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01/02/2017 GMT

Anti-Terror Raids in Germany

BBC World Service - BBC OS, Anti-Terror Raids in Germany

German police say they've broken up a militant Islamist network in the state of Hesse.

The early-morning anti-terror raids in Germany have targeted more than fifty apartments, offices and mosques.

Latest from Germany where more than a thousand police have carried out a series of raids with particular focus on an arrest of a Tunisian man in Frankfurt, suspected of being a recruiter for so-called Islamic State.

Also today, Reaction to President Trump's Supreme Court nomination, India budget, a Bangladeshi girl who may the first female with ''tree man syndrome', Hong Kong's missing billionaire, Proposals for 'sin-bins for yellow card offences'  in football, and the evacuation of the illegal West Bank outpost of Amona. 

(Photo: Raids against terror suspects in Germany. Credit: Friedrich Demel/EPA)

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