Today: September 12, 2026
Today: September 12, 2026

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At flood-destroyed border, China teams scour ruins of once-busy port

Chinese officials said on Sunday that workers had recovered 12 more bodies as the search continued for hundreds still missing after a

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Fight breaks out during memorial event for 9-year-old girl

Fight breaks out during memorial event for 9-year-old girl

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Illinois mother texted friends about Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial hours before killing her 2-year-old, prosecutors say

Illinois mother texted friends about Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial hours before killing her 2-year-old, prosecutors say

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Building collapse in New Delhi kills 1 and traps dozens of others

A building has collapsed in New Delhi, killing at least one person and trapping dozens of others

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Lindsay Clancy’s fate unresolved as mistrial leaves her case in the court of public opinion – for now

Lindsay Clancy’s fate unresolved as mistrial leaves her case in the court of public opinion – for now

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Watch judge declare mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case after jurors can’t reach verdict

A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the former nurse accused of murdering her three children, after jurors deadlocked and were unable to reach a verdict.

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Parents of San Diego mosque gunman say a mental health facility failed to heed FBI warning

Federal law enforcement warned the parents of Caleb Vazquez, one of two teenagers involved in a San Diego mosque shooting, about his concerning online comments days before the attack

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Putin meets with US envoys at the Kremlin for renewed talks on ending the war in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin

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Barry Morphew arrested days after being ordered on house arrest for alleged hit-and-run

Barry Morphew arrested days after being ordered on house arrest for alleged hit-and-run

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US strikes 3 Iranian oil tankers after saying warships were targeted with ballistic missiles

The U.S. military says it has struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with ballistic missiles

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Pool contractor sentenced to 5 years after leaving families' backyards in ruin

Pool contractor sentenced to 5 years after leaving families' backyards in ruin

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Berlin launches crisis response after hackers publish stolen data

Berlin's state government said on Saturday it was reviewing with the highest intensity a trove of stolen data published by a ransomware group, as investigators attempt to

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Mother charged with murder of 2-year-old son in Illinois was invested in Clancy trial: prosecutors

Mother charged with murder of 2-year-old son in Illinois was invested in Clancy trial: prosecutors

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US hits Iranian oil tankers, and other key Mideast developments

The U.S. military has hit three Iranian oil tankers after accusing Iran of targeting its warships

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Thousands rally in Croatia demanding urgent cleanup of toxic waste from a town

Tens of thousands of people have rallied in Croatia in an environmental demonstration

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Missouri asks Supreme Court to revive Republican-drawn congressional map

Missouri asked the U.S.

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Chinese national rescued from Nepal tunnel 10 days after flash flood

A Chinese national was pulled alive from a tunnel in Nepal on Saturday, authorities said, 10 days after a wall

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Philippine VP Duterte posts bail after arrest order for alleged grave threats

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte posted bail on Saturday after a trial court ordered her arrest on three counts of grave threats

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Disruptive passenger duct-taped to first-class seat as plane makes emergency landing

Disruptive passenger duct-taped to first-class seat as plane makes emergency landing

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White House reviews candidates to replace Hegseth deputy Feinberg, sources say

The White House has reviewed candidates to potentially replace Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, three

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Trump grants clemency to 30 people, White House pardon czar says

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ICE officer charged in Minnesota shooting released on bond

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has been released from federal custody after appearing in court on charges of lying to investigators about the circumstances that led to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Minnesota immigration crackdown last winter

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A mistrial is declared in the murder case against Lindsay Clancy. Here's what could happen next

A hearing later this month could determine the next steps in the murder case against Lindsay Clancy

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Niger blames France for inciting soldiers' mutiny

Niger has blamed France for inciting an attack on a key military airbase by mutinous soldiers last week, according to a government statement read on TV on Friday.

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Midterm mail ballots start to go to voters as litigation over Trump's order creates uncertainty

Statewide mail voting for this year’s midterm elections is kicking off amid a churning legal battle over President Donald Trump’s attempts to limit the practice

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Key moments in the Lindsay Clancy case: the 911 call, mental health care, mistrial

The judge has declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial

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Sky owner Michael Alter calls Enes Kanter Freedom lawsuit 'meritless and frivolous'

Chicago Sky owner Michael Alter says a lawsuit filed by former NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom is “meritless and frivolous.”

