Iran nuclear talks: Intensive talks before key deadline
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Talks have resumed in Switzerland ahead of Tuesday's deadline for a preliminary nuclear deal with Iran.
Foreign ministers from six world powers are meeting their Iranian counterpart, amid hopes of a breakthrough after almost 18 months of negotiations.
They want to impose limits that would prevent Iran from producing enough fuel for a nuclear weapon within a year.
Iran, which insists its nuclear programme is peaceful, wants to see crippling sanctions lifted in return.
Iranian and Western officials have said that a deal is possible, but that some issues are still to be resolved.
'No compromise'
The negotiations in Lausanne were expected to intensify on Monday, with foreign ministers from the so-called P5+1 - comprising the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - meeting Iran's top diplomat, Mohammad Javad Zarif. The EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is also there.
Blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh
Latest attack on country’s independent writers follows similar killing in February of American atheist blogger
A blogger has been hacked to death in the capital of Bangladesh, in the latest brutal attack on the country’s independent writers, a senior officer said.
Police have arrested two men over the murder, which comes weeks after an American atheist blogger was also killed in Dhaka, in a crime that triggered international outrage.
Speaking about Monday’s victim, local police chief Wahidul Islam told Agence France-Presse: “He was brutally hacked to death this morning with big knives just 500 yards [460 metres] from his home at Dhaka’s Begunbari area.”
Islam said the men were arrested immediately after the attack as they tried to flee the scene.
Sudden death of NSU case witness
A witness who gave evidence against the NSU extreme right-wing group has been found dead in her apartment. She had given her testimony in private as she said she felt "threatened."
A 20-year-old woman who testified against the National Socialist Underground far-right extremist group at a closed-door hearing was found dead in her apartment on Sunday, police said.
She had given evidence at the beginning of March to a special NSU investigation committee in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, where right-wing extremists are alleged to have killed a policewoman in 2007.
The witness was the ex-girlfriend of a man believed to have had connections to the NSU, known only as Florian H. He was a former neo-Nazi at the time of his death, which occurred under mysterious circumstances in autumn 2013.
Florian H. was found burned to death in a car on the same day he was due to be questioned by police, as he was thought to have known who had killed policewoman Michèle Kiesewetter.
Muslim Brotherhood leaders are terrorists, says Egypt's chief prosecutor
March 30, 2015 - 3:30AM
Cairo: Egypt's top prosecutor has named 18 Muslim Brotherhood members, including the group's leader and his deputy, as terrorists under the country's new anti-terror laws.
In a statement on Sunday, chief prosecutor Hisham Barakat said the decision follows a February court ruling that convicted Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie, his deputy Khairat el-Shater, the head of the group's political party Saad el-Katatni and others of orchestrating violence in 2013 that killed 11 people and wounded over 90 outside their office.
The clashes were at the start of mass protests against then-president Mohamed Mursi, also a member of the group, and days before the military ousted him.
Badie has already been sentenced to death, while other senior members have either been condemned to death or sentenced to life in prison. The sentences can be appealed.
How big a threat are the world's jihadi groups?
Sophisticated and lethal, growing in number, Islamic State and other extremist groups won't become a global force. Here's why.
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN; DJIBOUTI CITY, DJIBOUTI; LONDON; AND WASHINGTON — Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim looked like any ubiquitous insurgent commander in southern Afghanistan. He had a sunbaked complexion, serried black beard, charcoal eyes, and the usual accessory – an AK-47 slung over his shoulder.
But there was something distinctive about him, which alarmed American officials. He had recently defected from the Taliban and joined Islamic State (known as both IS and ISIS), creating concern that the militant extremist group was expanding its footprint in South Asia.
So on Feb. 9, a US aircraft locked onto the vehicle he was traveling in near the village of Sadat in Helmand Province. It fired a missile, killing Mr. Khadim and five of his companions.
Nigeria votes: Forget the candidates, democracy was the real winner
Updated 0422 GMT (1122 HKT) March 30, 2015
They came in droves, men, women, young, old. Mothers with babies strapped tightly to their backs, pregnant women, the elderly, some who could barely walk unaided.
They waited patiently for sometimes seven, eight hours in the scorching sun. In parts of the country where it poured down with rain, they stood, barely shielded under makeshift umbrellas.
It was one of Africa's biggest elections and it didn't disappoint. There was high drama, violence and tensions but most of all an electorate determined to exercise their democratic right to vote. In northern Nigeria, women turned out in large numbers.
Some polling stations in Lagos opened on Saturday at around 8 a.m. and a queue of eager voters quickly formed. There was a palpable air of excitement.
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