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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.
– MORTAL THREAT
Pakistan is facing a “mortal threat” from internal militancy, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said on Friday 03/06/2009. Indeed David Miliband basically repeated the USA Joint Forces Command assessment, published in Fox-news on 01/14/2009, which described Pakistan as a country at risk of a “rapid and sudden collapse” (see – Risk Of Collapse).
“We’re fighting for the survival of Pakistan. We’re not fighting for the survival of anybody else,” Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said to CBS (Canadian Broadcasting Service) in an interview aired on Sunday 02/15/2009 (see – PAKISTAN Survival)
David Miliband was speaking to BBC Radio’s Today program as Pakistan continued to probe this week’s attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore (see – Cricket-team attack). Pakistan’s internal instability was “a grave situation and… it has got worse” he said.
Mr Miliband pointed to the fallout between President Asif Ali Zardari and former PM Nawaz Sharif, who was last week banned from elected office by the Supreme Court (see – Ongoing Crisis). Mr Miliband urged politicians to unite, saying: “I think that the degree of political disunity that exists at the moment is only contributing to the problem.” He added that country’s economic decline in the global credit crunch was also a major factor.
A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Toiba, Abdullah Ghaznavi, told AFP the reports of his group’s involvement in Lahore recent attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team were “false, incorrect and baseless”.
Pakistan, because of its nuclear arsenal, and its involvement in two conflicts: in Afghanistan and in Kashmir is posing, nowadays, the world’s most serious threat to regional and world’s stability, far more then any conflict in the Middle East or elsewhere. The risk of an Islamic nuclear bomb in the hands of most extreme Islamic militants with Jihadi aspirations, which emerges from Pakistan is much more immediate then the risk of an Iranian nuclear bomb. The world has all the reasons to worry.
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