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The head of United Nations panel has said the crimes against humanity as it is uncovered inNorth Korea are strikingly similar to the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the SecondWorld War. The Commission of Inquiry said it'd heard evidence of murder, torture, starvationand enslavement on the scale unparalleled in the contemporary world. Its chairman, MichaelKirby, said they had identified hundreds of North Korean officials, including the supremeleader Kim Jong Un who should face international justice.
“I hope that the international community will be moved by the detail, the amount, the longduration, the great suffering that have existed in North Korea to act on the crimes againsthumanity which the Commission of Inquiry has found. And action will be taken too many timesin this building. There are reports and no action. Well, this is a time for action. ”
African peacekeepers have managed to evacuate up to 2,000 Muslims fleeing the Central AfricaRepublic to Cameroon, fighting off attacks by Christian militia. Kassim Kayira was travelling withthe Rwandan troops escorting the refugees.
It was just after dark when a convoy of more than 100 trucks, cars and motorcycles made itsway into the border town of Garoua-Boulai. Anti-Balaka militia using guns, bows and arrows,swords, stones and machetes battled Rwandan peacekeepers as they tried to kill any fleeingrefugee they caught. Within an hour, it was all over. Seven anti-Balaka died and two fleeingMuslims and a truck driver were also killed. The injured have been taken to a hospital across theborder. Thousands of Muslims are still stuck across the country, many under a threat of animminent attack by milita.
The man nominated to be Italy's youngest ever prime minister has said he needs a few days toput together a viable government. Matteo Renzi has promised radical reforms to revive Italy'sfortunes. Here's our Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt.
In the view of many, Italy is embarking on a gamble. In amidst through economic crisis, acountry is turning to a young, untried, untested politician. Matteo Renzi drove himself to theQuirinale, the presidential palace today and was asked with forming a new government. He is 39years old. He is not even an MP and has no experience in national government. He is the mayorof Florence. Some are calling him Italy's Tony Blair, a center-left politician with little time forideology.
The United States has rejected accusations by Venezuela that it's been helping to organizeanti-government protests. On Sunday, Venezuela said it was expelling three United Statesdiplomats for meeting students who have been leading the demonstrations. But the US said theallegation it was behind the unrest was baseless and false.
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At least 8 South Korean college students are reported to have been killed and others missingafter a roof collapsed at a resort building in the southern city of Gyeongju. Rescue workers arecontinuing to search for survivors and they fear the number of casualties could rise. CharlesScanlon reports.
About 500 newly enrolled students were attending a welcome event at a resort complex whenthe roof collapsed. The mountain at this area has received exceptionally heavy snowfall inrecent days. And the authorities suspected it was the weight of the snow that caused thebuilding to buckle. Survivors spoke of chaos and panic as students rushed for the exits.Rescue teams were hampered by ice-covered mountain roads. But heavy equiment was laterbrought to the scene to help lift the twisted metal from the roof that has crashed to the floor.
Russia says that it will release another portion of an aid package it'd promised to Ukraine butwhich it froze when anti-government protests escalated in Kiev last month. The Russian financeminister said $2bn of the $15bn in loans will be issued this week. Ukraine is the centre of acompetition between Russia and the European Union over which will have more influence.Protests began in November.
The first woman to become the editor of a daily newspaper in Soudi Arabia has told the BBC ofher surprise at getting the job that she didn't think for deeply conservative kingdom was yetready. Somayya Jabarti said she believed her appointment had broken very important ground.
“I honestly didn't see it coming. I know things have been forward in kingdom and things areopening up for Saudi women in general. But, I really thought there was a lot yet to go untilwoman are treated the very much now dominated. That's anybody dream sheerest.”
She said that she wanted her newspaper, the English-language Saudi Gazette to reflect theviews on the aspirations of the young who are the majority in the country and to draw on theirenthusiastic use of social networks like Twitter.