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Emergency services work at the scene of a car bombing that killed four people and wounded nine near a restaurant in central Mogadishu, as the Al-Shabaab jihadist group claim responsibility. IMAGES
Defense Minister Guillermo Botero, speaking from the presidential palace, describes the car bombing that killed 21 people at a Bogota police cadet training academy as a "terrorist attack committed by the ELN." SOUNDBITE
Firefighters douse a burning car after it was hit in an Israeli drone attack in Lebanon's southern area of Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. At least one person was killed and three others wounded in the strike, the official National News Agency reported. IMAGES
Aftermath of a car bomb attack targeting a police station in southwestern Colombia that killed two people in a region plagued by remnants of a guerrilla group. IMAGES
"Global markets are now flooded with cheaper Chinese electric cars" says European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, "and their price is kept artificially low by huge state subsidies". The comments -- made to the European Parliament in Strasbourg -- come as Brussels announces it will investigate Chinese state subsidies for electric vehicles in order to protect the European market from "distortion." SOUNDBITE