Parents are being urged to get their children vaccinated following an outbreak of measles at a nursery school in Port Talbot.

Two children who go to the Miles of Smiles nursery in Baglan have been confirmed as having the virus, while five others are being tested.
A vaccination session is planned at the nursery on Friday for children who have not had the MMR.
Parents who cannot attend should make an appointment with their GP.
Public Health Wales (PHW) said vaccination uptake at the nursery was good but some children were at risk because they were too young to have received one or both doses of the vaccine.
Last July saw the end of Wales' biggest outbreak of the infection in Swansea, which resulted in 1,200 reported cases and one death.
Dr JÃ¶rg Hoffmann, of PHW, said: "While two cases of measles may not sound a lot, we have five other children with symptoms, all attending a nursery school where there are children who are too young to be fully-vaccinated and could easily catch and spread measles."
He said parents in the wider Neath area should also get their children vaccinated.
Symptoms of measles include a fever, tiredness, runny nose, conjunctivitis and a distinctive red rash.
It is very contagious, can cause serious complications and in rare cases can be fatal.


Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has returned to Khartoum from South Africa, avoiding arrest over war crimes charges on an international warrant.

Mr Bashir flew out of South Africa despite an order barring him from leaving while a Pretoria court decided whether to arrest him on charges issued by the International Criminal Court.
Mr Bashir was visiting Johannesburg for an African Union (AU) summit.
An ICC official said the failure to arrest Mr Bashir was "disappointing".
"We still remain quietly optimistic and determined to see justice done in this case," deputy prosecutor James Stewart told the BBC.
The Pretoria High Court issued an order for Mr Bashir's arrest hours after his aircraft left the country.
A South African judge, Dunstan Mlambo, meanwhile said the failure to arrest Mr Bashir had violated the country's constitution.
However, Sudan described the attempt to arrest Mr Bashir as "lame and meaningless".
Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour told reporters at Khartoum airport that the court order was an attack on Sudanese sovereignty.
Mr Bashir arrived at the airport on Monday evening, dressed in white robes and waving a cane. He was greeted by cheering supporters.
The Sudanese leader is accused of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide during the Darfur conflict.
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The UN says that about 300,000 people in Sudan have died since fighting began in 2003. More than 1.4 million people are thought to have fled their homes.
Government forces and allied Arab militias are accused of targeting black African civilians in the fight against rebels.
It is unlikely that South Africa will face sanctions for allowing Mr Bashir to leave the country even after a court order barred him from doing so, says the BBC's Nomsa Maseko in Pretoria.
A number of African countries have in the past decided not to co-operate with the ICC. The court has been accused of racism and bias against African leaders.
So as things stand, Mr Bashir appears to have left South Africa with the blessing of the African Union, our correspondent says.
On Monday,  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the ICC's warrant for the arrest of Mr Bashir must be implemented by countries who have signed up to the court's statutes.
As a member of the ICC, South Africa is obliged to arrest anyone charged by the court.
The South African press has been considering the repercussions of the attempt to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who had been attending an AU summit.
IOL News said Mr Bashir's departure would leave "a major constitutional and diplomatic crisis and a big question mark over South Africa's continued membership of the ICC".
The Cape Times said the decision to invite the Sudanese president, despite his indictment by the ICC, had "exposed the fact that the AU considers the ICC largely irrelevant".
"This has the potential to sound the death knell of the ICC," the newspaper said, adding that the arrest "would set a precedent for other leaders on the continent who could be subject to the criminal jurisdiction of the ICC for their actions".
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Before the summit, the ICC issued a press statement urging the South African government "to spare no effort in ensuring the execution of the arrest warrant".
Kenneth Roth, the director of advocacy group Human Rights Watch, tweeted that South Africa appeared to have "shamefully flouted" the ICC and domestic court to free a man "wanted for mass murder of Africans".


Hundreds of thousands of people in Lancashire should no longer need to boil their tap water to make it safe within the coming week, United Utilities has said.

More than 200,000 homes are still affected after the discovery of a parasite at a treatment works left residents boiling water since 6 August.
Tap water in 80,000 homes was declared safe to drink on Thursday.
Parts of Blackpool, Chorley and Preston have been given the all-clear.
Gary Dixon, customer services director for United Utilities, said: "We hope to get the warning lifted for the rest of our customers by the end of the coming week."
If people have been using their water supply regularly there was no need to flush their system, he added.
Water was treated with ultraviolet light to kill the microbial parasite cryptosporidium, and United Utilities said it had assessed hundreds of test results after discussions with Public Health England.
The water company has faced criticism about the length of time it has taken to lift the restrictions.
It has promised automatic compensation for those affected, although it has not said how much.
Public Health England said there had been no confirmed cases of sickness linked to the water supply.
Former Director of Public Health in the North West, Prof John Ashton, told BBC Radio Lancashire: "When this started, United Utilities said it would be all sorted within a few days.
"One of the concerns that I have is that the duty to the shareholders is of more concern to them than the duty to the public, so there are questions to be asked about how they've handled this incident.
"We need a proper picture of where the problems are and we have a right to know.
"It's a fundamental public health necessity to have safe drinking water in your house."
A statement on the United Utilities website said: "We are now able to lift the boil water advice in [several] postcode areas.
"For those still subject to the boil water advice, please continue to boil your water for drinking, brushing teeth and food preparation until we let you know you can stop."
It also advised people to check for their postcode on the website or ring the company helpline on 0800 9127241.


The families of two Britons murdered in Thailand say they feel "relief" that the case is coming to court and are "confident" about the investigation.

Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, both 21, are accused of killing students Hannah Witheridge and David Miller.
A court has now charged the migrant workers with murder and they could be executed if found guilty.
The Witheridge and Miller families said in statements that they want the pair to have a "fair and transparent" trial.
The bodies of Miss Witheridge, 23, from Hemsby in Norfolk, and Mr Miller, 24, from Jersey, were found on a beach on the island of Koh Tao, a popular tourist destination, on 15 September.
Post-mortem examinations found Mr Miller died from drowning and a blow to the head, while Miss Witheridge died from head wounds.
The investigation into the murders has been marred by allegations of police incompetence and of confessions extracted by torture.
Mr Zaw and Mr Win, from Myanmar, also known as Burma, deny killing the two students. They had initially confessed to the murders but later retracted the confessions.
In their statement, Mr Miller's family spoke of their "relief that progress is being made in Thailand and this case is finally coming to court".
But they said the "increasing sensationalism" of the story in the media was "emotionally hurtful" and that a fair trial was needed.
They said: "From what we have seen, the suspects have a difficult case to answer. The evidence against them appears to be powerful and convincing.
"They must respond to these charges, and their arguments must be considered with the same scrutiny as those of the prosecution."
The family of Miss Witheridge said: "We would like to stress that as a family we are confident in the work that has been carried out into these atrocious crimes and want to remind both press and public that they do not have the full facts to report and make comment on at this stage.
"Current news reporting is causing undue distress to our family."
The families said they were united in their shared grief, with Mr Miller's family also saying: "Please remember that this is above all a story of two wonderful young people, David and Hannah, killed in the prime of their lives in a senseless and brutal way."
Both families thanked the Metropolitan Police for carrying out an independent review into the Royal Thai Police investigation.


A man who suffered from a brain injury who took his own life was not provided with appropriate support, a serious case review has concluded.

Dave Alsbury from Somerset, who died aged 43, suffered a traumatic injury in a road accident when in his 20s.
The report highlighted a "lack of joined-up working" between agencies and chances "to intervene" were missed.
Somerset County Council said it accepted the findings and said improvements had now been made.
After the accident Mr Alsbury was left with physical, cognitive and psychological issues, and he had a dependency on drugs and alcohol.
The independent report was commissioned by the Somerset Safeguarding Adults Board (SSAB) after he killed himself in 2014.
The review concluded that, despite numerous contacts with many health and care professionals and the concerns of family members, he was not provided with appropriate support.
It highlighted "a lack of joined-up working across social care, health bodies and drug and alcohol services".
"No organisation took a lead role in determining a co-ordinated, multi-agency response and opportunities to intervene in an integrated way were missed," it stated.
Mr Alsbury's sister, Alyson Norman, said she welcomed the report's findings, but said there had been a "lack of knowledge of brain injury" and "a serious lack of understanding of the mental health issues" her brother experienced.
She said there was a lack of interest in "taking any key responsibility" and the organisations "failed to work together".
"We were constantly, as a family, having having to be mediators in conversations and communications between organisations."
She added that a lack of funding was also a "key issue".
Mr Alsbury was provided with support by Headway Somerset, which is affiliated to the charity Headway - the brain injury association, for more than 13 years.
Headway's chief executive Peter McCabe said the "tragic reality" was that Mr Alsbury was "repeatedly failed by agencies whose responsibility it was to protect and support him".
He said it was "vital" that all local authorities "take time to read and fully digest this report and learn the lessons contained within in order to ensure that no other brain injury survivors are similarly let down".
A spokesman for Somerset County Council said: "We accept the review and its findings, and thank [Mr Alsbury's] family and Headway for the critical role they have played in it.
"The response to [his] circumstances, including the social work support, wasn't good enough.
"Everyone is committed to learning from this and improvements have been made."
They said social workers had received "further training about assessments" and there was "more scrutiny of practice and performance".


Promotion-chasing Plymouth beat 10-man Morecambe to stay level on points with third-placed Bristol Rovers.

Jordan Houghton gave Plymouth an early lead when he fired Reuben Reid's deflected shot past Kieran O'Hara.
Lee Molyneux headed wide for the hosts before Alex Kenyon was shown a straight red card for a foul on Carl McHugh.
Jamille Matt tapped in his first Argyle goal to secure a win which means Morecambe are only 12 points from the League Two relegation zone.


