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German police arrest 120 in anti-coal demonstrations

  Proschim / AP German police said on Sunday they arrested 120 people following violent clashes between environmental activists and security personnel at anti-coal demonstrations in the east of the country. A police spokeswoman said the clashes occurred on Saturday in Lausitz when around 300 demonstrators forced their way into the Schwarze Pumpe coal-fired power station belonging to Swedish state-owned ...

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5 get life for terror offences in Australia

Sydney / AFP Five young men face life behind bars after they were charged with terrorism offences over a plan to sail to Indonesia to join extremist groups in Syria, Australian police said. The men, aged in their twenties and early thirties and whose passports had been cancelled, included notorious Australian Islamic preacher Musa Cerantonio, who was detained in the ...

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Gambia, Senegal hold border blockade talks

  Karang/ AFP Senegal and The Gambia will hold talks on Sunday aimed at ending a three-month border blockade that has created shortages of essential daily items on both sides of the frontier. Gambian authorities slapped a hundred-fold hike on fees for trucks entering its territory—which is completely surrounded by Senegal—without warning in February, infuriating Senegalese drivers who are now ...

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