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Germany

Four jailed for terror plot

A German court sent four men to prison on Thursday for up to nine years for plotting to detonate homemade bombs in a crowd on orders from al-Qaida. The so-called "Duesseldorf cell", named after the city where three of the men lived, had prepared for an attack but had not yet determined the target, the court found. The ringleader, Moroccan national Abdeladimel-Kebir, 33, was sentenced to nine years for planning the attack and being a member of a terrorist group.

France

Authorities seek roaming tiger

Police and firefighters were desperately hunting for a tiger on the loose near Paris on Thursday after a local resident took a photo of the animal and sounded the alert, authorities said. Backed up by a helicopter overhead, firefighters armed with paralyzing weapons were mobilized for the search in the Seine-et-Marne district near the French capital.

Guinea

Anti-Ebola drug trials to begin

Global aid agency Doctors Without Borders said on Thursday it would begin unprecedented trials within a month using anti-Ebola drugs and blood from survivors from West Africa. The trials in Guinea are aimed at rushing out an emergency therapy to battle an epidemic that has claimed more than 5,000 lives since December.

Libya

Bombs go off near embassies

Twin car bombs exploded near the shuttered Egyptian and United Arab Emirates embassy buildings in the militia controlled Libyan capital on Thursday, an AFP correspondent and a UAE official said. Two guards posted outside the empty Egyptian embassy compound were wounded in the first blast, Libya's LANA news agency later reported.

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