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BBC news 2014-08-16

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The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution expressing its willingness to impose sanctions on individuals recruiting, financing, supplying weapons or fighting for extremist groups, the move is aimed at weakening the Islamic State insurgents in Iraq and Syria. Nick Bryant reports from the UN in New York.

Drafted by Britain, the resolution is aimed at choking all funding for the Islamist group as well as other militants affiliated with al-Qaeda and also takes a war to its recruitment efforts. The resolution threatens sanctions for those who finance and supply weapons to the insurgents as well as those who help recruit new fighters. It also blacklists 6 people including a spokesman for Islamic State who will now be subjected to a travel ban, a asset freeze and an arms embargo.

Some news just in, Kurdish officials in Iraq say militants from the Islamic State have massacred around 80 members of the Yazidi religious minority in a village in the north of the country. There are also reports that some women in village were kidnapped. Spokesmen for the Islamic State have said those under their control can convert leave, or die.

Sunni tribal leaders in Iraq have said they are ready to work with the new Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and fight against Islamic State Jihadists as long as his government restore Sunni rights. At a news conference, Sheikh Ali Hatem al-Suleiman called for a popular referendum on more autonomy for Sunni areas, including the right to set up a provincial guard to protect them.

The head of the aid agency Medicin Sans Frontiers says it will take about 6 months to bring the Ebola epidemic in west Africa under control. Joanne Liu said tackling the disease in Liberia was essential if the epidemic was to be contained. Speaking in Geneva, she said the latest outbreak was different to previous ones.

It is like a front line. It's moving, it's advancing, but we have no clue as to how it is going to go around. We use to have Ebola that when it wasn't some isolated villagers, it was business for between 6 to 8 weeks, and he will die afterwards.

The governor of the US state of Missouri says a thorough investigation will be carried out into the death of an unarmed black teenager shot by police in St. Louis last weekend. Earlier, police said the teenager Michael Brown was the prime suspect in a robbery. His death triggered violent protests. As Aleem Maqbool reports, the atmosphere has now changed.

Well, this feels like an extraordinary moment, like Ferguson has been transformed gone, and the armored security vehicles gone, and the heavily armed police instead. Hundreds of people have taken to the streets to express themselves about how they feel about the killing of Michael Brown but without fear of intimidation.

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Ukraine's president Petrol Poroshenko says the Ukrainian military has destroyed a significant part of a Russian armored column that crossed into the country on Thursday night. He made the statement after discussing earlier reports of a Russian military incursion with the British Prime Minister. Russia denied that any forces had crossed the border.

Boko Haram militants have kidnapped dozens of people in a raid on remote villages in northeast Nigeria. Details of the attacks took days to emerge because of poor telephone coverage. Will Ross reports from Lagos.

According to witnesses, the Boko Haram fighters came to the extremely remote fishing village of Doron Baga, dressed in military uniforms. Twenty-six people were killed and many houses burnt. At gunpoint, they ordered women as well as young boys and girls onto lorries, other accounts say young men were also taken, possibly to be turned into Boko Haram fighters. It's unclear exactly how many were seized, but some survivors say at least 50 people were taken away. Some were forced onto motor boats that sped off across the lake into Chad.

The European Union has said it's willing to relaunch its border assistance mission to monitor the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt. EU foreign minister said that if given a mandate by the United Nations, the scope of the mission could possibly be expanded to other border crossings to help stabilize Gaza, prevent arms smuggling and improve living conditions. The EU minister said that a return to the status quo prior to the latest conflict is not an option.

The Brazilian air force has said the black box recovered from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed the Brazilian Presidential Candidate Eduardo Campos did not record his fight. He said the audio recording of the cockpit was not related to the flight that crashed on Wednesday. Mr. Campos and 6 others died when his private jet came down in bad weather in the Brazilian port city of Santos near Sao Paulo.

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