[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Police discovered a plastic-lined 'torture chamber' decked out with pliers and hammers in a Costa del Sol home after a man escaped screaming: 'They want to kill us.'
Cops arrived at the property in Estepona on September 5 after a woman alerted emergency services that her partner may be in danger. When officers entered the house, a Moroccan man emerged covered in blood, telling police: 'They want to kill us!' 'They want to kill us!'
Officers called for reinforcements before entering the home and unveiling a sinister room where gang members appeared to be carrying out torture and abuse.
Sources close to a judicial investigation told Spanish news outlet El Español: 'There was a room lined with plastic sheeting. It was a torture room because it had tools like pliers and hammers.' Another man – a Spanish national – was found tied to a chair and covered in blood, while cops seized two AK-47 assault rifles and several handguns.
Images from inside the house show a chair and walls covered in plastic so that blood could be removed without leaving any evidence behind.
The Moroccan man who fled the property was the partner of the woman who raised the alarm. He had told his girlfriend he was going to a house for a work meeting but told her to call the police if she didn't hear from him within 20 minutes. After 40 minutes without any contact, the woman called the police. A good general rule to keep you out of long company meetings
Both men were naked, covered in blood and had visible injuries when rescued. Police are investigating why they were being tortured.
Seven Georgian nationals believed to be linked with the property have been arrested, while cops continue to search for any suspects linked to the gang.
Spain's Costa del Sol – which covers tourist hotspots like Marbella, Estepona and Fuengirola – has emerged as a global hub for organised crime. British expats living in the area have been vocal about their anxieties over living on the Costa del Sol following a massive surge of gang violence. More than 100 mafia groups are said to be operating along the 90-mile stretch of coastline.
The holiday hotspot has long been a centre of operations for organised crime, thanks to its strategic location as the first port of call for hashish and arms from Africa, and cocaine from South America.
Expats have said they are fed up with increasingly brazen thugs who are 'tarnishing' the area's image.
Last year, a man was shot dead in the upmarket resort of Puerto Banus in front of tourists. The 25-year-old victim was gunned down from close range in broad daylight as he sat on a cafe terrace. Footage from CCTV cameras appears to show the gunman with a baseball cap on but disguised as a tourist, approaching his target and opening fire and continuing to shoot him as he lay motionless on the ground. The injured man was rushed to the nearby Costa del Sol Hospital, where he later died from his injuries on October 3.
And in 2024, a Liverpudlian was gunned down in the middle of the street in Mijas. The murder happened on a street called Don Jose de Orbaneja Street, where there is a well-known tennis and padel tennis club called Club del Sol, as well as a neighbouring holiday resort called Finca Naundrup, which has sports facilities.
[NYP] Wealthy Chinese couples are implanting their embryos into American women so their children can be born as US citizens, The Post has learned.
The service is provided by a surrogacy agency, Patriot Conceptions, which operates between China and the US and has been accused of hiding details of who the biological parents are from surrogates.
Women who carry babies for the agency are recruited informally through social media and collect between $60,000 and $120,000 dollars for their services.
[Federalist] Nikole Hannah-Jones has curated herself an extremely lucrative, notoriety-winning career by blaming white people for black people’s problems. In her latest article for The New York Times Magazine, she does it again. It’s titled, "In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?"
In it, the creator of the scholarly abomination known as the 1619 Project admits that her warped educational ideas have harmed her daughter’s future and their relationship. When her daughter finally convinced her parents to let her attend a more challenging high school, she went from getting straight As in math to "barely keeping up": "After an assessment, the center’s director called me in and told me that Najya knew very little algebra and had huge gaps in many of the building blocks of math that she should have learned in elementary school, like mastery of long division and fractions."
This was after Najya had gotten As in a previous algebra class and been on her middle school’s honor roll. For elementary, Hannah-Jones and her husband had deliberately enrolled their daughter in one of New York City’s worst public schools, which Hannah-Jones calls "a poor Black one." In 2016, Hannah-Jones’ daughter was literally on the cover of NYT Magazine to flaunt her mother’s decision.
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the irony of Najya getting straight As while not learning as her mom made millions through shoddy research and DEI promotion of her garbage research
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[Reuters] The world's largest beer festival opened in Munich on Saturday, drawing visitors in traditional Bavarian dress for two weeks of celebrations expected to attract millions.
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Health officials warned of a new measles exposure at a bustling Pennsylvania airport — marking the second recent exposure to the highly contagious virus in the state’s largest city.
