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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.
– BOUBAKER EL-HAKIM
Boubaker El-Hakim was born in 1984 in Tunisia. He grew up in a suburb of Paris in a poor broken family. Boubaker El-Hakim visited Syria in 2002 to study Islam. in a 2003 interview conducted in Iraq as USA troops were preparing to invade, has proven to be an early warning of a worrisome new phenomenon of homegrown militants from Europe heading to Iraq to join the insurgency, driven by anger over the USA occupation and what they see as Western attacks on Arabs and Islam. Boubaker El-Hakim said “I’m ready to set off dynamite and boom! Boom! We kill all the Americans!…all my brothers over there, come defend Islam!”. The interview was aired in France on 12/08/2005 in a framework of a program about homegrown terror in France.
Boubaker El-Hakim returned to France in late 2003. In 2004 Boubaker El-Hakim made a further visit to Syria but was arrested in 09/2004 while trying to cross into Iraq without a passport.
His younger brother Redouane El-Hakim, born in 1985, was killed in Iraq fighting the Americans in Falluja, on 07/17/2004, after being recruited by Farid Benyettou.
Boubaker El-Hakim was expelled, on Tuesday 05/03/2005, from Syria to France. He was arrested in France on 05/06/2005, and was charged before a Paris court for recruiting fighters for Iraq.
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