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welcomia/iStock(HANAU, Germany) — Eleven people, including the suspect, are dead following a shooting at multiple locations in the German city of Hanau, German police said Thursday. Shots were fired at two different locations in Hanau […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(CAIRO) — An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered the release of a dual U.S.-Egyptian national who was arrested upon her arrival at the Cairo airport in July 2019, the head of a Washington-based rights […]

Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images(LONDON) — Two passengers from a cruise ship quarantined in Japanese waters have died from the novel coronavirus, officials said. It’s the first deaths to occur out of the hundreds of confirmed cases […]

welcomia/iStock(HANAU, Germany) — Eight people have been shot to death in the German city of Hanau, German police said Wednesday. Shots were fired at two different locations in Hanau around 10 p.m. local time, according […]

Johannes Simon/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Ahead of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s latest visit to Saudi Arabia, top lawmakers have urged him to raise the case of an American citizen who has been reportedly tortured while […]

BornaMir/iStock(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iranian authorities said that two patients diagnosed with novel coronavirus in the country are now dead, Fars News Agency, the nation’s state-run news organization, reported Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday, health officials said […]

Chris Jackson/Getty Images(LONDON) — Being royalty is usually a lifetime role, not one that comes with start and end dates. However, an end date as working members of Britain’s royal family is set for Prince […]

ABC News(SEOUL, South Korea) — A high-level North Korean official who defected to South Korea in 2016 plans to run for a seat in South Korea’s National Assembly elections this April. If elected, Thae Yong-ho […]

inakiantonana/iStock(NEW YORK) — The European Union is set to announce Wednesday sweeping new proposals regulating technology including artificial intelligence and data collection. The proposals could place a temporary ban on all facial recognition in public, […]

Chris Jackson/Getty Images(LONDON) — Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, will potentially have to make one more big change as they chart their futures as non-working members of Britain’s royal family. […]

zodebala/iStock(LONDON) — The Chinese government has revoked the press credentials of three Beijing-based journalists from The Wall Street Journal as punishment for the headline of a recent opinion piece published by the U.S. newspaper that […]

Olkeksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The State Department notified five Chinese media outlets on Tuesday that they must register as “foreign missions,” requiring them to share information on all their U.S.-based employees and properties with the U.S. […]

jarun011/iStock(WUHAN, China) — The director of a hospital in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, died on Tuesday after contracting the virus. Liu Zhiming, 51, was a neurosurgeon and director of the […]

Medley of Photography/iStock(LONDON) — A British government job ad calling for “weirdos and misfits” has apparently backfired as an adviser hired resigned after a string of controversial statements emerged. The original job was advertised on […]

jarun011/iStock(BEIJING) — China’s mainland reported 1,886 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 98 more deaths on Tuesday, as recent data appears to show a decline in the number of new infections since early this […]

Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images(LONDON) — More than 300 Americans who were passengers aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was quarantined at sea in Japan over the coronavirus outbreak, have evacuated the country on two flights […]

David Mareuil/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — An Oscars screening, tons of movies, the internet and workout classes. Some would say this sounds like a great vacation — but it isn’t the kind of […]

iStockFourteen years after Colombia’s landmark decision to legalize abortions in some cases, the country is once more bracing itself for a historic vote. The Colombian Constitutional Court has until Feb. 19th to decide whether it […]

zabelin/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The United States and Taliban reached an agreement on Friday to reduce violence, which could open the door to the two sides finalizing the larger deal reached last year, per a senior State […]

Samara Heisz/iStock(BEIJING) — Chinese health officials have revealed for the first time the number of frontline workers who have been infected by the novel coronavirus. Zeng Yixin, vice minister of China’s National Health Commission, told […]