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WASHINGTON -- Elfriede Rinkel’s past as a Nazi concentration camp guard didn’t keep her from collecting nearly $120,000 in American Social Security benefits. Rinkel admitted to being stationed at the...

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JOHANNESBURG -- South African media are reporting the death of an American woman at a lion park in Johannesburg, and the US Embassy says it has received reports of an...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Authorities in Raleigh say a man who was arrested over the weekend on child pornography charges worked as a shopping mall Santa Claus. Local media outlets report...

Three fatal shootings in Baltimore on Sunday bring May's homicide count to 43, making it the most violent month in more than 40 years.

(WASHINGTON) — Senate Republicans say they’ve been unable to make a deal to extend contested anti-terror provisions. As a result, the post-Sept. 11 programs will expire at midnight. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas says the...

Thanks to a complicated mesh of treaties and other deals put in place since the end of World War II, the United States is (theoretically) obligated to defend 67 nations -- comprising about a quarter of the world's popula...

The armed group's control of Syria reportedly expands, following the latest gains in Homs and Aleppo.

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Three explosives-laden vehicles driven by Islamic State militants blow up beside a police base in Iraq, killing 45 officers, security sources say.

A woman who breached a court order which barred her from making "loud sex noises" is jailed.

A West Elsdon man charged with the grisly killing of his aunt and autistic cousin told his mother he did it "because he wanted to steal their gold," a Cook County prosecutor said Sunday.

Schoolchildren in the UK are being used to pickpocket, shoplift and beg as part of criminal operations, the anti-slavery commissioner warns.

A Royal Marine trainee collapses and dies on a exercise on Dartmoor.

The last of the Angiulo brothers has died. Francesco "Frank" J. Angiulo, a former member of the hierarchy of the New England Mafia, died Saturday. He was 94 years old.

Capital pioneers law prohibiting landlords from charging new tenants more than 10% above local average Berlin has become the first city in Germany where rent control legislation has come into force in a bid to put the br...

At least 30 troops killed in attack by three bombers driving vehicles seized from Iraqi army Islamic State suicide bombers targeting a police base have killed at least 30 troops in western Anbar province. Officials said ...

Over 6,400 have been killed and 16,000 injured since fighting broke out between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists in 2014.

France says airstrikes against IS will only be effective if political reconciliation in Iraq

Around half the world's Saiga antelope have died suddenly in Kazakhstan since May 10th, possibly due to stomach bacteria turning on their hosts.

New CEO's stabilisation plans for "technically bankrupt" carrier include job cuts and fewer flights on some routes.

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