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BBC news 2014-05-20

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A court in New York has convicted the the Egyptian born radical Islamist preacher Abu Hamza on terrorism charges. Abu Hamza, a fire brand preacher at a London mosque was extradited from Britain to the United States nearly 2 years ago. Nick Bryant in New York has the details.

The real Abu Hamza according to US prosecutors was a man who dedicated his life to violent Jihad. Fighting, shooting, killing, he was the boss, a leader and recruiter of impressionable young men who were dispatched around the world to fight his battles. To Yemen where he was accused of participating in the 1998 kidnapping of 16 Western tourists which ended with the deaths of 3 Britons and an Australian. To rural Oregen on the west coast of the America where he sent his most-trusted henchmen to establish a Jihadist training camp. To Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The jury found him guilty on all 11 counts.

The United Nations says around 30 hostages captured in northern Mali by Tuareg separatists on Saturday have been released. The hostages were seized in the town of Kidal. Alex Duval Smith in Bamako has the details.

A spokesman for the rebels told the BBC that the men, most of them civil servants had been released as a humanitarian gesture. However, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad had faced international condemnation after they took the hostages on Saturday. In response to the hostage taking, Mali's army has sent hundreds of reinforcements to Kidal, and the Prime Minister Moussa Mara has threatened to return to war. The hostages who were all Malians are said to be in good health, but tired.

The head of Ukraine's national security council Andriy Parubiy has described Vladimir Putin's order for the withdrawal of Russian troops from the border as a stunt to mislead the international community. The White House and the Nato have said they had seen no evidence of withdrawal of Russian troops from areas bordering east Ukraine. The Kremlin issued a brief statement earlier on Monday to say that President Putin had ordered Russian troops deployed on the border back to their bases.

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Some news just in. The US justice department has charged the bank Credit Suisse with conspiring to willfully help Americans evade taxes. The bank is expected to plead guilty to the charges at a hearing in Virginia shortly.

The head of a special force in Libya's second city Benghazi has said he supports an anti-Islamist operation going on in the city. Rana Jawad reports from Tripoli.

In a televised statement, the head of Benghazi special forces Wanis Bukhamada says he supports operation dignity in his city. He added that his men had been fighting for a year and a half against terrorism. This operation has been led by a retired general Khalifa Haftar whose forces launched an air and ground assault against Islamist militias in Benghazi on Friday. The move was condemned by the Libyan government because they didn't authorize it, saying it amounted to attempted coup.

The government has also proposed a recess in a bid to stay off descent into renewed civil war.

Bosnia says half a million people have left or have been evacuated from their homes because of flooding. The country's foreign minister said it was the biggest exodus since the wars of the 1990s. A quarter of the population is without clean water, and a hundred thousand homes had been hit either by flooding or by landslides. Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected in neighboring Serbia and Croatia. More than 40 people have died, but it's feared that figure will rise.

Coordinated police raids in Europe and the Americas have led to the arrest of almost 100 suspects linked to the malicious computer program known as Black Shades. The European Crime Agencies said most of the raids were in Europe including Britain, France and Germany with others in Canada, Chile and the United States. Some half a million computers have been infected with Black Shades. It allows users to secretly encrypt a computer's data which is only released on payments of a ransom.

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