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Four men arrested at Aire de Capellen service station over suspected kidnapping

Early on Monday morning, Luxembourg police received information from their Belgian counterparts that a person had been kidnapped in the Antwerp area and that the suspects’ vehicle was travelling in the border region. Shortly afterwards, police located the car at Aire de Capellen service station, along with the victim and four suspects.

According to initial information, the victim and the suspects knew each other. On the instructions of the public prosecutor’s office, the four individuals were arrested and were due to appear before the examining magistrate on Monday..

Also today

• A man was stabbed in the Gare district of Luxembourg City this afternoon at around 2pm. Officers administered first aid at the scene before the victim was taken to hospital and the suspect was arrested.
• Britain’s former prince Andrew, his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson and a career Labour politician were have been thrust back into the eye of the Jeffrey Epstein storm, as shocking, often intimate emails with the late sex offender rocked political and royal circles.
• A violent altercation occurred near a nightclub on Rue Dicks in Luxembourg City, on Friday night, which left three people injured, one suffering such severe head injuries that he had to undergo emergency surgery. The perpetrators were swiftly caught and arrested.
• Police have issued a missing person report for Rihanna Nella Pettinato, who was last seen on 27 January.
  Rihanna is between 1.60m and 1.70m tall, with a thin build, has dark hair, and dark-brown eyes. She was last seen in Bigonville.
• Subway trains, buses and trams across Germany ground to a halt Monday in a public transport strike called by one of the country’s biggest unions in a dispute over pay and conditions.
• Chile has officially backed the candidacy of its former president Michelle Bachelet to become the UN’s first female secretary-general, with backing from Mexico and Brazil.
• France is expected to adopt its 2026 budget todayafter months of fraught negotiations if Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu survives the latest in a string of no-confidence motions.

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Figure of the day

The Verdi services sector union has called on almost 100,000 staff in 150 transport companies to take part a strike in Germany

• Subway trains, buses and trams across Germany ground to a halt Monday in a public transport strike called by one of the country’s biggest unions in a dispute over pay and conditions. Bitter winter weather and icy pavements in large parts of the country meant that alternatives such as walking or cycling were more hazardous than usual for commuters.

• In some states, the union is also pushing for pay increases of around 10 percent.
  “If we don’t go on strike for better conditions, the jobs will remain unattractive, as we have seen in the past few years,” Verdi spokesman Andreas Schackert told public broadcaster ZDF.

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