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After the carnage at the Magdeburg Christmas market, there are now questions about whether something was missed.Could the man accused of killing five and injuring more than 200 others have been stopped? The questions come after it was revealed Taleb A, as he's being called by German media, had been flagged to authorities before.A doctor from Saudi Arabia, he moved to Germany in 2006.German Christmas market attack - latest updates […]

A small plane has crashed into a popular Brazilian tourist town, killing all 10 people on board, according to officials. More than a dozen people on the ground were also injured when the aircraft came down in the centre of Gramado in the south of the country on Sunday, Brazil's civil defence agency said. In a post on X, the agency said the plane hit the chimney of a home […]

A US fighter jet has been shot down after it was mistakenly hit by an American missile cruiser over the Red Sea.Both pilots in the aircraft ejected and were rescued - one of them had minor injuries. An investigation is under way after what the US military described as an "apparent case of friendly fire".It is believed to be the most serious incident to threaten US troops in more than […]

As we stare at a bullet-ridden wall, two young Palestinian boys stand behind us on a stoop and look on in fearful awe."It's the military," one boy in a beige hoodie tells his friend. His friend stares at the wall with wide eyes and gives a little nod.Balata camp in Nablus, the commercial centre of the West Bank, has just come out of a two-day Israel Defence Forces (IDF) raid […]

A memorial service has taken place in Magdeburg, Germany, for the victims of a Christmas market attack.At least five people were killed and more than 200 others injured when a car ploughed into crowds shopping on Friday evening. Image: Chancellor Olaf Scholz (C) and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) at the memorial service. Pic: AP Among those attending the service in the city's cathedral was Chancellor Olaf Scholz, interior minister […]

Syrian and Russian forces unleashed all they could on eastern Aleppo. For four years they battled to bring Syria's second city under Bashar al Assad's full control.By December 2016 when the regime finally ceased fire after a devastating siege and bombardment, civilian life there was all but extinguished. Dr Obeid Diab wants to show us what it looks like when a barrel bomb hits.We bump into him on the street, […]

The US says it has killed Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Yusif in Syria.US Central Command Forces (Centcom) said it carried out an airstrike targeting Yusif - who also goes by Mahmud - in the eastern province of Deir ez Zor. They said the area was previously controlled by the Syrian regime and Russian forces before the recent fall of Bashar al Assad.Another IS operative was also killed in the […]

The doors of the white van are thrown open. Dozens of armed French police jump on board, their colleagues on the ground form a human chain and get to work.The van is carrying precious cargo. Water. Small plastic bottles stacked roof high and van deep. It's chaotic.Orders are being shouted in French and Chimaore, the language spoken by Mayotte's African community.Security is high. The gendarmes are backed up by armed […]

The moment the suspect in a fatal attack on a German Christmas market was arrested has been captured on video by a passer-by.At least two people were killed, including a small child, and dozens of others injured when a car was "driven at speed" into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, according to local officials.Officials say the suspect is a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who first came to Germany […]