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The head of the US Senate Intelligence Committeehas accused the CIA of spying on Congress. DianneFeinstein said the CIA had inappropriately searchedthe computers of congressional stuff who wereinvestigating allegations that it had tortured suspects during the Bush administration. SenatorFeinstein said the agency had obstructed the investigation, lied about its activities andelectronically removed files from the Committee's computers. She said it was a serious matter.
“I have grave concerns that the CIA search may well have violated the separation of powersprinciples, embodied in the United States constitution. It may have undermined theconstitutional framework, essential to effective congressional oversight.”
The CIA director John Brennan dismissed the allegations, saying they were completely untrue.
“As far as the allegations of, you know, CIA hacked into you know, senators'computers,nothing can be further from the truth, and we wouldn't do that. I mean, that's justbeyond the scope of reason.”
The BBC Washington correspondent says it's following the revelations by the former CIAemployee Edward Snowden. The affair will do nothing to reassure Americans about the reachof their intelligence services.
The Malaysian air force says radar information suggests that a passenger airliner that wentmissing on Saturday changed course and headed west. The last surveillance contact put theMalaysian Airlines plane somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam. But military sources saytheir radar records show that the plane started to turn around and may have flown rightacross the Malay Peninsula. The aircraft disappeared less than an hour into its flight to Beijing,and an international search effort has so far failed to find any wreckage.
The Turkish President Abdullah Gul has appealed for calm after police clashed with protestersangered by the death of a teenage boy, who was hurt during anti-government demonstrationslast year. Berkin Elvan had been in a coma since he was hit by a teargas canister as he went tobuy bread. Selin Girit reports from Istanbul.
The news of the 15-year-old Berkin Elvan's death was announced earlier this morning. We lostour son, may he rest in peace, wrote his family on Twitter. As the news spread, people startedgathering in front of the hospital where he spent 269 days in a coma. The police showed up,the crowd got angrier, and police intervened with pepper gas. Berkin's story had become asymbol for Gezi Park protesters. He was walking to buy bread when he got hit in the head by ateargas canister.
The Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been ousted by parliament after MPs said a tankerladen with oil from a rebel-held port broke through a naval blockade and escaped to sea. Avote of confidence in Mr. Zeidan was called following reports that the tanker had reachedinternational waters.
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Michelle Bachelet has been sworn in as the president of Chile for the second time. In anemotional ceremony, she received the red, white and blue presidential sash from the head ofthe Senate, Isabel Allende, the daughter of the socialist president Salvador Allende, deposed in1973. Our correspondent in Santiago Gideon Long watched the ceremony.
Mrs. Bechelet becomes the first democratically elected Chilean head of state in over half acentury to return to the presidential palace for a second term in office. She'd already made ahistory in 2006, as Chile's first female president. Many Latin American heads of state were atthe ceremony, but there was one notable absentee, Nicholas Maduro, the President ofVenezuela, he'd been due to attend, but cancelled at the last minute. Several of the region'sforeign ministers will take the opportunity to meet in Santiago to discuss Venezuela which hadbeen racked by violence in recent weeks.
Two South African policemen have been arrested after online video footage showed officersstripping and beating an Nigerian man in the street. The film shows police and the securityguards in Cape Town repeatedly punching and kicking the man.
A collection of masks dating back to the dawn of civilization has gone on display in Jerusalem.The stone masks which appear to be modeled on skulls have round holes for eyes, tiny nosesand prominent displays of teeth. The director of the Israel Museum is James Snyder.
“These are indeed the oldest masks in the world. And they are 9,000 years old. And in a waywhat makes them remarkable is that they are all from within about 20 mile radius, not farfrom Jerusalem actually where the Judean hills meet the Judean Dessert. ”
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