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The largest unexploded World War Two bomb ever found in Poland has detonated during the defusing process, a Polish Navy spokesman said.

The chance the bomb – at the bottom of a Baltic Sea shipping canal – would detonate had been put at 50-50 and all the divers were unharmed.

About 750 residents had been evacuated near the port city of Swinoujscie.

The RAF dropped the Tallboy or “earthquake” bomb in a raid in 1945 which sank the German cruiser Lützow. Swinoujscie was part of Germany and called Swinemunde at the time of the bombardment.

The shock of the latest detonation was reportedly felt in parts of the city and a video shows the blast throwing up a large column of water into the air.

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André Oliveira Macedo, also known as André do Rap, was discharged from a high-security jail on Saturday – but this decision was revoked just hours later. He has been missing since.

Macedo is a superior member of the São Paulo-based First Command of the Capital (PCC) organisation, which endures power in jails across Brazil and Paraguay and smuggles tonnes of cocaine into Europe.

His release was the outcome of a contentious command by Judge Marco Aurélio Mello, one of 11 justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court.

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A mob armed with metal bars and fireworks has attacked a police station in the suburbs of Paris, officials in the city have said.

An unidentified group of about 40 people, whose motive was not clear, tried to storm the police station in Champigny-sur-Marne, about nine miles (15km) southeast of central Paris.

The mob tried, but failed, to force its way into the building on Saturday night in the third attack on the station in three years.
Officials said they “weren’t far off from a disaster”.

Video posted to social media by police showed a barrage of fireworks going off in the direction of the station, located in the area of a housing estate known for drug trafficking.

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Mexico’s former security minister Genaro García Luna has pleaded not guilty to charges linking him to the Sinaloa drugs cartel.

Mr García Luna, 52, denied engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise in a court in New York. Prosecutors accuse him of allowing the Sinaloa cartel of “El Chapo” Guzmán to operate freely in Mexico in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes.

Mr García Luna was Mexico’s top security chief from 2006 to 2012. During his time in office, he founded Mexico’s federal police force.

The latest charges accuse him of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise which had allowed the Sinaloa cartel to operate with impunity in Mexico for more than a decade in exchange for multimillion-dollar bribes. They include allegations that Mr García Luna was involved in “offenses involving the importation and the distribution of massive quantities of dangerous drugs into the United States”.

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The FBI says it has thwarted a plot to abduct and overthrow Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Mrs Whitmer has become a target for coronavirus sceptics after enacting strict measures that were overturned by a judge last week. Officials say the kidnapping plot involved six men who planned to hold a “treason trial” for her.

“Hatred, bigotry and violence have no place” in Michigan, Mrs Whitmer said, describing the accused as “depraved”.

According to a sworn FBI affidavit, an undercover law enforcement source attended a June meeting in Dublin, Ohio, where a group of Michigan-based militia members discussed overthrowing state governments “that they believed were violating the US Constitution”. “Several members talked about murdering ‘tyrants’ or ‘taking’ a sitting governor,” the charging document states. In one video, a suspect denounced the state’s role in deciding when to reopen gyms during the coronavirus lockdown.

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