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The Turkish military says it warned a Syrianwarplane four times as it was approaching Turkey'sair space before shooting it down earlier today. TheTurkish General Staff said in a statement that thesecond Syrian plane heeded 1 the warnings and turned back. Prime Minister Recep TayyipErdogan had earlier said Ankara would react forcefully to what he called any furtherincursions.James Reynolds reports.

“Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a rally in Istanbul that Turkish F-16s hit a Syrian warplane after itviolated Turkish airspace. If you violate our airspace, our slap after this will be hard, Mr.Erdogan told his supporters. One report from Damascus says that Syria condemns 2 Turkishaction as a flagrant act of aggression 3. The governments of Turkey and Syria have been onopposite sides of Syria's war since October 2011. Over the last year and a half, there have beena number of incidents along their 900km long border.”

Exit polls in France showed the Socialists 5 of President Francios Hollande are behind thecentre-right opposition 6 UMP in the first round of municipal elections. The anti-immigrationNational Front makes significant gains as Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.

“It is in rather well that we need keeping things in proportion. It's certainly may begins, and ina number towns, I’m secured places like Frejus, Perpignan, Avignon, it's made the spectacularsuccess of actually coming out first in this first round of voting. The reason for that was nosecret that there is a growing aspiration 7 in France with the two main parties, the UMP and theruling Socialist 4. We do need to keep some sense of proportion knowing all this. The chances ofwinning many towns, control many towns are very, very small. This is a two-round electionthat we get.”

The NATO Supreme 8 Military Commander has warned that the Russian military presence alongthe eastern Ukrainian border poses a threat to both sides of the country. Speaking inBrussels, General Philip Breedlove said the Russian buildup was big enough to threaten notjust eastern Ukrainian but also a Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria.

“The force that is at Ukrainian border now to the east is very, very sizable and very, veryready. We need to think about the positioning of our forces such that we can defend against itif required, especially in the Baltics.”

In a BBC's interview, Ukraine's acting 9 Deputy Defence Minister said that Ukraine hoped theWest support would extend to joint 10 military exercises and safeguarding Ukraine’s nuclearpower stations. He said such international efforts would help preclude 11 a fully-fledged war withRussia.

Afghan officials say a recent attack on a Kabul luxury hotel that left nine civilians 12 dead wasplanned by foreign intelligence services. Correspondents say the statement is seen as a veiledreference to Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI. Four teenage gunmen fired indiscriminately ondinners at the hotel's restaurant.

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Three people have been killed in a landslide 13 in the foothills of the Cascade 14 Mountains in the USstate of Washington, 30 homes were destroyed. Seven people have been injured and around18 are missing. Rescuers are trying to find survivors 15 in the thick mud that covers an area ofmore than 2.5 square kilometres.

Police in Nigeria have discovered what local media are calling a house of horrors in thesouthwestern city of Ibadan with decomposing 16 corpses 17, human skulls 18 and other body parts,several extremely malnourished people were found nearby, and local media reported that about15 people were discovered in chains. Tomi Oladipo reports from Lagos.

“Local media have referred to the building where the bodies were found as a house of horror. Agroup of commercial motorcyclists in the southwestern city of Ibadan had called for a policeinvestigation after several of their colleagues went missing. A search party, then found anabandoned building, and in it, skeletons, decomposing bodies and body parts on thebloodstained floors. A police spokesperson says several people have been arrested inconnection with the case as the investigations 19 continue.”

Venezuela's Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz says the authorities are investigating 60 casesover alleged 20 human rights abuses during recent street protests. Mr. Ortega said six securityagencies were among the 31 people killed in the violence, more than 450 people have beeninjured. The street protests started in mid 21 February with angry students that quickly became anear daily feature in opposition strongholds around Caracas and in other parts of Venezuela.

Adolfo Suarez, Spain's first democratically elected Prime Minister of the post-Franco era, hasdied at the age of 81. A democrat 22 and consensus 23 builder, Adolfo Suarez was handpicked in1976 by King Juan Carlos after the death of General Franco to steer 24 the country towards theparliamentary democracy. A year later, he won Spain's first free elections for more than 40years. King Juan Carlos's today paid tribute to an exceptional colleague.