A person infected with measles passed through Philadelphia International Airport from Sept. 13 at 7:25 p.m. to 12:05 a.m. on Sept. 14, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced on Friday.
The measles-carrying individual traveled through the airport’s terminals B and F and used areas connected to terminals C, D, and E, the department said.
“The individual with measles was traveling through Philadelphia and did not leave the airport,” health officials wrote in the statement.
The warning was announced just days after a separate measles exposure at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Various parts of the hospital were exposed to measles, including parts of the NICU, on Sept. 11, the department said in an advisory last week.
Travelers at the Philly airport during the exposure time who are not immune to measles, are unsure of their vaccination status, are an infant, are pregnant and not immune, or are immunocompromised should contact a health provider “as soon as possible,” authorities urged.
Anyone who was in the airport areas during the listed times should check whether they are immune to measles.
“The Health Department is encouraging people who were exposed to check their vaccination status and watch for symptoms,” the statement said.
As of Sunday, Pennsylvania has had 792 measles cases, including 155 hospitalizations and four deaths, according to the state’s data.
There have been a whopping 3,471 measles cases in the US this year — with CDC data revealing just 92.4% of kindergartners received the MMR vaccine in the 2025-2026 school year.
Vaccination rates have fallen compared to the 95.2% seen in the 2019 to 2020 school year.
The highly contagious virus spreads through the air when infected people cough, sneeze, or talk, and can infect an unvaccinated person up to two hours after someone with the illness leaves a room or airspace.
[NYP] DC-area airports have begun deploying an advanced new artificial intelligence-powered air traffic management tool aimed at dramatically reducing flight delays and cancellations as part of a 90-day pilot program.
The new Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories (SMART) tool, which is set to deploy at other airports across the country over the coming months, uses AI to predict weather and other interruptions so that air traffic managers have dynamic data to better coordinate flights.
“You’re going to be on the airfield much faster. Your airline is going to use less fuel,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters. “We are not outsourcing aviation to AI.”
Google's Threat Intelligence Group found experimental malware called PROMPTFLUX that could ask Gemini to rewrite its own code. One version was designed to do that every hour. Why would malware keep rewriting itself? To make it harder to recognize.
Security software can look for known patterns in malicious code. If that code keeps changing, the malware becomes a moving target. That does not automatically make it invisible to current security tools, but it can make some types of detection more difficult.
There is an important reality check here. PROMPTFLUX was still being developed when Google found it. Researchers had yet to see it successfully compromise a victim's device or network, and Google disabled assets connected to the activity.
What caught my attention is what came next. Google has since documented AI being used by malware during live attacks. It has also uncovered an Android backdoor that can use AI to understand what is happening on a phone and help decide what to do next.
[Jpost] The Czech Defense Ministry unveiled all four Rafael SPYDER air defense systems after completing a deal with Israel to modernize the country’s air defenses.
"I am pleased to be able to present the complete SPYDER system batteries to the general public on this occasion,” Zuna said during NATO Days, one of Europe’s largest defense and security events, held in the Czech city of Ostrava.
“The introduction of this system represents a significant technological and qualitative shift in the field of air defense and an important step in building modern, layered airspace protection for our republic," Zuna continued.
The delivery of the system is part of a 2021 government-to-government (G2G) agreement by Israel’s Defense Ministry and the Czech Republic. Production of all batteries has been completed with adaptations to the country’s military requirements and NATO standards.
The Czech Defense Ministry said the system is fully integrated into the NATO air defense alliance system and that all maintenance and service are provided entirely in the Czech Republic.
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[Regnum] A mass grave containing the bodies of people who died during the COVID-19 pandemic was discovered in a cemetery in the Romanian city of Slatina. The burial was disguised as a crypt, Mayor Mario De Mezzo told Agerpress.
The burial date was indicated on the bags containing the remains, of which there were 19.
"During excavations at the cemetery, human bones were discovered, as well as bags containing undecomposed bodies left behind by the COVID-19 pandemic. These are special bags, similar to those used during the pandemic, and they were discovered after additional examination and seized by police," the city's mayor told reporters.
Mezzo also stated that such a mass grave violated cemetery regulations; the deceased should have been buried in coffins, each one individually. He explained that the remains were discovered after cemetery administration decided to remodel one of the crypts.
For the past 16 years, the Slatina cemetery was managed by a private service. Local authorities sued the cemetery administration to return it to the municipal property registry. In September, the court ruled in favor of the mayor's office, leading to the development of the area.
A new coronavirus pandemic is entirely possible if a different strain emerges, Rospotrebnadzor head Anna Popova said on September 11.
