[00:10.33]Moktar Belmoktar was at one point a leading figure in the North African militant group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
[00:17.07]Tomas Fessy reports
[00:18.43]The deputy chief of staff for the Chadian army, General Zakaria Ngobongue announced in state television
[00:25.22]that Moktar Belmoktar was killed on Saturday during a military operation in Mali’s far north.
[00:30.63]Chadian troops have totally destroyed the main jihadi base, general Ngobongue saying in the mountains bordering Algeria.
[00:38.28]He said several other fighters were killed in the attack while dozens of vehicles, weapons and equipment were seized.
[00:45.28]Moktar Belmoktar claimed responsibility for the attack on a gas facility in eastern Algeria earlier this year in which foreign workers have been killed.
[00:54.60]Airborne troops in the international mission in southern Afghanistan have shot dead two Afghan shepherd boys both under the age of seven.
[01:02.88]The governor of Oruzgan province said Australian soldiers had killed them by mistake.
[01:08.73]A Nato-led force said a coalition helicopter had opened fire on them during an operation against the Taliban on Thursday.
[01:15.14]Nato officials called it a tragedy.
[01:17.82]Massed rallies have been taken place across Portugal to demonstrate against the government’s austerity measures.