Official: Gunman recorded terror attack on Parisian kosher grocery
The terrorist who gunned down four people at a kosher market in eastern Paris earlier this month recorded the attack on a camera, a U.S. intelligence official told CNN on Friday.
The information backed up a report by Eric Pelletier, a national security reporter at the French magazine L'Express, who wrote that Amedy Coulibaly recorded seven minutes of the attack, including the moments when he killed three people.
Citing a French source close to the investigation, Pelletier reported that Coulibaly was able to use a computer at the market to email a copy of the attack video before he was killed by police.
Kyiv hopes for Minsk truce talks as violence continues in Ukraine
Ukraine says it is hoping to hold new truce talks after negotiations planned for Friday were postponed. Pro-Russian rebels have vowed to push on with a new offensive if negotiations collapse.
Kyiv said it expected to send its envoy, former President Leonid Kuchma, to the Belarusian capital Minsk on Saturday for talks aimed at shoring up a fragile truce agreement signed in September.
"We expect to sign a document that reinforces the Minsk Memorandum [of September] and the peace plan of presidents [Petro] Poroshenko and [Vladimir] Putin," Kuchma told the Interfax-Ukriaine news agency.
A new round of negotiations planned for Friday under pressure from European envoys was postponed over disagreements about who should represent the pro-Russian separatists who have been waging an insurgency in eastern Ukraine since April.
Iran prepares for premiere of film on Prophet Muhammad
Tehran’s Fajr film festival will show country’s own version of how Islam’s most revered figure lived
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
As controversy swirls on how the Prophet Muhammad is depicted, a multimillion-dollar biopic about his youth – Iran’s most expensive and lavish film to date – is set to premiere on Sunday.
Tehran’s Fajr international film festival, which coincides with the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, is scheduled to show the country’s own version of how Islam’s most revered figure lived. To protect the prophet’s dignity, the film will be shown out of competition.
Iran has been a vocal critic of the prophet’s portrayal in the West, recently condemning the Charlie Hebdo cover cartoon in the aftermath of the deadly attacks in Paris, which depicted Muhammad weeping and holding up a sign reading “Je Suis Charlie”.
Africa seeks Boko Haram fighting force as Chad captures town
William Davison and Chris Kay
Chad's army drives Boko Haram out of a Nigerian border town as African leaders plan to bolster force fighting Islamist insurgents.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Chadian forces captured a Nigerian border town from Boko Haram as African leaders seek a strengthened multinational force to help combat the growing Islamist insurgency.
Chad's military liberated the north-east town of Malam Fatori, Mike Omeri, a Nigerian government spokesman, said by phone on Friday from the capital, Abuja. The town was subjected to a ground and air assault on Thursday morning, with Chad's army planning to move into other captured parts of Nigeria, Jubrin Gunda, a spokesman for a Nigerian militia group, said by phone from the city of Maiduguri.
Forces from Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Benin and Chad will make up the bulk of a mission that must be approved by the United Nations Security Council, Smail Chergui, the African Union's peace and security commissioner, told reporters late on Thursday in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
China builds ever-higher walls against West and its 'values'
'Never let textbooks promoting Western values enter into our classes,' says China's education minister. Meanwhile, Chinese officials are immobilizing VPN's that allow ordinary citizens access to an uncensored Internet.
BOSTON — Beijing’s leaders continue to build defenses against the spread of Western ideas in ways that partly echo China’s self-imposed isolation of the 1960s, while also pushing a new mix of traditional Chinese and communist ideas.
Education Minister Yuan Guiren announced Thursday new restrictions on college textbooks that promote Western values, and said college students should not participate in critical debates on China’s leaders, politics, or history. The move is part of a broader crackdown on access to Western culture in China, including access to the the Internet.
“Never let textbooks promoting Western values enter into our classes,” Mr. Yuan said at a forum in Beijing, according to the Financial Times. “Any views that attack or defame the leadership of the party or smear socialism must never be allowed to appear in our universities.”
31 January 2015 Last updated at 01:58Mexican children cross Texas border to attend school
Febe Ara lives in one country but goes to school in another.
This 16-year-old girl begins her day in Ciudad Juarez, in northern Mexico, before crossing one of the most active international borders in order to study in El Paso, Texas.
"I wake up about five in the morning, and I cross the bridge at about half past six," she tells the BBC shortly before her school day starts at the Lydia Patterson Institute, or La Lydia as it is more commonly known.
For her, changing countries every day has become a routine. "We've gotten used to crossing the bridge, but when it's cold - wow! - it's worse because it's freezing and we have to get up early," she says.
It is one of those days today. Febe is sitting next to her brothers, Emanuel and Angel, at a very long table where her classmates are rushing to finish their English vocabulary homework, chatting loudly in Spanish and eating eggs and toast for breakfast.
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