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China's official news agency Xinhua says the government in Beijing has begun evacuatingthousands of its citizens from Vietnam.It follows a wave of anti-Chinese riots triggered by amaritime row. XX reports.

Xinhua said it had learned from the foreign ministry 1 that 3,000 Chinese personnel had beenevacuated from Vietnam by Saturday afternoon local time.It said the Chinese government wasorganizing chartered flights and ships to help more Chinese people to leave.Beijing says at leasttwo Chinese nationals have been killed and 100 injured in days of violent protests over China'sdeployment of an oil rig in disputed waters in the South China Sea.

The French president Francois Hollande has been hosting an emergency summit with westAfrican leaders to discuss the threat posed by the Nigerian Islamist militant 3 group BokoHaram.Mr Hollande said that at the time when over 200 school girls had been held in barbaricconditions, actions had to be taken.There were two attacks by suspected Boko Haram fightersin Nigeria and Cameroon hours before the summit began.Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.

The talks produced agreements there will be greater coordination 4 in particular betweenNigeria and Cameroon,two countries that have not always got on and across whose commonfrontier Boko Haram has been able to escape pursuit. There will be joint 5 borderpatrols,intelligence sharing and some kind of rapid reaction capability 6.Whether thearrangement agreed here in Paris will do anything to bring back the more than 200 missingNigerian girls is maybe too much to expect.But looking ahead,everyone agrees that the answerto the Boko Haram threat lies with a regional more than national response.

A region in eastern Ukraine that says it's voted to break away has appointed a prime ministerAlexander Borodai.Mr Borodai said that what he called the People of Republic of Donetsk wouldapply to join Russia and would merge 2 with Luhansk,another breakaway region.In the nearbycity of Kharkiv,leaders supporting Ukrainian unity 7 held talks.

The man who will become India's next Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi has offered prayers on thebanks of river Ganges in Varanasi,regarded as sacred by India's majority Hindus. Mr Modi wholed the BJP to a landslide 8 victory in the general elections prayed at a Hindu temple and thenperformed a series of rituals. XX reports.

Hundreds and thousands of people have been waiting here in blistering 9 heat to hear and have aglimpse of their newly elected member of parliament who did not disappoint them actually.Hedid give a speech and talked about why he had come to Varanasi this holy city which wasconsidered a place for Hindus and he said that it was River Ganges flowing right behind uswhich actually invited him to come here and do work and to help the people of the city.

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Graphic 10 pictures have been posted online showing an extreme Jihadist group in Syriabeheading a leading member of another Islamist rebel group.Activists 11 say the Islamic State ofIraq and Levant or ISIS carried out the execution of XX,known as the Tank Sniper,because ofhis attacks on government tanks.It's the latest evidence of the battle between ISIS and otherIslamist rebel groups which denounce its excessive brutality 12.

Protests over perceived inadequate 13 safety measures have taken place in several major cities inTurkey four days after a mining accident in Soma which killed 301 people.XX has more.

Here in central XX several hundred people are marching through the city centre.Some peopleare wearing miner's hats,in remembrance of the victims of the Soma mine.And they arechanting slogans against the Turkish government who they blame for not preventing thedisaster.Tonight in Turkey's two other main cities of Ankara and Istanbul,there are also reportsof protests. And earlier today for a while, there was tension between Turkish riot police andprotesters in the town of Soma,near the site of the now infamous 14 Soma mine.

The former financial trader Jerome Kerviel who faces three years in jail for fraud has said hewon't return to France from Italy until he receives a response from president FrancoisHollande.Mr Kerviel wants immunity 15 for potential witnesses who could testify in his favor overthe near collapse 16 of his former employer Societe Generale.

Atletico Madrid have won the Spanish Football League by drawing 1:0 with Barcelona.It's the10th time the club has won the league and the first time for ten years as a team other thanBarcelona or Real Madrid has taken the title. In England,Arsenal have won the FA cup.TheLondon club beat Hull 17 City 3:2 after extra time.