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BERLIN (AP) — A search is underway in Germany and elsewhere for the man suspected of killing a dozen people in Berlin on Monday by driving a truck into a crowded Christmas market. Prosecutors say Anis Amri had previously been under surveillance. A radio station in his native country, Tunisia, says Amri had previous convictions in Tunisia and Italy. Anti-terrorism police in Tunisia have questioned his family.
BEIRUT (AP) — Buses have been moving hundreds of rebel fighters and civilians today, including small children, out of eastern Aleppo, Syria. Rebels surrendered last week after four years of fighting. Since then, about 25,000 have been bused out according to the United Nations. The operation is being staged in bitter cold and snow.
TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Relatives of workers at a fireworks market in suburban Mexico City flattened yesterday by a deadly chain-reaction explosion are searching hospitals for loved ones. The death toll has risen to 32 and could climb higher because a dozen people are missing and some of the injured have life-threatening burns. It's not clear what triggered the long chain-reaction explosion. Attention is being focused on apparent lax security that allowed vendors to display their dangerous wares in the passageways between stalls.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A bishop says a man arrested for burning a black Mississippi church is African-American and a member of the church. The Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, in Greeneville, was burned a week before the presidential election. The words "Vote Trump" were spray painted on the building. The suspect faces first degree arson of a place of worship.
WASHINGTON (AP) —Two U.S. senators, Maine's Susan Collins and Missouri's Claire McCaskill, are urging Congress to block companies from cornering the market on old, off-patent drugs and then jacking up the prices. They point to firms like Turing Pharmaceuticals, which generated national outrage last year after hiking the price of a life-saving anti-infection drug by more than 5,000 percent.
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