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  The British prime minister David Cameron has announced new measures to make it harder forpeople to hide the proceeds of corruption in offshore accounts. Most British overseasterritories that had tax havens will now share information with the UK authorities. The primeminister has been under pressure since it emerged that he used to hold shares in an offshoretrust. Rob Watson reports. After days of damaging headlines and much insinuation andspeculation on social media, David Cameron mounted a typically robust defense of hispersonal tax affairs and the record of his government. He has done nothing wrong and hisgovernment would be improving both the transparency and scrutiny of financial masses in theUK's oversea territories.

  American health officials have warned that the spread of the impact of the Zika virus in theUnited States is far wider that they had anticipated. Anne Schuchat of the Center for DiseaseControl and Prevention said the virus has been linked to a broad range of birth defects andthat pregnant women were vulnerable to contracting the disease for longer than previouslythought. We absolutely need to be ready. Everything we look at with this virus seems to be abit scarier than we initially thought. So we absolutely hope we don't see wide spread localtransmit in the continental US. We need the states to be ready for that. We cannot assumewe're not going to have a big problem. We know with other viruses we've had bigger problemsand we expect it. So we're taking it very seriously.

  Brazilian congressional committee is debating whether to recommend the impeachment ofpresident Dilma Rousseff over allegations that she manipulated government accounts to hide adeficit. President Rousseff has denied the allegations and urges the allegations do notconstitute a impeachable offense. A simple majority is needed to go to the next stage ofvoting the lower house of congress later this week. An opposition politician said the currentgovernment was paralyzed and that the impeachment was the only way forward. We hope theimpeachment is important to Brazilian society and that we can have change. And with thischange, we can really begin to look to the future and to the light at the end of the tunnelbecause this presidency, if it remains in power, it won't be in condition to govern. That's thetragedy of the administration we're seeing in our country today.

  The Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta has said he will personally ensure that his country passesanti-doping legislation well before the deadline set by the World Anti-doping Agency nextmonth. Mr Kenyatta said he would not give people an excuse to ban Kenyan runners from theRio Olympic Games in August. He said he wanted them to win but to win fairly. World news fromthe BBC.

  A former senior executive at world's football governing body has pleaded guilty to fourcharges of corruption. The former vice president of FIFA Alfredo Hawit told a judge in theUnited States that he had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. The paymentswere linked to marketing and broadcast rights for tournament and matches. He faces a prisonsentence of up to 20 years for each count.

  Pirates have attacked Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria, kidnapping six of the crew.The vessel was carrying chemicals. Martin Patience is in Lagos. The pirates attacked the shiplate at night as it was traveling through the oil-rich Niger Delta. The Nigerian navy says thevessel's captain and the chief engineer were among those kidnapped. The ship's Turkish ownerssay none of the crew was injured in that attack but that they have no information on theirwhereabouts. Nigeria's coast areas are increasingly becoming a hot spot for piracy.

  Colombia has doubled to nearly 1 million dollars of award for information leading to the captureof a criminal gang leader. President Juan Manuel Santos says security forces will be hunting forDario Antonio Usuga. Police say the Usuga clan has ties with Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and it wasresponsible for smuggling hundreds of thousands of dollars of cocaine out of Colombia eachyear. Experts predicted that gang crime is likely to become Colombia's biggest securitychallenge as the country's long standing conflict with left-wing rebels winds down.

  Artificial intelligence experts have warned that technology allowing a preprogrammed robot toshoot or kill with no human involvement is years rather than decades away. A report byHuman rights Watch in the Harvard Law School calls for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons,sometimes known as killers robots. They say human controller should remain in charge ofweapons during combat in order to save lives and to comply with international law. BBC news.

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