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Polish man dies after Strasbourg attack A Polish man who was critically wounded during aterror attack at a Christmas marketin the French city of Strasbourg died from his injuries on Sunday. Barto Orent-Niedzielski was the fifth fatality from last weekʼs mass shooting. "My brother Barto Pedro Orent-Niedzielski has just passed away. He thanks you for the love and strength you have given him," the brother of the 36-year-old Polish-born victim wrote on Facebook. Orent-Niedzielski and his Italian friend Antonio Megalizzi had blocked the attacker from entering a concert venue during Tuesdayʼs assault. When they saw the attacker, they reportedly rushed to stop him. Megalizzi, 28, died from his injuries on Friday. Orent-Niedzielski and Megalizzi have been credited with preventing a massacre on the scale of the 2015 Paris attackwhen 90 people lost their lives at the Bataclan.
United Nations refugee compact: What you need to know After two years of intense negotiations, the United Nations General Assembly is due on Monday to adopt a new refugee accord in an attempt to better manage those seeking international refuge in the wake of the 2015/2016 European migrant crisis. The UN refugee compact contains a set of measures to help host nations, whose public services and infrastructure often struggle to cope with the increased burden of supporting people displaced by conflict, persecution and natural disasters. The nonbinding compact also encourages solutions that help refugees become self-reliant in their host countries, and that improve conditions in countries of origin to allow their safe and dignified return.
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Saudi Arabia slams US resolution blaming crown prince for Khashoggi murder Riyadh has accused Washington of undermining its sovereignty
Saudi Arabia has rejected a resolution by the US Senate directly blaming Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
Greeceʼs debt crisis leaves nation hungry and children malnourished Freed from the strict orders of international creditors, Greece is now witnessing a financial recovery. But years of biting budget cuts have left the country scarred and many Greeks starving. Itʼs nearly noon and the main fish shop in the city of Marathon is empty. "No one has set foot inside," says Maria Hasiotou, sitting and smoking by the till. "If they havenʼt come in so far, they probably wonʼt come at all." "Itʼs probably another day of beans or pasta," she huffs, strutting to a sprawling stand in the front of her shop covering three containers of fresh fish, mainly sardines and sea breams. Hardship in Greece is surfac-
ing in ways that few would have ever foreseen. And, hunger and undernourishment are now part of that specter. A study released recently by the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute has sent shock waves across the country, showing that children have been hit hardest by the eightyear financial crisis that has wrecked Greece, leaving 25 percent of the working population here without a job. Thatʼs four times more than before the onset of the crisis in 2009, when Greeceʼs economy skid off the fiscal cliff ,forcing the country to sign up to a string of international bailouts— the biggest and toughest in financial history.
Largest David Lynch retrospective to date on show in Maastricht Most people associate the name David Lynch with bizarre movies that dive deeper into the subconscious than many might be comfortable with. Award-winning films like Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet or the cult TV series Twin Peaks have become synonymous with the director, epitomizing his unmistakably disturbing style exploring what lurks underneath the surface of American society. Still David Lynch is not only a film director but
also an accomplished artist, whose paintings, sketches, sculptures, photographs, video installations and mixed media works have been shown around the world. The Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht now brings Lynchʼs work as an artist to The Netherlands for the first time. The works shown at the exhibition "David Lynch: Someone is in my house" span from Lynchʼs childhood in the 1950s to his most recent work from 2018.
British kingpin drug smuggler Robert Dawes on trial in Paris The record drugs haul at Parisʼ Charles de Gaulle airport in September 2013 was the start of a combined operation by French, Spanish and British police which led to the arrest of 46-year-old Dawes at his home on the Costa del Sol in Spain in November 2015. He was then extradited to France for trial. Dawesʼ trial began at the Cour dʼAssises (Assizes Court) in the French capital last week where he is appearing with two other Britons and three Italians. They face up to 30 years in prison and fines of €7.5 million ($8.4 million) if convicted. Spanish police have accused Dawes of leading the biggest criminal organization in Europe devoted to drug trafficking, money laundering and murder. Testifying at the trial last week, Robert Hickinbottom of Britainʼs National Crime Agency said Dawes was suspected of being involved in the 2002 murder of a teacher in the Netherlands, of money-laundering in the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland, and dealings with Colombian drug cartels.
German police shoot dead 74-year-old man Police in Bochum fatally shot a 74year-old man on Sunday in a rare instance where law enforcement officers discharged their firearms. Police were called to an apartment building on the southern side of the city at 7:50 p.m. local time (1850 UTC), a spokesman for the Bochum police told DW, but said the original reason police were called to the scene is not yet known.
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