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8. April 2017, 21:58

UN welcomes Yemen ceasefire

The United Nations has welcomed the start of a cease-fire in Yemen after more than a year of fighting which has killed over 6,000 people. However, there have been reports of continued fighting in some places. 2 million have been displaced by the conflict between forces loyal to the government backed by a Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels supported by Iran. This resident of the capital Sanaa says he hopes the truce will last: "we hope that this truce will be serious and that it will hold - I mean from all parties - and that peace will prevail in the country. This will rescue the poor and the needy who are not surviving the civil war with the planes raining bombs down on them and killing innocents."

Kerry visits Hiroshima memorial

John Kerry has become the first US Secretary of State to visit the Hiroshima memorial in Japan. Around 140,000 people were killed when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city in 1945. Kerry was joined by foreign ministers from the G7 group of nations who are holding talks in the city. They laid wreaths at the memorial and observed a minute of silence.

MSF says 300 hurt at Macedonia border

The medical charity MSF says around 300 migrants and refugees were hurt yesterday when police stopped them from scaling a fence on the Greece-Macedonia border. According to reports, Macedonian police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades at the crowds. Jonas Hagensen is a spokesman for MSF: "we treated around 300 people - around 200 of those were for tear gas, and the rest were different injuries but especially from rubber bullets fired by the police and also beatings. We referred 7 patients to the local hospital."

5 detained over India temple fire

Police in India have detained five people in connection with an explosion and fire at a Hindu temple that killed more than 100 people. The five men - who work at the temple in Kerala are being questioned about an unauthorised fireworks display that sparked the blast. Nearly 400 others were injured in the disaster.

Interior Minister Mikl-Leitner resigns

Austria's Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner has announced she's leaving her post to become the deputy governor of her home province, Lower Austria. Her party, the ÖVP, says it's approved the decision. Mikl-Leitner's replacement is Wolfgang Sobotka who'll be sworn in later this month.

The weather

Frequent sunshine but also some cloud about in the northeast and the West. Highs mostly between 10 and 18 degrees, in the west and south up to 21 in places.

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