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"A new coronavirus pandemic is entirely possible if a different strain emerges...
We do have Mid-terms early fake voting already in process in some states, and real voting starts in about 40 days.
Will they go C-19-X, Monkey-Pox, Ebola, plague or epidemic this time. Or are they saving it for Nov. 2027 for the Nov 2028 election window.
BTW: it was very interesting how in Nov. 2019 the CDC & CCP worked secretly together as the outbreak started. Until, Taiwan in Dec. 2019 warned the world.
[DM] A student opened fire in front of their high school in the western Turkish province of Manisa on Tuesday, wounding at least eight people including other pupils.
Two of the wounded were in a critical condition, local media reported.
Footage posted online showed a young figure walking on a street near the school with a rifle in his hands.
He appeared to be initially walking away from the school, looking over his shoulder every few seconds, before turning around and running towards the building.
Ambulances were later seen at the school. The assailant has since been caught, the governor's office said.
'A report was received regarding gunfire in the vicinity of the Inci Uzmez Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in our Turgutlu district at 07:59 [4.59am UK time],' the office wrote on X.
It added: 'Upon the report, a large number of police and medical teams were dispatched to the scene.
'According to initial findings related to the incident, it has been learned that eight people were affected. The injured have been transported to the nearest medical facility. Following the incident, the suspect individual believed to have fired the weapon has been apprehended and taken into custody by our security forces.
[JTN] President Donald Trump on Friday asked Russ Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, to draft an executive order that would create a board to oversee which grants the National Institutes of Health should fund.
The proposed board would include NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and Vought, and it would be required to reach unanimous decisions on grant awards, Politico reported, citing unnamed sources.
Lawmakers had included a provision in a stopgap funding bill that temporarily blocked the administration from implementing an earlier version of the Vought plan. Cutting funding for Harvard University, the sources told Politico, has been a priority for Trump, and the Vought plan would provide a workaround.
If executed, the proposed order would give Vought a direct role in determining how the NIH distributes $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money. Vought has led Trump's efforts to pushback on "wokeness" that's rampant in academia, and he's often clashed with Bhattacharya over the administration's approach to scientific research.
This clash was what prompted Friday's meeting, the Washington Post reported.
[RedState] BIG news out of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals late Monday as a three-judge panel (in a 2-1 vote) has now affirmed a district court temporary restraining order regarding the ongoing dispute over Missouri's congressional redistricting efforts. In short, the court ruled that Missouri must use the new 2025/HB 1 congressional map (i.e., the 7-1 map) for the November election.
It's been quite a roller coaster ride of late in the Show-Me State regarding the state's congressional map. I must confess that I was one of those who thought that once the primary election was held using the new 7-1 map (aka "Missouri First" or HB 1), things were fairly well settled on the matter. Boy, was I mistaken.
In the span of roughly a week, we got:
Missouri Supreme Court (which had previously held it constitutional for the legislature to conduct mid-decade redistricting and further found the 7-1 map sufficiently compact) holds that the referendum petition regarding the new map was valid and timely and must be placed on the November ballot, meaning (basically) that HB 1 never took effect and the 2022 congressional map remained in place.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh denies Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins' application for stay of SCOMO judgment.
District Judge Stephen Clark (Eastern District of Missouri) issues temporary restraining order (TRO) prohibiting Hoskins from using any map other than HB 1 — the new map — for the November 3 general election.
Hoskins issues directive to local election officials to finalize ballots based on the HB 1 map — i.e., the 7-1 map.
8th Circuit Court of Appeals denies referendum supporters' motion for stay pending appeal and for summary reversal of Clark's TRO, noting that it may lack jurisdiction to review the TRO at all.
SCOTUS steps in and stays Clark's TRO pending the disposition of the appeal in the 8th Circuit, and any subsequent petition for Supreme Court review.
SCOMO holds Hoskins in contempt for violating its order but also finds that he purged the contempt by notifying local election authorities of the SCOMO order and directing them to use the 2022 map.
8th Circuit says: "Submit your briefs; we'll hear oral argument on Thursday."
As an added wrinkle, Friday (September 18) was the deadline for election authorities to send out overseas and military ballots under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), so a quick turnaround from the 8th Circuit was anticipated.
That put the case before a three-judge 8th Circuit panel Thursday morning, with the judges well aware that the clock was ticking. So, here's what they ruled:
The court holds that because Missouri conducted the August primary under the 2025 map, switching to the 2022 map for the November general election would violate Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. The court's key point is that the primary and general election are parts of one process for choosing members of Congress, and that requires “continuity in the constituency throughout all stages of a single election.”
