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VIDEO: Nigeria close to eradicating polio September 25, 2015
Until recently there were three countries - Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria - where polio was endemic, now there remain just two.
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VIDEO: VW row 'shows no sign of slowing down' September 25, 2015
Matthias Mueller is announced as the new CEO of Volkswagen, following the diesel engine emission tests scandal that has engulfed the company.
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VIDEO: Peston: China slowdown in 30 seconds (or less) September 25, 2015
BBC economics editor Robert Peston tries to explain why China's slowdown matters in three, six and 30 seconds.
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VIDEO: Tensions rise between Austria and Hungary September 25, 2015
The location of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's recent press conference is a sign of strain in the countries relationship with Austria
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VIDEO: Reporter at Hajj: 'My aunt is missing' September 25, 2015
A BBC Hausa Service correspondent who was at the scene of a deadly stampede near Mecca, says she has lost her aunt, and some members of her group are missing.
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VIDEO: Why did an Israeli model want a no-fly zone? September 25, 2015
Why did Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli want a no-fly zone over a hotel in northern Israel?
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VIDEO: Seattle: Students in fatal bus crash September 25, 2015
Four people are killed and 12 critically injured when an amphibious tour bus and a charter bus carrying foreign exchange college students collide on a bridge in Seattle.
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VIDEO: 'I lost my son when dinghy was hit' September 24, 2015
The BBC's Jim Muir talks to a migrant on Lesbos whose son is missing after their migrant dinghy was struck by a ship that migrants allege sailed on without stopping.
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VIDEO: The rooftop cattle farmer celebrating Eid September 24, 2015
Azadur Rahaman, and his brother, herd cattle on the rooftop of the building the live, in Dhaka.
– ALI CHARAF DAMACHE INDICTED IN IRELAND
Ali Charaf Damache, 44, the ringleader and the husband since 09/2009 of Jamie Paulin Ramirez, who is originally from Algeria but has been living in Ireland for about ten years, appeared in court and charged with sending, on 01/09/2010, a menacing text message, said Irish state broadcaster RTE. According to USA prosecution Ali Charafe Damache, 0n 01/09/2010, made death threats over the phone to Majed Moughni, a Dearborn attorney who organized a rally against Islamic terrorism after the Flight-253 attempt in 2009 Christmas eve.
The men were part of a seven-strong group arrested last Tuesday over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who has a $100,000 (74,2D0-euro) bounty on his head from an Al Qaeda-linked group (see – Arrests 03.09.10).
Another suspect, a Croatian man, was released without charge on Monday after six days of questioning, Irish police said.
Only two of the seven people arrested have now faced charges. The other five, three women and two men, have been released without charge in recent days.
Those originally arrested were three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestinian, a Croatian and the USA national Jamie Paulin Ramirez, a police source has told AFP. They ranged in age from mid 20s to late 40s.
An Al Qaeda front organization then offered $100,000 to anyone who murdered Vilks — with an extra 50,000 if his throat was slit — and $50,000 for the death of Nerikes Allehanda editor-in-chief Ulf Johansson.
Last week, the Irish Independent newspaper reported that a suspect known as “Jihad-Jane”, the online name of Colleen LaRose, had spent two weeks in Ireland last September on a “fact-finding trip” before her arrest in October.
She was reportedly monitored with a couple (probably Jamie Paulin Ramirez and her Algerian husband Ali Charaf Damache) in Cork and Waterford in southern Ireland, where the seven were arrested. The plot was, probably, a flop.
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