Four people have been killed in a prison in the Brazilian city of Manaus in another round of clashes between rival gangs.
Three of the victims at the Vidal Pessoa jail in the city centre were decapitated.
The prison was reopened to house prisoners from a jail where 56 prisoners died in a riot last week.
Officials say the prison violence in the state is part of a war between rival gangs over the drug trade.
It has spread to other state prisons; in neighbouring Roraima state, 33 people were killed in clashes on Friday.
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The escalating feud is between Brazil’s biggest drug gangs who ended two decades of an uneasy working relationship six months ago.
The largest and most powerful gang, the Sao Paulo-based First Capital Command (PCC) split with the Rio de Janeiro-based Red Command when the PCC took over drug trading routes in the south-east of the country.
Members of the PCC were targeted last Sunday in the first violent outbreak at a jail on the outskirts of Manaus.
The death toll of 56 made it the most violent jail riot in Brazil for decades.
Five days later, PCC members killed 33 people at a state prison Roraima state.
Mobile phone video shared on social media showed inmates hacking at bodies in acts of revenge.
Experts say the PCC is moving to infiltrate areas in the Red Command’s home base of Rio and infiltrating Brazil’s Amazon region to control cocaine-smuggling river routes.
Since it split from the PCC, the Red Command has allied itself with the smaller northern regional gang, the North Family.
The government has till now used a policy of transferring gang leaders and members to jails distant from their operating territories.
Human rights agencies have argued that the measures have had little effect and have called for a programme of capital spending to relieve chronic overcrowding and appalling conditions in the country’s jails.
At the request of several of the northern states governors, the Brazilian government has promised a new prison building programme to deal with the overcrowding and extra security personnel to try to quell the mounting violence.

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The Latest on charges filed against an adoptive mother and her boyfriend in a teen dismemberment case (all times local):
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A Pennsylvania woman whose dismembered 14-year-old adopted daughter’s remains were found in the woods last fall has been arraigned on charges she killed the girl as part of a “rape-murder fantasy” she shared with her boyfriend.
Sara Packer was arraigned Sunday on charges including criminal homicide, rape and abuse of a corpse. Her boyfriend, Jacob Sullivan, was arraigned on similar charges hours earlier.
Officials say 14-year-old Grace Packer was beaten, raped as her mother watched, poisoned and hours later strangled a stifling attic in July. They say the couple stored Grace’s body there, dismembered it in October and dumped it in a park.
Packer has been ordered held without bail and is to be transferred to Bucks County Prison.
The couple didn’t enter pleas. No attorney information for either is available.
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A Pennsylvania woman whose dismembered 14-year-old daughter’s remains were found in the woods last fall has been charged along with her boyfriend with killing the girl in what officials are calling a “rape-murder fantasy” the couple shared.
Sara Packer and Jacob Sullivan face nearly two dozen charges including criminal homicide, rape and abuse of a corpse. Jacob Sullivan was arraigned early Sunday; Packer is awaiting arraignment.
As Sullivan was taken into court Sunday, he told reporters he was sorry for what he did to Grace Packer. Grace was the adopted daughter of Packer.
Officials say Grace was beaten, raped, poisoned and left for dead in an attic in July. They say they couple stored Grace’s body there and dismembered it in October.
No attorney information for either is available.

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Bombers strike Shia areas in Iraq’s capital also wounding 50 others with one attack claimed by the armed group ISIL.
Suicide bombings at two marketplaces in eastern Baghdad killed at least 20 people – the latest in a spate of attacks in the Iraqi capital that have left dozens dead in recent days.
In the first blast claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the attacker drove an explosives-rigged car into a vegetable market in the mainly Shia district of Jamila and detonated it, killing at least 13 people, police said.
A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest blew himself up a few hours later at a market in the mostly Shia district of Baladiyat, killing another seven people.
Both attacks wounded at least 50 people.
ISIL claimed the first attack in an online statement saying the bomber had targeted “a gathering of Shias” in Jamila.
Jamila is the main wholesale vegetable market in Baghdad and lies in Sadr City, which has been repeatedly targeted.
A series of attacks in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities have killed more than 80 people in just over a week.
Several have been claimed by ISIL, also known as ISIS, which is coming under increasing pressure from a military offensive in Mosul, its last major stronghold in Iraq.
On January 2, also in Sadr City, a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives among a crowd of day labourers waiting for work, killing 35 people.
In July 2016, an ISIL car bombing at a shopping district during Ramadan killed almost 300 people, the worst such attack in years .

