The President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir has arrived in Nigeria and been met with a full guard of honor despite human rights activists demand that he’d been arrested for war crimes. Nigeria is a member of the International Criminal Court which has indicted Mr. Bashir for war crimes in Darfur. A human rights group, the Nigerian Coalition for the International Criminal Court has threatened to seek a judicial order to ensure his arrest. Chino Obiagwu is a spokesman for the group. “It sends a very wrong signal to all African countries that the international sanctions of court could be ignored. It's a strong signal that African nations don’t need to cooperate with ICC. And if that impression continues, then we're going to have a serious problem dealing with impunity in Africa.”
Two British soldiers have died during a training exercise in Wales, it's not known how the men died, but a BBC's correspondent says the weapons were not thought been involved. The exercise took place in the Brecon Beacons' mountain range.
Two of the fastest sprinters in the world, Tyson Gay from the United States and Jamaica athlete Asafa Powell, have tested positive for banned substances. Gay, who's the second fastest man in the world over 100 meters, says he's pulling out the Athletics World Championships in Moscow next month.
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The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a tougher European data protection rules following revelations about the United States online surveillance programs. The comments follow leaks suggesting that the US eavesdropped on EU officials as part of a widespread electronic spy operation. Stephen Evans reports from Berlin. “Within an election two months away, Chancellor Merkel is under some pressure to disclose how much her government knew about the activities of the American national security agency. In her Sunday evening interview, she said that in future, the United States must abide by German law, an assertion that some in Germany hood as attested mission that the NSA broke German law by spying on German citizens. Chancellor Merkel sent her interior minister to Washington last week to find out how much spying there had been and on whom. The opposition in Berlin has accused her government of failing to get answers.”