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Horrified residents surveyed the damage to their community after a night of rioting and looting following the fatal shooting of a local man by police. Eight police officers are being treated in hospital after trouble […] […]

MONTERREY, Mexico—The dismembered bodies of four young men were dumped near a high school and five young men were found dead near a middle school in two separate incidents in northern Mexico, officials said Saturday. […] […]

KABUL — Their name conjures up the most celebrated moment of America’s post-Sept. 11 military campaigns. Now the Navy SEALs belong to a grimmer chapter in history: the most deadly incident for U.S. forces in […] […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Police say a bomb attack in Pakistan has destroyed 16 tankers carrying fuel for U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. Police officer Shafi Ullah Khan says the attack took place Saturday at a terminal close to […] […]

LONDON—One police officer was hospitalized and seven others were injured during riots in the deprived Tottenham area of London, police said Sunday, after a demonstration against the death of a local man turned violent and […] […]

A BRITISH teenager who dreamed of becoming a doctor has been mauled to death by a polar bear, and four other members of his Norwegian Arctic expedition have been injured, officials and organisers say. The […] […]

RIOTERS have gone on the rampage in north London, torching police cars, a bus and a shop amid widespread looting following a protest over the fatal shooting of a man by armed officers. The patrol […] […]

A total of 31 members of the US special forces have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan along with seven Afghans, a statement from Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office said. “The president of […] […]

A Texas jury convicted the polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault yesterday, in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls “spiritual marriages”. The […] […]

Gunmen in plain clothes are said to be randomly shooting people in the streets of the besieged Syrian city of Hama and families are burying their loved ones in gardens at home for fear of […] […]