JANUARY 15, 2020

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Iran nuclear deal: European powers trigger dispute mechanism
•Iran says it suspended its nuclear commitments in
response to the reinstated US sanctions
EUROPEAN POWERS have
triggered a dispute mechanism
over the nuclear deal with Iran,
after the country took a further
step back from its commitments.
Iran has suspended all limits
on its production of enriched uranium,
which can be used to make
reactor fuel but also nuclear
weapons.
It has said it is responding to
sanctions reinstated by the US
when it withdrew from the accord
in 2018.
France, Germany and the UK
said they did not accept Iran's argument.
The nuclear deal saw Iran,
which insists its nuclear programme
is entirely peaceful, agree
to limit its sensitive activities and
allow in inspectors in return for
the lifting of crippling economic
sanctions.
US President Donald Trump
reinstated them to force Iran to
negotiate a new agreement that
would place indefinite curbs on its
nuclear programme and also halt
its development of ballistic missiles.
But Iran has so far refused.
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Lesotho's First Lady
wanted by police
POLICE IN Lesotho are
looking for Maesaiah
Thabane, the wife of
the prime minister, for
questioning in connection
to the killing of his
estranged wife two years ago.
Mystery surrounds Ms Thabane's
whereabouts since Friday
when a court issued a warrant for
her arrest after she failed to appear
for questioning.
She was given until end of Monday
to present herself to police.
Armed police, who went to
search for the her at the official residence
of Prime Minister Thomas
Thabane on Friday, did not find her
there.
Government spokesperson
Nthakeng Selinyane has told the
BBC's Focus on Africa programme
that the police were ready to ask for
international help to find her.
Lipolelo Thabane was shot dead
while travelling home with a friend,
•The whereabouts of First Lady Maesaiah Thabane are unknown
two days before the inauguration of
her husband in June 2017.
She and Mr Thabane had been
living separately since 2012 and
were going through a prolonged divorce.
Police chief Holomo Molibeli
has alleged in court papers that a
mobile number belonging to the
prime minister was called from the
site of her murder, linking him to
the killing. BBC
•The militants burnt one of the buildings at the
primary school in Kamuthe
Kenya teachers
threaten to abandon
schools after attack
A TEACHERS' union in
Kenya has threatened to evacuate
its members from an area
where three teachers were
killed on Monday morning if
the government does not improve
security.
The deadly attack happened
in Kamuthe in Garissa
county. A telecommunications
mast and a police camp were
also targeted. The teachers
who died were not from the
area.
The Secretary General of
the Kenya National Union
Teachers (Knut), Wilson Sossion,is
quoted in the Standard
newspaper as saying that deploying
teachers from other
parts of Kenya to work in the
region near the attack "was
not the right thing at all".
The government has
promised to restore security
after the threat, the Daily Nation
newspaper reports.
No-one has said they carried
out the attack but the Islamist
al-Shabab militants
have been active in the area.
Six suspected al-Shabab attacks
have taken place in
Kenya over the last month, including
one on a military base
that left three US military personnel
dead.
Al-Shabab researcher and
policy adviser Abdullahi Halakhe
told BBC Newsday that
the group was creating a potential
conflict between the locals
and government workers
not from the region. BBC
Burisma: Russia hacked company
at heart of Trump impeachment
THE UKRAINIAN gas company
at the centre of President Donald
Trump's impeachment was successfully
hacked by Russian military
agents in November, a US
cybersecurity firm has said.
Area 1 Security said it was not
clear what the hackers were
searching for when they hacked
Burisma Holdings.
Democratic presidential contender
Joe Biden's son Hunter
Biden, was previously on the
board of the firm.
Burisma, the US government
and Russia's Ministry of Defence
are yet to respond.
Area 1 linked the hack - a
"phishing" attack - to Russia's military
intelligence unit known commonly
as the GRU.
President Trump was impeached
in December over allegations
that he improperly pressured
Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky
to launch an investigation into
Burisma and its links to the
Bidens.
The security firm also drew
parallels between November's hack
and another that was carried out
against Democrats in 2016, before
the US presidential election. BBC
•The report says hackers managed to gain access to Burisma and its
subsidiaries' email servers