Yusuf Dayo in Nairobi says the attack started at 20:30 local time (17:30 GMT) on Sunday as locals were watching a football World Cup match on television.
Photos released of Iraq 'mass execution' |
Pictures posted online purport to show scores of captured government soldiers shot dead by ISIL fighters.
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Sunni rebels in Iraq have posted pictures on Twitter apparently showing their fighters killing many Shia soldiers.
The pictures, posted over the weekend, purport to show scores of captured Iraqi soldiers being killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who wrested control of cities and towns in northern Iraq last week.
The images show masked fighters loading the captives onto trucks before forcing them to lie face-down in a shallow ditch with their arms tied behind their backs. The final pictures show the bodies of the captives soaked in blood after being shot.
A caption on one of the pictures suggested that the victims - believed to be security personnel - were punished for fighting Sunnis. The Twitter account where the pictures were posted was suspended hours later.
Palestinian parliamentary speaker arrested in search for kidnapped teens
Israeli army says Aziz Dweik among 40 arrested in West Bank, including 'Hamas leadership and operatives', bringing total to at least 150
Israeli troops have arrested the speaker of the Palestinian parliament andHamas member Aziz Dweik during a wave of detentions linked to a massive manhunt for three kidnapped teenagers.
An Israeli army statement on Monday said more than 40 suspects in the West Bank, "including Hamas leadership and operatives", had been arrested, bringing the total number of arrests in the search to at least 150.
Amani Sarahna, a spokeswoman for the Ramallah-based Palestinian Prisoners Club, said 60 people were held overnight but said the wave of arrests was "still ongoing" in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
After gas deal expires, Russia says Ukraine must now pre-pay for gas
Russia has announced that Ukraine must pre-pay for natural gas after it failed to pay previous debts. Meanwhile, the Russian foreign minister has criticized his Ukrainian counterpart over a name-calling incident.
A deadline set by Russia for Ukraine to pay its gas bills expired on Monday morning. As a consequence, Russia said it planned to cut off natural gas supplies to the eastern European country.
"Today at 10 a.m. Moscow time (0600 UTC), Gazprom in full accordance with contractual obligations, switched to pre-payment gas deliveries for Naftogaz Ukraine," the Russian gas giant said in a statement on Monday morning.
Negotiators from both sides had met on Sunday night, but were unable to resolve a dispute over unpaid debts and the price Ukraine pays for Russian gas. The talks were reportedly attended by European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Alexei Miller, the head of Gazprom.
SA commemorates '76 Soweto uprising
South Africa is set to mark the 38th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto student uprisings amidst ongoing questions about the quality of education in the country.
On the eve of Youth Day, a Soweto NGO said that schooling in the area was falling into a state of crisis again.
"Our schooling environment in Soweto is plagued by drug abuse, religious maladies like Satanism, violence including rape and murder, financial challenges and collapsing infrastructure with over 128 schools disused," said Each One Teach One foundation secretary general Jabu Kumalo in a statement over the weekend.
On 16 June 1976, a group of school children set off from Morris Isaacson High School in Orlando, Soweto, to protest over Afrikaans being a medium of instruction, among other grievances against the apartheid government.
Japan Inc. Steps on Lobby Turf as Abe Reforms Farming
Jun 16, 2014 2:47 PM GMT+0900
Japan’s ruling party wants to increase corporate participation in agriculture to boost the competitiveness of the nation’s farms as pressure increases to cut import tariffs.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party is considering allowing non-food companies to own almost 50 percent stakes in farming entities from the current 25 percent, according to Hiroshi Moriyama, the head of the party’s farm-reform committee. The LDP also wants to streamline approvals of land sales by individuals to farming corporations.
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