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Gunmen in Burundi have shot dead at least 36 people in an attack on a bar. Survivors said dozens of men armed with automatic weapons and grenades entered the bar close to the capital Bujumbura. President Pierre Nkurunziza declared three days of mourning during a visit to the scene near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
State television in Iran says the authorities have arrested six people suspected of working for the BBC Persian service. The authorities allege that they were paid to film secret reports in Iran. The BBC said no one in Iran worked for the Persian service and that the arrested people were independent film-makers. The arrests came a day after the Persian service broadcast a documentary about Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
Residents of the largest illegal traveller settlement in Britain have won a last-minute court
injunction
, delaying their planned
eviction
. Bailiffs had already arrived at the Dale Farm site in southern England, which is home to more than 400 Irish travellers. Jeremy Cooke reports.
It was supposed to be the day when years of legal wrangling and courtroom battles came to an end when the eviction process at the illegal Dale Farm traveller site began.
But even as dozens of security guards, bailiffs and police officers gathered at the scene, a last-gasp High Court hearing granted an injunction which effectively blocks the eviction from proceeding until Friday