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Reports that five car-wash workers were injured when a car ploughed into them in South London on Sunday have worried fellow Romanians working in the UK, amid wider fears of increased racism as the British government continues its preparations to leave the EU.

Four suspects facing hate crime charges made their first appearance in a Chicago court this afternoon after they allegedly kidnapped and tortured a man, whom a police official characterized as having “mental health challenges,” while streaming it live on Facebook.

İzmir traffic policeman Fethi Sekin, who has been declared a hero after his actions prevented a greater loss of life in an attack on the province's courthouse on Jan. 5, was given a final send-off on Jan. 6 after dying in a shootout with two militants.

Anis Amri, the suspect behind Monday night’s terror attack in Berlin, has been killed in a police shootout in Milan, according to an unconfirmed report by Panorama, an Italian news magazine.

Panorama reported that Amri pulled out a gun and began shooting at the officers.

Theofilos Lazarakis, 38, committed suicide in downtown Athens, after injuring a police officer in a shootout with Greek police before taking his life, Saturday. The incident occurred when police of the DIAS motorcycle unit pursued the guman in central Athens, after he had refused to undergo a routine check.

Six female teachers who volunteered to provide additional education to 35 students in a village of the Karabağlar district in the western province of İzmir barely escaped sexual assault by a group of men in the village in May, it has been revealed after the opening of a trial into the case, according to daily Habertürk.

Mistreatment is widespread in post-coup attempt detentions in Turkey, U.N. human rights expert Nils Melzer has said, referring to numerous testimonies from inmates, their lawyers and civil society organizations he met last week in the country. 

A Hungarian court has sentenced a migrant to ten years in jail for participating in rioting at the country's southern border with Serbia last year.

According to media reports, the court declared 40-year-old Ahmed Hamad, of Syrian origin, guilty for throwing rocks at the police in an attempt to force them to open the border.

The U.N. torture investigator is heading to Turkey from Nov. 27 to Dec. 2 at government invitation and plans to visit police stations, prisons and pre-trial facilities where detainees are held to discuss "challenges" related to torture, a U.N. statement has said. 

The prosecutor in the trial of the 2015 death of Vangelis Giakoumakis in the northwestern city of Ioannina has recommended the acquittal of a former director of the school where the student was studying and the head of the dorm where he was staying, who were facing charges of negligence, as well as Christos Markoyiannakis, a former deputy minister who was accused of trying to protect the studen