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A small plane crashes into a Brazilian town popular with tourists and the number of dead is unclear
A small plane crashed into a Brazilian town that is popular with tourists on Sunday, killing several people, local officials said.Eduardo Leite, governor of Rio Grande do Sul state,...
A race is on to clean up shorelines off Crimea after tons of oil spills from damaged Russian ships
Cleanup continued in the Kerch Strait near Russian-occupied Crimea on Sunday, a week after at least 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken Russian tankers.More...
Iran’s supreme leader predicts new resistance in Syria
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei anticipates a renewed resistance struggle by Syrians against the country's new leadership structures following the overthrow of president Bashar al-Assad."We expect a new...
‘El Gordo’ lottery in Spain spreads Christmas riches worth $2.8 billion
MADRID (AP) — For weeks, Spaniards had anticipated the arrival of “El Gordo” or "The Fat One."But unlike Santa Claus, El Gordo arrived three days before Christmas, before noon...
Another deadly crush in Nigeria at event offering free food
The number of dead from a crowd crush in the south-east town of Okija in Nigeria has risen to 22, police say.It is the third case this week of...
France awaits appointment of new government
President Emmanuel Macron returned to Paris on Sunday after a visit to cyclone-devastated Mayotte and East Africa, as a France racked by political deadlock awaited the appointment of a...
Around 30 reported killed in renewed Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip
Around 30 people have been killed in renewed Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reported on Sunday.Israeli fighter planes had attacked a former school building in the...
Spain’s ‘El Gordo’ lottery begins $2.8 billion draw
Spain's world-famous "El Gordo" Christmas lottery organizers began broadcasting the draw from the Teatro Real opera house in Madrid on Sunday morning, with winnings totalling more than €2.7 billion...
Germany’s populist BSW campaigns on rent freeze platform
Germany's populist party Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), founded by the former far-left leader of the same name, is campaigning in next year's federal elections on a platform of social...
‘Free to kill’ and Reeves ‘the Grinch’
The Sunday People also leads with the Magdeburg attack and alleged missed opportunities by the police. Its front page picture shows the mass of floral tribute laid out in...
Somali piracy 2.0 – the BBC meets the new robbers of the high seas
Two Somali fishermen wearing big scarves over their heads to hide their faces glance around furtively as they walk into the room for a secret meeting to tell me...
Mourners gather in Magdeburg to honour victims of car-ramming attack
More than a thousand people gathered in Magdeburg on Saturday evening to commemorate the victims of the attack on a Christmas market in the central German city a day...