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Antiterrorism prosecutors investigating motive of attack that seriously wounded five, including a 12-year-old girl.
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Antiterrorism prosecutors investigating motive of attack that seriously wounded five, including a 12-year-old girl.
The soldiers were killed in an attack by two Palestinian gunmen at a checkpoint outside the West Bank city on Friday morning.
The suspect is thought to have gathered defense-related information on the production of tanks and munitions, as well as details about NATO's eastern flank.
Helen Haines, an independent federal lawmaker, suffered severe injuries in what Australia's prime minister has called a deliberate attack by a man in a car.
Debris has damaged a moving car in Lithuania, where NATO jets were scrambled. Kyiv says Russian jamming may have diverted drones targeting Russia.
Some of the 200 patients were found with "sores all over their bodies" and in overcrowded rooms.
Three children, one adult dead in Oregon elementary school shooting, US media report. The suspected shooter is dead, but authorities have yet to confirm who shot the suspect.
Hillingdon Council has shared social media posts showing people allegedly dumping rubbish illegally.
The US says it destroyed an Iran-affiliated boat in the Gulf of Oman, accusing it of conducting surveillance.
Suspected online espionage triggers intense security crackdowns and counter-intelligence measures in Iran and Lebanon.
France seizes tanker suspected of belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet
Police received credible information about possible attacks against Donald Tusk and his defence minister.
The suspicious death last week of a worker at a research lab in Siberia that has fueled global concerns about suspected pneumonic plague is just the latest example of how Russia manages the official narrative. The Kremlin has long maintained a culture of secrecy when it comes to controlling public information, especially involving accidents – from industrial disasters to health emergencies, as FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert explains.
Preliminary lab results ease fears of a second case in Kenya, after the country reported its first-ever case this week.
A former German spy chief was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of espionage and treason, an embarrassing case at a time when the country is seeking to broaden the powers of its intelligence agencies. August Hanning, who ran Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency from 1998 to 2005, is accused of espionage, treason and working for foreign intelligence services, federal prosecutors said. FRANCE 24's Nick Holdsworth reports from Berlin.
Dozens of people have been quarantined over a suspected case of the plague in Russia’s Siberia.
Russian authorities say the situation is stable and there are no reports of secondary cases.
New analysis of archival Hubble data points to the possibility of “dead” white dwarf stars hosting second-generation planetary systems.
After a worker at a Russian plague research institute in Siberia died October 2, 2026, nearly 200 of her contacts were under medical observation. But authorities there denied pneumonic plague had caused the death.
A Russian agency links the lab worker's death to 'pneumonia of unknown' origin.