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In the category of: Unlikely heroes
Mcdonald’s employees assist woman who mouths ‘help me’ in the drive thru
When a woman walked up to the counter of a McDonald’s in Lodi, California, the employees likely expected her to order a Big Mac or large fries. Instead, she begged them to help her.
In the category of: War Crimes
Navy SEALs Detail Eddie Gallagher’s Gruesome Alleged War Crimes: Report
Elite Navy SEALs who served in Iraq alongside Special Operations Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher told investigators they viewed him as an “evil” leader who committed what they considered to be obvious war crimes, according to newly released video and text messages obtained by The New York Times.
Gallagher faced dozens of war crime charges stemming from his 2017 deployment to Iraq, but he was convicted in July on just one charge of posing for photographs with a dead ISIS fighter. In November, President Donald Trump fully pardoned Gallagher and gave him a promotion.
In the category of: It’s still happening
UN: More than 235,000 flee northwest Syria violence
Amid air raids targeting last rebel stronghold in Syria, a mass displacement has left southern Idlib ‘almost empty’.
More than 235,000 people have fled the Idlib region over the past two weeks, the UN has said, amid air raids by Russian and Syrian government forces targeting Syria‘s last major opposition bastion.
The mass displacement between December 12- 25 has left the Maaret al-Numan region in southern Idlib “almost empty,” the UN’s humanitarian agency OCHA said on Friday.
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