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Germany raids target Islamist group linked to Berlin market attacker
Police conducted raids in the German capital and surrounding region on Thursday targeting a Islamist group that has been linked to the Berlin Christmas market attacker. The group was described by Andreas Geisel, the city's state interior minister, as a successor organization to the Fussilet mosque, which was forced to close in 2017 and where Anis Amri, a terrorist who rammed a hijacked truck into crowds in December 2016, had frequented. With its around 20 members, Jama'atu Berlin advocated for armed jihad, attacks on civilians and suicide bombings, Geisel told reporters following the raids. Th...
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After Domingo German’s unclear apology, his teammates make clear demands
Domingo German began his first public appearance with the Yankees since assaulting his girlfriend with an apology. “To the Steinbrenner family, my teammates, the front office,” he began in a statement translated by Marlon Abreu, before saying, “those around me who love me,” the pitcher’s closest allusion to his girlfriend. German’s statement grieved the incidental consequences of his behavior towards his girlfriend suffered by his teammates and employers, including the administrative leave and lengthy suspension that cost him consecutive playoff runs. German promised he would improve his condu...
New York Daily News
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Martha Stewart says #MeToo Movement has been ‘really painful for me’
Martha Stewart has mixed feeling feelings about the #MeToo movement. Although she’s faced her share of misogyny, the doyenne of domesticity said the flourishing social movement against sexual misconduct and abuse has been a complicated issue for her. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Stewart revealed that getting ahead in the business during the time she came up in meant she had to compartmentalize the bad behavior. “You had to keep your cool and just do your thing, and brush them away,” explained the 79-year-old lifestyle guru, who got her start by modeling in her teens and 20s and workin...
New York Daily News
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Marcus Hayes: Phillies should cut Odubel Herrera while they still can
PHILADELPHIA — Hand print markings on his girlfriend’s neck. I can’t get past it. That phrase chills me today as much as it chilled me in May of 2019. It comes from the police report concerning the domestic violence incident between burly Phillies outfielder Odubel Herrera and his petite girlfriend, Melany Martinez-Angulo at an Atlantic City casino. Herrera somehow remains a Phillie. He’s at spring training right now. I want him gone. Why? Try this. Put your hand around your own neck. Now squeeze. Harder. Hard enough to leave a mark. Now close your eyes. Imagine that hand belongs to a man nick...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Prosecutors drop DWI charges against Bruce Springsteen
New Jersey federal prosecutors dropped a DWI charge Wednesday against rocker Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen was cleared during his 11 a.m. remote appearance before Newark Federal Court Judge Anthony R. Mautone, where the Boss and his lawyer attended remotely. The session drew more than 125 media members, with Springsteen pleading to a single count of consuming alcoholic beverages hear a New Jersey beach. Springsteen was arrested on the afternoon of Nov. 14 at the Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, N.J., just 12 miles from his Jersey home, after he admitted knocking back a pair of ...
New York Daily News
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Prosecutors drop DWI charges Bruce Springsteen
New Jersey federal prosecutors dropped a DWI charge Wednesday against rocker Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen was cleared during his 11 a.m. remote appearance before Newark Federal Court Judge Anthony R. Mautone, where the Boss and his lawyer attended remotely. The session drew more than 125 media members, with Springsteen pleading to a single count of consuming alcoholic beverages hear a New Jersey beach. Springsteen was arrested on the afternoon of Nov. 14 at the Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, N.J., just 12 miles from his Jersey home, after he admitted knocking back a pair of ...
New York Daily News
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German authorities seize 16 tons of cocaine in massive drug bust
German authorities have discovered more than 16 tons of cocaine in five containers that were shipped from Paraguay. The drugs were found on February 12 and constitute the largest cocaine seizure in European history, customs officials said on Wednesday. Underneath cans of real goods, authorities came across metal canisters weighing 20 kilograms, each containing eight cocaine packages weighing more than 9 kilograms apiece. There were more than 1,700 cans filled with drugs. As part of the same investigation, authorities in the Belgian port city of Antwerp seized more than 7.2 tons on Sunday. A ma...
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Police deployed after demonstrators occupy Greek consulate in Berlin
A handful of people forced their way into the Greek consulate in Berlin on Wednesday, prompting staff to call police, authorities in the German capital said. The protesters refused to leave the building voluntarily, a police spokesman said. Eight men and a woman were removed from the premises and police declared the incident over by the early afternoon. Further details on the incident were not given. Hard-left activists had called online for a protest at the consulate in support of Dimitris Koufontinas, a member of the Revolutionary Organization 17 November guerilla group, who has been on hung...
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More than 70 killed in mutinies at three prisons in Ecuador
More than 70 people were killed in three prison mutinies carried out by criminal organizations in Ecuador, the country's prisons authority said on Tuesday. The National Service of Attention to People Deprived of Liberty (SNAI) said it registered a further 13 casualties, bringing the total death toll to 75 as it continued to collect information about violence at the three compounds. Some members of staff were injured in the disorder but none were among the dead, SNAI director Edmundo Moncayo said in a press conference earlier in the day. There had earlier been conflicting information about the ...
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In civil lawsuit, mother alleges conspiracy to protect Ahmaud Arbery's killers
ATLANTA — Racism, alleges a new federal civil rights lawsuit, played a pivotal role in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. The cover-up that followed was nearly as sinister, claims the complaint, filed on behalf of Arbery’s mother. Wanda Cooper-Jones’ suit, which seeks more than $1 million in damages, comes one year to the day of her son’s death. Defendants include the three men, Greg McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan, charged with felony murder for chasing down and killing the 25-year-old as he ran through their subdivision just south of Brunswick. Their deadly pursuit s...
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