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81-year-old DJ Gloria spends her retirement filling Sweden’s dancefloors

A stint as an aerobics instructor made Sweden’s Madelein Mansson realise she loved choosing music that would get people moving. The 81-year-old took up spinning discs in her retirement, and DJ Gloria was born. Today, she plays Sweden’s hottest nightclubs with special gigs for crowds over the age of 50.

Indonesians take to streets after one killed in Jakarta demonstration

Jakarta (AFP) – Hundreds take to the streets in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, a day after the death of a motorcycle taxi driver during clashes between protesters and police. Police handling of the protests drew strong criticism online after videos circulated on social media showing a black tactical vehicle running over a man. IMAGES

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Brazil: authorities outside Sao Paulo building as the country cracks down on money laundering

Sao Paulo (AFP) – Vehicles from Brazil’s federal tax and customs agency, also responsible for fighting money laundering, along with Brazil’s Federal Police, are stationed outside the entrance of a building in Sao Paulo as the country carries out a mega operation to crush a money laundering network. Police have conducted 350 search and seizure warrants targeting individuals and companies in eight states. IMAGES

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Brazil federal police deployed in Sao Paulo during anti-crime operation

Sao Paulo (AFP) – Brazilian federal police patrol outside a building in Sao Paulo’s Faria Lima financial district, where security forces and tax authorities are carrying out a major operation against organized crime. Brazilian police launched a mega operation in several states to crush a criminal network that sold adulterated fuel to clients and concealed billions of dollars in earnings in cahoots with financial companies, according to officials. IMAGES

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Fresh group of Iraqis leaves Syria’s Al-Hol camp

Al-Hol Camp (Syria) (AFP) – “Look at the children, look how happy they are,” says Umm Mahmoud, a 60-year-old leaving Syria’s Al-Hol camp. “It’s like a holiday.” A new group of 850 Iraqis has departed the Kurdish-controlled al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State group jihadists, in the latest repatriation with Kurdish authorities aiming to close the camps by the end of the year, according to an official.

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‘We want peace’: Heavy smoke covers Gaza City following intense Israeli bombardments

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Massive clouds of smoke rise following Israeli bombardments on the outskirts of Gaza City, as Israel presses operations to seize the territory’s largest city. Gaza’s civil defence agency says that Israeli strikes and fire have killed at least 31 people across the Palestinian territory on 28 August, including six shot while waiting for aid in the south.

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‘We cannot be naive about Russia,’ says NATO’s Rutte after Kyiv attacks

Würzburg (Germany) (AFP) – NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte condemns a Russian missile and drone attack on apartment blocks in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, which killed at least 17 people, including four children. The European Union mission and a British government cultural building were also damaged. “We cannot be naive about Russia. We cannot be naive about Vladimir Putin. And last night is evidence of that”, Rutte says during a presser in Germany with MPs from the country’s governing parties.

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Brawl in Mexico’s senate over alleged calls for US intervention against cartels

Mexico City (AFP) – Mexican senators Gerardo Fernandez Norona, of the ruling Morena party, and Alejandro Moreno, of the opposition PRI party, engage in a physical confrontation following a heated debate over alleged opposition calls for US military intervention against drug cartels. The brawl followed a debate in which opposition parties PRI and PAN were accused of calling for the intervention, which both parties deny.

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Clowns gather for annual pilgrimage to Mexico City basilica

Mexico City (AFP) – Members of the Mexico Clown Club set-off for the 25th annual pilgrimage to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City. “A bunch of us clowns get together and have the opportunity to see each other,” says Moises Jimenez, aka Yom. “It’s really about the unity of clowns.”

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