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"It was a matter of seconds, and knew what we had seen was deliberate and my stomach was just in my throat at that point," the mother of one of the victims said in connection with the incident.

Michael Lowe claimed that he was wrongfully imprisoned in a New Mexico jail for 17 days after the carrier mistook him for a suspect in an airport burglary.

"I know it seems very outrageous to do it in a church in a private space," one activist said. "However, the people who are enforcing these laws have no qualms coming up to women in private spaces such as doctors' offices and medical clinics to harass them and call them murderers."

Colombia's leftist firebrand presidential candidate Gustavo Petro is too close in recent polls for the comfort of oil companies and miners who worry that his promised policies would imperil Colombia's economy and energy self-sufficiency, high-ranking industry figures and business associations said.

A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday is holding a hearing on soaring American traffic deaths and efforts to build safer roads.

A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday held a hearing on soaring American traffic deaths and efforts to build safer roads, calling it an urgent crisis.

"I feel so bad for the parents because they lost a child...But they lost one child. I lost 11 that day, all at one time," the grieving teacher who is still recovering at a hospital said.

Turkish efforts to ease a global food crisis by negotiating safe passage for grain stuck in Black Sea ports met resistance as Ukraine said Russia was imposing unreasonable conditions and the Kremlin said free shipment depended on an end to sanctions.

Spotify Technology SA on Wednesday said it expects to reach $100 billion revenue annually in the next 10 years and promised high-margin returns from its costly expansion into podcasts and audiobooks.

U.S. regulators are going to transform how Wall Street handles retail stock trades after the meme stock mania last year raised questions about whether mom-and-pop investors were getting the best price.

The top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday unveiled a planned overhaul of Wall Street retail stock trading rules, aiming to boost competition for handling orders by commission-free brokerages to ensure mom-and-pop investors get the best price for trades.

Iran has begun further expanding its underground uranium enrichment and said on Wednesday it would switch off two of the U.N.

Belgium's King Philippe reaffirmed his deepest regrets on Wednesday for the exploitation, racism and acts of violence during his country's colonisation of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but again stopped short of formally apologising.

A 29-year-old man drove into a crowd of people in Berlin on Wednesday, killing a teacher and injuring a dozen people, some critically, as his car veered onto a pavement twice in a popular shopping district, officials said.

President Joe Biden kicks off a summit on Wednesday that was conceived as a platform to showcase U.S.

President Joe Biden kicks off a summit on Wednesday that was conceived as a platform to showcase U.S.

The Biden administration unveiled a new proposed U.S.

It was the moment when two brothers who had dominated Sri Lanka's politics for nearly 20 years finally went their separate ways.

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Tuesday criticized efforts to suppress press freedom in several Latin American countries and said the United States seeks to increase media protection in the region with the most murders of journalists.

European stocks slipped on Wednesday and Wall Street futures were in the red as worries that central bank tightening will stifle global growth weighed on markets.

President Joe Biden's special envoy for talks with three tiny but strategically important Pacific island nations will lead a delegation to the Marshall Islands next week amid growing U.S.

South Korea's tougher stance towards the North under its new conservative president will be welcomed by Tokyo as Japan seeks to boost its military capabilities amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and more broadly in the region, analysts say.

Lawmakers, shooting victims and advocates for stricter gun laws including actor Matthew McConaughey spoke out in Washington on Tuesday for legislation to reduce mass shootings amid signs of movement on an issue that has stymied Congress for years.

Ukrainian forces struggled to hold their ground in bloody street-to-street fighting in the eastern frontline city of Sievierodonetsk as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the situation was difficult, also pledging to retake Russia's gains.

Ukrainian forces were successfully holding out against the assault in Sievierodonetsk, the general staff said on Wednesday, while Russian troops were bringing in new resources towards Donbas in an intense battle for control of the eastern region.

Ukrainian troops holding out in the ruins of Sievierodonetsk came under renewed heavy assault on Wednesday from Russian forces who see the capture of the industrial city as key to control of the surrounding Luhansk region.

Ukrainian forces pulled back to the outskirts of the industrial city of Sievierodonetsk on Wednesday in the face of a fierce Russian assault, the regional governor said, another big swing in momentum in one of the bloodiest battles of the war.

A wildfire started near Los Angeles on Monday afternoon. It has claimed nearly 100 acres of land, with one person suffering serious burns.

This peanut butter cup ice cream brand is now added to the listed of products that have been affected by the Jif peanut butter Salmonella recall.