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Axe attacker injures seven at German station

An axe-wielding attacker suffering from mental health problems injured seven people at the main train station in the German city of Dusseldorf late Thursday, police told AFP.

WikiLeaks exposes alleged CIA hacking program

The CIA can turn your TV into a listening device, bypass popular encryption apps, and possibly control your car, according to a trove of documents published by WikiLeaks Tuesday which it said came from the US spy agency.

France’s Macron unveils programme as Fillon warned of ‘abyss’

French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron promised new laws to clean up politics on Thursday as scandals deepened for his rivals Francois Fillon and Marine Le Pen.

Brazilian president faces new corruption claims

Brazil’s President Michel Temer faced new allegations Thursday of receiving millions of dollars in illicit funding during his campaign as then vice president in 2014.

Three killed in California plane crash

Three people died and two were injured after a small plane crashed in a southern California residential neighborhood, a fire official said Tuesday.

French President Hollande unfazed by accidental police gunfire during speech

Two people were injured by the gunfire.

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Sweden jails man six-month for terrorism fund-raising

The 34-year-old, who was not named, denied the charges.

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Ex-IMF boss Rato sentenced to jail for embezzlement

Rodrigo Rato, a former chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has been sentenced to four and a half years in jail for misusing funds when he was the boss of two Spanish banks.

3 Arrested In France On Suspicion Of Plotting Attack

Three people have been arrested in France on suspicion of plotting a terrorism attack, police sources say. French media say a counter-terrorism operation is under way at the home of one of the suspects, in the central city of Clermont-Ferrand. The other two arrests were reportedly in Marseille and in the Paris region. France is…

Mogadishu car bombing ‘kills at least 20’

"A suicide car bomber blew himself up inside this market at a busy time, killing at least 20 people and many others were also injured," said Ahmed Abdulle Afrah, the district commissioner of Mogadshu’s Wadajir district.