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iStock/pavalena(BERLIN) — Multiple people are dead and several injured after a shooting in the German town of Rot am See on Friday, local police told ABC News. The authorities are still responding to the shooting, […]

DanHenson1/iStock(WASHINGTON) — A Libyan man was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the 2012 terrorist attack on two U.S. government facilities in Benghazi that killed four Americans. […]

narvikk/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. State Department is warning Americans not to enter China’s Hubei province due to the coronavirus, as Chinese authorities announced Thursday that the death toll from the virus has gone up. The […]

Marilyn Nieves/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. has denied an extradition request for Anne Sacoolas, the wife of an American diplomat who police say fatally struck a British teenager with her car as he was walking on […]

Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top political challenger Benny Gantz will visit Washington next week to discuss peace in the Middle East, the White House announced Thursday. Vice President […]

Mark Wilson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The world just got 20 seconds closer to catastrophe. Gauging the duel threats of nuclear warfare and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Thursday that the […]

yorkfoto/iStock(LONDON) — The United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Myanmar must “take all measures within its power” to prevent the genocide of its embattled Rohingya minority Thursday, in a move hailed by […]

Sjo/iStock(SYDNEY) — Three Americans were killed battling the Australian wildfires Thursday when their water tanker plane crashed in New South Wales. The Lockheed C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker went down in the Snowy Mountains’ Monaro […]

BCFC/iStock(GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba) — The psychologist credited with devising the C.I.A.’s program of “enhanced interrogation” during the war on terror defended his record at a pretrial hearing for the alleged masterminds of 9/11. James Mitchell, […]

ramihalim/iStock(GAINESVILLE, Fla.) — Looks like it’s safer to get back in the water. There were 64 unprovoked shark attacks reported around the world in 2019, 22% fewer attacks than the five-year average of 82 incidents […]