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Arrest Of Alleged 'Canadian Psycho' Captured On Video

STERN (Germany)

BERLIN - Luka Rocco Magnotta , the Canadian porn actor wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his lover, is to appear in court in Berlin the day after being arrested in the German capital following an international manhunt.

"The suspect will be presented today Tuesday to the judge who will confirm his detention," a spokesman for the Berlin public prosecutor told the AFP, adding it could take several days to arrange his extradition to Canada.

Watch Luka Rocco Magnotta's arrest filmed by surveillance cameras in an internet cafe in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin. The alleged killer offered no resistance and surrendered to the police simply saying "You got me," the news magazine Stern reports.


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"The Mine Of The Dead": Inside Egypt's Desert Gold War

There is a long history of mining in Egypt that goes back thousands of years, but has largely been dormant over the past century. But it's picking up now, with troubling ramifications.

Militia gang holding guns.

Hamdy Abu Saleh, the head of one of the militias attacking gold miners (left) with members of his gang.

Moataz Hagag and Mourad Higazy

ASWAN – Standing at any point in the deserts of Aswan and looking out across the vast expanse of sand that stretches out toward the horizon in all directions, the vastness, the seeming emptiness, it is hard to imagine that this is the staging ground of a slow brewing war.

But in the last few years, the Eastern Desert has become a warzone.

Warplanes conduct reconnaissance missions. There are ambushes along desert roads, raids, military trials, the deaths of security forces, men toting guns on social media to tout their strength.

But this isn’t a war of ideology or a political struggle over the fallout of revolution and counter-revolution. No. The frontier lands of Aswan are the site of a different conflict: a gold war.

“Gold is like fish, and the desert is like the sea,” says an informal miner in Aswan, describing their work to Mada Masr. And the fishermen are many, from smugglers and local tribesmen to groups of Egyptian laborers, migrants and miners.

Estimates put the reserves of the Sukari mine, one of the biggest mines in the Eastern Desert, at around six million ounces of gold alone. The price of a single ounce of gold in Egypt is now over $1,900.

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