So, the court affirms Clark's TRO and remands the case to the district court with instructions to enter a permanent injunction barring Hoskins — and people acting in concert with him — from using anything other than the 2025/HB 1 map for the November election.
BUT...the district court is instructed to stay that permanent injunction until Monday, September 28, at 5 p.m. Central, specifically to give People Not Politicians (PNP — the group behind the referendum) time to seek Supreme Court review. If SCOTUS hasn't stayed or altered it by then, Hoskins and local election officials must implement the 2025 map.
Here's the bottom line: Per today's 8th Circuit ruling, Missouri cannot hold the two halves of the same congressional election using two different sets of districts. Because voters chose the parties' congressional nominees under the 2025 map in August, moving district lines before the November general election would leave hundreds of thousands of voters choosing among candidates they had no opportunity to nominate — while their primary votes helped select candidates they could no longer vote for in November.
Practically speaking, however, nothing changes just yet. The 2022 map remains in place while the 8th Circuit's permanent injunction is stayed through 5 p.m. Central on September 28, giving PNP a week to ask the Supreme Court to intervene. If SCOTUS doesn't do so by then, Missouri election officials will have to switch back to the 2025 map for November — which means this roller coaster may have one more rather consequential turn or loop left in it.
Update — 8:20 PM ET: Judge Clark has now, pursuant to the 8th Circuit ruling, entered a permanent injunction in the matter:
prohibiting Secretary of State Hoskins — as well as Secretary Hoskins's officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and all other persons who are in active concert or participation with Secretary of State Hoskins or his officers, agents, servants, employees, or attorneys — from implementing, using, publishing, distributing, or mandating the use of any congressional district map other than the 2025 map for the November 3, 2026, general election.
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That just means those who care will find that kind of news elsewhere, but since most of them were doing so anyway; those who got their news from the major TV networks were in the market for anti-Trump propaganda, so no change there.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump's visit to the UN General Assembly will not be televised by the major US broadcasters on Monday as they band together to boycott his ban on CNN and MS NOW.
Fox News, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC, collectively known as the TV pool, are protesting the White House and have decided to not dispatch cameramen or reporters to cover the president on Monday.
This means that Trump's trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Monday will go unaired on the major networks.
Still, the conservative outlet Real America's Voice (RAV) will be on hand to stream the event from the UN while local TV operator Hearst will cover the president's White House events.
Fox News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton, who serves as TV pool chair and is responsible for the logistics of presidential coverage, confirmed the decision to not send any TV news personnel to the UN in an email sent out on Monday morning.
'This is to advise that, effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President,' Boughton writes.
'This follows the White House's position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place.'
It is unclear when the major broadcasters will resume coverage of the president.
CNN was previously scheduled to serve as the TV pool crew on Monday, but that was before Trump banned that outlet, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.
However, the official daily guidance sent out by the White House on Sunday stated that there would be no TV pool on Monday, leaving CNN's rotation off the list.
Trump has also threatened to take action against the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Trump banned the outlets on Friday, calling them 'fake news' and lashing out at their critical coverage of his administration.
'It's about basic fairness,' Vice President JD Vance said of the ban on Monday.
'They can still report. They still have the access to free speech. They're just not going to get an office in the White House anymore.'
When reporters from the banned outlets appeared at the White House for work over the weekend, some had their press passes revoked.
The major broadcasters coalesced around the banned outlets and issued a blistering statement against the president's decision.
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No doubt the networks are feeling quite smug over their mean girls play, but I have a feeling this will not turn out to be the totally genius plan they think it is. Have they just just made themselves irrelevant? Who's up for a Bud Light?
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RE# 11 You can't believe the regular news in the US? Kinda like your oh so great Euro stations? When y'all get your situations figured out we will ask for your advice!
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I was thinking BBC with the moronic shit they say.
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So the propaganda machines lock themselves out in protest. We dont care! The world is now a little less divided because these machines are no long there...
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Wait for it.
Elon Musk buys one of the big 3 Lib Media groups.
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Fox News is liveblogging President Trump at the UN today — so nice that they’re letting us make up our own minds what to think about it all:
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Last UpdateSeptember 22, 2026, 11:11 AM EDT Trump tells UN he has 'big decision to make' in US-Iran war
President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly in New York that he is weighing whether to make a deal with the Iranian regime or "annihilate the Islamic Republic."
