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Maghaberry prison officer arrested over supplying drugs
A 50-year-old prison officer has been released on bail after being arrested over drugs offences.
She was arrested on suspicion of possessing and supplying Class A and B drugs at Maghaberry Prison in County Antrim.
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Niger hit by Nigeria's Boko Haram fallout
A member of a gang in Niger says Boko Haram Islamist militants from Nigeria regularly come across the border, looking for recruits.
"We can't contact them, they come to us," says the young man, who looks like he is barely out of his teens.
Five members of this gang in Diffa, near the border, have joined the group; two have since been killed on operations, he says.
In total there are about a dozen gang members in a tiny, dark room, built with local mud-bricks.
There are a couple of homemade stools and weights for them to exercise just outside the door.
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My friend Robert Mugabe
Journalist Wilf Mbanga was once a close friend of Zimbabwean leader, Robert Mugabe.
Mr Mugabe rose to prominence as the leader of ZANU, one of the armed movements fighting a guerrilla war against white minority rule in Rhodesia.
In 1980, Robert Mugabe won historic elections which were part of a peace deal to end the conflict. Rhodesia was renamed Zimbabwe. He was initially praised for reaching out to the white community and including political rivals in government.
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Russian fears over Crimea water shortage
Russian officials say a water shortage in Crimea is threatening to become acute as Ukraine has reduced the supply via a key canal.
Ukraine does not recognise the new authorities in Crimea who are backed by Moscow. Russia made the peninsula part of its territory last month.
Crimea's harvest of grapes, rice, maize and soya will be ruined if it does not get more water soon, officials say.
Russia says the Crimea-Ukraine border is now officially a state border.
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Mexico and Guatemala free victims of human trafficking
Mexico and Guatemala say they have rescued at least 104 people from captivity and arrested 14 of their alleged human traffickers.
Police in Guatemala said they raided two houses near the Mexican border and found at least 60 people who wanted to travel to the United States illegally.
They arrested eight alleged smugglers.
In Mexico, the authorities said they found 44 Guatemalan migrants in a house near the Guatemalan border and arrested six alleged human traffickers.
Migrants from Central America often pay smugglers to enter the US illegally, but are frequently abused by their traffickers.
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Peaches Geldof Writer and TV presenter dies aged 25
Peaches Geldof, second daughter of musician Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates, has died aged 25, leaving a husband and two sons.
"We are beyond pain," said her father, confirming her death. "She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us."
Police, who were called to an address in Kent around lunchtime on Monday, say the death is currently being treated as "unexplained and sudden".
Geldof was 11 when her own mother died.
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Briton is one of two UN workers shot dead in Somalia
A British man is one of two United Nations workers who have been shot dead in Somalia, the Foreign Office has said.
They were killed inside Galkayo Airport after getting off a plane, local security official Mohamed Mire said.
The attacker was dressed in a police uniform, an airport official added.
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said: "I condemn these brutal murders in the strongest terms".
Witness Hassan Ahmed said: "One of them died inside the airport and the other one was rushed to hospital where he later died of the injuries."
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Fort Hood gunman had 'leave dispute' prior to shooting
A soldier who killed three men at a US Army base on Wednesday had an argument over a request for leave shortly before the shooting, reports say.
Specialist Ivan Lopez, 34, was denied leave to attend to family matters, officials speaking on condition of anonymity told US media.
He also wounded 16 people before shooting himself at the Fort Hood base.
The soldier's father said on Friday he "could not have been in his right frame of mind" during the attack.
Spc Lopez is alleged to have walked into one of the buildings of the Fort Hood base and opened fire with a .45-calibre semi-automatic pistol.
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Kerry calls for a Reality Check in the Mid-East talks
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said it is time for a "reality check" in the Israel-Palestinian peace process amid a deep crisis in the talks.
Speaking in Morocco, Mr Kerry said there were "limits" to the time Washington would expend on trying to get the sides to reach an agreement.
He spoke after steps taken by Israel and the Palestinians in the past two days which each side said violated previous promises.
Talks are meant to conclude next month.
Mr Kerry has shuttled backwards and forwards for negotiations with Israel and the Palestinians in recent weeks.
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Netanyahu says Israel will answer Palestinian unilateralism
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will retaliate if the Palestinians take further unilateral steps in pursuit of statehood.
He told a weekly cabinet meeting that Israel would not continue peace talks with the Palestinians at any price.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has applied to 15 UN conventions, accusing Israel of backtracking on its promises.
US envoy Martin Indyk is to meet both sides on Sunday to try to breathe new life into the embattled peace process.
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