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German federal properties remain empty in midst of housing shortage

More than 360,000 square metres of housing owned by the German federal government are vacant amidst a severe lack of housing in many German cities, information obtained by dpa showed. The properties amount to around several thousand flats which are supposed to house federal employees, according to the information. The government’s property agency BIMA owns […]

Tacoma store owner pulls out machete in midst of robbery

There was an attempted robbery in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood that took a shocking turn on February 5. Seventy-year-old Naif Qatamin, the owner of Salena One Market, told KIRO 7 that when a man pointed “a small knife” at him while attempting to rob his cash register, Qatamin pulled out a machete, catching the would-be robber […]