Gas pistols, pepper spray and other items used in self-defence are in high demand in Germany, following the sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year’s Eve.

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India’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has been sentenced to two years in prison in a criminal defamation case.

Mr Gandhi, from the Congress party, was convicted at a court in Gujarat state for comments he made about Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s surname during an election rally in 2019.

He will not go to jail immediately – he was granted bail for 30 days and will file an appeal against the conviction.

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Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial law retroactively legalising almost 4,000 settler homes built on privately-owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. Under the legislation, the Palestinian landowners will be given financial compensation or alternative land.
Palestinian officials denounced the law, saying it legalised land theft.

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The United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution put forward by the UK that will create an investigation into the war crimes committed by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi people. For the last year, Amal Clooney has been representing Nadia Murad – a Nobel Peace Prize nominee who was captured and tortured by IS. Ms Murad, 24, is a human rights advocate who had been public about the injustices towards the Yazidi people.
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