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Europol warns of new terror tactics, fresh threats to Europe

Friday, 2 December 2016, 15:39 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Europol warned Friday that the Islamic State group could launch fresh attacks in Europe in the near future, and the agency's director said police forces across the continent are investigating...

2 freeze to death, snowfall cuts power lines in Poland

Friday, 2 December 2016, 14:14 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Technicians were working across Poland on Friday to restore power to some 180,000 households and to unblock roads and railway tracks after heavy snowfall broke power lines and felled trees. Two...

Families prepare to receive the dead from Colombia airplane crash

Friday, 2 December 2016, 07:58 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Families are preparing to receive the bodies of the victims of this week's air tragedy in Colombia as experts develop a clearer picture of how things went so terribly wrong with a charter flight that...

Divided Cyprus' rival leaders agree to restart stalled talks

Friday, 2 December 2016, 07:36 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus have agreed to resume reunification talks, the United Nations said Friday, breaking a nearly two-week stalemate that threatened to sink 19 months of...

French President Hollande says he is not running for 2017 elections

Thursday, 1 December 2016, 20:32 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

French President Francois Hollande says he's not running in 2017 because he knows he might not have enough support. He stunned France by declaring he will not be seek a second term as president of...

Pilot told Colombia controllers 'no fuel' before crash

Thursday, 1 December 2016, 06:43 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel and desperately pleaded for permission to land before crashing into the Andes,...

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