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BBC news 2014-09-23

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The Rockefeller family which made its vast fortune in the oil industry says its multi-million-dollar philanthropic organization is planning to diverse from fossil fuels and reinvest in clean energy. From New York City Michelle Fleury has more details.

The Rockefeller family, a historic name here in the United States, and one that made their money and their fortune in the oil industry and the fissile fuel business, has now turned round and said it's turning its back on its legacy and that its philanthropic fund is now going to actually withdraw all its investments in fossil fuels and trying redirect them towards clean energy. It's just one of a number of foundations that have sort of said be part amid this move and in total withdraw about 50 billion dollars investments in fossil fuels. The idea is to try to make the paying financial as well as this applied the political pressure.

The Foreign Ministry in France says a French citizen has been kidnapped in Algeria. The kidnappers reported to be an al-Qaeda splinter group, known as the Caliphate Soldiers, released a video on Monday which appeared to show a French hostage appealing to the French government for help. From Paris, Lucy Williamson.

In the video, the hostage flanked by two masked armed men, says he is a mountain guide from France and was kidnapped on Sunday. His captors, he said, are asking France not to intervene in Iraq as President Hollande had said it will. The video has not been verified, but the French government has confirmed it's cooperating with Algerian security forces to secure the release of a French hostage.

Turkey's deputy prime minister has warned that the country is struggling to cope with a humanitarian disaster as Kurdish refugees from Syria flee the advance of the Islamic State militants. Around 130,000 people are now said to have poured across the border into Turkey over the past three days. The United Nations says it's the largest number of people to have fled Syria in such a short period since the conflict began more than three years ago.

More schools across Nigeria opened on Monday after the started term was delayed to try to prevent the spread of Ebola. One of the worst affected countries, Sierra Leone, has completed a lockdown aimed at curbing Ebola as Will Ross reports.

The Sierra Leonean authorities say the three-day curfew was a success. Thousands of health workers fanned out across the country. They found 130 new Ebola cases and over the weekend more than 60 bodies were buried. In Nigeria nine people have died from Ebola but the nightmare scenario of the virus spreading has been avoided. In a sign that the worst is over, children in many part of the country headed back to school today. But people are still on high alert so the students and staff queued up to have their temperatures taken outside the school gates.

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A court in the United States has found that a Jordan-based bank guilty of providing material support to a terrorist group. A jury in New York decided that Arab bank had provided material support to the Palestinian military group Hamas and must compensate victims of a number of attacks carried out in Israel and the Palestinian territories. It's the first time a bank has been tried under the US Anti-Terrorism Act. A group of American plaintiffs had accused the bank of knowingly facilitating payment from Hamas accounts to people including families of suicide bombers.

A Nepalese man has died after being on hunger strike for 329 days. He was demanding action against those involving in killing his 18-year-old son during the civil war, widely alleged to be insurgent Maoists. Nanda Prasad Adhikari, who was 56, and his wife Ganga Maya have both refused food since last October. She is said to be in a critical condition.

The Walt Disney stage musical the Lion King has become the most successful show of all time. Staged in theaters around the world since 1997 the Lion King is reported to have earned 6.2 billion dollars. The world winning show is based in Disney's 1994 animated film.

A dispute has broken out between Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands over the ownership of Lonesome George - the Galapagos Giant Tortoise who died in 2012. He was the last known individual of his species. The preserved body of Lonesome George is currently on display at a museum in New York. The Ecuadorian government says that it should be kept in Quito where it will be properly preserved. But the Galapagos local mayor says Lonesome George was a symbol of the Islands and should return home.

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