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Brazil’s Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota has spokento his British counterpart about the detention of aBrazilian national at a London airport. David Mirandawas held under anti-terrorism legislation for ninehours on his way to Rio de Janeiro and had electronic equipment seized. Mr Miranda is thepartner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who published documents on a US surveillanceprogramme he obtained from the fugitive intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden.Earlier Mr Patriota denounced the incident.

“We consider this nine-hour detention based on a law that applies to terror suspectsunjustifiable. We hope it won’t happen again and I shall speak today to the British ForeignMinister William Hague to send him this message.”

The United States authorities said they knew that Mr Miranda’s questioning was likely tohappen, but had not requested it. As David Willis reports:

The White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the decision to detain David Miranda was onethe British authorities had taken on their own. He denied suggestions that the detention hadbeen requested by the United States, although he said the US had been, as he put it, kept inthe loop about the move. The US has repeatedly called for Edward Snowden to be extradited tothe United States to face charges of espionage.

State prosecutors in Egypt have brought new charges against the deposed Islamist PresidentMohamed Morsi, saying that he’s to be investigated on allegations of inciting violence. Thecharges relate to the deaths of several people during protests against Mr Morsi outside thepresidential palace last December. Mr Morsi has not been seen since he was deposed anddetained by the army seven weeks ago. The announcement came hours after 24 policeofficers were killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula, furtherdeepening the political crisis in Egypt. Masha MacAlea reports.

They were riding in two different buses in the Rafah area in northern Sinai when they werestopped, pulled out of the buses and gunned down, according to security reports. This justgoes to show how vulnerable Sinai is and really what a hotbed it has become for these regularattacks on security forces, again another security challenge, another security front for thearmy to have to deal with.

The Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called for a dialogue with extremists to end theviolence that has left thousands of people dead. In his first televised address to the nation asprime minister, Mr Sharif said he wanted to end terrorism either through dialogue,reconciliation or through full use of force. He said the state institutions and intelligenceagencies had been incompetent in tackling violence. He also offered an olive branch to arch-rival India, saying instead of wasting energy and resources on wars, the two countries shouldwage battles against poverty, ignorance and disease.

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Police in New York have arrested 19 people in what authorities are calling the city’s largest-evergun bust. The smuggled weapons were brought to New York from North and South Carolina bytraffickers travelling on buses. The alleged smugglers Walter Walker and Earl Campbell wereamong those arrested. New York’s police commissioner is Raymond Kelly:

“Two hundred and fifty-four illegal guns were recovered in this investigation. This is the biggestfirearms take-down in the department’s history. Detectives discovered that Walker easilyobtained guns from individuals in North Carolina who knew of the brisk business he could do inBrooklyn.”

The city’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, said those states were a major source for the guns usedin crime in New York. Police said the seized firearms included high-capacity assault weapons, afully automatic machine gun and handguns.

Police in southern Germany have arrested a gunman who had taken three people hostage at thetown hall in Ingolstadt. Following a raid by armed officers, two captives were freed unharmed. Athird hostage, deputy mayor Sepp Misslbeck, had been released before the police arrived. Thehostage taker emerged from the building injured but alive. German media say the 24-year-oldman had been stalking a woman employed at the town hall. She’s believed to be one of the twohostages. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel cancelled a planned visit to the town for anelection rally after the incident.

Swedish women of various faiths have been posting pictures of themselves online wearinghijabs in a campaign to show solidarity with a woman in Stockholm who was attackedapparently for wearing her traditional Muslim headscarf. The woman was hospitalised withconcussion after an unknown man tore off her hijab, shouted racist insults at her and hit herhead against a parked car. Two women MPs are among those taking part in the campaign toraise awareness against such attacks.

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