Six In Morning Monday August 25

25 August 2014 Last updated at 09:21

Ukraine crisis: Russia 'to send new aid convoy'

Russia plans to send another humanitarian convoy into eastern Ukraine "in the next few days", Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.

Mr Lavrov said the humanitarian situation there was "deteriorating".

Ukraine did not authorise the first convoy, which returned to Russia at the weekend, fearing it carried military equipment for pro-Russia separatists.

Ukrainian officials said a convoy of armoured vehicles crossed from Russia on Monday, sparking heavy clashes.

The crossing was reported close to the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

"The Ukrainian border has been breached by a convoy of several dozen tanks and armoured vehicles," security spokesman Leonid Matyukhin told Agence France-Presse.

Zaha Hadid suing New York Review of Books over Qatar criticism

World Cup 2022 stadium designer claims magazine accuses her of 'showing no concern' for deaths of migrant workers in country

• Joanna Walters in New York
• The Guardian, Monday 25 August 2014

Leading British Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid is suing the New York Review of Books over an article she claims accuses her of "showing no concern" for the deaths of hundreds of migrant construction workers in Qatar, where she has designed a football stadium for the 2022 World Cup.

The award-winning architect filed a lawsuit in Manhattan supreme court last week, accusing the highbrow magazine and its architecture critic, Martin Filler, of defamation.

Her complaint centres on an article by Filler that was ostensibly a review of the book Why We Build by Rowan Moore, the Observer's architecture critic.

Isis's undoubted skill in exploiting social media is no reason for US leaders to start talking about the apocalypse

Power without responsibility has provided al-Baghdadi and his men with their most potent weapon

ROBERT FISK

We keep banging on about British citizens turning into Jihadists – that tired old public relations man Dave Cameron does this all the time, with his worn-out political correctness – and it’s almost impolite to say “Muslim British citizens”. But isn’t it time we said “Muslim British citizens of Pakistani or Indian origin”? For – saving the occasional Arab-origin recruit - that, surely, is what we are talking about.

Whether James Foley’s killer comes from London or Newcastle (still my choice by accent), he seems to have been born into a British community of Muslims whose background – whether family or parents’ place of birth – lies within that vast, crushed jewel which we used to call the Raj.

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: A 'honeymoon' for two dictators

August 23 marks 75 years since Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union signed the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It lasted a mere 22 months - and Stalin's motiviations remain disputed.

Just one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) on August 23, 1939, the Second World War began with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. Two weeks later, following the terms of the pact, Soviet troops also invaded Poland.

The two sides celebrated their victory with a "brotherhood" parade of Red Army and Wehrmacht units who marched arm-in-arm through occupied Brest, watched over by Soviet Brigade Commander Semyon Krivoshein and German General Heinz Guderian, who stood side by side. Two years later, Guderian's tank units were at Moscow's doorstep. The short "honeymoon" between the two countries was over.

DR Congo confirms Ebola cases as deadly virous goes beyond West Africa

By Faith Karimi, CNN

August 25, 2014 -- Updated 0458 GMT (1258 HKT)

Congo is reporting Ebola cases in a northern town, sparking fears that the deadly virus is expanding far beyond West Africa.

Two people in Gera town in the Democratic Republic of Congo tested positive for Ebola, a government spokesman said Sunday.

A lab and quarantine station have been set up in the town, which is about 750 miles from the capital of Kinshasa.

The World Health Organization said that the nation did its own tests, and the U.N. agency's lab is conducting its own confirmation testing that will also determine the strain of the virus found.

Prisoners beheaded in Brazil jail riot

Three decapitated and at least five others injured in riot that broke out in jail in Cascavel city. Last updated: 24 Aug 2014 23:13

Three prisoners have been beheaded and at least five other people injured in a riot that erupted in a southern Brazilian prison, authorities said.

Inmates of the prison in the city of Cascavel took at least two agents and several other inmates hostage in the unrest, said military police Captain Ricardo Pinto on Sunday.

He said negotiations for better conditions in the prison were still under way 12 hours later.

Prisoners set some objects on fire and were using metal poles to cause damage to the 928-bed prison that housed more than 1,000 inmates at the time.