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The Egyptian Prime Minister has supported measures taking by the security forces againstMuslim Brotherhood protesters demanding the reinstatement of the ousted PresidentMohammed Morsi. Hundreds of protesters were killed in the operation last week. Hazem AlBeblawi told the U.S television network ABC the interim government had to act when itsauthority was challenged.

“We are all unhappy with what happened, but the question is who provoked it? When peopleinsisted that we were not respect all of the country, we will cut the seats, we will occupy formany times, we will make life very difficult to all that surrounded, all the neighbors.”

He considered that the minority of Brotherhood members might be radicalized and said themovement's leader Mohammad Badie who's now under arrest will be treated in accordance withthe law.

The British Home Secretary Theresa May has defended the police over the detention underantiterrorism laws of the partner of a journalist, who's reported on U.S governmentsurveillance programs. David Miranda was detained at Heathrow Airport on Sunday.

I believe it is absolutely right that the police if they have a belief that somebody is inpossession of highly sensitive stolen information which could help terrorists, which could leadto a loss of lives, it's absolutely right that they are able to act and that is what the law enablesthem to do.

Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian newspaper that published the top secretinformation provided by the fugitive U.S intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said Mr.Miranda was acting as an intermediary to help his partner Glenn Greenwald.

The Colombian rebel group, the Farc has for the first time admitted some responsibility for thesuffering of victims of more than 50 years of armed conflict in the country. At the opening ofanother round of peace talks in Havana, a Farc negotiator said there was no doubt that Farcforces had also caused cruelty and pain. He said compensation must be paid to all victims.

The head of the Chilean electoral commission has admitted handing a baby over to nuns afterthe child's parents were shot dead by soldiers in the aftermath of the 1973 military coup.General Juan Emilio Cheyre who went on to become the head of the army is now facing calls toresign. Gideon Long reports.

Mr. Cheyre who was 25 at the time of the incident said he was handed the baby by hiscommanding officer and ordered to take to the convent. He said that he was told that the boy'sparents had committed suicide. In actual fact, the military hunted the couple down and shotthem dead. The boy, Ernesto Lejderman survived the attack. After being cared for in theconvent, the boy was sent to Argentina to be raised by his paternal grandparents. Mr.Lejderman who's still lived in Argentina says he knows Mr. Cheyre wasn't indirectly involved thekillings, but he feels he should acknowledge his role as accomplice.

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The United States has imposed sanctions on a Muslim religious school in northwestern Pakistansaying it's become a training center for militants. It's the first time, an Islamic school has beena target of US sanctions. The sanctions prohibit Americans from having any businessinteraction with the Madrassa and freeze any assets that might have under Americanjurisdiction.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has visited the former Nazi concentration camp inDachau. It was the first visit of a German Chancellor to Dachau where tens of thousands ofJews, Romans and gay people had been killed. The visit came during Ms. Merkel's electioncampaign, her political opponents have said the combination of a tournament andelectioneering was tasteless. Damien McGuiness heard Ms. Merkel's speech.

She said that it was an honor for her to be here, she talks to a number of elderly survivors whowere sat on chairs opposite her in the main parade ground in the center of the formerconcentration camp. And I talked to a few survivors afterwards one of them was an 89-year-old former member of the French resistance who said that he appreciated Angela Merkel'svisit and he said that we often speak about the duty to remember, and that today, AngelaMerkel is carrying out that duty.

A woman alleged to have been at the top of the drug trade has been extradited back to Mexicoafter being released in the United States. Sandra Avila Beltran known as the Queen of the Pacificwas arrested when she arrived at Mexico City. She had earlier been sentenced by a US court to70 months in jail, but released as she had already spent more than five years in a Mexicanprison.

The world football governing body FIFA says more than one million tickets for next year's WorldCup in Brazil have been requested via their website in the first seven hours after going on sale.Most of those apply are Brazilians, but also include many fans from Argentina, the UnitedStates, Chile and Britain.

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