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ParisA French special reconnaissance soldier was killed in a “combat-related” incident on Saturday in the Syrian war theatre. The French government confirmed his death despite the unit officially not being deployed to either Iraq or Syria.

Italian police arrested two men in Calabria, southern Italy, who had invented an apartheid system to compensate labour.

New YorkChristopher Columbus statues have been facing the wrath of Antifa since August, with a militant antifa group calling for a “Deface Columbus Day” on 9 October in a coordinated campaign to deface and destroy historical monuments deemed "racist".

Various foreign states have spent more than $80 million to influence Russian elections, the deputy director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts of the Russian People's Friendship University, said.

The city of London has banned Uber, the global taxi service, in response to a series of rapes by migrant drivers which the company failed to report to police. The latest figures show that Uber drivers are currently responsible for one sex attack in London every week.

BerlinWith only four days to go the German parliamentary election, some thought-provoking posters have popped up in the center of Berlin, just a stone's throw from the parliament building, the Reichstag.

French riot police discovered this week that they had been booked in the same hotel as the migrants whose camp they had just cleared out.

WashingtonA US defense budget contains a small amendment which could lead to a ban on broadcasting RT in America. The architects of the provision, are Senators McCain and Graham, the usual anti-Russian suspects.

BrusselsA Brussels police officer is currently behind bars because he had been leaking information to terrorist suspects about investigations against them.

MoscowGeneral Sergei Rudskoi, a Russian military spokesman suggested during a media briefing that the "US Secret Services" has had a tough week in Syria.