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Police officer dressed as the Grinch leads drug raid in Peru
An undercover police officer wearing a Grinch costume has carried out a drug raid in Lima, Peru. Video distributed by the national police agency shows officers smashing a door in before entering a house. Three people were arrested and several small packets of cocaine were found during the raid, police said. The police unit in…
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Syria’s minorities seek security as country charts new future
Aamir Peerzada In Damascus, members of Assad’s Alawite sect now fear reprisals Driving into Mezzeh 86, a working-class neighbourhood in the west of Damascus, we are waved through a checkpoint manned by fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Buildings are rundown and in need of repairs. This area is dominated by people from Bashar al-Assad’s…
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Dozens killed in Israeli strikes, Gaza officials say
At least 28 people, including children, have died in a wave of Israeli military strikes throughout the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency. A school sheltering displaced families was among the facilities struck, killing eight people including four children over the weekend, the agency said. It comes as the UN issues a plea…
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Saudis say warnings about market attack suspect were ignored
The Saudi authorities, I am told, are currently working flat out to collate everything they have on the Magdeburg market suspect, Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, and to share it with Germany’s ongoing investigation “in every way possible”. Inside the imposing sand coloured and fortress-like walls of the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh there is a…
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Tributes to nine-year-old killed in Christmas market attack
A local fire brigade has paid tribute to a nine-year-old killed in an attack on a German Christmas market. André Gleißner died after a car drove into a crowd of shoppers at the market in Magdeburg on Friday evening, according to the Schöppenstedt fire department. In a statement they said he was a member of…
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Cyclone Chido kills 94 people in Mozambique
Reuters Cyclone Chido has killed 94 people in Mozambique since it made landfall in the east African country last week, local authorities have said. The country’s National Institute of Risk and Disaster Management (INGD) said 768 people were injured and more than 622,000 people affected by the natural disaster in some capacity. Chido hit Mozambique…
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Market attack suspect in custody amid anger over security lapses
A suspect has appeared in court after an attack on a German Christmas market on Friday killed five people and injured more than 200 others. The suspect, a doctor from Saudi Arabia, has been named as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, who arrived in Germany in 2006 and was recognised as a refugee in 2016. It comes as…
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Nigeria suffers another deadly crush at event offering free food
The number of dead from a crowd crush in the south-east town of Okija in Nigeria has risen to 22, police say. It is the third case this week of people being crushed to death at events where free food was being distributed. The fatalities in Okija occurred at a charity event on Saturday, when…
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Sadness and anger in Magdeburg after Christmas market attack
EPA Authorities are still trying to understand why the suspect carried out the deadly attack Magdeburg’s Christmas market is a sad sight. This should have been the busiest weekend of the season, but the whole area has been cordoned off and all the stands are shut. Police are the only people walking around the boarded-up…
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Police probe security and warnings
EPA German authorities are facing the public’s grief and anger in Magdeburg after an attacker used an access lane for emergency vehicles to drive into a Christmas market, killing five people and injuring more than 200. On a visit on Saturday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, ministers and regional political leaders were heckled by members of…
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