Crime|Election

Mexican ruling-party lawmaker found dead with gunshot wound, a year before elections

By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY, Sept 4 - A member of Congress from Mexico's ruling Morena party was found dead from a gunshot wound in the eastern state of Veracruz on Friday, less than a year before

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Brazilian Supreme Court justices at odds as election and probe into failed bank loom

Brazil’s Supreme Court has plunged further into an institutional crisis, as two of its best known justices are now requesting major sanctions against each other

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Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder case ended in a mistrial. What happens next?

Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder case ended in a mistrial. What happens next?

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Mistrial is declared in Lindsay Clancy child killings case after jury deadlocks

A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in the murder case against Lindsay Clancy

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Ecuador says US sinkings of vessels were part of joint anti-drug probe

Ecuador defended on Friday U.S. operations that intercepted and sank three Ecuadorean vessels this week, while relatives of some crew members said the

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Knife-wielding man on Brooklyn Bridge cables fatally shot after ignoring orders to drop weapon

Police have fatally shot a knife-wielding man on a cable of New York City's Brooklyn Bridge after he ignored orders to drop the weapon and came within feet of an officer

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The Lindsay Clancy trial brings maternal mental health into the spotlight

The Lindsay Clancy trial brings maternal mental health into the spotlight

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Judge clears a lawsuit against Kyrsten Sinema under North Carolina's 'homewrecker' law

A judge has ruled that former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be sued under North Carolina's homewrecker law

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Lindsay Clancy trial the latest high-profile murder case for Judge William Sullivan 

Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan played a prominent role in at least two other high-profile murder trials before presiding over the

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Lindsay Clancy trial over killing her children ends in mistrial

A judge declared a mistrial on Friday in the U.S. murder trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her

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Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case after jurors can’t reach a verdict

Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case after jurors can’t reach a verdict

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Records reveal safety complaints, poor maintenance at site of deadly Washington pulp mill disaster

A pulp mill in Longview, Washington, where 11 workers died after a chemical tank collapsed in May had a history of safety complaints, poor maintenance and discharges of toxic chemicals

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ICE officer federally charged in Minneapolis shooting lied to investigators 6 times, indictment says

ICE officer federally charged in Minneapolis shooting lied to investigators 6 times, indictment says

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Florida man accused of charging at man with machete, approaching children while intoxicated

Florida man accused of charging at man with machete, approaching children while intoxicated

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Malta attorney general set to appeal acquittal in journalist murder trial

Malta's attorney general is set to appeal the acquittal of a top businessman over the murder of an anti-corruption journalist, seeking a retrial, the Times of

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Officer fired amid investigations after K-9 use-of-force, custody death

Officer fired amid investigations after K-9 use-of-force, custody death

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Sri Lanka ex-president's son arrested on graft charges

The son of Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa has been arrested and remanded until September 18 on graft charges linked to purchases of Airbus planes by

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Teen in custody after police say he stole a fire brush truck

Teen in custody after police say he stole a fire brush truck

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Russia strikes Ukraine Security Service headquarters in central Kyiv

Russia strikes Ukraine Security Service headquarters in central Kyiv

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Surveillance video shows "heinous crime" of man chasing, stomping ducks, police say

Surveillance video shows "heinous crime" of man chasing, stomping ducks, police say

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Father, son plead guilty to stealing more than 150 guns from South Carolina armory

Father, son plead guilty to stealing more than 150 guns from South Carolina armory

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Hedge fund giant Citadel seeking to buy US shale oil production assets, sources say

Citadel has held talks to buy U.S. oil production assets, as the hedge fund and commodities trader considers expanding further into owning physical assets,

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Arizona group home provider at center of pay-to-play scandal escapes penalties for boy's death

A 9-year-old boy died in 2022 after missing insulin doses at an Arizona group home

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Dozens die in Nigeria oil theft attempt after inhaling toxic fumes

An advocacy group reports that at least 37 people have died in Nigeria's Rivers state while trying to steal oil from a loading vessel

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Romanian prosecutors indict Andrew Tate for trafficking minors, money laundering

Romanian prosecutors officially indicted social media influencer Andrew Tate on Friday for trafficking minors, money laundering, sex with a minor and witness tampering

