Ukraine crisis: Poroshenko says peace deal in Danger

Ukraine's president has warned that a deal to end fighting in the east is in "great danger" after heavy fighting ahead of Saturday night's ceasefire.
Petro Poroshenko also accused Russia of "significantly increasing" its offensive despite the peace agreement reached in Minsk on Thursday.
The US ambassador to Ukraine tweeted a satellite image that he said showed Russian artillery near Debaltseve.
Shelling was heard in the rebel-held city of Donetsk early on Saturday.
Fierce battles are said to be continuing around Debaltseve - a strategic government-held town almost encircled by pro-Russian rebel forces - and outside the southern port city of Mariupol.
The BBC's David Stern in Kiev says that as the clock ticks down to the ceasefire, fears are rising that it won't be observed.
Ukraine's military said on Saturday morning that seven service personnel had been killed and 23 wounded over the past 24 hours.
"Ahead of midnight (time of planned ceasefire) rebels are trying to complete tactically important plans to enlarge the territory under their control," spokesman Andriy Lysenko.
More than a dozen civilians were said to have died in shelling in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions on Friday.
The Ukrainian military and pro-Russian rebels accuse each other of targeting residential areas.

Rebel fighters have continued to besiege the government-held town of Debaltseve

The presidents of France, Russia and Ukraine as well as the German chancellor - who together clinched the agreement in Minsk, the Belarusian capital - are due to discuss the issue by phone over the weekend.
The UN Security Council will also meet in emergency session on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the US has said it is very concerned by reports of heavy weapons coming across the border from Russia.
The US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, also said on Twitter that Russian units along the border were preparing a large shipment of supplies to separatist fighters.
He pointed to satellite images of what he said was Russian artillery north of Debaltseve, taken on Thursday.
'Escalation expected' Correspondents say the fighting shows no sign of stopping.
Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Petro Mekhed said the rebels wanted to "raise their flag" over Debaltseve and Mariupol before the midnight ceasefire (22:00 GMT) kicked in.
"Ukraine is expecting an escalation and taking all necessary measures to be able to respond," Mr Mekhed told reporters.
Ukraine's volunteer Azov battalion said pro-Russian rebels were using artillery and tanks to attack Shyrokyne, a village near Mariupol, on Saturday morning.
The port city lies between rebel-held eastern areas and the southern Crimea peninsula, which was annexed by Russia last March.

A young child was killed in Artemivsk in what the local authorities said was shelling by rebels

Government forces were also reported to have retaken a number of villages around Mariupol

President Poroshenko said despite the agreement there was a "long way to go to peace"

Speaking earlier, President Poroshenko said that despite what had been agreed in Minsk, "Russia's offensive operations have intensified".
"We are still convinced that the Minsk achievements are in a big danger," he added.
'Serious live fire' The group responsible for monitoring the ceasefire said it remained hopeful, despite there being "quite serious live fire" in several areas.
"We feel that the Minsk agreements are really the only available roadmap to a sustainable ceasefire," Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for the OSCE, told the BBC.
In another development, a consignment of armoured vehicles from the UK has been delivered to Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence confirmed.
It said they were out-of-service, unarmed vehicles and were not lethal equipment.

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Troops kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Cameroon

Cameroon’s army has said it killed 143 Boko Haram fighters, with the government saying it is the biggest defeat it has inflicted to date on the Islamist group.

The government spokesman, Issa Bakary, made the announcement on Tuesday in Yaoundé.

Bakary said the insurgents were killed after they attacked a military camp in Kolofata, in the north of Cameroon.

The military initially said 143 Boko Haram fighters had died in over five hours of fighting.

Aljazeeral had reported on Monday, quoting the Cameroonian Communication minster, that the country’s soldiers had killed 300 Boko Haram militants after the terrorists attacked a military base.

Bakary said the battle ended after the army bombed the attackers, forcing them to retreat to the Nigerian border.

“However, Cameroon lost one soldier,” he said.

The Central African country has deployed over 1,000 troops in its far north region, where Boko Haram members frequently enter from Nigeria to launch attacks.

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Mozambique poisoned beer leaves scores dead

Contaminated traditional beer has killed 56 people in Mozambique, health authorities in the southern African country said.
An additional 49 people were admitted to hospitals in the Chitima and Songo districts in the northeastern Tete province, and 146 more people have reported to hospitals to be examined for the poisoning, district health official Alex Albertini told Radio Mozambique.
Those who drank the contaminated brew were attending a funeral in the region on Saturday, Albertini said.
Pombe, a traditional Mozambican beer, is made from millet or corn flour. Authorities believe that the drink was poisoned with crocodile bile during the course of the funeral.
Blood and traditional beer samples were being sent to the capital Maputo to be tested, said provincial health director Carle Mosse.
“We don’t have the capacity to test the samples,” she told Radio Mozambique.
Mosse told Radio Mozambique on Sunday that she expected the situation to worsen because the region did not have the necessary resources to deal with the disaster.
Mourners who drank the beer in the morning reported no illness, while those who drank the beer in the afternoon, fell ill, authorities said. They believe the beer must have been poisoned while funeral goers were at the cemetery.
The woman who brewed the beer is also among the dead.
Police are investigating the incident.
Health authorities have begun collecting food parcels and other items for donation to the affected families.

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Beyoncé Pregnant With Baby No. 2?! See Her Cryptic Beach "Bump" Photo

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On Sunday, the 33-year-old pop star posted a cryptic photo on her Instagram page that suggests that she may be pregnant with baby No. 2! The picture shows Queen Bey lying on a sandy beach, with sand covering her up to her neck and displaying what appears to be a giant baby bump.

No caption was provided and it's unclear when the photo was taken. She and husband Jay Z, 45, have not commented.

The two are parents to daughter Blue Ivy, who just turned 3, and recently vacationed in Cambodia (see pic below) and Thailand.

Bey had said in 2013, in an interview with ABC News, that she "would like more children," adding that she thinks Blue Ivy "needs some company."

A year ago, she told Anderson Cooper that motherhood "just gives you purpose," adding, "I realized why I was born and, more than anything, all of the things I want to pass onto my child and the best way of doing that is not by preaching or telling her but showing her by example."

Bey and Jay tied the knot in April 2008 after about six years of dating. When Beyoncé was pregnant with their little girl, she had revealed her first pregnancy onstage at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards.


The picture was posted hours before another award ceremony, the 2015 Golden Globes in Los Angeles. The two are not expected to attend.

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