A 32-year-old German man is accused of persuading around 122 children to send him their nude photos and videos. The suspect likely pretended to be a young girl in an online chat which is popular among children.

Prosecutors in German's Lower Saxony filed the case against the man from the small town of Bad Iburg who reportedly chatted online with children and coaxed them into sending him nude photos or videos of themselves performing sex acts, local media reported on Friday.

The children aged between seven and 13 years old were from Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. The suspect allegedly used a fake name and showed them a video of a young girl he pretended to be so that victims trusted him.

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On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing that overdose deaths caused by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl—the drug that killed Prince—rose by nearly 75 percent in 2015. On the same day, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced the arrest of six former employees, including a former CEO and two former vice presidents, of the Phoenix-based and NASDAQ-traded fentanyl producer Insys Therapeutics. The individuals are charged with bribing doctors and otherwise conspiring to induce the overprescription of a fentanyl product called Subsys.

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The Israeli army officially inaugurated its new chief rabbi at the beginning of this month - but not before he issued a sworn statement apologizing for past religious rulings that have been roundly criticized as sexist.

Eyal Krim, who has served as the army's second-highest-ranking religious official for the last four years, was elevated to the rank of brigadier general after Israel's high court ruled that the appointment could be allowed.

Krim was to have taken up his post a week previous, but his inauguration was delayed by the court. The order to delay was made after parliamentarians from Meretz, a left-leaning Zionist party, petitioned the high court against his appointment. The petition focused on how Krim had sanctioned the rape of non-Jewish women by Jewish soldiers in 2002.

"Every rabbi, educator or public figure is required to have the ability to retract and to admit a mistake. I do not hesitate to say I erred," Krim wrote in his affidavit.

Krim made the controversial religious rulings when he was a civilian, publishing them on Kipa.co.il, a Hebrew-language web forum popular with Orthodox Jews.

Opponents of the Trans-Pecos Pipeline are finding hope in their last resort.

In a tiny and remote West Texas town, pipeline protesters are following in the footsteps of those at Standing Rock.

Two residents of the 6,000-person city of Alpine were arrested early Tuesday morning on grounds of trespassing after they chained themselves to the entrance gates of a pipeline-construction site owned and operated by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the Dallas-based energy company responsible for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Dozens more stood by, holding electric tea lights and signs denouncing the energy company.

Inspired by the fight against the DAPL near the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, the group was protesting a different ETP pipeline project. The Trans-Pecos Pipeline will cut through the spare and pristine Big Bend region of Texas to the border of Mexico, transporting natural gas into Mexico's interior.

This was the latest in a more-than-two-year battle to halt the pipeline's construction, during which its opponents have fought vigilantly, albeit through more institutionalized avenues. Since news of the pipeline began to spread in the spring of 2015, residents concerned about the environmental impact of the pipeline and its infringement on private land have collected signatures and rallied the support of local governance. They sat through condemnation hearings, and even filed suit against the pipeline company. They filed more than 600 comments with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency responsible for regulating the small segment of pipeline that would stretch beneath the Rio Grande, and requested that the entire length of the pipeline be subject to environmental review. Their request was denied in May of this year, and ETP continued construction at full steam.

Many feel their voices have fallen on deaf ears. Now, tired and disillusioned after years of protesting, and with the pipeline very near completion, opponents of the Trans-Pecos Pipeline are trying direct action for the first time.

"Our community has tried protesting in all the other acceptable ways," said Lori Glover, a representative of the Big Bend Defense Coalition who was one of the two arrested Tuesday. "This is the last resort."

As the bitter cold sets in, Denver's homeless population is pleading with city leaders to change course on its urban camping ban.

Current policy is putting lives in danger, according to homeless advocates.

To enforce the ban, police officers make routine sweeps and occasionally clear out homeless people's belongings when violations occur that result in citations being issued.

Seizing those belongings includes taking blankets and sleeping bags needed to stay warm, according to some who attended Monday night's city council meeting.

"You're not helping the situation for us," one homeless person said while addressing council members.

More than a dozen stepped up to have their voices heard. They all had one message: Do away with Denver's ban on urban camping.

"A week ago, it was 20 degrees out when your police officers were taking blankets from women in wheelchairs," claimed one person who spoke to the council.

With temperatures falling to dangerously cold levels this week and shelters close to capacity, advocates said Denver's homeless need more options.

Pipeline giant Energy Transfer Partners has another battle on its hands as West Texas protesters fight the construction of the 42-inch Trans-Pecos pipeline in an apparent anti-DAPL inspired action.

Opposition in the town of Alpine - a gateway to Big Bend National Park - dates back two years. However, it intensified this week when a number of protesters were reportedly arrested after chaining themselves to the construction site outside.

This comes after the Texas-based natural gas company was served a blow last week, when the US Army Corps of Engineers refused permission for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross Lake Oahe.

New allegations against Russian athletes from the recently released McLaren report may be politically motivated, with sports being used to put pressure on the country, a cyclist who revealed a UK doping scandal told RT.

"It's total nonsense. Obviously, Russia has got problems, but I think doping is clearly an endemic problem. It's wrong for WADA to allow anyone to focus on one nation. As far as I'm aware, there hasn't been any other analysis of any other nation to the level that Russia has experienced," Dan Stevens told RT.

The former amateur British cyclist blew the whistle on a doctor who allegedly doped 150 UK athletes.

Russia came back into the doping scandal spotlight following the release of part two of the McLaren report on Friday.

The extended investigation by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren backed up his earlier findings of alleged state-sponsored cheating, adding a number of fresh accusations.

The report says the country created "an institutional doping conspiracy" across summer, winter, and Paralympic sports. Without providing any names, it claims that over 1,000 athletes benefited from the alleged plot to conceal positive doping tests between 2011 and 2015. The list is said to include Olympic medalists from the London and Sochi games.

A neo-Nazi group is actively mobilizing in Sweden, an anti-racism watchdog report says. The group recently drew hundreds to a mass demonstration in Stockholm, hailing the results of the US election as the beginning of a world revolution.

A new study conducted by anti-racism group Expo revealed that 32 percent of activists in the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) had no previously known links to neo-Nazi activity.

"That means that this environment has taken in new individuals. A third of those who were active in 2015 are new recruits," Expo representative Jonathan Leman told Swedish radio.