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Jeremiah Adebolajo - the brother of Woolwich suspect Michael - claims he has received "worrying" approaches from MI5 for the past two years while living in Saudi Arabia:

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President Obama called for a one-third reduction of US and Russia deployed nuclear weapons today, saying it was possible to secure American security and a strong deterrent while also limiting nuclear weapons. Speaking from the historic Brandenburg gates in Berlin, he said:

"Peace with justice means pursuing the security of a world without nuclear weapons, no matter how distant that dream may be.

"We can ensure the security of America and our allies and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent while reducing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to one-third."

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• Barack Obama
• Germany

President Obama called for a new "fighting spirit" of citizen activism in the free world, as he renewed calls to reduce US and Russian nuclear stockpiles in a speech at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.

In a wide-ranging address that comes nearly 50 years after John F. Kennedy's famous Cold War speech he said:

"Today's threats are not as stark as they were half a century ago, but the struggle for freedom and security and human dignity, that struggle goes on.

"And I come here to this city of hope because the test of our time demands the same fighting spirit that defined Berlin a half-century ago."

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• Barack Obama
• Angela Merkel

A man from Dudley has been sent to jail for stealing a 4x4 in an attack that left its owner with severe leg injuries.

Chase Edwards, 30, was given seven years and four months for a string of offences including theft, robbery and driving while disqualified and without insurance.

Shocking CCTV footage shows fruit and vegetable seller Stuart Timmins being flung from his 4x4 as he clung on to try to stop Mr Edwards from stealing it.

He was dragged a few hundred metres along the road but as the pick-up accelerated away he realised it was too dangerous to cling on any longer.

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• West Midlands
• Birmingham

A man from Hampshire has been jailed for 11 months after being found guilty of breaching an anti-social behaviour order banning him from being naked in public, minutes after it was issued. Stephen Gough, 53, from Eastleigh was not allowed in court for his trial after he refused to wear any clothes.

He had denied the charge but offered no defence at Portsmouth Crown Court.

Simon Jones, prosecuting, said the naked rights activist left Southampton Magistrates' Court on February 28 after being handed the interim order and walked, wearing just his boots and socks, to the road where he was arrested.

• UK
• Hampshire

A cat's bid to become mayor of the Mexican city of Xalapa, has become a social media phenomenon.

Morris the Cat's campaign was initially started as a joke by a group of friends who were disenfranchised with their local politicians.

However, since its launch with the slogan, "Tired of voting for rats? Vote for a cat", the campaign has gathered momentum.

A Facebook page now more than 131,000 likes, more than any of his human competitors in the election.

The Guardian quotes the cat's owner Sergio Chamorro as saying: "Morris has become an expression of how fed up people are with all the parties and a political system that does not represent us".

Mexico will hold its local elections on 7 July.

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• Mexico