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BBC news 2014-04-04

BBC News with Jerry Smit.

Russia's Internal Security Service, the FSB says it has detained 25 Ukrainians, accusing them of planning terrorist attacks last month. Ukraine security service has denied it was involved. Steve Rosemburg reports from Moscow. “Among those detained, a reportedly three members of the Nationalists Group White Sector. The Ukrainians have been accused of taking photographs of Russian troop movements and of trying to make contact with the extremist elements in Russia. Earlier, government officials in Kiev leveled their own accusations against Moscow. They claimed that more than 30 FSB agents have been stationed in Kiev in December and January, and have taken part in planning and implementing measures against anti-government protesters.”

Israel has canceled the release of Palestinian prisoners in response to a Palestinian decision to sign off to a number of United Nations' conventions to get international recognition for an independent state. The Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni told BBC that the agreement to release a new batch of Palestinian prisoners was conditional on the Palestinian obligation not to appeal to the United Nations.

The White House has confirmed the existence of a twitter like social network that was set up in Cuba by a US government aid agency. The allegations were made by the Associated

Press news agency which said the operations were set up in secret to undermine Cuba's communist authorities. Jane O’Brien reports from Washington. “In 2009, tens of thousands of Cubans enrolled in a new twitter style text service called Zunzoneo, the Cuban for humming bird. The cell phone messages enable them to check freely, but they didn't know the site had been set up by a US government aid agency which also reportedly collected users' data. White House spokesman Jay Carney denied the program was part of a covert operation, but he admitted that the government had taken steps to be discreet about its involvement.”

Senior military officials in the United States has said the serving soldier who shot dead 3 colleagues at the Fort Hood army base on Wednesday had shown no recent risks of violence. The assailant, who injured 16 others before killing himself, had served in Iraq and was being treated for anxiety and depression. In the press conference, Lieutenant General Mark Milley gave more details on the shooter. “We have positively identified that we are able to release the next of kin have been notified the alleged shooter specialist Ivan Aid Lopez. He is 34 years old, originally from Puerto Rico. Specialist Lopez was assigned to the 49 transportation movement control battalion of the 13th sustainment brigade. And again, his next of kin notification has been complete.”

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The White House has objected to the twittering of a selfiess snapped by a member of the leading baseball team which included President Obama in the photograph. The picture, taken by David Ortiz on his Samsung mobile phone during a Boston visit to the White House, was then twittered by Samsung to millions of the phone maker’s followers.

Chad has decided to withdraw its troops from the Central African Republic in protest at allegations that they supported Muslim rebels. The foreign minister of Chad Moussa Faki denies this, telling the BBC that Chadian troops were professional and impartial. He said Chad which helped the CAR in other ways once they pulled out. “We've decided to pull out from a mandate under the United Nations. Our community that lives in the CAR were particularly badly hit. Hundreds are dead and now there is anti-Balarka army there. Our troops in Bongui run into trouble. Anti-Balarka forces started shooting at them and they had to react. The situation escalated. When we first started the mission, we had the best intentions.”

The World Health Organization says 86 people have died in the Ebola out breaking Guinea. It says six others had died in neighboring Liberia. Suspected cases have been reported in Sierra Leone and Gambia. One man from Guinea told the BBC that he had lost 10 members of his family to the virus. He said his sister was the first to contract the disease. And after she died, people in the village who were contaminated when they took her body away for burial.

The Columbia author and Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been admitted to hospital in Mexico where he has lived for more than 30 years. Garcia Marquez, who is 87, has been treated for a lung and urinary tract infection. Known for masterpieces Like Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, last year, Marquez is considered one of the greatest Spanish language authors of all time. BBC News.