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Radio 4,20 Dec 2024,45 mins
Two killed after car ploughs into crowd at German Christmas market
The World TonightAvailable for over a year
Two people have been killed, including a child, after a car drove into crowds at a Christmas market in the Germany city of Magdeburg. Sixty-eight people were injured. The leader of Saxony says the suspect is believed to be a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian doctor. US Members of Congress are debating into the night to avert a government shutdown after a funding bill was voted down by Democrats and a number of Republicans. And as the US says it killed the leader of ISIS in Syria in an airstrike, we look at the risk of the group re-emerging.
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