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A rioter wearing a deeply offensive, anti-Semitic sweatshirt at the US Capitol last week is now under arrest. Newser reports the man was photographed wearing a 'Camp Auschwitz' sweatshirt during the US Capitol siege was taken into custody on Wednesday in Virginia. The garment also featured 'Work brings freedom.' It's a translation of "Arbeit macht frei," the German phrase that appeared on the concentration camp’s entrance. Robert Keith Packer, 56, was arrested in Newport News, where he lives. The government will not be seeking detention for Packer. However, Packer is barred from visiting Washington unless it’s for a court appearance.
A spokesman for Pakistan's Foreign Ministry announces a decision by the United Nations to add Masood Azhar, the leader of a Pakistan-based Islamist group, to its list of global terrorists after China lifted its objections to the move. SOUNDBITE
Bangs ring out as Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets towards an Israeli military base hours after deadly Israeli strikes targeting the group's assets near the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon. Since the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel on October 7, the Lebanese-Israeli border has witnessed a near-daily exchange of fire between Israel's army and Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah, a Hamas ally. IMAGES
US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby tells reporters that the Islamic Resistance in Iraq group was behind a drone attack that killed three American soldiers at a base in Jordan. SOUNDBITE
Images show Virginia and Los Angeles-class submarines at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, ahead of AUKUS summit with US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Australia will buy as many as five US nuclear-powered submarines and later build a new model with US and British technology under an ambitious plan to build Western muscle across the Asia-Pacific in the face of a rising China. IMAGES
Frankfurt (Germany), Jan 28 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Ronald Wittek) A Frankfurt court on Thursday sentenced neo-Nazi Stephan Ernst to life in prison for the 2019 murder of conservative politician Walter Lübcke in what was the first political murder trial in Germany since the 1970s.FOOTAGE OF THE COURT HOUSE AND A PROTESTS NEARBY.