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Iranian Foreign Ministry announced Monday that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had arrived in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly, where Araghchi will present Iran’s foreign policy positions and hold talks with international leaders.
The U.N. Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said Monday Tehran committed crimes against humanity in its protest crackdowns that began in 2025, citing unlawful killings, torture, mass arrests and internet blackouts, a report said.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Monday that its forces have redirected 110 ships as part of Washington’s ongoing blockade of Iranian ports during Operation Epic Fury.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced Monday that the U.K. will provide military support to Saudi Arabia amid escalating attacks from the Houthis in Yemen.
[WAR ON THE ROCKS] When the M-1943 field jacket was introduced at the height of World War II, it was a revolutionary garment. The jacket was the result of rigorous testing, input from an astonishingly diverse group of experts, and was produced by the most advanced textile and garment industry in the world at the time. But the essence of the M-1943 field jacket, and what made it so unique, was the very simple question it was trying to answer: "What does the soldier want?"
The success of the field jacket highlights how a diversity of thought, a mastery of logistics, and a concern for the well-being of the common soldier were foundational to America’s citizen army and the essence of a democracy’s fight against fascism.
Uniforms are often overlooked in discussions of military technological advancements or force multipliers. It is easy to understand that the ability to put an M1 Garand rifle in the hands of every infantryman in World War II was a massive industrial undertaking that only the United States could have accomplished, and the firepower it gave a U.S. Army infantry platoon shaped tactical outcomes. The same can be said for uniforms, whose design and quality had an appreciable effect.
The M-1943 field jacket and the modular layering system designed to work with it kept U.S. soldiers warmer and drier, reducing cold-weather casualties that could seriously undercut the combat effectiveness of units without it. Similarly, for much of the history of warfare, the winter months meant an end to campaigning, with both sides hunkering down to winter quarters and waiting for the spring fighting season. Just as night-vision technology enabled American dominance of the dark on 21st-century battlefields, the field jacket allowed U.S. troops to own the cold. The impact of U.S. Army uniform development is as important to the story of the United States in World War II as the M1 Garand.
Much of this essay is based on archival research conducted at either the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, or the Quartermaster Corps Museum at Fort Lee, Virginia. Many of the quoted documents, memos, and histories are, unfortunately, unavailable online. A key source, quoted throughout, is Designed for Combat: The Army’s Field Jackets by Norman E. Roberts, an internal history of the Army’s wartime field jacket development and production commissioned by the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot in 1946. Another is Clothing the Soldier of World War II, published by the Quartermaster Corps as part of their postwar historical series, by Dr. Erna Risch, a prolific historian who would eventually become the chief of the Historical Section of the Quartermaster General.
The development of the first military field jacket began in late 1939 when the War Department Uniform Board was directed to develop "some type of windbreaker or lumberjacket for field service." The job of designing such a jacket was taken up by Maj. Gen. J. K. Parsons. Parsons envisioned that instead of soldiers going to war in their service coats — woolen jackets with brass buttons, better suited for dress but customarily worn in the field as well — they should wear a jacket specifically for field use. He settled on a lightweight cotton jacket with a wool shirt lining, about waist-length, based largely on golf jackets. The result was what would become the M-1941 field jacket.
[FOX] The disruption began around 9:45 a.m. after a fiber-optic line in New Jersey was accidentally cut, causing a telecommunications outage and prompting ground stops at major airports in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia, according to Reuters.
By Monday evening, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the telecommunications lines had been repaired and airport operations across the Northeast were resuming, though travelers should continue to expect delays.
The outage contributed to roughly 7,000 flight delays and cancellations, including about 1,400 at New York City's three major airports, Reuters reported, citing FlightAware.
Davis said airlines classify events like Monday's outage as "irregular operations" — unexpected disruptions such as severe weather or equipment failures that can quickly throw carefully coordinated flight schedules off balance.
Even after the original problem is fixed, airlines must reposition aircraft, pilots, flight attendants and passengers throughout their networks, creating a cascade of additional delays.
"There's always a downhill trickle of subsequent delays, diversions, cancelations," Davis said. "It's basically a fact of life."
Even so, Davis noted that airlines and airports have extensive experience managing these disruptions.
"Having said all of that, the airlines and the airports are so experienced in handling irregular operations, they do their best within their controls to minimize the effect on passengers," Davis said.
Despite the widespread disruptions, Davis stressed that airlines never compromise safety in an effort to restore schedules.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Reuters] The world's largest beer festival opened in Munich on Saturday, drawing visitors in traditional Bavarian dress for two weeks of celebrations expected to attract millions.