UKIP's main focus should not become anti-Islam, the party's MEP in Wales has said.

Nathan Gill has criticised his party's general election campaign pledge to ban full face veils worn by Muslim women.
He said the move to announce it early in the campaign meant the party could not talk about anything else.
Mr Gill told BBC Wales, government should not dictate what "you can and can't wear" and said he did not want to associate himself with the campaign.
UKIP said the veil was an "instrument of oppression", adding it sought to "lift the veil" on "that oppression" and it had been banned in other countries.
"If we are to bring communities together, we must begin by removing the implements of oppression and division," a party spokesman said.
UKIP saw its UK-wide vote share fall by 10.8% to 1.8% at the 2017 general election. It won no seats and leader Paul Nuttall resigned the day after.
At the launch of the party's general election manifesto, which took place in the days after the Manchester terror attack, former leader Mr Nuttall said radical Islam was a "cancer that needs to be cut out".
Mr Gill said: "I don't want our party's raison d'etre to become anti-Islam.
"Ultimately we all live on a very small island. We've all got to get on.
"It's pointless us talking about very emotive words like cancers and things like that, when we should be talking about harmonisation and us getting on together as a people.
"My perception that the amount of people who have a problem with Islam, or Muslim immigration or things like that, must be 1% of the population."
Criticising the fact that UKIP's campaign was "kicked off" by the announcement of a face veil ban, Mr Gill said: "It meant that we couldn't talk about anything else because that was always going to be brought up by the media and by the opposition.
"We should have kicked the campaign off with a positive vision of a post-Brexit Britain."
Mr Gill, who sits as an independent AM in the assembly and led UKIP Wales during the EU referendum campaign, said: "I don't want government dictating to us, to the level of what you can and can't wear, and to the level of how you worship, or all these different things.
"I didn't do anything during the general election campaign - I didn't really want to be associated with it."
Mr Gill also said a claim by Neil Hamilton, assembly UKIP group leader, that there was no problem with Islamophobia in Britain was "nonsense".
"Some people just enjoy media attention. I never sought that," he said.
"There's no point making silly claims and there's no point saying things that you don't really fully understand or that you've not fully researched.
"I just feel that we don't have to tout ourselves in front of the media saying outrageous things."


The Indian authorities in Uttar Pradesh have dropped sedition charges against a group of Kashmiri students for apparently cheering the country's arch rival Pakistan in a cricket match.

But state officials said they would continue to investigate allegations of disrupting communal harmony.
More than 60 students were suspended at the weekend after the Asia Cup match in which Pakistan defeated India.
The students said they only clapped when Pakistan won.
The district magistrate of Meerut city, Pankaj Yadav, confirmed to BBC Hindi that after investigating the complaint they found no evidence to support the sedition charge.
But he said officials would continue to investigate allegations of other offences, including disrupting communal harmony and causing damage to public property.
The sedition charge carries a three-year prison term in India.
Earlier, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah promised to speak to the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and intervene on the students' behalf, describing the charge as "unacceptably harsh"
The incident happened at the Swami Vivekanand Subharti University in Meerut city on Sunday where a group of students  allegedly "celebrated Pakistan's win", leading to arguments with other college mates, reports say.
The university administration then ordered an inquiry and decided to suspend the students as a "precautionary measure".
Some of the Kashmiri students denied any wrongdoing in their statements to the media.
Cricket matches between India and Pakistan are tense, dramatic affairs and are passionately followed in both countries.
Claimed by both countries in its entirety, Kashmir has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years.
The South Asian rivals have also fought two wars and a limited conflict.


Suge Knight says he is suffering from blindness and other health problems.

The music producer told a Los Angeles judge that he is not getting proper medical treatment while in custody.
The 49-year-old appeared in court early on Monday and was taken to a hospital the same morning.
Marion "Suge" Knight has pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder and hit-and-run charges after it's claimed he hit two men with his truck, killing one, on 29 January.
He's being held without bail.
David Kenner has been representing Knight since the case was first filed, but the founder of Death Row Records told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Brandlin that he has "fired" the lawyers.
Knight faces life in prison if convicted of killing Terry Carter, 55, during an row at a Compton burger stand in late January.
Kenner has claimed Knight was ambushed, but that hasn't been said in court yet.
Knight claims he is blind in one eye and has about 15% vision in the other.
This is the third time that he has been taken to hospital from court since he was charged with murder in early February.
Last year he says he was shot six times and has a blood clot in his lungs along with other medical complications.
He also told the judge that he lost weight as a result of his injuries.
Brandlin transferred Knight's case to another judge but he left for medical care before his case could be called in Judge Ronald Coen's courtroom.
Kenner told the judge that Knight has been jailed for too long and there should be a hearing to set bail as soon as possible.
Knight's next hearing will be on 9 March, although a bail hearing may not happen until 20 March.
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Somali troops have ended the siege of a Mogadishu hotel which was taken by al-Shabab militants on Friday.

At least 14 people were killed and more wounded after US-trained Somali special forces soldiers stormed the building.
Journalists at the scene say they have seen the bodies of both militants and soldiers.
Islamist al-Shabab is linked to al-Qaeda and has been battling the UN-backed government in Somalia since 2006, frequently targeting civilians.
Hussein Ali, a member of Mogadishu's ambulance service, told the Associated Press that there were 28 wounded.
The Somali ambassador to Switzerland, Yusuf Baribari, is among the dead.
Other diplomats escaped by jumping from windows.
The attack began when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed car outside the building.
Hotels in Mogadishu are often targeted by al-Shabab militants, who were driven from the city several years ago but still control southern rural areas.
An al-Shabab spokesman told the BBC that the Maka al-Mukarama hotel was attacked because of its popularity with government officials.
"We don't consider it to be a hotel - it's a government base," he said.
A car bomb went off outside the hotel earlier this month - an attack also claimed by al-Shabab.
Many politicians and businessmen stay at the hotel as it is on the main road linking the presidential palace to the city's airport.
Somalia has been ravaged by conflict for more than two decades.
But thousands of Somalis have been returning from abroad to help rebuild the country as security has improved in recent years.
African Union troops have been helping the UN-backed government retake territory from the militants.


One of the women accused of murdering toddler Liam Fee accepted she made a "terrible, terrible mistake" by neglecting him, her lawyer told a jury.

Mark Stewart QC said Nyomi Fee accepted she made mistakes in her treatment of Liam but that did not make her guilty of murder and said there was no evidence she ever injured the child.
He said another child had been assaulting Liam before he died.
Nyomi and Rachel Fee deny murdering the toddler in March 2014 near Glenrothes.
They also face charges they neglected the two-year-old and abused two other children.
The pair blame one of the other children in their care for killing Liam.
The women, who are both originally from Ryton, Tyne and Wear, deny all the charges against them.
In his closing speech, the defence QC for Nyomi Fee said: "There's not one piece of evidence offered to you that Nyomi Fee ever inflicted injury on Liam Fee at all.
"The fact that Nyomi Fee accepts that she made a terrible, terrible mistake in respect of Liam Fee does not automatically mean that she is someone who should be condemned as guilty of other aspects.
"In this case I don't suggest for one minute that you should sympathise with Nyomi fee, not for one minute.
"Evidence which the Crown hope they might have, wish they might have, suggest they might have, is actually missing and it cannot be replaced by conjecture and assumption. I intend to put before you facts."
Mr Stewart said she now accepted her guilt for neglecting Liam and could offer no excuse for what had happened.
He told the court: "It was a dreadful thing to do. It was a catastrophic mistake and a catastrophic failure of care.
"It's capable of any form of description people want to apply to it: it's unforgiveable, it's cruel, especially when you consider the consequences and the full extent of that injury is known.
"That's what happened and she accepts any description that people place upon it."
The trial at the High Court in Livingston continues.


Wales full-back Leigh Halfpenny says he is "trying to stay as positive as possible" as he waits to discover the extent of his knee injury.

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Halfpenny, 26, is expected to have a scan on the injury on Monday amid fears he will miss the World Cup.
Scrum-half Rhys Webb, also 26, may also be out after damaging ankle ligaments as Wales beat Italy on Saturday.
"Really can't thank you all enough for all your well wishes. Trying to stay as positive as possible," Webb tweeted.
Webb was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff after the game, which Wales won 23-19.
Wales coach Warren Gatland said the scrum-half's injury was "not a break, but could be ligament damage".
The player tweeted earlier on Sunday: "Morphine and a scrub off the nurses. Good start to a glorious Sunday morning."
Toulon full-back Halfpenny was also taken off on a stretcher during Wales' final warm-up game, appearing to twist his right knee while attempting to collect a loose ball.
His right leg was heavily bandaged from the start of the game, and former Wales winger JJ Williams said he should not have been risked.
"The bandaging on his leg was quite enormous wasn't it? So there's a problem there," he told BBC Radio Wales.
"I think it was a bad decision to play him at all.
"It was the ideal chance to try Matthew Morgan at full-back - just give him a run out.
"They are paying the penalty. Now we've got a deep problem of who is going to replace these boys."
Webb has established himself as Wales' leading scrum-half, while Halfpenny is their main goal-kicker.
If Webb is ruled out, Racing 92 veteran Mike Phillips is a leading candidate to be recalled, having been omitted from the original 31-man squad.
Wales begin their World Cup campaign against Uruguay in Cardiff on 20 September, before facing England, Fiji and Australia in their pool.


The UK and the EU have been accused of a "catastrophic misreading" of the mood in the Kremlin in the run-up to the crisis in Ukraine.

