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Italy

Fears online sex tape shame prompted suicide

An Italian woman who was subjected to online abuse after an explicit video of her went viral has killed herself.

Sport

Russia denies involvement in WADA hack

Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko has firmly denied that his government had something to do with the recent hacking of the World Anti doping agency’s database that resulted in the confidential medi

Mexico

Mexico widens scope of investigation into 43 missing students

Mexico’s special prosecutor in the suspected massacre of 43 students in 2014 is now to examine the role of federal and state police.

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Spain: Four dead after train derails

A passenger train derailed in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region, killing four people and injuring 47 others who were taken to hospitals, authorities said.

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United Kingdom

Julian Assange criticises timing of Swedish news conference

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has criticised the timing of a news conference held by the Swedish prosecutor.

World News

Italy plans rebuild of quake-hit towns

Drone footage of Amatrice shows how easily the buildings crumbled when an earthquake rocked central Italy on August 24th killing 294 people.

Sport

German football legend Beckenbauer investigated over 2006 World Cup

Swiss authorities have opened criminal proceedings against German soccer great Franz Beckenbauer and two former presidents of Germany’s football federation (DFB) in connection with its successful bid

United Kingdom

UK: 'Hate crime' murder probe after Polish man is killed

A sixth teenager arrested on suspicion of murdering a Polish man in southeast England has been freed on bail in what police believe may have been a hate crime.

Belgium

Attack on Brussels forensic lab 'probably arson'

A fire at a top forensic crime lab in Brussels was probably arson aimed at destroying evidence rather than terrorism, investigators have said.

Ireland

Irish Olympic staff passports seized, as ticket-scalping probe widens

Brazil

Rio police say US swimmers made up robbery claim

Four US swimmers who said they were robbed at gunpoint made up the story police say to cover up a vandalism incident.

Germany

Police in Magdeburg, Germany searching for knife attacker

Police in Magdeburg, Germany are looking for a knife-attacker went on a rampage, attacking several people.

United Kingdom

London attack: Russell Square suspect is a Norwegian of Somali origin

A 19-year-old Norwegian man of Somali ancestry remains in police custody in London on suspicion of murdering an American woman in her 60s after a deadly assault in Russell Square last…

Turkey

President Erdogan apologises for not seeing 'true face' of coup plotters

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has issued an apology for his former alliance with the Gulenist movement, suspected of orchestrating last month’s attempted coup…

World News

Head of Australian inquiry into abuse of aboriginal boys quits

The head of an Australian inquiry into aboriginal boys being abused in detention has resigned.

USA

Sixteen killed in Texas hot air balloon crash, says police

Police in Texas say 16 people have been killed after a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed.

World News

Australian PM resists calls to broaden inquiry into youth detention centre abuses

Australia is reeling after footage was aired on TV showing guards tear-gassing teenage inmates of a detention centre and strapping a half-naked, hooded boy to a chair.

France

Normandy church assailant identified as Adel Kermiche

One of the two Normandy church knifemen has been formally identified as Adel Kermiche, according to the Paris prosecutor leading the investigation.

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Cambodians mourn beloved activist

Tens of thousands gathered on Sunday (July 24) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to join a funeral procession taking the body of assassinated government critic Kem Ley to his hometown in Takeo…

Germany

Munich gunman planned had been planning attack 'for a year'

The teenage gunman who killed nine people and wounded 35 more in Munich on Friday had been planning the attack for a year.