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(CNN) Four people died Sunday in a riot at a prison in Brazil, the nation’s third deadly prison uprising in seven days.
CNN’s Flora Charner reported and wrote from Rio de Janeiro, with Ralph Ellis writing and reporting in Atlanta.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBSNewYork) — Law enforcement sources have told CBS2 that Fort Lauderdale airport shooting suspect Esteban Santiago-Ruiz picked the Florida airport at random and did not have any prior linkage to that airport.
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As CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported from Fort Lauderdale, the shooting was reported just before 1 p.m. Friday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in the baggage claim area of Terminal 2, which is used by Delta Airlines and Air Canada.
Five people were killed, and several others were injured.
Santiago was arrested without incident after the shooting and was in police custody Friday night. Sources said there was no nexus to terrorism with the shooter, but terrorism has not been ruled out as a motive.
Santiago-Ruiz, 26, was born in New Jersey, law enforcement sources told CBS News. Santiago-Ruiz spent most of his time in Puerto Rico before going to Anchorage, Alaska.
Sources told CBS News a man meeting Santiago-Ruiz’s description , and who is believed to have been Santiago-Ruiz, walked into FBI offices in Anchorage two months ago and said the government was forcing him to watch ISIS videos. Agents were apparently so concerned about him they took him to a mental health facility, CBS News’ Scott Pelley reported.
Sources also told CBS2 the 9mm handgun Santiago-Ruiz had when he walked into the FBI office in Anchorage is the same weapon he allegedly used in the Fort Lauderdale attack.
Senator Chuck Schumer says after the attack, its clear that the front lines of security at airports needs to extend throughout the entire facility — not just the point after the check in desk, WCBS 880’s Mike Smeltz reported.
“We’ve been very secure on the other side, we gotta make this side secure,” Schumer said. “We thought after 9/11 we couldn’t stop what they did — we’ve done a pretty good job, knock [on] wood.”
Schumer also says gun laws need to strengthen, specifically in this case where the suspected shooter is reported to have suffered from mental health issues, but was legally allowed to carry a gun.
Sources say the investigation into the incident is still in its early stages and officials are looking to speak to anyone who may have known or been in contact with Santiago before the attack.
Investigators are also reviewing Santiago’s communication and financial records.
Santiago-Ruiz will be charged federally and is expected to appear in court in South Florida on Monday.

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Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died on Sunday at the age of 82, state media reported, a big blow to moderates and reformists deprived now of their most influential supporter in the Islamic establishment.
“Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani was taken to hospital after heart attack and more than an hour long efforts by doctors to revive him were not successful,” the deputy minister of health was quoted by Fars news agency as saying.
Residents said a crowd gathered outside the hospital in northern Tehran where Rafsanjani was taken.
In a sign of mourning, state television channels carried a black banner on a corner of screen.
Mehdi, the imprisoned son of Hashemi who is in jail on corruption charges, attended the hospital to say goodbye to the body of his father. He was escorted out by police.
Rafsanjani was an influential figure in Iran , and headed the Expediency Council, a body which is intended to resolve disputes between the parliament and the Guardian Council. He was also a member of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that selects the supreme leader, Iran’s most powerful figure.
Rafsanjani has been described as “a pillar of the Islamic revolution. ” His pragmatic policies — economic liberalization, better relations with the West and empowering Iran’s elected bodies — appealed to many Iranians but was despised by hardliners.
His death is a big blow to moderate president Hassan Rouhani five months before a presidential election.
Since 2009 he and his family have faced criticism over their support for the opposition movement which lost that year’s disputed election to former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
His funeral will be held in Tehran on Tuesday, his relative and aide Hossein Marashi was quoted as saying by Fars news agency.

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