The poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has died. He was 74 and he’d suffered from ill health recently. Seamus Heaney was born in Northern Ireland but later lived in the Republic of Ireland, who was a teacher and then had a distinguished career in poetry, winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995. A BBC correspondent says that it was the political troubles in Northern Ireland that helped make Heaney famous.
Supporters of Egypt’s ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi have protested across the country in their biggest demonstration for two weeks. Six people have been killed and dozens injured in clashes. In Cairo, the demonstrators opted for several scattered protests avoiding the capital’s bigger squares. On Thursday, another leader of Mr Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Beltagi, was arrested by the military-backed government.
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At least 12 people are reported to have been killed and ten injured in a bomb attack in northern Iraq. Reports from the town of Tuz Khurmato, north of the capital Baghdad, say that the bomb exploded in a largely Kurdish part of the ethnically mixed town. The police chief in the town said the explosion was preceded by a loud bang, which he believed was designed to attract a crowd.
A senior British intelligence advisor has said in a court statement that 58,000 secret documents seized under anti-terrorism laws from a Brazilian man at a London airport earlier this month would harm British national security if disclosed. The Brazilian, David Miranda, is the partner of the journalist who helped fugitive contractor Edward Snowden leak American and British intelligence documents. Jane Peel was in court.