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Student in custody after at least eight people killed in school shooting in Houston area ‘It could be anywhere between eight and 10, the majority being students,’ says sheriff of number killed in shooting Explosive devices found at school, off-campus, says Santa Fe Independent School District SANTA FE, Texas... -
At least 37 Palestinians were killed during mass protests along the Gaza border on Monday, marking the deadliest day of violence there since a devastating 2014 cross-border war and casting a pall over Israel’s festive inauguration of the new U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem. In a show of... -
Alek Minassian has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 13 counts of attempted murder in Monday’s van attack on a busy stretch along Yonge Street. He made a court appearance Tuesday in North York, a north Toronto neighbourhood where the attack took place. ‘Nobody’s seen anything like this’: 10 dead,... -
The Syrian government is close to taking full control of a rebel enclave near the capital just days after an alleged chemical weapons attack there sparked international outrage and calls for a retaliatory strike against the Assad regime. French President Emmanuel Macron said there is proof the regime used... -
U.S. President Trump warns Russia to “get ready” for missiles Direct U.S.-Russia clash should be ‘ruled out’ siles Trump, allies mull military action Eurocontrol warns airlines of risks Defying Russian warnings against U.S. military strikes in Syria, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that missiles “will be coming” in response... -
The FBI raided the offices and home of U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Monday, law enforcement sources said, in a dramatic new development in a series of probes involving close Trump associates. Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen M. Ryan, said that U.S. prosecutors conducted a search that was... -
Four people were seriously injured in two knife attacks in one district of the Austrian capital Vienna on Wednesday evening but any motive or connection between the assaults was unclear, a police spokesman said. The stabbings – the first of which took place at 6.45pm (GMT), occurred in Vienna’s Second District, which... -
A tsunami warning for coastal British Columbia and parts of Alaska has ended after a powerful earthquake struck about 250 kilometres southeast of Chiniak, Alaska, early today. What are tsunamis? The quake struck at 1:31 a.m. PT Tuesday and prompted a tsunami warning for the entire B.C. coast and a tsunami watch... -
A Nissan sedan became airborne and crashed into a California dental office Sunday morning, coming to rest dangling out of the building’s second storey, local authorities said. The police in Santa Ana, California, said the car clipped a median outside the building and flew about 60 feet before slamming into the 17th Street... -
New York City’s deadliest residential fire in decades spread through every floor of a Bronx apartment building within a matter of minutes, city officials said, killing 12 people and sending other residents scrambling outside into the cold and down fire escapes to safety. “Tonight in the Bronx we’ve seen...
