There is a growing concern about the condition of a 14 year old Pakistani school girl who was shot in the head while on her way home from school in the northwest region of Swat. Malala Yousafzai is a campaigner for girls` education. The Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack. Aleem Magbool reports from Islamabad.
Malala Yousafzai was in a school minibus with her classmates when a man approached, asking for her by name before pulling out a gun and opening fire. Doctors say she`s lucky to have survived but isn't out of danger yet. Malala had helped told(tell) us story of life under the Pakistani Taliban in the Swat valley in a diary for the BBC. She`s since been nominated for an international children`s award. But the Taliban says Malala had harmed them through her criticism, and that they had a council meeting to decide her killing was allowed under Islam.
The radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges of terrorism at a court in New York. He was extradited from Britain to the United States last week after a lengthy legal battle along with four other terror suspects. Abu Hamza faces charges that include conspiring to set up an Al-Qaeda training camp in Oregon and involvement in the kidnapping of tourists in Yemen.
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On her first visit to Greece since the Euro-zone crisis began, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Greece that they are making progress in dealing with their economic problems. As protesters angry about painful welfare cuts clashed with police on the streets near the Greek parliament, Mrs. Merkel held talks with the Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.