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BBC news 2014-02-24

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The new interim President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov has said Ukraine wants to return to the path of close integration with the European Union. The former speaker of parliament was appointed interim president a day after parliament voted to remove Viktor Yanukovych from office in the phase of mass protests. David Stern reports from Kiev on Mr. Turchynov's television address. “Mr. Turchynov said that Ukraine was ready for a relationship based on a new, equal and good neighborly footing with Russia, but also want that took into account his country's European choice. He also said Europe-Ukraine path European integration would be confirmed in the country's early presidential election set for May 25th. Russian officials have called the Ukrainian opposition’s assumption of power illegal and said it would delay a $2bn loan to the country. On Sunday, Susan Rice, the US National Security advisor said it would be a grieve mistake if Russia would send troops into Ukraine to defend its interests.”

President Putin of Russia and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel have discussed the situation in Ukraine. Protests against the ousted President Yanukovych began in November after he abandoned a partnership deal with the European Union in favor of close ties with Russia. From Berlin, Stephen Evans reports. “Chancellor Merkel spoke to President Putin on a phone and her spokesman said afterwards that the two had agreed that what they called the territorial or integrity of Ukraine should be maintained. The spokesman in Berlin said that the two leaders wanted an effective government for the whole country in place quickly. Germany is trying to act as a broker in the conflicts to try to assuage Russian fears that it wouldn't be threatened if Ukraine move closer to the European Union.”

Human rights groups in Syria say that Abu Khaled al-Suri, a senior rebel commander linked to al-Qaeda has been killed in a suicide attack. Here is Jim Muir. “According to rebel and activist sources, Abu Khaled al-Suri was among several people who died when a suicide bomber, possibly two, penetrated his headquarters in Aleppo and detonated a deadly explosion. He was a leader and cofounder of one of the biggest and most effective Islamist rebel groups Ahrar al-Sham. But he was also believed to be the main representative in Syria of the global al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri who took over after Osama Bin Laden was killed. Abu Khaled al-Suri, whose real name is believed to have been Muhammad Bahaiah, was a veteran al-Qaeda operative who's reported to have fought the Americans in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and to have worked closely with Osama Bin Laden.”

Prosecutors in Egypt have accused the ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi of leaking state secrets to Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The charge was made during the second hearing of his trial for espionage. His supporters say the accusations are politically motivated.

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The American Secretary of State John Kerry has condemned recent attacks in Nigeria by the Islamist group Boko Haram. In a statement, Mr. Kerry said such violence was horrific wrong and had no place in the world. He pledged American support for the Nigerian authorities against the group which the US has designated as a terrorist organization.

The Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has condemned the attacks on opposition protesters over the weekend, which have left three people dead, two of them children. She described the killings as terrorist acts with no regard for human live. A 4-year-old boy was one of those who died when a grenade exploded outside a shopping center in Bangkok.

The Winter Olympics have ended in the Russian resort of Sochi with glittering closing ceremony. The costliness Olympic ever ended with the spectacular display of fireworks. Russian came top of the medals table with 13 golds. Richard Conway was there to watch. “Sixteen days of sporting glory for Russia have drawn to a close in spectacular style. Despite a national shame of losing in the quarter final stage of Ice Hockey, 13 golds and 33 medals in total meant Russia finished at the top of the medal table. At the closing ceremony for the games the host nation best in the reflected glory of its athletes and the final medals was awarded to the three Russian skiers who dominated the men's 50km cross-country event, emblems of the country’s Winter sport's resurgence. The president of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach has hailed Sochi as a special experience.”

The oldest known survivors of the Nazi holocaust Alice Herz-Sommer has died in London. She was 110. Originally from Prague, Ms. Herz-Sommer, who was a Jewish, spent two years in the Nazi concentration camp. Recently, a film has made about her life which has been nominated for best short documentary at next month's Academy Awards.

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