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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.
– KHALED AL-FAWAZ
Khaled Al-Fawaz, alias Abu Omar, possibly the same man known also as Abu Mahdi al Saudi, was born in Kuwait on 08/25/1962. He and his family returned to Saudi Arabia in 1979 amide the turmoil of the Islamic revolution in Iran.
In 1991-2, according to Houssaine Kherchtou, Khaled Al-Fawaz went through military training in Abu Bakr Sadeeq camp, near Khost, Afghanistan, then under Taliban control.
Khaled Al-Fawaz arrived to UK in 1994, after he fled Saudi Arabia, and joined Saad Faqih in his anti-Saudi activity in London. He also shared office in London with Saad Faqih during 1994-97. In London Khaled Al-Fawaz ran the anti Saudi ‘Advice and Reform Committee’ (ARC). In 1995, while Osama Bin Laden was in Sudan, Khaled Al-Fawaz was said to be attempting to pave the way for bin Laden to move to Britain.
Khaled Al-Fawaz rented an office of his own in early 1997 which functioned as a press and communication office for Osama Bin Laden in London. According to American intelligence, Khaled Al-Fawaz helped to facilitate the 08/07/1998 attack on the USA Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. USA intercepted a phone connection between Khaled Al-Fawaz and Fazul Abdullah Mohammed in summer 1997, about a year before the attack.
Khaled Al-Fawaz was, therefore, arrested in a group of seven Islamists living in England as part of Operation Challenge, early in the morning of 09/23/1998. All other detainees were from Egypt and the arrests were urged by the Egyptian authorities.
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