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What began as a casual lunch between five Twin Cities software engineers quickly escalated into a frightening encounter after the men were misidentified as undercover federal agents and protesters were alerted to the Minneapolis restaurant where they were dining. AlphaNews obtained video and spoke with one of the men, Lee, a software engineer from Plymouth, who described how the situation unfolded. Group chat alert allegedly triggered protest Lee said the group was eating lunch at Clancy’s Deli, near 38thStreet and Grand AvenueSouth, when one of the men — who belongs to an anti-ICE Signal chat—received a message from a group...

Mosul - A 12-year-old Iraqi boy was killed and four other bystanders were seriously wounded as United States troops clashed with insurgents in Iraq's main northern city late on Wednesday killing four of them, police and medics said. Two US soldiers were also wounded in the twin clashes in Mosul city centre, police said. In the first exchange, insurgents threw hand grenades and opened fire at a US Humvee in the Hay Masraf district and soldiers returned fire killing one of them, said police captain Fathi Salah Zubeidi who witnessed the attack. In the second, insurgents attacked US troops with...