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BBC news 2016-12-23

Now BBC news with Stewart Macintosh.

Police forces across Europe are hunting a 24-year-old Tunisian man in connection with the Berlin lorry attack. Officials in Germany say AnisAmri could be armed and dangerous. He had been suspected of planning to commit a serious crime before the attack on the Christmas market.

An examination of satellite imagery and the forensic investigations of bomb craters has revealed that artillery units in Russia regularly targeting Ukrainian military positions during nearly part of conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The Russian government denies involvement.

The Supreme Court in Gambia will hear President Yahya Jammeh’slegal challenge to this month election result, but not until January because there are not enough judges. The chief justice said new members from Nigeria and Serine Leon had been appointed but they won’t be in the country.

One of Brazil’s biggest construction companies Odebrecht has admitted in a court in the United States to pay bribes to officials to secure contracts. The company and Brazilian petrochemical firm BrazChem have agreed to pay to at least 3.5 billion dollars to settle charges breaching of foreign bribery laws.

Buses are evacuating the last remaining civilians from the rebel enclave in eastern Aleppo. The international committee of the Red Cross says it’s now brought out all hospital patients and those needing medical care.

The authorities in Mexico have identified 13 of the 31 people killed in a series of explosions in the country’s biggest fireworks market on Tuesday. The Mexico state prosecutor said some were so badly charred that neither their age nor the gender could immediately be determined.

The outgoing president of Ghana John Mahama has been criticized for making appointments to key public institutions less than three weeks before he leaves office. A law suit has been filed to stop in giving out any further jobs. BBC news.