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Pro-Russia forces are continuing to consolidatetheir hold on Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula, meetingvery little resistance. Up to 30 men in militaryuniform have taken over a military hospital in theadministrative capital Simferopol. Our correspondent John Simpson was there.
Around mid-day, a group of Russian soldiers wearing military camouflage without any badgesof rank of unit arrived at the military hospital, they allowed 300 seriously ill patients to stay,but sent the outpatients home. When I was waiting outside in the street, the hospital directorcame out, still wearing his Ukrainian army uniform and looking very stressed and anxious. Hesaid he'd been asked at gunpoint to surrender and when he'd refused, he'd then been takento a vehicle and help prisoner in it.
The Malaysian authorities have decided to search over much wider area to try to locate anairliner that disappeared less than an hour into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Threedays after the aircraft went missing, an international effort involving ships and planes hasn'tfound any wreckage, causing growing frustration for the families of the 239 people on board.Most of them came from China. John Sudworth reports from Beijing.
The search area has been widened and now includes the waters on both sides of the MalaysianPeninsula. It's a huge expansive sea and it shows that the authorities still have no idea ofwhat's happened to the missing plane. They've released some very limited information aboutthe two men who boarded the flight using stolen passports. They are not of an Asianappearance, the travel agent who booked their tickets to Amsterdam via Beijing says they didnot specifically request flight MH370, but took it because it was the cheapest route to Europe.
Libyan officials say they've seized a North Korean-flagged tanker carrying an illegal shipmentof oil loaded at a port occupied by rebel forces. A spokesman for the state-owned national oilcorporation said the ship was stopped as it tried to leave. Rana Jawas reports from Tripoli.
The military and the Libyan congress are claiming they have intercepted the oil tanker carryingan illegal shipment of crude oil from Libya. They say their escorting get to a state-controledport. Meanwhile, the eastern oil port blockaded since July by former rebels, described the latestclaims to the BBC as government's lies. They say the ship is still docked in As-Sidra, in the eastof the country. Neither of the two claims can be dependently verified.
Jordan has called for an investigation after Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian-Jordanianjudge at the King Hussein Border Crossing which is also known as the Allenby Bridge. TheIsraeli ambassador to Amman was summoned to the foreign ministry over the killing of 30-year-old Raed Zeiter who was crossing from Jordan into the West Bank when an altercation tookplace.
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Spain's Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz has acknowledged that police should not havefired rubble bullets to try to deter migrants attempting to enter Spain's north African enclave ofCeuta in February when at least 15 people drowned. The migrants were trying to enter theenclave by swimming around a pier from neighboring Morocco.
Iran has made a formal protest to Austria about a meeting its Tehran embassy hosted betweenthe European Union's Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton and a group of human rightsactivists. Baroness Ashton met the rights activists on Saturday during her first visit to thecountry. An Iranian foreign ministry spokeswoman said such meetings would only deepenIran's mistrust of the West.
A new study has found that wild elephants can distinguish between different humanlanguages. Scientists from the University of Sussex in England played recordings of humanspeech to elephants in Amboseli National Park in Kenya where hundreds of wild elephants liveamong humans. Richard Hamilton has more.
In Amboseli National Park, men and elephants sometimes come into conflict over scarce waterresources. The result is that the animals have learned to distinguish the voices and languagesof those they consider a threat. In their experiment, the scientists played recordings of Maasaimen, who've been known to kill off creatures and Kamba men who are less of a threat. Whenthey heard the Maasai voices, the elephants retreated and regrouped, but stayed at theirground when they heard Kamba. These remarkable findings suggest the elephants have builtup a memory capacity to make quite subtle distinctions between human voices.
The president of Bayern Munich football club Uli Hoeness has admitted in court that he evadedpaying 15m Euro in tax. A figure far higher than the prosecution had initially alleged. He saidhe'd kept the money in a secret Swiss bank account, during a period of obsessive gambling onstocks.
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