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19 Year Old In Court Charged With Making Explosive Substance

A 19-year-old man has appeared in court charged with making an explosive substance after a suspect device was found on a London Underground train.

Damon Smith is accused of unlawfully and maliciously making or having in his possession an explosive substance with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury to property.

North Greenwich station was evacuated last Thursday during the alert.

Mr Smith, from south east London, was remanded in custody until 17 November.

The station was closed until 18:50, with disruption caused to the Jubilee line throughout the day.

Many Children Killed In Syria Airstrikes

At least 26 people, many of them children, have been killed in air strikes on a rebel-held village in north-western Syria, activists say.

A school complex was reportedly among several locations targeted in the village of Haas, in Idlib province. It was not immediately clear if the raids were carried out by Syrian government or Russian warplanes.

State media quoted a military source as saying several “terrorists” had been killed when their positions were hit. The UN’s children’s charity Unicef said 22 children were reportedly killed. “This latest atrocity may be the deadliest attack on a school since the war began more than five years ago,” executive director Anthony Lake said.

The incident comes as the government and its ally Russia said they would continue a moratorium on the aerial bombardment of besieged, rebel-held eastern districts of the city of Aleppo. “It’s horrible, I hope we were not involved. It’s the easiest thing for me to say no, but I’m a responsible person, so I need to see what my ministry of defence is going to say,” Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said.

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Donald Trump States Hillary Clinton Would Start World War Three

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said his rival Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy plan in Syria would trigger World War Three.

He also said the US should focus on defeating so-called Islamic State (IS) rather than removing Syria’s president.

Mrs Clinton has proposed a no-fly zone over Syria. The top US military chief has said that could spell conflict with Russian jets in the region. The Clinton campaign accused Mr Trump of “playing to Americans’ fears”.

Mr Trump also attacked Republicans for not uniting behind his candidacy. “If we had party unity, we couldn’t lose this election to Hillary Clinton,” he told Reuters news agency at Trump National Doral golf resort in Miami, Florida. The Republican standard-bearer struck an apocalyptic tone when criticising his Democratic rival’s plan to control Syrian air space. “You’re going to end up in World War Three over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton,” Mr Trump said. “You’re not fighting Syria any more, you’re fighting Syria, Russia and Iran, all right? “Russia is a nuclear country, but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk.”

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Liverpool: Man Who Died From Gunshot Wounds Was Targeted

A man was found in a Liverpool street with fatal gunshot wounds to his head.

The victim, in his 30s, was found lying in Southwood Road, Aigburth, at 22:20 BST on Monday. He was taken to hospital but later died. Detectives said it was believed to be a “targeted incident”.

A murder inquiry has begun, and police are urging witnesses to contact them. Two or three men ran off down St Michael’s Road and towards Moel Famau View, police said.

The man who died is believed to be from Croxteth. His family has been informed and a post-mortem examination is to take place later.

Southwood Road and Bryanston Road have been cordoned off for forensic investigations to take place. St Michaels station in Aigburth has also been closed. Merseyrail said a shuttle bus was running to and from Brunswick.

Human Rights Staff Report Of Atrocities In Mosul

UN human rights staff have received reports of atrocities being committed by Islamic State militants as Iraqi government forces close in on Mosul.

In one case, three women and three children were allegedly shot dead after trailing behind while being forced to march from one village to another. Elsewhere, 15 civilians were reportedly killed and their bodies thrown into a river in an attempt to spread terror.

The UN says this reinforces fears that IS will use civilians as human shields.

About 30,000 Iraqi security force personnel, Kurdish fighters, Sunni Arab tribesmen and Shia militiamen, assisted by US-led coalition warplanes and military advisers, launched the long-awaited offensive to retake Mosul eight days ago.

The operation is expected to take weeks, if not months, depending on how much resistance they face from the 3,000 to 5,000 militants believed to be inside Mosul. There are also an estimated 1.5 million civilians living in the city. Up to 200,000 of them could possibly be displaced in the next few weeks, according to the UN.

A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, told a news conference in Geneva on Tuesday that it was continuing to receive reports of depredations against children and women, as well as male civilians. “It is however hard to immediately verify all the reports we are getting, so the following examples should be treated as preliminary and not definitive,” he noted. According to Mr Colville, human rights staff were informed that IS fighters had killed 15 civilians in the village of Safina, about 45km (28 miles) south of Mosul, and threw their bodies in the river.

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