SAN FRANCISCO -- A 29-year-old man was shot and killed across the street from the Harvard Market in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood early Tuesday.

Police responded to sounds of gunfire shortly before 3 a.m. where they found the man with multiple gunshot wounds in his torso, police said. (US-Seattle-Shooting)

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DAMASCUS -- A car bomb exploded in the northern Aleppo town of Tel Rifaat on Tuesday, injuring at least four people, including a child, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Ambulances rushed to the scene amid a heavy security deployment. (Syria-Bomb-Injury)

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NEW YORK -- U.S. investigators have learned the name of a woman who was burned alive and beyond recognizability aboard a Brooklyn train last week in New York City, reported The New York Times on Tuesday.

The police identified the woman as Debrina Kawam, 61, of Toms River, New Jersey. She was the victim of an apparently random attack captured in videos that showed her bracing herself against the doorway of an F train in Coney Island, her body engulfed by flames. Hours later, Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, the 33-year-old man accused of attacking Kawam, was charged with first-degree murder and arson. (NYC-US-Subway Death)

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HARARE -- Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty, with sentences for prisoners currently on death row now set to be reviewed, according to a government gazette published on Tuesday.

The new law prohibits courts from imposing the death penalty for any crime, and the Supreme Court is barred from confirming existing death sentences. (Zimbabwe-Death Penalty-Abolishment)

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BERLIN -- Several people were injured, including two hospitalized, in a random knife attack in western Berlin on New Year's Eve, German police reported Tuesday.

The incident took place around 11:50 a.m. outside a supermarket in Charlottenburg, a typically quiet district of the capital, according to German newspaper Bild. (Berlin-Knife Attack) Enditem

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