Getty Images A man accused of murdering four women and a nine-year-old boy by driving a car into them at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has been remanded in custody. The 50-year-old man appeared before a judge on Saturday night after the incident on Friday, when a black BMW car plowed […]
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A ferry overloaded with people going home for Christmas capsized on the Busira River in northeastern Congo, leaving 38 people confirmed dead and more than 100 others missing, officials and witnesses said Saturday. Twenty people have been rescued so far. The sinking of the ferry late on Friday came less than four days after another
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In 2022 I quit my job to fulfill my lifelong dream of traveling the world full time for a year and a half. My trip through 12 countries in Asia and six in South America cost exactly $34,563.38. i remained pedantic about one thing from start to finish: I tracked every penny I spent, from
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A US primary school student has been hailed a hero after saving a classmate from choking on grapes. Eight-year-old Thomas Conley was sitting next to Isaiah Rodriguez in the Porter Elementary School cafeteria when he noticed the medical emergency. Video from the hall in Mesa, Arizona, shows Thomas performing the life-saving Heimlich maneuver on his
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has approved a bipartisan federal expense account early Saturday morning that prevented a government shutdown and marked the end of a chaotic, high-stakes week in Congress. The bill authorizes continued federal government funding at current levels for three months and provides additional disaster relief and farm assistance. The House of
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The Democratic-controlled US Senate voted to pass a budget deal to avert what would have been the first shutdown of the US federal government since 2019. ago, just hours after the House of Representatives approved the same legislation. The budget deal was passed shortly after the midnight deadline. It does not include a request by
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The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives passed legislation on Friday that would prevent a midnight government shutdown, defying President-elect Donald Trump’s request to also greenlight trillions of dollars in new debt. The Democratic-controlled Senate must then pass the bill to ensure the US government will be funded after midnight, when current funding runs out. If
Omer Taha Cetin | Anatolia | Getty Images Bitcoin fell sharply on Friday amid broader investor wariness of risk assets. Bitcoin fell below the $93,000 mark earlier in the day before trading above that price in volatile trading. The digital asset last traded at $97,491.71, according to Coin Metrics, down about 5% from 24 hours
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A seven-year-old child has been killed and other children injured in a stabbing at a primary school in Croatia. The country’s health minister said a teacher was also injured in the knife attack in Zagreb on Friday. The alleged attacker, a 19-year-old man and former student, was arrested at the scene, local media reported. Pictures
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Top US diplomats from the Biden administration are in Damascus on Friday to meet with the new Syrian government led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a State Department spokesman said, the first face-to-face and official meeting between Washington and the de facto new Syrian rulers. Diplomats will also seek information on the whereabouts of missing
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