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| Hello. Swedish police say around 10 people have been killed in a gun attack at an adult learning centre in the central city of Orebro. From Mexico, Will Grant reports on plans to house an influx of deportees from the US. And South Africa's president has asked Elon Musk to calm a row with US President Donald Trump over what the tech billionaire brands a "racist" new land law. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | Sweden gun attack is country's 'worst mass shooting' |
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| | Police and members of the emergency services at the Risbergska campus in Orebro, Sweden. Credit: Reuters | A gunman has killed around 10 people and injured many others at the Risbergska adult education centre in Orebro, Sweden, in what was condemned by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson as "an act of brutal and lethal violence" and the worst mass shooting in the nation's history. The city's chief of police, Roberto Eid Forest, said that he could not give a precise toll, or identities, but confirmed that the gunman was among the dead. Eid Forest described the shooting as "horrible" and a "nightmare" that was rarely suffered in his country. Police believe the killer acted alone and ruled out terrorism, but do not know the motive. |
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| Race to save civilians from front-line Ukrainian city | Rescuers are battling to evacuate some of the 7,000 people left in the shattered city of Pokrovsk as Russian forces close in. | Full dispatch > |
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| Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices | Authorities say the new Chinese artificial intelligence platform poses an "unacceptable risk" to national security. | What's affected > |
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| South Africa asks Musk to calm Trump 'racism' row | The US president has threatened to cut all funding over what his billionaire adviser claims are "racist" land ownership laws. | Read more > |
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| Trump's deportation drive hits home in Mexico | | Migrants stand in line at the border wall in El Paso, Texas. Credit: Getty | From Our Own Correspondent: Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has readied her country for the arrival of thousands of deportees from the US as her counterpart, Donald Trump, begins his immigration crackdown. But on the Mexican side of the border, those seeking asylum in the US are now stranded after their applications were cancelled. |
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| | Will Grant, Mexico and Central America correspondent |
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| | About a year ago, 17-year-old Marcos went out to buy his mother some painkillers in Michoacan, in western Mexico. Suddenly, he tells me, he was surrounded by four pick-up trucks filled with armed men. The boy was hooded, handcuffed and taken to a ranch outside town. Forcibly recruited into a drug cartel called Los Viagras, Marcos spent months as a foot-soldier in a war he wanted no part of.
Eventually he escaped. He fled his home along with his family and they wound up in the border city of Tijuana, with a view to reaching the United States. They formally registered with the US authorities and began the wait for an appointment to submit their asylum request. But time had run out.
Barely 24 hours after we spoke, Donald Trump was sworn into office and immediately declared an emergency at the border. Within minutes, all such appointments were cancelled. |
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| | | Trade war: US and Mexico reach deal to put tariffs on hold - for now. | | Watch: Migrants veer from US and stay in Mexico to 'make a life'. | | Waiting begins: Mexican workers set up tent city to house deportees. |
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT | Switching gears | The key to restful sleep might reside in the brain's "little blue dot". | |
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And finally... in Scotland | Spain has cava, France has champagne... and Scotland now has Borders Bubbly. Farming couple Lorna and Trevor Jackson are celebrating the production of a sparkling wine made with Scottish grapes on an old potato field in the country's south. | |
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