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«Andrea and I arrived on November 8th together with a 40-foot container loaded with food for the families and children of Congo. We were supposed to stay until the end of December but he returned to Italy first because he had to close a company by the end of the year. Congo, the dead man’s partner: “We are traveling to the Equator, now he is patient zero” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/18/news/congo_febbre_emorragica_la_compagna_dell_uomo_morto_a_treviso-423893556/?rss

Russia’s security service (FSB) has detained a 29-year-old man from Uzbekistan in connection with the assassination of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces.

Canada has unveiled a robust new plan to enhance security along its border with the United States, pledging strengthened surveillance and the creation of a joint “strike force” to combat transnational organised crime.

Two raids by the financial police in the Port Authority, passed almost in silence, certify that the investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Eppo (European Public Prosecutor’s Office), on the Genoa dam is in full swing. The financiers of the group that works exclusively for Eppo in the Turin office showed up at Palazzo San Giorgio on 10 October and 11 November to acquire various folders of documentation, partly downloaded from some computers and IT media. Dam, financial blitz in the Port Authority: the European Prosecutor’s Office investigates for disturbance https://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/18/news/diga_blitz_della_finanza_in_autorita_portuale_genova_la_procura_europea_eppo_indaga_per_turbativa-423892989/?rss

The tragic school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, that claimed the lives of a teacher and a student and left six others wounded, appears to have been driven by a “combination of factors,” according to Police Chief Shon Barnes.

Trump’s transition team eyes expansion of ankle monitors for illegal immigrants not in custody EXCLUSIVE: The Trump transition team is considering a significant expansion of the way ankle-worn GPS monitors are used to track illegal immigrants who are not in federal immigration detention, Fox News Digital has learned. President-elect Trump has pledged to launch a mass deportation operation once sworn into office, and his transition team has already been engaged in planning to make that happen. Multiple sources familiar with discussions told Fox News Digital the priority for the incoming administration is the detention and deportation of illegal immigrants along…

Motorists and commuters in parts of the UK are urged to be aware of difficult travel conditions on Wednesday morning with two yellow warnings for wind in force.The Met Office said gusts of up to 65mph could lead to road, rail, air and ferry delays, with those in affected areas advised to anticipate longer journeys and pay extra attention to road conditions.A warning covering large parts of northern England, including Sheffield and Leeds, and a small area of southern Scotland is in place from 3am to 2pm on Wednesday.Forecasters said gusts of 50-60mph are possible and potentially higher in more…

Casualty figures from the earthquake which hit Vanuatu are expected with damage expected to hamper aid efforts.At least 14 people died following Tuesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake, which caused widespread damage and injured hundreds of people across the South Pacific island nation, officials said on Wednesday, with the figure expected to rise.Speaking from Fiji, the Asia-Pacific head of the International Federation of Red Cross’ Katie Greenwood said it was not clear how many people were still missing.“We have anecdotal information coming from people at the search and rescue site that are fairly confident that unfortunately those numbers will rise,” she said,…

French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, imprisoned by Algerian authorities on national security charges, was again hospitalized on Monday, December 16, according to his French editor, raising fears about the 75-year-old’s health in detention. Sansal, a major figure in modern francophone literature, was arrested on November 16 at the Algiers airport at a time of growing tensions between France and its former colony. “We have just learned, this morning, that at his request he was today again taken into a penitentiary care unit,” Antoine Gallimard, head of the Gallimard editing house, told several hundred people who attended a support meeting at a…

Survivors wandered through streets littered with debris, searching for water and shelter, after Cyclone Chido leveled entire neighborhoods on December 14, 2024. AP France said it will impose a nighttime curfew on the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte starting on the evening of Tuesday, December 17, after the French overseas territory was devastated by a cyclone feared to have killed hundreds. The French military said it is sending four to five planes a day with up to 50 tons of assistance, including food, water and medicine. Hundreds of military personnel have arrived since the weekend in Mayotte, an island group…