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Baggage handlers stealing items from passengers' lost luggage at Rome's Fiumicino Airport

31 July 2017

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Firefighters in the Czech Republic have been tackling a huge fire after a train derailed.

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Ihor Brusylo told the BBC's Jeremy Bowen that US President Donald Trump's stance on the war was "alarming".

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