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Police in France have taken a young American woman into custody after her new born baby was thrown out of a window of a Parisian hotel.
Emergency services worked to revive the infant after the incident but it was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital.
Child protection police authorities are currently investigating the incident which happened on Monday morning as a homicide of a minor younger than 15 years old.
The mother who was travelling through Europe with a group of young adults has been taken to hospital for treatment following childbirth and is being held there.
A tourist from Poland who was also staying at the hotel described to the press men how he was woken up by rescue services early on Monday morning.
“I was sleeping but at 7 o'clock (in the morning), two firemen came to my room number and knocked at my door and said 'I must check your number” he said.
It is not yet clear whether this is a case of pregnancy denial - a condition in which a woman remains unaware or is in denial of her pregnancy until labour, as authorities are considering it as a possibility.
The Kremlin is utilising the recent United States and Israeli military strikes on Iran to validate its ongoing war in Ukraine. Russian officials are pointing to the escalation in the Middle East as evidence that Western nations do not adhere to international rules.
Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant Saudi Aramco closed its Ras Tanura refinery on Monday following an Iranian drone strike, an industry source told Reuters as Tehran retaliated across the Gulf after a U.S.-Israeli attack on Iranian targets over the weekend.
The Middle East crisis intensifies after the deadly attack on the compound of the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei on Saturday that killed him, other family members and senior figures. Iran has launched retaliatory strikes on U.S. targets in the region.
U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. military has enough stockpiled weapons to fight wars "forever"; in a social media post late on Monday. The remarks came hours before conflict in Iran and the Middle East entered its fourth day.
Türkiye raised its security level for Turkish-flagged vessels in the Strait of Hormuz to Level 3 on Sunday (2 March). The development follows Iranian restrictions on shipping after U.S. and Israeli strikes and confirmation of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s death.
Strikes across the Middle East are intensifying, fuelling travel disruption, driving up global energy prices and forcing diplomatic missions to shut their doors as tensions continue to rise.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said the United States has a “virtually unlimited supply” of munitions and is capable of sustaining military action indefinitely, as the conflict with Iran entered its fourth day.
The United Nations has called for an investigation into a deadly attack on a girls’ primary school in Iran, which Iranian officials say has killed more than 100 children. The U.S. has said its forces “would not” deliberately target a school.
U.S. first lady, Melania Trump chaired a UN Security Council meeting on children and education in conflict on Monday (2 March), a move criticised by Iran as hypocritical following U.S. and Israeli strikes that triggered a UN warning about risks to children.
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