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BBC news 2013-11-05

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Gunmen in northeastern Nigeria have attacked a wedding convoy killing more than 30 people including the groom. The group was travelling along a stretch of road in Borno state known for attacks by Islamist militants. Will Rosereports. “Eyewitnesses reported seeing about 30 dead bodies by the roadside. Most of them had been shot. In recent weeks, there have been frequent attacks in rural areas of Borno and Yobe states which the authorities have blamed on the Islamist militant group popularly known as Boko Haram. Last May, a state of emergency was declared in northeast Nigeria and thousands of additional troops were sent there to fight Boko Haram, but attacks on civilians have continued. A week ago, dozens of people were killed during a lengthy gun fight after suspected militants attacked the town of Damaturu where it burnt police and military buildings.” Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo are attacking the last areas held by the rebel M23 movement close to Congo's eastern border with Rwanda and Uganda. A BBC correspondent says that hundreds of refugees are fleeing into Uganda. Earlier, the leader of the M23 rebels declared a ceasefire with the government.

Iran Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has rejected criticism from some Iranian Conservatives about forthcoming talks on Iran's nuclear program, saying that government negotiators deserved the country's full support. His comments come ahead of next week's conference between Iran and world powers, including the US, on Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is not for military purposes. Here's Kasra Naji. “The talks have raised fears amongst Islamic hardliners who criticized Iran's negotiators for their alleged a secret agenda to compromise with the West. Iran's leader said no one should criticise Iran's negotiating team for allegedly being ready to compromise. They were just doing the job, he said, but he went on to say he held little hope for the negotiations. Experience has shown, he said, backtracking will not produce the desired results.”

An investigation by the German magazine Focus has revealed the authorities are holding about 1,500 works of art by, among others, Picasso, Matisse and Chagall, that they recovered two years from an apartment in Munich. The paintings are thought to have been looted from Jews by the Nazis. Experts are trying to work out who they belong to. From Berlin Stephen Evans. “The collections of works are Nazi stolen from Jews was consigned to a dealer to be sold before the war, but the paintings then vanished presumed destroyed. The works consist of what the Nazi's deemed degenerate art that is modern art. It now transpires that two years ago, the authorities discovered these amazing and priceless collection in darkened rooms at the home of a reclusive relative of the pre-war dealer. It seems the relative has been selling paintings occasionally when he needed money.” The Paintings could be worth of billions of dollars.

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The police in Bahrain have charged the head of the main opposition group Ali Salman with insulting the authorities after his al-Wefaq party opened the Revolution Museum on the outskirts of the capital Manama. The exhibit showed photos of the 2011 uprising as well as paintings and installations depicting the violent unrest and alleged torture of pro-democracy protesters by the Bahraini authorities.

The US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Saudi Arabia on the second stop of a tour of the Middle East and North Africa. He travelled from Cairo where he'd urged Egypt's interim leaders not to extend the country's state of emergency beyond the end of this month. He also called on the Egyptian authorities to ensure a fair judicial process in the country ahead of the trial of the ousted leader Mohammed Morsi that begins on Monday.

Voting in Kosovo's municipal elections has ended in disarray because of an attack on a polling station in the main ethnic Serb town of Mitrovica. Guy De Launey reports from northern Kosovo. “As darkness fell, chaos arrived in the shape of masked men hurling tear gas canisters. They attacked the polling stations at a primary school in the north of Mitrovica and they started to break the ballot boxes, the staff fled. The security organization the OSCE had been providing technical assistance to the election, but it immediately withdrew its staff on safety grounds and closed all polling stations in north Mitrovica. Even before the incident, there had been accusations of intimidation of polling stations. There had been a well-organized boycott campaign, but the leaders of the known movement have denied they were behind the attack.”

And there has been a double Kenyan victory in the New York marathon. Geoffrey Mutai won the men's race for the second time in a row in an unofficial time of 2 hours 8 minutes. And in the women's race, Priscah Jeptoo was the first home adding the title to her London Marathon win earlier this year. The two Kenyans beat Ethiopian runners into second place and each will take a $100,000 prize money. The race was cancelled last year because of damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.

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