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BERLIN (AP) — An international manhunt for a 24-year-old Tunisian man is continuing. Anis Amri is suspected in the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Berlin. German officials had deemed Amri a threat long before a truck plowed into the market on Monday evening. Authorities even kept him under covert surveillance for six months this year before ending the operation. The attack left 12 people dead and 48 injured.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. board of inquiry says it received reports that an attack on an aid convoy on the outskirts of Aleppo in September was "highly likely" to have been carried out by the Syrian air force but it was unable to reach a definitive conclusion. A summary of the board's report released late Wednesday also says its members "did not have evidence to conclude that the incident was a deliberate attack on a humanitarian target."
TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — The investigation into a deadly chain-reaction explosion at a fireworks market in the state of Mexico is focusing on apparent lax security that allowed vendors to display their dangerous wares in the passageways between stalls. Officials have updated their list of dead to 33 in the Tuesday afternoon blast. About 46 people remain hospitalized. Ten of the injured are minors, including one girl with burns over 90 percent of her body.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov.-elect Roy Cooper says Republican legislators had a chance to do the right thing by repealing a contentious LGBT law, but they failed to live up to their promise. The incoming Democrat says there'd been a bipartisan deal that called for a full repeal but that GOP leaders went back on their word by adding a moratorium that he said "doubled down on discrimination." The Senate's top leader disagrees with that.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors who charged New York real estate heir Robert Durst with the murder of his best friend in Los Angeles want to videotape testimony from witnesses they fear could die or be killed before trial. L.A. Deputy District Attorney John Lewin says prosecutors fear for the safety of witnesses because the 73-year-old Durst is accused of killing a witness in the 1982 disappearance of his wife. Durst in in custody and using a wheelchair.
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