The House of Lords EU committee claimed Europe "sleepwalked" into the crisis.
The EU had not realised the depth of Russian hostility to its plans for closer relations with Ukraine, it said.
It comes as French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke about the crisis at a joint news conference in Paris.
Prime Minister David Cameron said blame for what had happened in Ukraine "lies absolutely squarely with Vladimir Putin and Russia".
The committee's report said Britain had not been "active or visible enough" in dealing with the situation in Ukraine.
It blamed Foreign Office cuts, which it said led to fewer Russian experts working there, and less emphasis on analysis.
A similar decline in EU foreign ministries had left them ill-equipped to formulate an "authoritative response" to the crisis, it said.
The report claimed that for too long the EU's relationship with Moscow had been based on the "optimistic premise" that Russia was on a trajectory to becoming a democratic country.
The result, it said, was a failure to appreciate the depth of Russian hostility when the EU opened talks aimed at establishing an "association agreement" with Ukraine in 2013.
Mr Cameron rejected claims Britain "sleepwalked" into the crisis in Ukraine.
He said: "What we need to do now is deliver the strongest possible message to Putin and to Russia that what has happened is unacceptable.
"These ceasefires need to hold and if they don't, there'll be more consequences, more sanctions, more measures."
Meanwhile Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande said the Minsk agreements should be implemented and the ceasefire observed between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels.
Mr Hollande said: "With the [German] Chancellor we have never stopped speaking since the [September 2014] Minsk agreements and we are more convinced than ever that they must be applied - all the agreements, nothing but the agreements."
Mrs Merkel said the EU "could raise the issue of sanctions" if needed.
The report also follows comments from Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, who has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin poses a "real and present danger" to three Baltic states.
He was speaking after RAF jets were scrambled to escort two Russian military aircraft seen off the Cornwall coast on Wednesday.
Elsewhere, shelling was reported in several parts of eastern Ukraine on Thursday, including around the rebel-held city of Donetsk.
The Ukraine crisis began in November 2013 when pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych's government abandoned the EU agreement in favour of stronger ties with Russia - prompting mass protests that eventually led to his downfall.
Subsequent unrest in Ukraine's peninsula of Crimea led to its annexation by Russia - which is accused by the West of stoking further conflict between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces in the east of the country.
Committee chairman Lord Tugendhat said: "The lack of robust analytical capacity, in both the UK and the EU, effectively led to a catastrophic misreading of the mood in the run-up to the crisis."
The UK had a particular responsibility to Ukraine because it was one of four signatories to the 1994 Budapest Memorandum which pledged to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity, the committee said.
Neither Britain nor the EU had a strategic response on how to handle Russia for the long term, it added.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said no-one could have predicted the scale of the "unjustifiable and illegal" Russian intervention and it was for the people of Ukraine to decide on its relationship with the EU.
Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander said it was "vital" the EU had a "united approach" and that the UK government helped to find a "diplomatic resolution" to the conflict.
Sir Andrew Wood, former British ambassador to Russia, agreed with the report's assessment, calling the situation a "dangerous moment" because Russia's frustrations could overspill into other areas, with increasing pressure on Baltic states.
During a speech in London, Nato's military chief in Europe, Gen Sir Adrian Bradshaw, referred to plans to build Nato force integration units in eastern Europe to respond to potential new threats against Nato states in eastern Europe.
He said they would "send a strong signal",  and help support eastern members in an era of "constant competition" with Russia.
Nato's information and warning system will focus on a "range of hybrid threats" including cyber attacks and political agitation, he said.
Meanwhile, a Downing Street statement said European Council president Mr Tusk and Mr Cameron had expressed "deep concern" that Russian-backed separatists continued to attack Debaltseve, despite the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on Sunday.
It said both leaders had agreed European member states must review the EU's response to the crisis, and should make clear to Russia that pro-Russian rebels must abide by the ceasefire.
The European Council is made up of the heads of the 28 EU member states and it sets the EU's overall political direction and priorities.
The US has also said it is "deeply troubled" by reports of continued fighting in eastern Ukraine.
The streets of Debaltseve were mostly deserted as we entered the city for the first time since intense fighting ended.
Those civilians still holed up in the city, who have been without water, gas and electricity since early January, were slowly emerging from shelters to see what was left of their homes.
But there were more rebels than civilians, with convoys of victorious separatists returning from the recent clashes.
Evidence of the fighting was littered across the roads and we spotted the bodies of two Ukrainian solders that had been lying in the cold for three days.
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Defender Jake Caprice has joined Leyton Orient on a two-year deal after leaving fellow National League club Woking.

Full-back Caprice, 24, is a former Crystal Palace academy graduate who joined Blackpool in 2012.
His appearances for the Tangerines were limited and he went on to join Lincoln City in 2014 before moving to Woking the following season.
Caprice is the fourth player to join Orient this summer before their campaign in the National League.
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Controversy is growing in Switzerland over an alleged secret deal, made almost 50 years ago, between the Swiss government and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).

The agreement, detailed in a new book, was apparently designed to prevent terrorist attacks on Swiss territory.
In return, Switzerland would offer diplomatic support to the PLO.
It followed a series of attacks in 1969 and 1970 by Palestinian groups that caused huge concern in Switzerland.
Now, in a book by Swiss journalist Marcel Gyr, information has emerged indicating that, in the stressful days and nights while Switzerland tried to get its hostages released, Swiss Foreign Minister Pierre Graber secretly contacted the PLO.
Using a member of the Swiss parliament as an intermediary, but without informing his fellow government ministers, Mr Graber, the new revelations suggest, came to an agreement under which those charged for the attack on the El Al plane would be released in return for freeing the hostages.
In addition the investigation into the bombing of the Swissair flight would be quietly shelved, and Switzerland would use its diplomatic offices to push for international recognition of the PLO.
After 1970, while there were further Palestinian attacks in other European countries, there were none in Switzerland.
Many of the documents relating to the events of 1970 are still classified under Swiss law but the revelations have started a big debate in Switzerland over the circumstances, if any, under which governments should consider negotiating with terrorist groups.
Almost half a century later, with many countries experiencing terror attacks, it seems outrageous to some Swiss that their own government might have done deals with groups classed as terrorists.
What is more, the relatives of those who died in the bombing of the Swissair flight may be justified in feeling angry that no one has ever been brought to justice, especially as Swiss investigators had identified a Jordanian national as the mastermind behind the attack.
In the wake of the revelations, Switzerland's current Foreign Minister, Didier Burkhalter, has said he knew nothing of the secret deal and admitted he was very surprised.
Nevertheless, some Swiss politicians are calling for an official parliamentary inquiry to establish exactly what happened.


The taxman's failure to get tough with the super-rich risks undermining confidence in the whole system, MPs warned in a report on Friday.

HM Revenue and Customs must avoid the impression it has "one rule for the rich and another for everyone else," the Public Accounts Committee said.
In a scathing report, PAC chairwoman Meg Hillier said HMRC's claims about its success "just don't stack up".
But an HMRC spokesman said the rich got extra scrutiny, not special treatment.
Since HMRC set up a specialist unit dealing with so-called high net worth individuals in 2009, the amount of income tax they paid had fallen by £1bn, the report said. This was despite income tax receipts from the public as a whole rising by £23bn over the same period.
Since 2009, each of the estimated 6,500 individuals worth £20m or more has been assigned a "customer relationship manager" by HMRC to administer their tax affairs.
But while HMRC said this had resulted in the collection of an additional £2bn in tax. it was unable to explain why the income tax they paid fell by 20% - from £4.5bn in 2009-10 to £3.5bn in 2014-15 - when the overall income tax take rose by 9%  £23bn.
The PAC, which took evidence from HMRC chief Jon Thompson and other experts, said it was "alarming" that at any one time about a third of high net worth individuals were likely to be under inquiry for unpaid tax.
But the HMRC had a "dismal record" when it came to prosecuting the very wealthy for tax fraud in the criminal courts, the committee said.
In the five years to 31 March 2016, it completed just 72 fraud investigations into such individuals, with all but two having been dealt with using its civil powers. Only one case resulted in a successful criminal prosecution.
Of the 850 penalties issued to the very wealthy since 2012, the average charge was £10,500, a figure the MPs said was unlikely to be a deterrent to multi-millionaires.
The report highlighted particular concern about tax evasion in the football industry and the "misuse" of image rights to reduce tax liabilities.
The committee revealed that 43 players, 12 clubs and eight agents were currently the subject of "open inquiries" by HMRC. However, it said that in some cases clubs were failing to co-operate fully with the tax inspectors.
"We were appalled to hear that not all football clubs are providing HMRC with data under a voluntary agreement struck with the English Premier League," said the report.
Current tax rules allow for income from image rights to be treated as a separate revenue stream for tax purposes.
It means that taxpayers who believed their image had a market value could set up a company to receive payments for those rights.
But the committee feared these rules are being abused. "Government should take urgent action to address image rights taxation," the report said.
PAC chairwoman Meg Hillier said: "If the public are to have faith in the tax system then it must be seen to have fairness at its heart. It also needs to work properly. In our view, HMRC is failing on both counts.
"HMRC's claims about the success of its strategy to deal with the very wealthy just don't stack up," she said.
To re-build trust, HMRC must be far more transparent about its operations and dealings with the super-rich, said the PAC. And it should consider what further powers it needs. The MPs said HMRC must report back to the PAC by July this year.
An HMRC spokesman strongly defended the department.
He said there was "absolutely no special treatment" for the wealthy. "In fact we give them additional scrutiny, with one-to-one marking by HMRC's specialist tax collectors, to ensure that they pay everything they owe, just like the rest of us do," he said.
He added that the department carefully scrutinised arrangements between football clubs and their employees to ensure the right tax was paid.
"In recent years we have identified more than £158m additional tax yield from clubs, players and agents," he said.


Dundee have signed former St Mirren midfielder Paul McGowan and ex-Dumbarton defender Paul McGinn on two-year contracts.

