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The police investigation continues at the scene near Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, where two people died in a terror attack. Picture date: Friday October 3, 2025. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Two of the Manchester synagogue attack victims appeared to been shot by police officers who were trying […]

Suzanne Plunkett – WPA Pool/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with European leaders in Copenhagen on Thursday, according to a press release from the Danish prime minister’s office, with the allied response to Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion set to top the agenda. “Russia’s war in Ukraine sets the tone for the […]

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images (LONDON) — Two men were killed and three were wounded in a terrorist incident outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, officials said. One suspect drove a car into a group of worshippers and then attacked people with a knife outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation […]

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images (LONDON) — Two people were killed and three were wounded when a man drove a vehicle toward a crowd of people and launched a stabbing attack near a synagogue in Manchester, a northern British city, on Thursday, according to police. The suspect is also dead after being shot by police officers, Manchester […]

Mkanuel Schwarz/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — Munich’s famous Oktoberfest event briefly closed on Wednesday following a bomb threat linked to a fire at a residence in the north of the city, police said. A 57-year-old German man who police said was behind the threat was found near the residence with a backpack containing an […]

Jane Goodall and her son Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick appearing on the ABC TV special ‘Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Lions of the Serengeti’ in Africa, 1976. Walt Disney Television Photo Archive/ABC via Getty Images (CALIFORNIA) — Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist, has died, according to the […]

Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake killed at least 69 people in the Philippines, officials said on Wednesday. The quake was recorded at 9:59 p.m. local  time on Tuesday with the centre at 19 km east-northeast of Bogo City, Philippines, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. After […]

Danylo Dubchak/Frontliner/Getty Images (LONDON) — NATO fighter jets were scrambled and air defense units put on alert in the early hours of Sunday in response to a major Russian drone and missile strike on Ukraine, the Polish Operational Command said in posts to X. “Due to the activity of the Russian Federation’s long-range aviation, which […]

Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. State Department said it was revoking the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who had traveled to New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly. “Earlier today, [Petro] stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence,” the […]

Steffen Trumpf/dpa (Photo by Steffen Trumpf/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — Drone overflights again caused disruptions at Danish airports on Wednesday night, officials said, in the latest instance of unexplained drone sightings over sensitive facilities in the Scandinavian nation. Danish officials held a press conference on Thursday morning detailing the latest incidents, which prompted […]