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BERLIN (AP) — German investigators are still searching for the person or people who carried out Monday's attack on a crowded Berlin Christmas market. Police say they've received more than 500 tips, but prosecutors haven't said whether there are any concrete leads. One man taken into custody near the scene of the attack was released from custody after officials couldn't find evidence tying him to the attack.
BAGHDAD (AP) — The international watchdog Human Rights Watch says that Islamic State militants in Mosul are deliberately targeting civilians who refuse to join them as they retreat ahead of advancing Iraqi forces. HRW also says that Mosul civilians are increasingly being caught in the crossfire, and that at least 19 have been killed and dozens wounded from the third week of November into the first week of December.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol says it's seized more than $3 million that was being smuggled from the U.S. into Mexico. The cash was found Tuesday inside two cars in Escondido, California. And it's the largest cash seizure ever made by the Border Patrol in San Diego County. Authorities say the money was in two speeding vehicles. One car was pulled over and the other was later found abandoned, with the driver hiding in brush.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal government will be pouring nearly a quarter-billion dollars into several dozen projects to tackle the effects of drought in the West and restoring watersheds that provide drinking water to communities around the nation. The $225 million in funding will be shared among 88 projects, centuries-old irrigation systems in northern New Mexico and thousands of square miles of fragmented streams in Maine.
BEIJING (AP) — The dense, gray smog that has smothered much of China may finally soon give way. The national weather authority says that nighttime winds will push out much of the air pollution that has left Beijing and dozens of other cities under a five-day "red alert," the highest level in China's four-tiered warning system. The smog has closed schools grounded planes, and shut down factories and highways.
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