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8-year-old Guatemalan child dies in US custody
An eight-year-old child from Guatemala died in US government custody on Tuesday at a state hospital in New Mexico after having crossed the Mexican border with his family. This is the second child who has died while under arrest by immigration authorities in the last month. According to US Customs and Border Protection the child died early on Christmas day.
4.8 earthquake hits Sicily near mount Etna
StaffA 4.8-magnitude earthquake shook the Sicilian province of Catania near mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano yesterday morning, wounding ten people and destroying several buildings. The earthquake has been linked to the ongoing eruption activity registered around Etna since Sunday and its epicenter was between the municipalities of Viagrande and Trecastagni.
Thousands bid prisoners goodnight
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Throughout Christmas day thousands of people went to the prisons of Lledoners, Mas d’Enric and Puig de les Basses where the nine Catalan political prisoners are being held to wish them well.
T e act with the biggest attendance involved accompanying Joan Bonanit in his daily protest (now for more than 170 days) to demand the prisoners’ release at Lledoners prison. The people who went with him on Christmas evening could hear how the prisoners responded to the cries of Joan Bonanit, as Oriol Junqueras does every evening.
Another surprise was to be had at the demonstration. Jordi Turull’s sister put her phone to a microphone there for the family’s weekly phone call so that the protestors could hear the ex-minister’s voice: “Kisses from all seven of us. We love you very much and we are very grateful to you. We will get out of here,“ said Turull.