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A 69-year-old Yorkville woman and her husband are defending her actions after a Tribune photo showed her giving a Nazi salute during an altercation with protesters outside UIC Pavilion Friday night following the ill-fate...

The Guardian's picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the world: Go man versus computer, a self-driving car and snowfall in Spain

News conference as the report into the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash in the French Alps in March 2015 is released.

Trump made the remarks after a man rushed the stage earlier in the day.

'Violence only begets more violence'

Kuwait's ambassador to Lebanon says a third Kuwaiti citizen has been killed in the Mediterranean country in the past three days. …

The home of Romania's former communist ruling couple, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, has been opened to the public 27 years after they were executed.

Hundreds of opponents and supporters of President Nicolas Maduro held rival marches in Caracas on Saturday, with anti-government forces demanding Venezuela's leader step down and his sympathizers denouncing U.S. sanction...

Hundreds of thousands of Moroccans are demonstrating to protest the U.N. chief's remarks about the contested Western Sahara territory. …

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Austria's foreign minister says the route leading through Italy to central Europe also will need to be blocked to migrants after his country's decisions triggered the closure of the Balkan route. …

Seventeen elephants flown out of Swaziland on a chartered plane are now in their new home country -- the United States.

A mine collapsed after heavy rains in northwest Pakistan, killing five workers and trapping several others, authorities said Sunday.

Protests prompt the government in Lebanon is to temporarily reopen a landfill site to end the rubbish crisis in Beirut.

Turkish authorities have declared a new 24-hour, indefinite curfew at a mainly-Kurdish town where Turkey's security forces are set to launch a large-scale operation to battle Kurdish militants. …

US President Barack Obama has warned White House contenders to avoid raising tensions, a day after a rally by Donald Trump was called off amid clashes.

Gunmen in Northern California fired shots into a moving party bus early Saturday, wounding four and leaving authorities stumped because passengers refused to cooperate with the investigation

UN-backed Presidential Council says there is enough agreement to convene Government of National Accord, raising possibility of foreign troop deployment A Libyan unity government pulled together with UN backing moved to t...

An official in charge of South by Southwest's registration says a volunteer has been dismissed from working the festival after he asked an Olympic fencer who Muslim to remove her hijab in order to get her credential

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the United Nations on Saturday to punish Iran over the country's reported ballistic-missile tests last week. Western officials indicated they believed the ideologically...

"I just want to say I'm sorry," he said

Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt elections are first since chancellor began open-border stance Voters in three German states are heading to the polls in regional elections seen as a litmus test ...