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| Mexico drug kingpin 'Chapo' Guzman escapes prison again, massive manhunt |
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 By Gabriel Stargardter and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's most notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has escaped from a high security prison, officials said on Sunday, his second jailbreak in 15 years and a major embarrassment for President Enrique Pena Nieto. The kingpin, who is also wanted by U.S. prosecutors and once made it on to Forbes' list of billionaires, was seen on video entering a shower area at 8.52 p.m. local time on Saturday (0152 GMT Sunday), Mexico's National Security Commission said. After he went out of view for a while, guards entered his cell the Altiplano prison in central Mexico to find it empty.
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| More than 150 Poles hospitalised after taking drug - police |
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| More than 150 people have been hospitalised after taking a drug called "strongman" in southern Poland, police said on Sunday. Strongman, once considered a legal "designer drug", was added to the country's list of banned narcotics at the beginning of July. Three people have been detained on suspicion of dealing and could each face up to 10 years in prison, police officer Adam Jachimczak told Reuters. |
| Swiss FIFA inquiry receives more 'suspicious activity' reports |
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 Switzerland now has 81 reports of suspicious financial activity linked to FIFA's decisions to let Russia and Qatar run the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments, the Swiss attorney general's office said on Sunday. Swiss prosecutors investigating corruption at the Zurich-based global soccer body have received another 28 suspicious activity reports since mid-June, a spokesman for the attorney general said. The Swiss criminal investigation focuses on the decisions on who would stage the World Cup.
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| Israeli police arrest suspects in torching of Church of Loaves and Fishes |
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| Israeli police said on Sunday suspects had been arrested on suspicion of torching a church revered by Christians as the site of Jesus's miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The suspects were arrested overnight, a police spokeswoman said, following a joint investigation with the Shin Bet internal undercover security agency. The suspects are set to face a remand hearing in the northern city of Nazareth later on Sunday. |
| China targets rights lawyers as crackdown on activists widens |
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| By Gerry Shih BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have widened a crackdown on human rights groups, detaining or questioning more than 50 lawyers and activists in a sweep over the past few days, rights groups say. Citing the need to buttress national security and stability, President Xi Jinping's administration has tightened government control over almost every aspect of civil society since 2012. Amnesty International said on Saturday at least 52 lawyers and activists from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou had been detained or questioned over the previous 48 hours. |
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