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World in brief: February 23, 2023
PSNI forensic officers inspect the scene where off-duty Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell was shot a number of times by masked men in front of young people he had been coaching at the sports complex in the Killyclogher Road area of Omagh, Co Tyrone

GREECE: A search-and-rescue operation for four migrants missing off the coast of an eastern island took place today after a boat trying to reach the country from the Turkish coast got into difficulty.

The coastguard found 18 people on the boat off the southern coast of Samos following a distress call, with passengers reporting that there had originally been 22 aboard.

 

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