McGowan was a free agent after the Buddies decided not to offer him a new deal.
And the club have beaten off competition to secure McGinn, who was voted into the Championship team of the year last term.
"I'm delighted both have agreed to join," said Dundee boss Paul Hartley.
The Dens Park men are gearing up for their return to Scotland's top flight, after winning the Championship last term.
McGowan, who spent four years at St Mirren, started his career at Celtic where he played alongside his new boss Hartley.
"He was always good with me so it was a big factor in me joining," said the 26-year-old.
"I was shocked to be released by St. Mirren. My mobile kept ringing from the next day but I didn't answer as I didn't know the number.
"It turned out to be Paul [Hartley] and I met him and Scot Gardiner [chief executive] on the West Coast and they sold me on the club and team, I was convinced from then and it was just a matter of getting the deal done."
And the manager was also a key factor in the capture of McGinn.
"I was flattered by a lot of clubs showing interest in me but speaking to Paul Hartley made my mind up," said the 23-year-old right back.


German football legend Franz Beckenbauer has been questioned by Swiss prosecutors over suspected corruption linked to the 2006 World Cup.

Mr Beckenbauer is being investigated along with three other members of the competition's organising committee.
The four are suspected of fraud, criminal mismanagement, money laundering and misappropriation.
Mr Beckenbauer, who headed the bid in 2000, has previously denied corruption.
"Today I was interviewed as part of a long scheduled hearing by the Swiss federal prosecutor," Mr Beckenbauer, 71, said, adding: "I answered his questions."
The former Germany captain said he would not share more details of the case "out of respect for the prosecutor's office".
The Swiss attorney general's office told the Associated Press news agency that Mr Beckenbauer had been "co-operative".
The investigation into allegations that four members of the 2006 World Cup organising committee were involved in fraud and money laundering began in 2015.
The other three suspects under criminal investigation are former presidents of the German Football Association (DFB) Wolfgang Niersbach and Theo Zwanziger, and former secretary-general of the DFB Horst Rudolf Schmidt.
Tax authorities raided the DFB headquarters after it emerged that a secret payment of 6.7m euros (Â£4.6m; $7.2m) was made to Fifa in 2005.
The case first made headlines in October 2015, when German news magazine Der Spiegel accused Germany of using a secret slush fund to buy Fifa votes in support of its bid to host the 2006 World Cup.
The money allegedly came from the late Robert Louis-Dreyfus, who in 2000 was head of German sportswear giant Adidas.
It was allegedly provided at the request of Mr Beckenbauer, who led the committee seeking to secure Germany's right to host the event.
He has previously admitted to making errors in relation to the bid but has denied deliberate wrongdoing.
Mr Beckenbauer played his first World Cup for West Germany in 1966 in England and captained the team to victory as hosts at the 1974 tournament.
The former defender went on to manage French side Marseille and German giants Bayern Munich.


A teaspoon of oil, measured out with precision, is how Professor Tim Benton remembers his mother preparing items for frying.

When he was growing up in the 1960s, vegetable oil was still a precious commodity and used sparingly.
Fast-forward to today and oil is now so abundant and cheaply available that most of us use it liberally in our cooking - chucking it in anything from salad dressings to deep fat frying.
It's not only in our home cooking, oil is also an ingredient in most of the items we buy from the supermarket.
In fact, vegetable oil, specifically soy bean oil and palm oil, are two of the eight ingredients, alongside wheat, rice, maize, sugar, barley and potato, that are now estimated to provide a staggering 85% of the world's calories.
Increasingly, no matter what country we live in, we all eat similar diets which are heavy in calories and low in nutrients.
It's a development that Prof Benton, a strategic research dean at the University of Leeds specialising in food security and sustainability, links directly to global trade.
The production of vegetable oils and oil crops have both increased considerably over the past three decades.
The rise has been  driven by a combination of trade agreements, which have made it cheaper and easier to export and import oil, and various government policies. Policy incentives in countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia, aimed at ramping up production for export, have helped to lower the cost of vegetable oil, for example.
"Competing in a global market requires a highly efficient production process driving scale and cheapness. Now we have a food system built on incredibly cheap calories," says Prof Benton.
Of course, this food trade has in many cases helped reduce famine and, as Prof Benton points out, means the "poorest of poor have access to cheap calories".
But he says this trade - which means more people are eating less healthy imports, rather than what is locally available - may also have helped to make us fatter.
Over 50% of the world's population is not of a "healthy weight", according to Prof Benton's recent report on food production. And worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980.
"The poorest anywhere still struggle to get sufficient calories and are underweight, but in our rich countries, poverty often does not stop people being able to eat (and drink) calories, but it does stop them having a nutrient-rich diet," the report says.
Prof Corinna Hawkes, director of the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London, says the greatest increase in sources of calories since the globalisation era began, has come from oil crops.
"There was a very sudden and marked increase in the availability of soybean and palm oil and that to me is directly related with policies that made it easier to trade," she says.
Oilseeds are now among the most widely traded crops, and most processed foods contain either palm oil or soybean oil, which can help extend shelf life, she says.
"Because it became much easier and cheaper for the processed food industry to import it there was no disincentive for using it," she says.
A small amount of fat is an essential part of a healthy, balanced diet. But fats are high in calories so eating a lot can increase the risk of becoming overweight or obese. Saturated and trans fats are also associated with heart disease.
Prof Hawkes says that the low cost and availability of oil has meant some countries' cooking habits have changed. In China, for example, food is deep fried in high quantities of oil and in Brazil, people use larger amounts of oil in traditional dishes.
But alongside the increased trade of oil crops, she says, it's important to note that trade in fruit and vegetables has also increased, meaning many people's diets have actually improved.
This discrepancy is what Prof Hawkes calls the "quinoa question". Increasing western demand for the so-called "superfood", which has been grown high in the Andes for thousands of years, has been blamed for its skyrocketing price and unavailability for people in the countries it first came from.
The question goes to the heart of the controversy surrounding globalisation: that its rise has disproportionately benefited people who are already advantaged.
So while people clued-up on nutrition and health may be getting healthier thanks to global trade, those without this knowledge have seen their diet deteriorate.
However, the findings of a recent study by the London School of Economics (LSE), which looked at 26 countries between 1989 and 2005 when globalisation dramatically expanded, contradict this.
The research concluded that "social globalisation" - changes in the way we work and live - was what was making us fat, rather than the wider availability of cheaper and more calorific foods driven by global trade.
Basically, the fact that we are are now increasingly able to work, shop and socialise whilst barely moving a muscle is to blame, says study author Dr Joan Costa-Font.
"Our food intake is driven towards meeting the needs of a pre-global [socially speaking] world, where people would have to walk to places, and where there would not be as many energy-saving activities as today. Individuals would have closer personal social contacts, and would cook and spend more time on daily chores," he says.
Dr Costa-Font says the research suggests that once people adapt their diet and lifestyle to these changes - basically move more and eat less - more normal weights will again prevail.
He points to the US as an example. While obesity levels are alarmingly high at almost 35%, he notes that this level has stayed pretty much the same over the past decade.
"That's good news. That's already something.
"It may be that the US is beginning to start to learn how to eat and adjust its lifestyle to a global one. The hypothesis is that this rise in obesity is only transitory."


Chewing gum "may have played a role" in the death of a Carmarthenshire teenager, an inquest has heard.

Samantha Jenkins, 19, from Llanelli, collapsed and fell into a coma before dying days later in hospital in 2011.
Pathologist Dr Paul Griffiths told an inquest in Swansea on Tuesday she had low calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium levels, which may have been the result of malabsorption caused by chewing gum in her stomach.
A narrative verdict was recorded.
Her mother, Maria Morgan, had previously called for her death to be investigated amid claims her daughter's chewing gum habit played a part.
Colin Phillips, acting senior coroner for Swansea, said the cause of death was a shortage of oxygen to her brain, resulting from a convulsion caused by an imbalance of minerals in her body.
"Excessive consumption of chewing gum may have played a role in inducing this lack of minerals or mineral depletion," he said.
However, he made no definitive finding that it ultimately triggered her death after hearing it could not be proved.
Mrs Morgan said she believed her daughter died due to consuming excessive quantities of sweeteners, aspartame and sorbital, which are contained in some gum.
She told the inquest she found dozens of empty packets of gum among her daughter's possessions after her death.
Mrs Morgan said she first felt "ridiculous" suggesting it may have something to do with her passing.
But she then thought it was "worth mentioning" because doctors were "baffled" by Miss Jenkins's sudden collapse.
She said: "My daughter was a vibrant, happy, fun-loving 19-year-old who had her whole life ahead of her.
"She had no idea whatsoever that she was slowly killing herself. The last four years have been a living hell on earth, waiting for answers."
Mrs Morgan added: "I just want answers for my beautiful little girl so that my family can finally have closure and maybe the public response can can make changes and raise awareness of these additives."
The coroner apologised to Miss Jenkins's family for the "unacceptable" delay in the time it took for the inquest to take place.


Two proposals to save Perth's demolition-threatened City Hall are to be considered by councillors.

