US Hits ISIS Camps In Libya With Precision Airstrikes, Killing 17-
A suspicious package prompted evacuations near the North Korean Embassy in London, according to reports on Monday evening, Sept.25. The Metropolitan Police confirmed that they were called about a “suspicious item” before 8 p.m. local time, The Independent reported. Police blocked off roads, evacuated homes, and then carried out a controlled demolition at 9:30 p.m. […] -
BERLIN—Chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term in office on Sunday but will have to build an uneasy coalition to form a German government after her conservatives haemorrhaged support in the face of a surge by the far-right. The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) stunned the establishment by winning 13.1 percent of the vote, projected […] -
MADRID—Spain will send more state police to Catalonia to block any moves to hold a banned independence referendum, the interior ministry said on Friday. The government in Madrid is facing one of its biggest political crises since the end of the Franco dictatorship and the return of democracy four decades ago. It has called the referendum an illegal act and taken police and court action to block it. The new officers […] -
Russia’s president revealed his fears over artificial intelligence when he asked Russia’s largest technology firm a question—how long will it be until AI technology will “eat us.” President Vladimir Putin was reportedly speaking to Arkady Volozh, the chief of internet firm Yandex during a tour of the company’s headquarters in Moscow, the DailyMail reported. At the time of the […] -
Russia has test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) within 10 days, according to state-backed media. The Russian Strategic Missile Force tested the Yars ICBM, firing it from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia. It was carried to the Kura target range in Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East, Russia Today reported. The test was designed to […] -
MADRID/BARCELONA—Spanish police raided Catalan government offices and arrested officials on Wednesday to halt a banned referendum on independence, an action the regional president said meant Madrid had effectively taken over his administration. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the regional government offices in the center of Barcelona’s tourist district, waving the red-and-yellow Catalan flag and chanting […] -
A Russian woman is facing 10 years in prison after she locked her baby in her home and went to hang out with her friends. Viktoria Kuznetsova, 17, of Rostov, western Russia, was charged with a “murder of a minor … committed with particular cruelty” for getting rid of her 9-month-old son in a particularly […]
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Almost two months after a study warned that an Italian supervolcano could be about to explode, researchers believe they have found evidence of a “hot zone” feeding the supervolcano. Campi Flegrei in southern Italy is a volcanic caldera west of Naples, a city of almost a million, that last erupted in 1538. In the 1980’s there were […] -
Two American women suffered facial burns after they were attacked with acid in Marseille, in southern France, on Sunday, Sept. 17, just after 11 a.m. The women were in a group of four, all about 20 years old, when a 41-year-old woman sprayed them with hydrochloric acid outside the Saint-Charles train station. All four were rushed […] -
LONDON—British police arrested an 18-year-old man in the southern port of Dover on Saturday in a “significant” development in the hunt for the people behind a London commuter train bombing that injured 30 people a day earlier. Prime Minister Theresa May put Britain on the highest security level of “critical” late on Friday, meaning an […] -
PARIS—France opened a counter-terrorism inquiry after a man wielding a knife attacked a soldier in a Paris subway station on Friday, the latest incident targeting troops protecting the capital’s transport hubs and tourist sites. Paris and other European capitals are on high alert after a wave of attacks in past years by ISIS terrorist group, […] -
A Viking sword made over a millennium ago was found on a mountain in excellent condition. The sword was found by Einar Ambakk, a reindeer hunter on a remote mountain in Norway, Fox News reported. The finder notified the Glacier Archaeology Program of the local Oppland County Council. “It is a common type of Viking […] -
Russia says it completed a successful test-launch of a new RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, from a silo, hitting a target 3,700 miles away. “The main purpose of the launch is to confirm the reliability of rockets of the same class. The warheads successfully reached their target – the Kura testing range in […] -
Photos of a family that perished at a volcano while on vacation in Italy on Tuesday, Sept. 12, have surfaced. Massimiliano Carrer, 45, and his wife Tiziana Zaramella, 42, died when they tried to rescue their 11-year-old son Lorenzo who reportedly got past a safety barrier at the Solfatara Crater in Pozzuoli about 7 miles […] -
A family of three reportedly died after falling into a volcanic crater near Naples, Italy, it was reported this week. The parents tried to rescue their 11-year-old boy after he slipped and fell into the Solfatara Crater in Pozzuoli. He reportedly entered an off-limits area. According to the BBC, when his parents tried to pull […] -
Britain’s Prince George will not be given “any special treatment” at school, his principal said on Thursday (September 7), as the great-grandson of Queen Elizabeth and third-in-line to the throne took his first steps into a new classroom. George, 4, was taken by his father, Prince William, from their Kensington Palace home to Thomas’s Battersea […] -
MADRID—Spanish and Moroccan police have arrested five Moroccans and one Spaniard suspected of belonging to an Islamist terrorist cell that simulated decapitations, the Spanish interior ministry said on Wednesday. The arrests mark the first big raids since a double Islamist attack in Catalonia in August that killed 16 people, most of whom were mown down by […] -
A teenage student from the United Kingdom reportedly died after five bags of ecstasy, or MDMA, “exploded” in her stomach, reported the BBC. Rebecca “Becky” Brock died inside a hotel on the resort island of Ibiza, Spain. Brock, 18, from Nottinghamshire was found unresponsive in her room by hotel staff in September 2015, but her […] -
COPENHAGEN—Swedish journalist Kim Wall died when she was accidentally hit by a heavy hatch cover on board a home-made submarine, the Danish owner of the vessel testified in court on Tuesday. Peter Madsen, who denies killing Wall, said he was holding the hatch for her but it slipped and hit her head as they sailed […] -
U.S. actress Meghan Markle, the girlfriend of Britain’s Prince Harry, has said they are in love and happy together, in her first frank comments about their relationship since they became a couple last year. In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine published on Tuesday (September 5), Markle said she began dating Harry, fifth in line […]
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