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Philippine court issues warrant for VP Duterte's arrest in grave threats case

A Philippine court on Friday ordered the arrest of Vice President Sara Duterte in connection with a criminal case accusing her of making threats against President Ferdinand

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German police react to new sabotage attempts on power grids, Bild reports

German police reacted to two fresh suspected attempts against the country's electricity grid, newspaper Bild reported on Friday, heightening the nation's state of alert

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As jurors deliberate the Lindsay Clancy case, here are key moments from the trial

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder case are trying to decide whether the former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for killing her three children at her Massachusetts home in 2023

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A pregnant soldier mourns her 21-year-old husband at his funeral in Ukraine

A pregnant woman in Kyiv mourns her 21-year-old husband, who was killed in action

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Indonesia's top rights body calls for police to probe poisoning of more than 2,000 students

Indonesia's top human rights body urged the police on Friday to investigate several new outbreaks of food poisoning linked to President Prabowo Subianto's

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Two people rescued alive from Nepal hydropower tunnel

Two people were pulled out alive on Friday from a tunnel linked to a hydropower station on the Trishuli River, nine days after a ice, rock and mud slide swept through a

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ICE agent re-arrested after being charged with lying over Minnesota shooting

An immigration officer was back in custody in Texas on Thursday night after he was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges

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Pennsylvania teen and his mother are charged in the stabbing death of the son's girlfriend

Police in Pennsylvania say a teenager is charged in the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend

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ICE officer charged with lying about shooting turns himself in to feds, AP source says

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged with lying to investigators about the events leading up to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown is in federal custody

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Ex-Fox Sports analyst Mark Sanchez plans guilty plea to charges stemming from fight outside hotel

Former Fox Sports analyst Mark Sanchez plans to plead guilty rather than go forward with a trial next week stemming from an October 2025 fight with a truck driver outside an Indianapolis hotel

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Lindsay Clancy trial ends without a verdict for a sixth day after drama in the courtroom

The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial has gone home again without a verdict

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Ukraine's Zelenskiy says investigation underway after clash between two security agencies

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that an investigation would determine what caused a dispute between two of Ukraine's security agencies to escalate into a shootout in

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ICE whistleblower warned of 'unprecedented lowering of standards' during hiring spree

A supervisor overseeing background checks warned last year that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was hiring scores of new officers without basic vetting, violating federal rules and putting the agency at risk of misconduct

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US court says Gulf of Mexico fishery council has too much power, but overfishing rule can stand

A federal appeals court said a council created by Congress to help the U.S. commerce secretary manage the nation's fisheries exercised unconstitutional powers,

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Teenager arrested and 5 others sought in deadly July 4 fire in Washington state

An 18-year-old in Washington state has been arrested for the investigation of manslaughter and arson in connection with a deadly July 4 fire, a county sheriff said Thursday

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Man sentenced to 20 years over a 'Texas Killing Fields' case, decades after dozens of bodies found

A man convicted over a “Texas Killing Fields” death has been sentenced by a jury to 20 years in prison

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Illinois chiropractor pleads guilty to secret recording of undressing patients

Illinois chiropractor pleads guilty to secret recording of undressing patients

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Man arrested in attempted robbery of Saquon Barkley's home in Pennsylvania, source says

Man arrested in attempted robbery of Saquon Barkley's home in Pennsylvania, source says

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The Latest: Judge sends Lindsay Clancy's deadlocked jurors home

The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial has gone home without a verdict after a dramatic sixth day of deliberations

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Lindsay Clancy's lawyer says one juror preventing murder trial verdict, deliberations resume Friday

A judge at Lindsay Clancy's murder trial declined on Thursday to remove a juror her lawyer said was blocking a

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FACT FOCUS: Trump claims US banks cannot operate in Canada. That's not true

President Donald Trump falsely claimed on Wednesday that U.S. banks are not allowed to do business in Canada

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Lindsay Clancy admits to killing their children. So why is there an online groundswell blaming her ex-husband?

Lindsay Clancy admits to killing their children. So why is there an online groundswell blaming her ex-husband?

