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Tsunami alert as deadly quake hits off southern Mexico
Tsunami waves have been confirmed off the southern coast of Mexico after a magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck shortly before midnight local time.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said waves of 3.3ft (1m) had been measured off the port of Salina Cruz.
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Master spy novelist John le Carré has thoughts on how Trump might fall
Master spy novelist John le CarrĂ©âs depictions of Cold War spy games carry such a strong whiff of inside knowledge that his books, to his obvious embarrassment, were considered essential reading by Russiaâs KGB, and scrutinized by the CIAâs Center for the Study of Intelligence. Despite predictions that the fall of the Berlin Wall and triumph of capitalismââthe end of historyââwould also lead to his downfall as a novelist, the former British spy has kept writing. His latest and highly anticipated novel, A Legacy of Spies, is publishing this week.
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EU court dismisses Hungary, Slovak case against taking refugees
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – The European Unionâs top court dismissed complaints on Wednesday by Slovakia and Hungary about EU migration policy, upholding Brusselsâ right to force member states to take in asylum seekers.
In the latest twist to a divisive dispute that broke out two years ago when over a million migrants poured across the Mediterranean, the European Court of Justice found that the EU was entitled to order national governments to take in quotas of mainly Syrian refugees relocated from Italy and Greece.
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Merkel ally says website hit by thousands of cyberattacks from Russian IP addresses ahead of election
The vice chairman of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said on Monday (4 September) that her website was recently hit with thousands of cyberattacks, many of which came from Russian IP addresses. Julia Kloeckner said the political website was the target of about 3,000 attacks ahead of the television election debate between Merkel and her Social Democratic rival Martin Schulz on Sunday, Reuters reports.
144 Ukrainians are held captive by the separatists
As of September 2, there are 144 Ukrainians being held captive by the separatists in the Donbas, as stated by the adviser to the head of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), Yuri Tandit on 112 Ukraine TV.
“In recent days, unfortunately, the number has increased slightly because ordinary civilians were detained, who had no weapons and were not near the line of demarcation, and were not participants of the ATO [Anti-Terrorist Operation]. They have been accused of espionage and other crimes that they did not commit,” he said.
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Mexico Captures Cancun Drug Cartel Boss
Mexican police arrested a woman suspected to be the leader of an organized crime group operating in the tourist resort areas of Cancun and Playa del Carmen, media reported Friday.
Leticia Rodriguez Lara, 48, known as âDona Letyâ or âLa 40â is accused of running an independent criminal organization in Cancun that is affiliated with factions of the Sinaloa, Gulf, and Los Zetas cartels.