The long-running debate over the future of the B-listed building could finally be decided by Perth and Kinross Council next week.
A meeting of the full council will discuss two bids, which re-imagine the hall as either a luxury hotel or an indoor food market and community hub.
Experts hired by the council have recommended backing the market plan.
Demolition plans are on hold until the redevelopment proposals are considered.
The Edwardian building, which dates back to 1911, was closed 10 years ago after a modern new concert hall was opened in the city.
The council wanted to demolish it to make way for a new civic square, and hoped Historic Scotland would withdraw its objection to this plan if no firm plans for redevelopment could be agreed.
Councillors agreed exactly a year ago to publicly market a 125-year lease for the hall to finally settle whether a realistic alternative to demolition exists.
Five bids were received, but only two were found to be compliant with guidelines.
One is a £4.8m proposal from the Seventy Group, previously backed by city planners, to convert the building into a 32-room hotel, with a rooftop bar and restaurant open to the public.
The other, from Perth Market Place Ltd to use the main hall as a food hall and the lesser hall as a community space for hire, had been rejected by experts at an earlier draft stage. Redevelopment would cost £2.7m, with backing from Market Place Europe and Groupe Geraud, Europe's largest investor and operator of specialist markets.
In a report to councillors, independent firm Jones Laing LaSalle recommended choosing the marketplace bid, which they said was far more detailed than the one they had previously advised against accepting.
They said the chief difference between the bids was that Seventy Group proposed to pay a nominal £1 a year in rent, while Perth Market Place Ltd offered to pay £20,000, plus 7.5% of their annual turnover above that sum.
They also said that the Seventy Group proposal had only outlined 65% of the required funding, which was a "significant weakness" of the hotel bid.
If councillors give their backing to either proposal, council officers will be instructed to agree lease terms with the preferred bidder for approval at a later meeting.
Officers noted that "an element of risk will require to be borne by the council until a lease is signed" should a chosen plan fall through.


Snow has been falling over upland areas of Scotland.

Glencoe Mountain and Nevis Range snowsports centres have been among places to report having coverings of snow.
A picture by Mark Trigg for his Facebook page Back Corries shows a thick covering on Aonach Mor.
The picture has been shared on Twitter by Iain Cameron, who studies and writes about snow, and Lomond Mountain Rescue Team.
In a message below the photograph, Mr Cameron said: "This is 1pm on Tuesday the 2nd of June on Aonach Mor and this is just ridiculous. Unprecedented, perhaps."
The rescue team has also asked if anyone can remember a longer winter season.
BBC Weather has been reporting how 40 years ago there were snow falls across the UK.
Forecasts suggest temperatures should rise later this week.


Arsenal forward Danny Welbeck has been ruled out of England's friendly against Italy in Turin on Tuesday.

Welbeck suffered a knee injury during the 4-0 win over Lithuania in the Euro 2016 qualifier on Friday.
Coach Roy Hodgson said Welbeck will join Raheem Sterling (toe), who also scored on Friday, Manchester City's James Milner (knee) and Everton's Leighton Baines.
Southampton's Ryan Bertrand has been called up as a replacement.
"We knew we were going to be losing Raheem Sterling who had an injection last night on an on-going injury and hopefully that will help him as we go forward.
"We have a problem with James Milner who had to leave, we decided to let Leighton Baines go home and of course we lost Danny Welbeck who unfortunately picked up a slight knee injury against Lithuania.
"So those four players won't be with us going forward but it means a chance for the other guys in the squad to show what they can do.
"We are going to bring Ryan Bertrand in because with Leighton Baines gone we are now left with only one recognised left-back which is Kieran Gibbs. We wanted two recognised left-backs for both games."


Venezuela's electoral authorities have postponed a key meeting with the opposition in which they were expected to announce whether to allow a recall referendum.

The opposition gathered 1.85 million signatures in favour of the referendum to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
But the National Electoral Council has yet to say if the petition is valid.
Earlier, protesters complaining against the lack of food in shops tried to march towards the presidential palace.
They were blocked by police, who used tear gas to disperse the march.
"We want food!" the protesters shouted.
They had been queuing for hours outside supermarkets and shops in the area, Reuters news agency reported.
"I've been here since eight in the morning," a woman told pro-opposition broadcaster Vivoplay. "We're hungry and tired."
The opposition blames Mr Maduro's government for the serious economic crisis.
Tension between the socialist government and the opposition has heightened since the latter won the parliamentary elections in December and took control of the National Assembly.
The opposition Roundtable for Democracy (MUD) coalition ran on a promise to remove President Maduro from office before his term runs out in 2019.
What's gone wrong in Venezuela?
After a proposed constitutional amendment to shorten his term from six to four years was rejected by the Supreme Court, the MUD launched a petition to recall him.
On 2 May they handed the National Electoral Council (CNE) lists with 1.85 million signatures backing a recall referendum, many more than the 197,000 needed at this initial stage.
Members of President Maduro's United Socialist Party (PSUV) allege that at least 10,000 of those signatures are fraudulent.
The CNE's decision on whether it accepts the petition is therefore seen as key, even though this is only the first hurdle on the road to a recall referendum.
The deputy speaker of the National Assembly, opposition politician Enrique Marquez, said the recall referendum was the only "escape valve" for the pressure building up in Venezuela.
He warned that should the referendum be blocked, social tension in Venezuela could rise to unheard-of levels.
The country is deeply divided into those who support Mr Maduro's socialist policies and those who oppose him, and there have been marches by both sides.
But the worsening economic situation in Venezuela, which now has the world's highest inflation rate as well as shortages of basic food and power cuts, means many people who once supported Mr Maduro are demanding change.
The opposition says all its efforts to bring about change are being thwarted by the government and the judiciary, which it alleges has been stacked with supporters of Mr Maduro.
International pressure on the government to sit down with the opposition to tackle the problems has also been mounting.
On Tuesday, the head of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, called an emergency meeting over Venezuela's "institutional crisis" which could lead to the suspension of Venezuela from the regional body.
In response, Mr Maduro accused Mr Almagro of being "an interventionist traitor" and said Venezuela would fight any attempts at intervention.
The president blames Venezuela's problems on an "imperialist attack" led by the United States and "Venezuela's right-wing forces".


Rwanda has suspended BBC broadcasts in the Kinyarwanda language with immediate effect because of a film questioning official accounts of the 1994 genocide.

The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (Rura) said it had received complaints from the public of incitement, hatred, revisionism and genocide denial.
At least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in the genocide.
The BBC has denied that any part of the programme constitutes a "denial of the genocide against the Tutsi".
On Wednesday, Rwandan MPs approved a resolution calling on the government to ban the BBC and to charge the documentary-makers with genocide denial, which is a crime in the country.
Those killed in the genocide are generally believed to be mostly members of the minority ethnic Tutsi group, and Hutus opposed to the mass slaughter.
The BBC programme Rwanda, The Untold Story, includes interviews with US-based researchers who say most of those killed may have been Hutus, killed by members of the then-rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which has been in power since 1994.
The programme also included interviews with former aides of RPF leader President Paul Kagame, accusing him of plotting to shoot down the presidential plane - the act seen as triggering the slaughter.
He has consistently denied previous such accusations.
Rura said it had established a commission of inquiry to investigate the allegations it had received about the programme, after which further action may be taken.
The cabinet is meeting next week to discuss parliament's recommendations.
The BBC broadcasts affected by the suspension are produced by the BBC Great Lakes service, which was initially set up in the aftermath of the genocide as a lifeline service.
Its first broadcast - BBC Gahuzamiryango, meaning "the unifier of families" - was a 15-minute transmission aimed at bringing together families who had been separated.


Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says he has refused to accept hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenues unfrozen by Israel.

Mr Abbas says he returned the money because Israel deducted a third to pay for what it called utility bills.
He has threatened to take Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) unless the full amount is released.
Israel collects taxes on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA), but halted payments in January.
It had frozen transfers in protest at the Palestinians joining the ICC.
Palestinian membership began on 1 April, giving them the option to pursue Israel for alleged war crimes.
Israel says it has deducted the cost of services provided to the Palestinian population, including electricity, water and hospital bills.
The government made the decision to restart payments two weeks ago but warned at the time that it would make deductions from the transfer.
Mr Netanyahu said at the time the "deteriorating situation in the Middle East" and rise of extremists required him to "act responsibly".
Speaking at a rally in Ramallah, President Abbas demanded the tax revenues in full.
"We are returning the money. Either they give it to us in full or we go to arbitration or to the ICC. We will not accept anything else."
An official at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office told Reuters they were "willing to transfer back to the Palestinian Authority the sum that was returned whenever it wishes".
The decision to freeze the tax transfers to the PA, which provide two-thirds of its income, forced it to cut by 40% the salaries of thousands of government employees and announce an emergency budget.
Israel has suspended the transfers on three occasions in the past decade, but in January the Palestinian economy was already struggling, with the deficit at around 15% of GDP, unemployment at 25%, output set to contract, and donors not fulfilling funding commitments.


Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed concern over attacks on a nun and a church and demanded "immediate action" against the perpetrators.

The rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal state last week has sparked outrage in the country.
At the weekend, a Catholic church in Haryana was vandalised and the cross replaced with an idol of a Hindu god.
Critics say Mr Modi's government is not doing enough to stop Hindu zealots targeting minorities.
Correspondents say the rape case and recent attacks on churches have made Indian Christians feel insecure, although it is not clear whether the assault on the convent was sectarian.
On Tuesday, Mr Modi's office put out a series of tweets on the two incidents:
Ten men have been detained in connection with the rape of the 74-year-old in West Bengal's Nadia district early on Saturday morning.
But none of them resemble the six alleged attackers who were caught on CCTV burgling the convent before the nun was raped.
On Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the nun was recovering in hospital and the police were "looking for the mastermind of the incident".
At least 14 people have been questioned in connection with Sunday's attack on a church which was being built in Haryana's Hisar district, but no arrests have been made.
"We have to raise our voice against the atrocities. Christians will not tolerate this humiliation," Father Savari Muthu, spokesman for the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese, told the NDTV news channel.
Last month, Mr Modi vowed to protect all religious groups after a string of attacks on churches in Delhi.
Addressing a Christian audience in the capital, he called on all religious groups to show restraint and mutual respect.
Since December, five churches have been attacked in the city and police has tightened security.


In 2014, a record total of 14 acts entered the charts for the first time at number one.