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FedEx truck crashes into Kentucky home; woman critically injured in stabbing

FedEx truck crashes into Kentucky home; woman critically injured in stabbing

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Court documents: Republican Missouri House candidate tried to have drugs planted on opponent

Court documents: Republican Missouri House candidate tried to have drugs planted on opponent

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Antisemitic hate crimes on the rise in NYC this year while NYPD touts the safest summer on record

Antisemitic hate crimes on the rise in NYC this year while NYPD touts the safest summer on record

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Maryland woman questions why pit bull that attacked her is still at home

Maryland woman questions why pit bull that attacked her is still at home

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Russian court imposes restrictions on children's hospice chief charged over war posts

A Russian court on Thursday imposed a measure known as a ban on certain actions on children's hospice founder Lida Moniava, who is charged with deliberately spreading false

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Doorbell camera captures dramatic moments when man struck by lightning

Doorbell camera captures dramatic moments when man struck by lightning

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Report finds holes and delays in how Secret Service updates its protection policy

A government report finds that the U.S. Secret Service faced several drone-related incidents without updating its protection policies or documenting reasons it didn't

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Out-of-state drivers owe Maryland nearly $1 billion in unpaid tolls

Out-of-state drivers owe Maryland nearly $1 billion in unpaid tolls

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'I'm so lucky to call him my baby brother': Community gathers to honor middle schooler after cardiac arrest

'I'm so lucky to call him my baby brother': Community gathers to honor middle schooler after cardiac arrest

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Tiger Woods' Martin County plea deal cuts DUI to reckless driving after SUV rollover arrest

Tiger Woods' Martin County plea deal cuts DUI to reckless driving after SUV rollover arrest

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Woman seeks answers after ICE detains brother at Indianapolis job site

Woman seeks answers after ICE detains brother at Indianapolis job site

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A Lebanese man held prisoner in Israel is released and handed over to Lebanon

A Lebanese man held in Israel has been released, marking the first such handover since the Israel-Hezbollah conflict began six months ago

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A year after crash of an iconic Lisbon streetcar, a memorial but no promises for restored service

Lisbon’s iconic funicular streetcars remain halted, with safety questions still unanswered a year after a tragic derailment killed 16 people

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Asencio cleared of sex tape charge but Real Madrid opens disciplinary case after DUI

Real Madrid defender Raúl Asencio has been acquitted of charges he revealed a sex video without consent

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Woman says caregiver hid her father's death and stole his home

Woman says caregiver hid her father's death and stole his home

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Vance Boelter pleads not guilty to state charges; trial set to begin in November

Vance Boelter pleads not guilty to state charges; trial set to begin in November

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Billionaire investor Leon Black sues and declines to testify in House committee’s Epstein investigation

Billionaire investor Leon Black sues and declines to testify in House committee’s Epstein investigation

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As Colombia slowly identifies conflict victims, families left waiting

Roselly Gil watched as authorities carefully removed the blackened bones from the rotting wooden coffin, stored for decades in a cemetery in

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Germany probes suspected arson at defence firm as European sabotage concerns mount

Germany was investigating a suspected arson attack outside a defence firm in Munich on Thursday, days after two sabotage attempts on the power grid and a

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Hong Kong court upholds convictions of Cardinal Joseph Zen and others over protester relief fund

A Hong Kong court on Thursday rejected the appeal brought by a 94-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal and four others over their convictions for failing to register a now-defunct fund that aimed to help people arrested in the anti-government protests in 2019

Asia|Crime|Education

Philippines stages school safety drill after shootings

As an alarm warning of an active shooter threat blared through a Philippine public school on Thursday, students and

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2 people killed and suspect is dead in downtown Minneapolis shooting

A shooting at a downtown Minneapolis apartment building has left three people dead, including the suspect, and five others wounded

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2 dead and multiple people injured — including police officers — in mass shooting at downtown Minneapolis apartment building

2 dead and multiple people injured — including police officers — in mass shooting at downtown Minneapolis apartment building

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Mexican musician, pregnant wife, child and nanny killed in grisly shootings

Mexican musician, pregnant wife, child and nanny killed in grisly shootings

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Mexican musician, family members slain in gruesome shooting at upscale penthouse

A Mexican musician, his pregnant wife, 3-year-old daughter, a young domestic worker and the family's pet dog were tied up and shot dead in a gruesome