Footage from German broadcaster MDR shows police confronting a man lying on the floor after a car plowed into people at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg. According to Saxony-Anhalt’s Minister President Rainer Haseloff, the suspect is believed to be a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian doctor. Source link
A French court has sentenced eight people to prison for their role in a hate campaign that led to the murder of school teacher Samuel Paty in October 2020. The sentences handed down ranged from three to 16 years. The attack came after social media posts falsely claimed that Patty had shown her students indecent…
A car has crashed into a crowd at a Christmas market in East Germany, according to local media reports. At least one person died and several were injured in the incident in Magdeburg, according to German public broadcaster MDR. The suspected driver of the car has also been arrested, MDR quoted a government spokesperson as…
reuters Ukrainian officials said Moscow had launched a fresh attack on Kiev Russia says six people, including a child, have been killed in a Ukrainian attack in the Kursk region. It came as Ukrainian officials said Moscow launched a fresh missile attack on Kiev, damaging a building that hosts several embassies. In Russia, the acting…
Two men have been arrested in Zambia accused of being “magicians” who were tasked with trying to bewitch the president. Police said they arrested Justen Mabulese Candunde and Leonard Phiri in the capital Lusaka. “Their alleged mission was to use magic to cause harm,” said a police statement released on Friday. Many people in the…
BBC/Ed Habershon Zinedan Mohammed’s family “lost everything” during Cyclone Chido. The night Cyclone Chido struck the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, Zinedine was in his home, a small house made of corrugated iron and wood where he lives with eight of his relatives. Zinedine had received warnings from the authorities about the cyclone, but…
US immigration authorities deported the highest number of undocumented immigrants in nearly a decade last year, surpassing the record set during Donald Trump’s first term in office. More than 271,000 immigrants were deported from the US last fiscal year, according to a report released on Thursday by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency….
At least eight people, including a child, have drowned after a speedboat carrying migrants capsized in the Aegean Sea during a chase with a Greek patrol vessel. The coast guard said the driver of the boat “lost control” while trying to flee the patrol vessel. According to local media reports, the boat was traveling at…
The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has not freed all Syrian prisoners. More than 5,000 detainees are held in al-Sina prison in the north-east of the country, which is under Kurdish control. The prisoners – including some Britons – are suspected fighters and supporters of the so-called Islamic State group. Most are said to have…
The Malaysian government says it has agreed in principle to resume the search for a passenger jet that disappeared 10 years ago in one of aviation’s biggest mysteries. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Efforts to locate the wreckage of the…
