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One of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives has been arrested in the Welsh countryside.

Daniel Andreas San Diego, 46, has been on the FBI’s “most wanted terrorists” list for almost two decades for his alleged involvement in two office building bombings in San Francisco in 2003.

The FBI had offered a reward of up to $250,000 (£200,000) for information leading directly to his arrest and considered him “armed and dangerous”.

He was arrested on Monday “at a property in a rural area next to woodland” in the Conwy area of north Wales by specialist officers from the national extradition unit of the National Crime Agency (NCA). The officers were supported by colleagues from counter-terrorism policing and North Wales police, an NCA spokesperson said.

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U.S. forces on Tuesday struck Iranian-aligned militia groups in Syria in retaliation for the fighters attacking American bases.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a post on the social platform X that it struck a weapons storage facility and that a battle damage assessment was underway to determine the impact of the strike.

“We will not tolerate attacks on our personnel and coalition partners,” said CENTCOM Commander Gen. Michael Kurilla in a statement. “We are committed to taking all necessary actions to ensure their protection.”

CENTCOM said it does not currently assess that any civilian casualties resulted from the strike.

The UN's Palestinian refugee agency warned on Monday of even more suffering for people in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip as the first heavy rains of the winter season arrived.

"Around half a million people are at risk in areas of flooding," the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) wrote on X. "The situation will only get worse with every drop of rain, every bomb, every strike."

On Sunday, rain poured down in parts of Gaza, where people displaced by the ongoing fighting are living in tents. Many temporary dwellings had been damaged, according to the Hamas-controlled civil defence.

• A new Nato mission located in Wiesbaden will take over the coordination of western military aid for Ukraine in January, Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said on Monday.

• The setting up of NSATU – Nato Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine – has been months in the planning and is widely seen as an effort to safeguard the aid mechanism against interference by Donald Trump. Europeans will step up military support for Ukraine, Pistorius pledged, after talks in Berlin with his British, French, Italian and Polish counterparts. “Our target must be to enable Ukraine to act out of a position of strength,” Pistorius said after hosting a meeting of the five leading nations in European defence.

• The Polish defence minister, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, echoed Pistorius’s pledge of more aid for Kyiv. “We are obliged today to say it clearly: Europe must increase its efforts when it comes to helping Ukraine but above all … when it comes to its own security. Without higher spending, without awareness in every European society of the times we are living in, everything is nothing.”

President-elect Donald Trump vowed Monday to impose tariffs of 25 percent on both Mexico and Canada on his first day in office as part of an effort to crack down on migration and the flow of fentanyl into the U.S.

“As everyone is aware, thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders.”

The post did not specify how he would impose the measure, although he could theoretically tap the so-called International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which grants a president sweeping authority to control economic transactions after declaring an emergency. The move would immediately open up Trump’s tariffs to legal challenges.

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