It used to be a rare thing for a brand new artist to debut at the top spot. Whigfield was the first to do it 20 years ago with Saturday Night.
But in 2014, Sam Smith, Ella Henderson and 5 Seconds of Summer all achieved the feat.
It reflects changes in the way fans consume music. Downloads and streaming can give songs a big first-week boost.
But many of the "new" acts who hit number one had also built up a fanbase by guesting on other people's songs first.
Sam Smith, for example, had already scored a number one as a featured artist on Naughty Boy's track La La La before he launched his solo career.
Official Charts Company boss Martin Talbot said the onslaught of new artists kept the charts "fresher than ever".
Mr Probz had the biggest-selling debut single of the year, selling 815,000 copies, while Kiesza's Hideaway was the fastest-selling debut of the year, racking up 135,000 sales in its first week.
This year the Official Charts Company - who compile the UK charts - began including streaming from sites like Spotify, Deezer in the chart.
Radio 1 and 1Xtra's Head of Music, George Ergatoudis, told Newsbeat earlier in the year: "I think there is a real correlation there, that streaming is starting to grow and it's starting to eat into download sales."
Sam Smith was guest vocalist on 2013 Number 1 La La La by Naughty Boy, but Money On My Mind was his first release as a featured artist.
Speaking to Zane Lowe the winner of the BBC's Sound of 2014 admitted to being scared when his debut single came out.
He said: "I didn't want people to think that song was a cheap shot because it sounded like a hit. Before I give you my most personal piece of work, I'm giving you this to dance and I'm giving you this as therapy."
Ella Henderson told Newsbeat she was really nervous about releasing Ghost but had spent so long working on her sound she was proud of whatever she brought out.
The former X Factor contestant said: "It is exciting to hear what people have to say about me who haven't watched X Factor and don't know me. My music is very different to what I did on the show."
Ella's album Chapter One also debuted at number one and she was nominated for Best British Solo Artist and Best British Breakthrough at the Radio 1 Teen Awards.
Alice Levine became the first ever Radio 1 presenter to hit the top spot with a number one single.
She was part of Gareth Malone's All Star Choir who released a cover of Avicii's Wake Me Up to raise money for Children in Need.
The Official Chart Show on Radio 1 is on Sundays from 4pm.
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Ninety-six football fans who died as a result of a crush in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed, the inquests have concluded.

The jury found match commander Ch Supt David Duckenfield was "responsible for manslaughter by gross negligence" due to a breach of his duty of care.
Police errors also added to a dangerous situation at the FA Cup semi-final.
The prime minister said the inquests had provided "official confirmation" fans were "utterly blameless".
After a 27-year campaign by victims' families, the behaviour of Liverpool fans was exonerated.
The jury found they did not contribute to the danger unfolding at the turnstiles at the Leppings Lane end of Sheffield Wednesday's ground on 15 April 1989.
How the disaster unfolded
What the police chief knew
Five key mistakes
Families and players react to conclusions
Nine jurors reached unanimous decisions on all but one of the 14 questions at the inquests into Britain's worst sporting disaster.
The coroner Sir John Goldring said he would accept a majority decision about whether the fans were unlawfully killed - seven jurors agreed they were.
When the conclusion of the unlawful killing was revealed, families were seen hugging each other in the public gallery and some punched the air.
When considering how each of the 96 victims died the jury concluded many died well after 15:15 on the day of the match.
The coroner at the original inquest in 1991, Dr Stefan Popper, said he would not hear any evidence relating to deaths beyond that time because he believed all the victims had died, or suffered fatal injuries, by then.
The deaths were ruled accidental and those verdicts were quashed following the 2012 Hillsborough Independent Panel report, and new hearings were ordered.
The new inquests found the direct medical cause of death was compression asphyxia in all but three of the victims.
The earliest time of death was estimated from 14:57 and the last up to 17:00.
Tony Bland, the 96th victim, died in 1993 after being left brain damaged, due to or as a consequence of compression asphyxia.
14 questions the jury answered
Hillsborough Inquests: Coverage as it happened
The families clapped as the jury left the Hillsborough inquests in Warrington. One woman shouted "God bless the jury."
There were lots of tears as lawyers hugged the families and the shadow home secretary Andy Burnham hugged the families in court.
There were lawyers crying, Andy Burnham was crying and the families were hugging. People said they couldn't take in the enormity of it all.
Trevor Hicks, whose daughters Sarah and Vicky died, told me: "We've done it."
A spontaneous chorus of "You'll Never Walk Alone" was sung outside the courtroom as people raised Liverpool flags above their heads.
Leading campaigners Margaret Aspinall and Trevor Hicks were seen hugging each other in tears.
Ms Aspinall, whose 18-year-old son James died in the disaster, said: "I think we have changed a part of history now - I think that's the legacy the 96 have left."
Barry Devonside, father of Christopher who died aged 18, said: "I never thought in my wildest dreams that we would get this decision.
"We did our best - we couldn't do any more."
A statement on behalf of all of the families said the jury's conclusions "completely vindicate" the long fight for justice.
It added it has brought "significant progress on the journey... and sense of closure to the bereaved".
Prime Minister David Cameron called it a "landmark day" and said the inquests "provide long overdue justice".
He said: "All the families and survivors now have official confirmation of what they knew to be the case - that the Liverpool fans were utterly blameless in the disaster that unfolded at Hillsborough."
Current SYP Chief Constable David Crompton said the force "got the policing... catastrophically wrong".
He said his force "unequivocally" accepts the conclusions of unlawful killing and the wider findings.
"As I have said before, I want to apologise unreservedly to the families and all those affected."
At a later press conference, the Hillsborough Justice Campaign - which is made up of 22 of the bereaved families - called for the resignations of Mr Crompton and the current chief executive of the ambulance service.
Stephen Wright - whose brother Graham died in the disaster - said: "The five South Yorkshire Police legal teams simply pursued the denials of the past, blaming mythical late, drunken, ticketless fans for the deaths of our loved ones."
He added: "Mr Crompton has not only let the police force down but also the general public.  He has also let down rank and file police officers, many of whom did their best on the day of the disaster and were themselves traumatised."
Elkan Abrahamson, one of the Hillsborough families' solicitors, said it was "shameful" that SYP and the ambulance service had fought "tooth and nail to avoid adverse findings by the jury" adding, "this turned the inquests into an adversarial battle that took twice as long as it should have done".
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Chief Executive, Rod Barnes said it "fully accepted" the jury's conclusions that mistakes were made, adding it was "truly sorry".
The police response to the increasing crowd outside the Leppings Lane turnstiles at Liverpool's match against Nottingham Forest was "slow and uncoordinated", the inquests in Warrington, Cheshire, heard.
The road closure "exacerbated" the situation and there were no filter cordons in place to regulate the movement of spectators.
Attempts to close the perimeter gates were made too late and there were no contingency plans for the "sudden arrival" of a large number of fans, the jury said.
Jurors concluded the commanding officers should have ordered the closing of the tunnel which led directly to the central pens where the fatal crush occurred.
The SYAS failed to establish the nature of the problem at the Leppings Lane end, the inquests heard.
The jury said the failure to recognise and call a major incident led to delays in the emergency response.
Jurors concluded those mistakes contributed to the loss of lives.
In addition, faults with the design and layout of crush barriers within the stadium were highlighted.
There was a lack of dedicated turnstiles for individual pens and there were too few for a capacity crowd, the inquests were told.
The jury heard more than two years of evidence, making it the longest running inquests in British legal history.
Summing up, Sir John told the families the loss of their loved ones would "remain the source of anguish and grief" and he hoped they had gained "at least some comfort" from the decisions.
He continued: "You could not have done more by your loved ones. You have done your duty by them."
He told jurors their "commitment and diligence" had been "remarkable".
While thanking the six women and three men, applause rang out from the public gallery and Sir John remarked he had "never before had a jury clapped".
Liverpool FC's chief executive Ian Ayre welcomed the conclusion that their supporters "were not in any way responsible for what happened at Hillsborough".
He added: "It has been a painful journey for the families and survivors, who have endured and sacrificed so much for so long. The resilience and dignity they have shown throughout their tireless campaign has been humbling and inspirational.
"The 96 men, women and children who were unlawfully killed at Hillsborough will never be forgotten."
"A lot of evidence has come to light here and in the police investigation. The inquest has done its job and now the criminal justice system takes over.
"They [Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC)] are looking at both organisations and individuals. The unlawful killing conclusion that we have had today the route to it was considering the actions of match commander David Duckenfield.
"The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) can consider a prosecution against David Duckenfield."
The CPS said it would "formally consider whether any criminal charges should be brought against any individual or corporate body based upon all the available evidence".
A criminal investigation into the disaster, Operation Resolve, is being led by Assistant Commissioner Jon Stoddart.
Jenny Hicks, whose teenage daughters Sarah and Vicky died in the disaster, said: "I hope this is an opportunity for John Stoddart and his team, the IPCC and the CPS to look at the results of this inquest and take it as an opportunity to move it forward onto some kind of accountability.
"That's what I'd like to see [because] you can't have, to me, conclusions like this and not have some kind of accountability for those 96 innocent deaths."
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Barcelona forward Luis Suarez says he had no option but to nutmeg Paris St-Germain defender David Luiz twice as he scored two brilliant goals in Paris.

