DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian students clashed with security forces at universities across Iran on Sunday, Iranian media reported, as videos showed security forces firing tear gas and live ammunition at students. Sunday’s violence came as nationwide protests gripped the country despite threats from the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. […]
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Robert Horan, prosecutor of teenage DC sniper, dies at 90
FILE Fairfax Commonwealth attorney Robert Horan Jr. leaves the Fairfax County Courthouse on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 in Fairfax, Va. Horan Jr., who secured a murder conviction of D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo during his four-decade tenure as the top prosecutor in Virginia’s largest county, died on Friday, Oct. 28, […]
German climate activists glue themselves to dinosaur display
Two climate activists carrying a banner “What if the government can’t handle it?” have stuck themselves to the handrails of a dinosaur at Berlin’s Museum of Natural History in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. Commenting on the action, the “Last Generation” protest group said, “Just as the dinosaurs did […]
Journalist crushed to death at ex-Pakistan PM Khan’s march
LAHORE, Pakistan — A female journalist was crushed to death Sunday in Pakistan while covering a political march led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan, a senior police officer said. Sadaf Naeem, 36, a television journalist with Channel 5 in Lahore, was crushed to death after she slipped from the […]
Sheriff: 14-year-old boy shot, killed in Northern California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A 14-year-old boy was fatally shot Friday in Northern California, authorities said. The teenager was found lying on the front lawn of a home in the North Highlands neighborhood near Sacramento around 9 p.m. with at least one gunshot wound, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department. […]
Families get final say before Parkland shooter is sentenced
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison this week — but not before the families of the 17 people he murdered get the chance to tell him what they think. A two-day hearing is scheduled to begin Tuesday that will conclude […]
4 people killed in shooting at home near Denver
AURORA, Colo. — Authorities are searching for a suspect in an overnight shooting that left four people dead at a home in suburban Denver. Dan Oates, Aurora’s interim police chief, said three men and one woman were killed in the attack just after 2 a.m. Sunday. Two “very young” children […]
Brazil’s polarizing Bolsonaro-Lula contest goes to voters
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilians began voting Sunday morning in a polarizing presidential runoff election that pits an incumbent vowing to safeguard conservative Christian values against a former president promising to return the country to a more prosperous past. The runoff shaped up as a close contest between President Jair […]
Escaped king cobra crawls back to Swedish terrarium
HELSINKI — A venomous 2.2-meter (7 foot) king cobra that escaped from its home in a Swedish zoo has returned back home by itself, bringing a happy ending to over a week-long disappearance saga. “Houdini, as we named him, has crawled back into his terrarium,” CEO Jonas Wahlstrom of the […]
Police: Men attack pro-democracy vigil near Iranian embassy
BERLIN — German police are investigating an attack on a pro-democracy vigil outside the Iranian embassy in Berlin in which three people were injured early Sunday morning. Police said an officer guarding the embassy saw three men with face coverings tear down banners and flags from a recreational vehicle parked […]