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ipopba/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A 20-year-old gas station cashier was fatally shot in Germany Saturday after telling a customer to put on a face covering, according to the Trier Police Department. A 49-yea...

macky_ch/iStock(MOSCOW) -- Russia’s ruling party, United Russia, which backs President Vladimir Putin, has kept its supermajority in the country’s parliament, sweeping elections that were ...

DNY59/iStock(LONDON) -- After spending more than a year behind bars and standing trial, the man who inspired the acclaimed 2004 film Hotel Rwanda was found guilty of terrorism-related charges on Monda...

Synergee/iStock(LONDON) -- Queen Elizabeth is now a great-grandmother for the 12th time. The queen's granddaughter, Princess Beatrice, a daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, gave birth Saturd...

Rus32(MOSCOW) -- A gunman opened fire at a university in the Russian city of Perm on Monday, killing at least 8 people and injuring about two dozen others, according to Russian authorities. Police sai...

Zolnierek/iStock(NEW YORK) — After spending more than a year behind bars, the man who inspired the acclaimed 2004 film "Hotel Rwanda" is due to learn his fate. A Rwandan judge is set to deliver ...

Ivan Cholakov/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. Central Command Gen. Frank McKenzie admitted at a briefing Friday that the Aug. 29 drone strike near Kabul airport was "a mistake." Ten people were killed in t...

Oleg Elkov/iStock(MOSCOW) -- In St. Petersburg’s municipal elections this week, Boris Vishnevsky is running against himself. But that does not mean he has no challengers. Far from it, in fact. T...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(LONDON) -- French officials announced overnight that their military forces had killed the top ISIS leader in Africa, a terrorist for whom the United States had offered a $5 mil...

mikeinlondon/iStock(LONDON) -- The anti-monarchy campaign group Republic has launched giant billboards across the U.K. with slogans questioning the British monarchy. "Secretive. Divisive. Undemocratic...