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Police and media are seen near the area where a plane crashed in Russia's Tver region, almost 350 km from Moscow. According to Russian officials, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, was aboard the plane, and died in the crash together with nine other people. IMAGES
Police action to end a three-week trucker-led protest blockading the Canadian capital is "imminent," Ottawa interim police chief Steve Bell tells a news conference. "We want to end this unlawful protest peacefully and safely", he ADDS. SOUNDBITE
French Republican candidate Valérie Pecresse campaigns in Corsica and pays tribute to prefect Claude Erignac, who was murdered in Ajaccio in 1998 by Corsican nationalists. Pecresse also highlighted her desire to decentralise French decision-making. "For Corsica that means the possibility of evolving towards autonomy," she said. IMAGES
A hostage rescue team "breached the synagogue, rescued the three hostages and the subject is deceased," says Colleyville police chief Michael Miller. All hostages were freed unharmed late Saturday after an hours-long standoff at a Texas synagogue, where a man apparently demanding the release of a convicted terrorist had taken several captives, the state governor said. SOUNDBITE
Images of policemen in front of the Turkish court that jailed 27 former pilots and other suspects for life in one of the largest trials stemming from the bloody 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. IMAGES
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr, dubbed the "Golden State Killer", apologizes to his victims in a Sacramento courtroom as he is handed multiple life sentences for a brutal decade-long crime spree that terrorized California. The 74-year-old former policeman confessed to 13 murders and dozens of rapes in the 1970s and 1980s under a deal to avoid the death penalty. IMAGES