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On her first trip overseas as an official part of her father’s administration, Ivanka Trump was hit with a round of hisses and boos. The first daughter was invited by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to attend the Women 20 (W-20) Summit in Berlin. The annual gathering promotes women’s economic empowerment and entrepreneurship. The negative reaction […]

PARIS (RNN) – A gunman killed one police officer and wounded another before he was himself shot dead in what police are saying is probably a terrorist attack in the heart of Paris. The attacker was armed with an AK-47, according to a German reporter. There is a massive police presence on the Champs-Elysees and people […]

(RNN) – The U.S. Air Force dropped the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb in the Nangahar Province in Afghanistan on a suspected ISIS target, military officials said. Called “the mother of all bombs,” the MOAB is a large-yield conventional bomb that was dropped for the first time in combat in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan, […]

LONDON — A sole attacker killed three people, including a police officer, and injured at least 20 others in two apparent terror assaults near Britain’s Parliament on Wednesday. Police said the assailant was fatally shot dead by police. A car mowed down several people on the Westminster Bridge, killing at least one female pedestrian and […]

Gunmen killed at least six worshippers and injured eight others.   Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a deadly shooting Sunday at a Quebec mosque during evening prayers was a terrorist attack, CBS News reports. At least two gunmen fired at worshipers in what witnesses described as a coordinated attack, according to CNN. The police […]

In an address to his nation Wednesday, Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto says his country will not pay for President Trump’s wall along U.S.-Mexico border. During his national address, Peña Nieto expressed his “regret” over Trump’s calling for the immediate building of a southern border wall, saying he will “reject the decision of the U.S. […]

BERLIN, Germany (RNN) – Police reported a truck ran into a Christmas market filled with people in Germany Monday, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others. Berlin police confirmed the number of deaths on its Twitter account. Photos and video shared on social media showed what appeared to be a semi truck crashed into the market. The police […]

The explosion comes amid a wave of attacks aimed at Egypt’s Christian community.   A bomb exploded in an Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church in the middle of Sunday morning mass, killing 25 people and wounding 49, ABC News reports. A witness at the scene of the tragedy, Magdy Ramzy, recalled the noise, explaining the attack was a […]

Upon arrival on Sunday, parents of the girls tearfully celebrated in the streets and had a formal ceremony in Nigeria’s capital Abuja.   The 21 girls who were rescued last week after being kidnapped by the militant group Boko Haram have been reunited with their joyous families, BBC News reported. The girls had been held […]

Despite the International Olympic Committee’s relief that all four of the swimmers are still alive, the conflicting reports from each have given police officers doubt in believing the robbery as video footage at a gas station shows otherwise. Rio de Janeiro (CNN)[Breaking news update, posted at 3:10 p.m. ET] Civil Police chief Fernando Veloso says […]

Terrorism hit Iraq’s capital again this month with a suicide bomber killing at least 21 in Baghdad on Sunday. According to CNN, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest near a security checkpoint in northwest Baghdad that was also a Shia district. ISIS has taken responsibility for the attack that also injured more than 35 others. In an online statement, the […]

French President Francois Hollande condemned the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that killed 80 and injured 50 more, saying the country is “under the threat of Islamist terrorism” but that it will prevail. “Horror again has struck France,” Hollande said in a Friday morning speech carried with an English translation on CNN. “France has […]