The Guardian obtains a copy of a court order signed on April 25 by Judge Roger Vinson of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).Fourteen people are killed at a fake security checkpoint manned by gunmen in western Iraq.In an official statement, the Iranian government congratulates the Syrian army and people for capturing Al-Qusayr.The Syrian Army regains control of the strategic town of Al-Qusayr, as rebels pull out.After a long-running battle, Britain announces a compensation fund of £2,600 each for more than 5,000 survivors of the prison camps it operated across Kenya in the 1950s.staff sergeant Robert Bales avoids the death penalty by pleading guilty to the murder of 16 Afghan civilians, including 9 children. Following Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's denunciation of Twitter as a "menace to society", police arrest 25 people on charges relating to the use of social media to speak ill of the government.( The Huffington Post) ( The Guardian) ( The National) An image known as "The Lady in the Red Dress" showing a policeman in a gas mask hosing a woman with pepper spray becomes the defining image of Turkey's pro-democracy demonstrations thus far.Turkey's Ahmet Davutoğlu announces an investigation into police attacks on civilians with tear gas and water cannon in cities nationwide.French foreign minister Laurent Fabius claims that the nerve agent sarin has been used on several occasions.A United Nations human rights team says there are "reasonable grounds" to believe that chemical weapons have been used in Syria.The United States expands its military presence in Jordan, sending a Patriot missile battery and an undeclared number of F-16 fighters to the area.
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