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Defense lawyers in MH17 plane trial seek more investigations

Defense lawyers for a Russian charged with involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in ...

Trial requested for 9 suspects in France's 2016 truck attack

France's counter-terrorism prosecutors made a formal request Tuesday for nine suspects to face trial in connection with the ...

Mourners pay respects to Rayshard Brooks at Ebenezer viewing

Mourners filed through Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday for a public viewing of Rayshard Brooks, a Black man whose ...

Germany condemns weekend violence, looting in Stuttgart

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s top security official on Monday decried an outburst of violence at the ...

Syrian suspected of torture at prison arrested in Germany

A Syrian man accused of torturing an inmate while working as a doctor at a prison run by military intelligence in his ...

The Latest: NYC officer suspended for 'apparent chokehold'

TOP OF THE HOUR: — NYC officer suspended without pay for ‘apparent chokehold’ — No arrests in shooting in Seattle protest ...

UK police: Park stabbing that killed 3 was a terror attack

A stabbing rampage that killed three people as they sat in a British park on a summer evening is being considered a terrorist ...

3 slain in stabbing at UK park; police say motive unclear

Three people were killed and three seriously hurt Saturday in a summer-evening stabbing attack in a park in the English town ...

Shooting in Seattle protest zone leaves 1 dead, 1 injured

A pre-dawn shooting in a park in Seattle's protest zone killed a 19-year-old man and critically injured another person, ...

Cardinal Pell to publish prison diary musing on case, church

Cardinal George Pell, the former Vatican finance minister who was convicted and then acquitted of sexual abuse in his native ...

Officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting to be fired

Louisville's mayor said Friday that one of three police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor will be ...

Bond denied for officer who killed Rayshard Brooks

A judge on Friday denied bond for the former Atlanta police officer who has been charged with felony murder and other crimes ...

Europol: Rise in online child abuse content in lockdown

The European Union police agency warned Friday that during coronavirus lockdowns offenders are increasingly trying to access ...

1 New Zealand officer killed, 1 injured during traffic stop

An unarmed police officer was shot and killed and another was wounded after they tried to pull over a car in New Zealand's ...

Atlanta police call out sick to protest charges in shooting

Atlanta police officers called out sick Thursday to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a man ...

Italy pressed on arms sale to Egypt amid torture-murder case

Italian lawmakers pressed Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte late Thursday over the planned sale of two frigates to Egypt even ...

Lawmakers to probe security agencies over far-right killing

German lawmakers plan to investigate possible mistakes made by security agencies in their handling of two neo-Nazis suspected ...

German prosecutors charge Russian over brazen Berlin killing

German prosecutors on Thursday filed murder charges against a Russian man accused in the brazen daylight slaying in Berlin ...

Voices of protest, crying for change, ring across US, beyond

They are nurses and doctors, artists, students, construction workers, government employees; black, brown and white; young and ...

Families of California wildfire victims slam PG&E for crimes

The families of some of the 85 people killed by a horrific Northern California wildfire ignited by Pacific Gas & Electric's ...