Suarez easily cut inside ex-Chelsea player Luiz on his way to putting Barca 2-0 up before repeating the trick as he scored a stunning third goal.
The former Liverpool striker said: "A striker is always looking for goals and the two moves came off for me.
"I had to nutmeg Luiz twice because there was nothing else I could do."
Suarez scored 31 goals in 33 Premier League appearances for Liverpool last season before completing his £75m move to Spain.
And he took his tally to 17 goals for Barca this season - including 11 in his last 11 - with his double in Paris to put Barca on the brink of the semi-finals of the Champions League.
After Neymar had put the Spanish side ahead Suarez struck his first goal of the night, threading the ball between Luiz's legs at pace, holding off a challenge from Maxwell and firing home.
His second of the night was even better, again nutmegging Luiz before striding on and planting a shot into the top corner.
A cautious Suarez said: "In football you never know what's going to happen.
"They have so much quality and we need to be aware that this isn't over. It'll be a good game."
Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said: "We were superior in midfield, were dangerous going forward and defended well as a team. It was a complete performance from us.
"But we are not going to make the mistake of thinking the tie is finished."
How Spanish newspaper AS described Suarez's performance:
"Luis Suarez was the Werewolf of Paris.
"The injury to Thiago Silva and the entrance of a not completely fit David Luiz was an invitation for Suarez. Like a wolf seeing the full moon in the sky.
"The first half belonged to Barcelona, who showed PSG where the boundary of Europe's aristocracy lies. That is: 'You're very rich, fine, but that only goes so far. Now out of my way while I destroy you'. Oui Monsieur."
A quirky statistic from Wednesday's Champions League quarter-finals is that all four managers once played in the same Barcelona team.
Barca coach Luis Enrique, PSG manager Laurent Blanc, Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola and Porto coach Julen Lopetegui were all on the books at the Nou Camp during the 1996-97 season, when Bobby Robson was manager of the Catalan club.
All four started the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup against Atletico Madrid at the start of the 1996-97 season. Barca lost the leg 3-1 but won the trophy courtesy of a 5-2 victory in the first leg.
Also in that side was Albert Ferrer (former Cordoba coach), Sergi Barjuan (Almeria boss), Abelardo Fernandez (Sporting Gijon coach), Hristo Stoichkov (ex-Celta Vigo and Bulgaria coach) and Juan Antonio Pizzi (former Valencia manager).
As an added bonus, Robson's assistant during that time was none other than current Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho.


Great Britain's Olympic swimmers won two superb silver medals through Siobhan-Marie O'Connor in the 200m individual medley and the men's team in the 4x200m freestyle relay.

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O'Connor, 20, finished 0.3 seconds behind Hungarian world champion Katinka Hosszu, who set an Olympic record.
GB's men's relay team of Stephen Milne, Duncan Scott, Dan Wallace and James Guy were second to a dominant USA.
It takes Britain's medal tally at the Rio Games to six.
Four of those medals have come in the pool, after Adam Peaty's 100m breaststroke gold and Jazz Carlin's 400m freestyle silver.
O'Connor, from Somerset, swam a British record two minutes 06.88 seconds and nearly caused a huge surprise as she closed in on Hosszu, who has now won three gold medals in Rio and has dominated the medley for the past two World Championships.
But silver remains an incredible achievement for O'Connor, who suffers from ulcerative colitis [chronic bowel disease], as she became the first British woman to win an Olympic medal in the 200m medley.
"I was really confident coming into it because sometimes I can have disruptions. I felt in a really good place," said O'Connor, who finished almost two seconds ahead of the USA's Madeline Dirado in third.
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"It feels pretty unreal. I am trying not to cry but it is the best feeling in the world.
"It doesn't seem real but seeing my family, I was getting choked up. It means everything. It has been tough but it is so, so worth it.
"Sometimes you think 'is it my time?' It just shows what determination can do and all the hard work has paid off, but I would not have been able to do it without my amazing team."
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Britain's relay team had come to Rio as world champions, but were not expected to challenge a USA team that included Michael Phelps, who now has 21 Olympic gold medals.
And even a silver medal looked unlikely for the British quartet in the early stages of the final, before Wallace's penultimate leg brought them past Australia to move into the medal positions and Guy overhauled Japan's Takeshi Matsuda on the final leg to secure second by 0.37secs.
Guy, who has missed out on medals in the 200m and 400m freestyle events, said: "The first few days were tough for me.
"I've got faster and faster the more I've been racing. The team is young and we'll be ready for the title at Tokyo 2020."
Milne added: "I can't believe it. These guys were amazing and it was a real honour to swim with them."
Born and raised in Somerset, O'Connor made her mark on the international stage aged 15 in 2011, winning 200m individual medley gold at the ASA National Championships.
She missed her school prom to attend the the 2012 British National Championships, where she won 100m breaststroke gold and booked her place as the youngest swimmer on the London 2012 Olympic team.
She failed to make it through her heat, but gained the experience of swimming in the medley relay final in front of 17,500 people.
O'Connor went on to win six medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, including 200 medley gold, before taking bronze in the same event a year later at the World Championships.
In July this year, she displayed her all-round ability by breaking the British 100m breaststroke record.
Double Olympic gold-medal winner Rebecca Adlington: "I think this is the best we have done for a very long time and we still have some big races to come.
"I am thrilled for James Guy, especially because this is extra special after the week he has had."
Former freestyle world champion Mark Foster: "As a country we have improved so much. We have strength in depth and there's character in the team. The future is bright."
BBC Sport chief sports writer Tom Fordyce: "A second special night in the pool for Britain's swimmers. After Adam Peaty and Jazz Carlin two nights ago, this was another story of personal bests produced when it mattered most, of the best possible result being taken on the biggest stage of all.
"No-one was going to catch Katinka Hosszu, just as no-one was going to catch a US men's relay team featuring Ryan Lochte and Phelps; in taking silvers behind both, O'Connor and the quartet of Milne, Scott, Wallace and Guy have put British swimming wonderfully back on course."


Colombian Caterine Ibarguen won the women's triple jump in Rio.

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Ibarguen, 32, who went on a 34-meeting unbeaten run after finishing second in London in 2012, won with her fourth round jump of 15.17m.
Her victory gives Colombia their second gold of the Games after weightlifter Oscar Figueroa.
Yulimar Rochas of Venezuela took silver with 14.98m and defending champion Olga Rypakova of Kazakhstan settled for bronze with 14.74m.


If Manchester City miss out on next season's Champions League it is a huge failure, but it is not a disaster because the future of the club is not at stake.

If Manchester United win their last two games and beat their local rivals to fourth place, then City are not going into freefall or financial meltdown in the way Leeds United did when they failed to qualify in 2002.
In terms of the outlay they have made, City should be finishing in the top four - no question - and, in the short-term, not doing so would be a massive disappointment.
It delays their ambition to establish themselves as a major European power because they want to win the Champions League, not just get in it.
But the biggest plus is that it would not affect the club's stability and I don't think it would affect their ability to attract top players this summer either.
City's fans do not want to watch their side play the lesser teams from different corners of Europe on Thursday nights - they want to see them against the best.
They will not get that if they finish fifth in the Premier League.
But, overall, I would suggest to City fans that the future is still bright and still rosy, even if they have to settle for the Europa League next season.
The club will still move forward because the top players will still want to join them.
That was always going be more down to having Pep Guardiola as their new manager next season rather than being in the Champions League itself.
Every player Guardiola will sign will think City will only be out of the Champions League for one season only, and I would be amazed if it were for longer.
City have still got a chance of making the top four of course - the season is not over yet.
But I think United will win both their remaining games - at West Ham on Tuesday and then at home to Bournemouth on the final day - which would guarantee they finish above City.
Playing the Hammers in their final game at Upton Park is still a tough one but knowing that a top-four finish is now in their hands will be a massive boost for United's players and their fans.
It is going to be a brilliant game, and I am really looking forward to it.
The reason City are in this position is not down to them failing to beat Arsenal on Sunday.
City actually performed quite well after a tough game in midweek against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu - they pressed, played at a good tempo and looked dangerous.
We still saw some of the issues they have had all season, such as with the first goal they conceded.
Defending set-plays has been a long-standing problem for them and, against the Gunners, Eliaquim Mangala was at fault. He gambled, tried to win the ball early and paid the price.
They have had some bad luck along the way with injuries to some of their key players but it is their away form that has let them down the most.
On too many occasions they have not played with the same intensity they showed against Arsenal. The question is, why?
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Outgoing City boss Manuel Pellegrini did not get the send-off he wanted at Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
If City do not make the top four then it is a kick in the teeth for him, but I think some of their players need to question themselves more than the manager.
I understand when people point to the announcement in February that Guardiola was taking over as the thing that derailed City's season - but I do not see it as an excuse.
Apart from one or two of their players who must have known they were leaving the club anyway, my feeling is that they should have been trying to impress the new manager - and the performances should have got better, not worse.
As far as how Pellegrini will be remembered, I asked some City fans about this on a radio phone-in recently and they were very complimentary. Part of that was down to him winning the title and reaching the Champions League semi-finals but it was also because he is so humble.
I think his players like him, which is usually a good thing, but sometimes they have not performed for him.
So, is Pellegrini too nice? The evidence suggests that is not going to be an issue for City under Pep.
He always gets a tune out of his players in terms of the intensity they play at and, although his Bayern Munich side also lost in the semi-finals this week, they were very unfortunate to go out.
There is another reason for City fans to be excited - they are going to get better quickly, I am 100% sure of that.
Danny Murphy was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.


A 16-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to wounding a teenage girl at a bus stop in a Lincolnshire market town.

The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also pleaded guilty to having a knife.
The 17-year-old victim suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries during the attack in Heaton Street, Gainsborough, in September.
The boy has been remanded into local authority care and is due to be sentenced in January.
Lincoln Crown Court heard the teenage girl required a small number of stitches and was released from hospital later the same day,


Security flaws found in 10 different types of medical implants could have "fatal" consequences, warn researchers.

