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Spanish police said Wednesday they arrested five suspects four in Barcelona and one in Madrid believed to be part of a jihadist group that sought to recruit others to its cause and was attempting to acquire weapons.

A University of Delaware student who was accused of threatening people with a BB gun has died after what authorities described as a medical emergency in his prison cell, police said Wednesday.

A $6.5 million settlement has been reached in the death of an unarmed man who was having a mental health crisis when he was shot by a Baltimore County officer, attorneys say.

Social media channels were widely used during mass street protests against President Alexander Lukashenko last year to coordinate demonstrations and share footage of violent police crackdown.

England will be hit hard by floods like those that devastated Germany this summer if the country does not improve its defense against more extreme weather brought by climate change, a governmental agency said Wednesday.

The former interpreter helped rescue Biden when his helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in the mountains of Afghanistan because of a snowstorm.

Fox 5 San Diego reported the plane was a twin-engine Cessna 340, a six-seat aircraft that had departed from Yuma, Arizona an hour earlier.

Drugmaker Merck has asked U.S. regulators to authorize its promising antiviral pill against COVID19, setting the stage for a decision within weeks. If cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, it would be the first pill shown to treat COVID19, adding a...

Idaho officials will make available up to $200,000 to be divided into payments for hunters and trappers who kill wolves in the state through next summer.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron had phone calls on Monday with the presidents of Ukraine and Russia to discuss the conflict in Ukraine, and agreed their foreign ministers should meet, the German government said.

The annual Columbus Day Parade returned to New York City on Monday after being canceled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The United Nations and the government of Bangladesh on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding to work together in aiding protection and management of Rohingya refugees on an island in the Bay of Bengal where thousands of them have been relocated fr...

A man died after he tried to hit people on a sidewalk with his truck, crashed against a building and then was pulled out and beaten by the group in Southern California, authorities said.

A passenger aboard a Republic Airways flight from Indianapolis was taken into custody on the tarmac of LaGuardia Airport, shortly after the plane touched down Saturday afternoon.

Romania is in talks about potentially transferring some COVID19 patients to Hungary as Bucharest struggles with record high infections and a shortage of intensive care beds, deputy interior minister Raed Arafat said on Friday.

A case of Ebola has been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an internal report on Friday from the national biomedical laboratory, five months after the end of the most recent flareup there of the deadly virus.