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Saudi Arabia says more than 700 people are now known to have died in the crush of the annualhaji prilgrimage. About 800 others have been injured. The disaster at Mina, on the outskirts ofMecca, is the worst of the haji in 25 years. The Saudi Health minister Khaled al-Falih has blamedthe tradgedy on worshipers' failing to obey instructions. The accident was a stampede causedby overcrowding and also caused by some of the pilgrims not following the instructions of thesecurity under haji ministry. Iran, Saudi Arabia's biggest regional rival, has accused Saudi ofnot providing adequate security. The head of Iran's haji organization Said Ohadi accused thesecurity services of mismanagement. Unfortunately for unkown reasons, security officersclosed off one route. There was limited space for the pilgrims, and due to the large crowd,many pilgrims from various countries were unfortunately pressed together.
Pope Fransis had become the first head of the Roman Catholic church to address a jointsession of US Congress. In a wide ranging speech, punctuated by a regular bursts ofapplause, Pope Fransis called for greater cooperation to confront fundamentalist attitudesand a world beset by violent conflict. He also spoke of the need to protect human rights.And then came violence, is required to combat the violence perpetrated in the name of ourreligion, and an eurology or any economic system while also safeguarding religious freedom,intellectual freedom and individual freedoms.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkell has warned the migrant crisis is far from being resolved.She told German parliament that measures agreed this week by EU leaders was a first step. MrsMerkell has been meeting the country's regional leaders to discuss how to pay for the care ofhundreds of thousands of migrants who arrived in Germany.
Fresh protests have broken out in parts of Southern Nepal over the country's newconstitution which was opted on Sunday. Sanjoy Majumder reports from one town on theIndian border. Protestors have blocked a major border crossing into Nepal from India atBirgunj, effectively shutting off the country's main supply line. Hundreds of riot police havebeen deployed and have used tear gas to try to break up the protests. Several hundreds oftrucks are stuck at the border, many carrying essential supplies from India into Nepal. Theprotestors who belonged to ethnic group S in southern plains, say that the new constitutionmarginalizes them. World news from the BBC.
The German transport minister says Volks Wagon has admitted that cars it sold in Europewere among those whose polution tests were manipulated. The minister said VW cars with 1.6and 2.0 liter diesel engines were among those affected. Volks Wagons's head office said theyhope to provide detailed information about the affected models on Friday.
At least 25 people have died in an attack at a mosque at Yemeni capital Sana'a. Witnesses ofMedics say an explosion ripped through the Balili mosque which is controlled by Shiah Houthirebels. Islamic state group which regards Shiah Muslims as heretics says they carried out thebombing.
The campaign group Human Rights Watch says the Ruwanda authorities are arbitrallyarresting some of the country's most vulnerable people, and holding them in unofficialdetention center. In a new report, it says street vendors, beggars and sex workers are beingheld in a former warehouse. At times, up to 4 hundred people are kept there the report says.The Ruwanda government says the building is a transit center where drug addicts and othershave been rehabilitated.
Italian archologists have uncovered fragments of bone which may have belonged to LeonardoDe Vinci's model for the Monalisa. Researchers have spent years exsuming and testing remainsin the city of Florance, dating back 5 centuries. Here is Jen. Historians believe that the womandepicted by Leonardo De Vinci may have been Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a silk merchant.Gherardini died in Florance in 1542. The scientists said one set remains probably belonged toLisa Gherardini, but the remains have degraded too far for DNA tests, so all they really have area few showers of bone, which may or may not have belonged to the woman who may or maynot have posed for Leonardo. Five century's honor the Monalisa holds on to her remainingmysteries. BBC news.
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