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The mother-in-law of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been kidnapped in Brazil with criminals demanding a ransom of $36.5m (£28m), reports say.
Aparecida Schunck, the 67-year-old mother of Mr Ecclestone's wife Fabiana Flosi, was seized in Sao Paulo on Friday night, Veja and Globo reported.
Police in the city have not yet commented.
F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone's mother-in-law 'kidnapped in Sao Paulo'
Islamic State group claims attack that killed priest in Normandy
Two attackers took hostages inside a French church during morning Mass on Tuesday near the city of Rouen, killing an 86-year-old priest by slitting his throat before being shot and killed by police, French officials said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Another person inside the church in Normandy was seriously injured and is hovering between life and death, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said. Police managed to rescue the only three other people inside the church in the small northwestern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, he told reporters.
A regional Muslim leader said one of the two attackers — who were killed outside the church — was known to police.
Suicide bombing targets people waiting in cars at Iraqi checkpoint; 18 dead
A suicide bomb explosion killed at least 18 people and injured at least 23 Monday in Diyala province, Iraq, home of a major Shiite shrine, security sources said.
An explosives-laden vehicle was detonated in the town of al-Khalis, nine miles from the provincial capital of Baquba. The bomb went off amid vehicles awaiting an inspection at a security checkpoint, police Lt. Mahmoud al-Dalwi told state-run Turkish news agency Anadalu. He added the blast damaged nearby cars and buildings.
Possible suicide bomber sets off explosion in Germany, seriously injures 10 victims
A man carrying explosives was killed in a German city after his device detonated injuring ten people near a music festival.
German police said up to a dozen people were affected by the blast at a wine bar in the Bavarian city of Ansbach at about 10 p.m. on Monday, local time.
"A man, according to our currently knowledge, the perpetrator, died" in the explosion, Ansbach police said in a statement.
Deadly Machete Attack In Germany Kills One And Injures Two Others
A 21-year-old Syrian refugee was arrested after killing a woman with a machete and injuring two other people in the southern German city of Reutlingen on Sunday, but the attack had no apparent connection to terrorism, police said.
The asylum-seeking Syrian man had been involved in previous incidents causing injuries to other people, and was apparently acting alone, a police spokesman said.
Syria civil war: Air strikes hit Aleppo hospitals
Syrian government air strikes have put four makeshift hospitals and a local blood bank in Aleppo out of action in the past 24 hours, according to local rescue workers and a monitor.
"Five medical facilities were hit [overnight] and are out of service right now," Ammar Salmo, spokesman for a volunteer rescue group known as the White Helmets told Al Jazeera.
Heavy rain in China kills at least 87, thousands evacuated
Heavy rain in China has killed at least 87 people and forced thousands from their homes, state media reported on Saturday.
Seventy-two people have been killed and 78 are missing in the northern province of Hebei after rain triggered floods and landslides, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing the civil affairs department.
Nearly 50,000 homes have collapsed, it said.
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