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VIDEO: Drone footage shows migrants' arrival September 23, 2015
Matthew Price looks at one of the Greek hotspots for migrants entering Europe.
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VIDEO: The Olympian who never gave up September 23, 2015
In 1992, 400m medal hopeful Derek Redmond pulled up injured in the semi-final of the Barcelona Olympics, but still finished the race.
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VIDEO: Football legend Pele at 75 September 23, 2015
Football legend Pele is 75 this year. He talked to the BBC about what inspires him and what he makes of football today.
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VIDEO: Pope Francis lands to cheers in US September 22, 2015
President Obama and his Family have greeted Pope Francis upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
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VIDEO: Lesbos struggles as 4,000 arrive daily September 22, 2015
The Greek island of Lesbos is still struggling to keep up with the steady flow of migrants and refugees.
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VIDEO: How much does making a drug cost? September 22, 2015
As Turing Pharmaceuticals raises the price of an Aids treatment, Daraprim, BBC News looks at how the pharmaceutical industry tries to balance the pursuit of profit with a patient's need to access medication.
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VIDEO: Refugee crisis: Food and phone charging September 22, 2015
The BBC's Mark Lowen reports from a sports stadium on the Turkey-Greece border where agencies are providing shelter and food to refugees trying to reach Europe.
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VIDEO: On the ground at refugee hotspots September 22, 2015
EU ministers have approved a controversial plan to relocate 120,000 refugees and migrants across the EU using compulsory quotas.
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VIDEO: A guide to strange initiation ceremonies September 22, 2015
Initiation ceremonies are in the news, here are some of the stranger ones from around the world.
– STILL VERY FAR FROM DEFEAT
I.S.I.S captured, on Friday 04/24/2915, the Tharthar Dam near Fallujah Anbar province and killed 127 Iraqi troops including a top army Brigadier, Hassan Abbas Toufan, Commander of the Iraqi No. 1 Division, in attacks that show the militant group’s resilience despite battlefield setbacks elsewhere in Iraq. The Associated Press reported Toufan was killed Friday in an ambush on his convoy involving an explosives-packed bulldozer.
The dam controls the flow of water from Tharthar and Habaniya lakes into the Tigris River and lies 98 kilometers (61 miles) west of Baghdad.
U.S. officials said intelligence reports suggest the extremists had opened at least one of the dam’s gates, although darkness has hampered efforts to determine how much flooding, if any, resulted.
The offensive demonstrates that Islamic State remains a threat in mostly Sunni Muslim Anbar province after being pushed out of Tikrit in neighboring Salahuddin province in 03/2015.
Ahmed al-Dulaimi, a tribal leader fighting Islamic State in Anbar, said by telephone that 40 soldiers were taken captive by the militants and he feared they would be executed. Islamic State also claimed responsibility for attacks Saturday on two separate border crossings into Anbar.
On Saturday 04/25/2015 the Jihadi coalition, led by Jabhat al-Nusra, captured the Northwestern Syrian town of Jisar al-Shughour, for the first time in the four-year-old conflict consolidating the Islamist grip on Northern Syria, on the border with Turkey and strengthening the threat on the Alawite enclave along the Syrian Mediterranean.
Summarizing the situation there is no sign that the Islamic State or al-Nusra front are in retreat but on the contrary.
Related topics :
04/2015 – MORE MASS BEHEADING OF CHRISTIANS IN LIBYA
04/2015 – ISIS LOSSES & GAINS
04/2015 – U.N – 25,000 fOREIGNERS JOINED ISLAMIST MILITANCY
09/2014 – U.S/NATO STRATEGY AGAINST ISIS
09/2014 – I.S.I.S CHAIN OF COMMAND
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