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Officer Dora Fontaine testified March had instructed her to report that McDonald had threatened officers at the scene, despite her not seeing that occur. Th...

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Just after 4 p.m., police received a call from a neighbor in Gordon, Wisconsin , saying that Jayme had escaped and was alive and well, ending a three-month sea...

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It was the largest single group of asylum seekers ever to cross into the U.S. A Customs and Border Protection official confirmed that "a large group" of migrant...

Facebook tightens rules for political adverts for Nigeria, others

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At its deepest depth, the camera spotted sweets and a cup the boy had been carrying when he fell, the Express reports; they were in what the newspaper calls...

Weather warning for snow in Bradford for the rest of today

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White House responds to BuzzFeed report, North Korea summit

US President Donald Trump is to hold a second summit with the leader of North Korea near the end of February to try to coax the North to give up its nucle...

Man killed in shooting outside Dublin gym this evening

He was taken by ambulance to Beaumont Hospital for emergency treatment. Irish broadcaster RTÉ has reported that Mr Parker was a convicted drug dealer. The sce...

Police seeking volunteers to get drunk for them, many respond

The Kutztown Police Department said in a Facebook post it is seeking three volunteers to help with a training event created to teach officers how to administe...

Fort Campbell soldier among Americans killed in Syrian explosion

At least 15 people were killed in the blast, and another three U.S. soldiers were wounded. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan Farmer, 37, of Boynton Beach, Flor...

Tear gas fired at protesters marching to Sudan presidential palace

Demonstrators chanted: "Freedom" and "Until the morning, we're staying", video footage showed. In Burri, a residential district of Khartoum , protesters shut...

Irish motorists may need 'Green Card' to drive across border

Commercial operators with fleet insurance were advised they will need a card for each vehicle. Millions of British motorists hoping to drive in the European U...

On Day 28, no sign of end to US partial government shutdown

But now it's also getting increasingly personal between the two main antagonists. "We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over". "Over...

Giuliani Clarifies: 'I Have No Knowledge of Any Collusion'

Giuliani issued a statement aimed at clarifying a Wednesday night CNN interview that appeared to leave open the possibility of improper contacts during th...

Dead Baby Found in Amazon Warehouse Trash Can

Amazon said at the time that it was "simply not correct to suggest that we have unsafe working conditions based on this data or on unsubstantiated anecdotes". ...

Donald Trump ordered opinion polls be rigged, former lawyer Michael Cohen says

Federal prosecutors referred to a payment to Gauger's company- though not by name- when Cohen was charged last summer with violating campaign-finance laws by ar...

Strong explosion, fire hits French university building

This picture taken on January 17, 2019, in Villeurbanne near Lyon, France , shows an explosion on a rooftop of La Doua University Campus. Video of the incident...

Doubt prompts AU’s call for postponement of DRC election results

This data represents results from 43% of the turnout from 28 733 voting polls and indicates that Fayulu won 62.8% of this sample. An unnamed source close to F...

21 dead in Bogota vehicle bomb attack

Ariel Avila, an analyst who tracks violence, said that in the last four years, there have been 28 attacks in the capital with explosives. According to Mr Bo...

Germany's security agency steps up watch on far-right AfD

Hoecke has sparked outrage with statements on Germany's Nazi past, calling Berlin's Holocaust monument a "memorial of shame" and urging a "180-degree shift"...

Australian towns among hottest spots on earth as heatwave sizzles

Regional towns in New South Wales are being hit by brutal mid-40°C temperatures, while one small town in Western Australia has hit at least 40°C every day for...

Tulsi Gabbard, Dem 2020 candidate, 'regrets' past anti-gay views

The Samoan-born, Hindu-raised war veteran putting her hat in the ring for U.S President, Tulsi Gabbard is a woman of mixed political stances. Gabbard did ...

Putin to receive a rock star welcome in Belgrade

Vladimir Putin has accused the USA and the West of destabilizing the Balkans with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation expansionist policies as Serbia prepares ...

Russia Decides to Hold Jailed Ukrainian Sailors Until April 24

It was not immediately clear if any others among the 24 would appear in court. Western diplomats, Ukraine's top rights official Lyudmila Denisova and the sail...

Deep Blue, 21ft great white shark, spotted off Hawaii

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'Out of control': Taiwan says won't bow to China pressure

China has repeatedly sent military aircraft and ships to circle the island on drills in the past few years and worked to isolate the island internationally, wh...

Aiia Maasarwe: Israel student killed in Melbourne while on phone with sister

Ms Maasarwe's sister, anxious about Aiia, is reported to have called Australian police around the same time the body was found on Thursday morning outside a s...

Donald Trump's new missile defence strategy eyes space-based sensors

President Donald Trump will visit the Pentagon on Thursday to announce the results of the Defense Department's long-anticipated review of its ability to prote...

Facebook shuts hundreds of Russia-linked pages, accounts

The two operations were found to have originated in Russian Federation, with one active in a variety of countries and the other was specific to Ukraine. It also...