The flaws were found in the radio-based communications used to update implants, including pacemakers, and read data from them.
By exploiting the flaws, the researchers were able to adjust settings and even switch off gadgets.
The attacks were also able to steal confidential data about patients and their health history.
A software patch has been created to help thwart any real-world attacks.
The flaws were found by an international team of security researchers based at the University of Leuven in Belgium and the University of Birmingham.
While most implants work autonomously, many now use short-range wireless communications systems to make it easy for medical staff to retrieve data about the person the gadget is helping.
Commands to change the way the devices function can also be sent wirelessly to ensure they are tuned to match an individual's physiology and condition.
The team reverse-engineered the proprietary wireless signalling systems used by the implants which revealed flaws in the way data was broadcast. The attacks only worked when the researchers' eavesdropping equipment was within five metres of the devices.
By eavesdropping on the data traffic, the researchers were able to pick out and replay commands that controlled the devices.
Via this technique, attackers could find out "sensitive information" or send "malicious messages", said the team in a paper detailing its work.
"The consequences of these attacks can be fatal for patients as these messages can contain commands to deliver a shock or to disable a therapy," it warned.
All the implants were made by one company and all are currently being used widely, it said.
The name of the implant maker was not disclosed but the security experts said they had told it about their findings. This had prompted it to update device software to help limit the potential danger to patients.
"This shows that security must urgently improve," cardiologist Rik Willems, from the University of Leuven, who helped with the study told the Belgian newspaper Dr Tijd.


The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has announced new screen time guidelines for children aged up to two.

It had recommended that children have no screen time before the age of two.
But it now says children aged over 18 months can use video chat with family, and 18-month to five-year-olds can watch "high quality" programmes with parents.
However, it also says physical activity and face-to-face interaction should be prioritised.
It named programmes such as Sesame Street as examples of appropriate TV shows.
"Families should proactively think about their children's media use and talk with children about it, because too much media use can mean that children don't have enough time during the day to play, study, talk, or sleep," said Jenny Radesky, the lead author of the AAP report Media and Young Minds.
"What's most important is that parents be their child's 'media mentors'. That means teaching them how to use it as a tool to create, connect and learn."
The AAP has launched a tool to help families create a media plan to monitor screen use.
Two- to five-year-olds should be limited to one hour of screen time a day, and "media free times" should be created by carers, the guidelines add.
It also recommends installing "media free locations" in the home, such as bedrooms, for children including over-fives.
Dr Catherine Steiner-Adair, clinical psychologist and Harvard research associate, told the BBC that while she welcomed the new guidelines, they needed more explanation.
"There is a need for paediatricians to be very clear about what the content is, how much is to be co-viewed and what co-viewing is," she said.
"When you watch a video with a 24-month-old you want to be repeating the words over and over, pushing the pause button, the same way we do when we read to a child.
"Not two people sitting side-by-side watching in silence."
Dr Steiner-Adair also called for more research into the benefits of educational apps, describing them as an "unregulated" industry.
"I haven't seen who is developing the measures of learning for young children - what is actually going on?" she said.
"What we do know is the toddler brain lights up for learning language the most when they are being spoken to in real life, face-to-face, by a caring adult.
"I would like to see more of how they assess the actual learning that goes on between 18-24 months [via screens] and how they compare it to learning from being read to by an adult from a real book."


A court in India has convicted 32 people for involvement in the 2002 religious riots in Gujarat state.

The court acquitted 29 others in the case known as the Naroda Patiya massacre.
Among those convicted were former minister Maya Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi, a former leader of the hardline Hindu group Bajrang Dal.
A total of 95 people were killed in the rioting on 28 February in the Naroda Patiya area of Ahmedabad city.
Most of the convicted, including Ms Kodnani and Mr Bajrangi, were found guilty of murder and criminal conspiracy, reports said.
The trial began in August 2009 and charges were framed against 62 people. One of the accused died during the trial.
Ms Kodnani was the junior minister for women and child development in the Gujarat government when she was arrested in connection with the incident in 2009.
More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed when riots erupted after 60 Hindu pilgrims died in a train fire in 2002.
It was one of India's worst outbreaks of religious violence in recent years.
Muslims were blamed for starting the train fire. Hindu mobs eager for revenge went on the rampage through Muslim neighbourhoods in towns and villages across Gujarat in three days of violence following the incident.
The cause of the Godhra train fire is still a matter of fierce debate.
A commission of inquiry set up in 2008 by the Gujarat state government determined that it was the result of a conspiracy.
But a 2005 federal government inquiry concluded that the fire had been an accident - probably started by people cooking in one of the carriages - and was not the result of an attack.
Gujarat's authorities have been accused of not doing enough to stop the riots.
Narendra Modi, Gujarat's chief minister since 2001, has always denied any wrongdoing in connection with the riots but has never expressed any remorse or offered any apologies.
A 2008 state inquiry exonerated him over the riots.
A special investigation team (SIT) was set up by the Supreme Court to investigate some of the most prominent riot cases.
Correction: An earlier version of this story referred to the Bajrang Dal as a militant Hindu group.


Uganda have qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time since 1978 after beating Comoros on Sunday.

Their 1-0 victory secured their place at next year's finals in Gabon as one of the two best group runners-up.
Group D rivals Burkina Faso also qualified with a late 2-1 win over Botswana to finish top of the table.
Tunisia and DR Congo qualified as winners of their groups and Togo went through as the second best group runners-up on goal difference.
Sixteen teams will compete at next year's tournament, which runs from 14 January to 5 February: the 13 group winners and two best group runners-up, plus hosts Gabon.
Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Morocco, Senegal and Zimbabwe had booked their places before Sunday's matches.
Burkina Faso, who lost to Nigeria in the 2013 final, left it very late to guarantee their qualification after Prejuce Nakoulma's 18th-minute opener was cancelled out by a  Botswana equaliser from the penalty spot.
Visitors Botswana fought to hold their opponents, despite having Lesego Galenamotlhale dismissed on 61 minutes and Kabelo Dambe sent off with two minutes of normal time remaining.
But Banou Diawara struck deep into injury time for the Burkinabe, who had Steeve Yago sent off moments before, to give them the victory and 13 points from their six group games.
Uganda also reached 13 points, thanks to a 35th-minute winner by Farouk Miya in Kampala, but they finished in second place in the group because of a inferior head-to-head record against Burkina Faso.
However, it was enough to send the Cranes to the finals for the first time for 38 years. Some Ugandan players raised their arms and others sank to their knees at the end of the match.
Uganda's last appearance at the Nations Cup ended in a runners-up spot when they lost to Ghana in the final.
Togo were, perhaps, the surprise qualifiers as other results went their way and they thrashed Djibouti 5-0 to book their place as a best group runner-up.
Vincent Bossou opened the scoring and Komlan Agbegniadan grabbed a brace in a three-minute spell at the end of the match to add further gloss to the scoreline.
The win meant Togo finished in second in Group A as Tunisia beat Liberia 4-1 in what was a winner-takes-all top-of the table clash, and the Sparrow Hawks pipped Group C runners-up Benin to the finals on goal difference.
Benin's hopes were ruined by a 5-2 hammering by already-qualified Mali.
In April Togo appointed Claude LeRoy as their new manager and he has had a huge impact on them, despite the the threat of a prison sentence hanging over him for alleged involvement in fraudulent transfers at French club Strasbourg.
He is now in line to coach at a record-extending nine Nations Cup tournaments.
Tunisia and Liberia went into their match level on 10 points and everything at stake.
Wahbi Khazri and Taha Yassine Khenissi put the Tunisians 2-0 up in the first half and although Liberia pulled a goal back on 71 minutes, the hosts responded with a quickfire double to assert total control.
Group B also featured a clash between the top two, with the possibility of DR Congo or Central African Republic going through as winners.
But the pressure was on visitors CAR, who needed a victory while DR Congo needed only a point, and it proved too much for the politically-troubled nation as they were soundly beaten 4-1.
Earlier on Sunday, Group E reached its conclusion with two dead rubbers, as Guinea-Bissau had clinched top spot and a best-placed runners-up spot was out of reach for the other teams.
Guinea-Bissau fell to a 1-0 defeat by Congo, while Zambia and Kenya drew 1-1.
And in Group L, Swaziland failed to give themselves a chance of a best-placed runners-up spot as they were beaten 1-0 by Malawi.
Zimbabwe had already qualified as the group winners, so their 1-0 away defeat by Guinea later on Sunday had no bearing on qualification.
Already-qualified pair Algeria and Morocco eased to victories against Lesotho and Sao Tome e Principe respectively.
Algeria won 6-0 in Group J, with two goals each for Leicester City's Riyad Mahrez and Dinamo Zagreb's Hilal Soudani.
Morocco beat Sao Tome e Principe 2-0 to finish Group F on 16 points.


A man has been jailed for smashing a beer bottle over the head of a runner raising money for a cancer charity.

Kai Webb, 18, downed a bottle of vodka before attacking David Reynolds as he ran along Teignmouth seafront in Devon.
Webb, of Ashleigh Park, Teignmouth, admitted wounding, theft and two common assaults and was jailed at Exeter Crown Court for 12 months.
Mr Reynolds and his partner Eve Hazelton raised almost Â£30,000 for the breast cancer charity Coppafeel.
The couple were part way through running 10km a day for 100 days on 11 April when they were intercepted by a group of youths, including Webb, at about 19:00.
Webb walked up behind Mr Reynolds and smashed the bottle over the back of his head, causing a gash to the scalp and ear which required eight stitches.
A large group of supporters turned out to support film director Mr Reynolds the next day, when he overcame his injuries and ran dressed as a giant beer bottle.
Recorder Martin Meeke QC told Webb: "This was mindless unprovoked violence in a town centre and the sort of conduct which persuades many members of the public to avoid town centres at night."
Gordon Richings, prosecuting, said the bottle attack happened after Webb had already stolen beer and thrown a tray at an assistant in a sandwich shop.
In a victim impact statement, Mr Reynolds said: "My injury is very evident to other people as I have no hair."
Barry White, defending, said Webb was only 17 when the attacks took place and his family are at a loss to explain why he behaved as he did.