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Dog foils great escape A dog, out for a morning walk with its owner on the Greek island of Corfu, detected prison inmates digging a tunnel under his paws, the ANA news agency reported. The dog froze, clearly cocking an ear to suspicious sounds below and refusing to budge, until finally its anxious owner decided to call the police. Sure enough, the doggy detective led the cops to discover a tunnel already several metres long — reported to have begun from Corfu Prison’s B wing — and the prisoners who were digging it. Battery-powered fans and plastic containers of food were also found, the Guardian newspaper reported. Twenty-one convicts in jail serving long sentences or life terms are held in the wing for serious offenders. The same prison could have used the dog’s help in 1996, when several dozen inmates escaped using an old tunnel dug by the English when the tourist island was a British protectorate from 1814 to 1864. Egyptian pounds ($39,000) and a maximum of 500,000 pounds for anyone who strays from government statements in publishing or spreading “false” reports on attacks or security operations against militants. The Government had sped up the passage of the law after the state prosecutor was assassinated in a car bombing in June, followed by a jihadist attack in the Sinai Peninsula days later. Africa The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram has denied he’s been killed or ousted as chief of the jihadist group in an audio recording attributed to him by security experts. In the eight-minute Hausa-language message, Abubakar Shekau rebuffed claims by Chadian leader Idriss Deby that he had been replaced and called the president a “hypocrite” and a “tyrant”.