A man suspected of ploughing a car through crowds at a German Christmas market in an attack that killed five people and injured scores faces multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, police said on Sunday.
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The Philippines is known for its monthslong Christmas celebrations starting in September. The heavily Catholic country of nearly 120 million people is serious about the festive season. However, this time of year has recently taken a much more somber tone for many Filipino families. Estrella Pagarigan had decorated her home with recycled bamboo and plastic bottle parols for the holidays, …
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Members of the president-elect’s team reportedly plan to announce a withdrawal from the UN health agency on January 20 The transition team of US President-elect Donald Trump hopes to pull the country out of the World Health Organization (WHO) the first day of the new administration, thus cutting one of the agency’s major cash flows, the Financial Times (FT) has …
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Maria Aparecida dos Anjos points to where the stream, now reduced to a trickle of water, reaches when flooded in the community of Santa Helena do Inglês, one of the riverside towns along the Rio Negro, a large tributary of the Amazon, in Brazil by Mario Osava (manaus, brazil) Friday, December 20, 2024 Inter Press Service MANAUS, Brazil, Dec 20 (IPS) …
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My grandfather, Hamdi, was just eight when his family fled Bir al-Sabaa, a town in southern Palestine once known for its fertile land and agricultural life. His father, Abdelraouf, was a farmer who owned nearly 1,000 dunams of land and cultivated wheat, selling the harvest to merchants in Gaza. The family had a happy and comfortable life. In October 1948, …
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Reuters On Friday evening, a man ploughed a car into a crowd of shoppers at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg. The attack killed five people, including a nine-year-old child, and left more than 200 injured, with many in a critical condition. A judge has ordered the pre-trial detention of a 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of …
Read More »A U.S. Navy ship mistakenly fired at the F/A-18, whose two pilots were safely recovered, the military said.
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Models trained on larger pools of data outside of permissively licensed open source code can provide superior performance, but enterprises using them run the risk of running afoul of IP and copyright violations, Tabnine president Peter Guagenti said. The Code Provenance and Attribution capability addresses this tradeoff and increases productivity while not sacrificing compliance, according to Guagenti. And, with copyright …
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Donald Trump has named the producer behind The Apprentice as his special envoy to the UK. The president-elect said Mark Burnett would bring “a unique blend of diplomatic acumen and international recognition” to the role. British producer Mr Burnett helped build Mr Trump’s profile, but distanced himself from the tycoon during the 2016 presidential contest. Mark Burnett and wife Roma …
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This year, people voted in countries that were home to almost half the world’s population. In desert villages and at huge rallies on five continents, the elections took place at a time of global unrest, with conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East,
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