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France emerges from months of coronavirus lockdown to vote on Sunday in a delayed second round of municipal elections, with opinion polls suggesting a dire outcome for President Emmanuel Macron, whose party could fail to win in any big city. A year ago Macron had hoped the local elections would …

Mexico’s bustling capital was once seen as a relative oasis in the country’s raging drug war, but a shocking military-style assassination attempt on the city’s police chief offers proof at least one gang is unafraid to shatter the peace. The hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG, was quickly fingered …

  The White House on Saturday denied that President Donald Trump was briefed on reported U.S. intelligence that Russia’s military offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, with Democratic rival Joe Biden criticizing Trump for failing to take action against Moscow. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh …

Police in Scotland named a man who was shot dead by officers during a knife attack in the city of Glasgow as Badreddin Abadlla Adam, 28, from Sudan. Six people, including a policeman, were stabbed at a hotel in the city centre on Friday before the attacker was shot dead. …

Alex Kueng (pronounced king), one of the ex police officers accused of abetting murder in the death of George Floyd, is an African-American. Specifically, he has a part Nigerian ancestry – his father was Nigerian and his mother is a Caucasian American. He had recently enlisted to be a cop, …

Britain will be ready to quit its transitional arrangements with the European Union “on Australia terms” if no deal on their future relationship is reached, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki on Saturday. Britain left the bloc on Jan. 31. A transition period, during which Britain …

Several dozen women protested in support of French police in central Paris on Saturday, as discontent within the country’s law enforcement agencies swells over what they feel is the government’s unfair treatment of officers over racism. Police have been holding wildcat protests everyday in towns and cities across France at …

Ireland’s parliament picked veteran opposition leader Micheál Martin as prime minister on Saturday to head the first ever coalition uniting the two parties that have battled each other for power since a civil war nearly a century ago. He pledged to rescue Ireland from the “the fastest-moving recession ever to …

A global fundraising meeting on Saturday raised 6.15 billion euros ($6.9 billion) from the United States, the European Commission and numerous countries to fight COVID-19, with many participants stressing that an eventual vaccine should be available to anyone who needs it. The pledging summit, part of a joint initiative by …

An 18-year-old biracial woman in Madison has reported on how she was set on fire by some white men at an area, causing the Madison police and the FBI to launch a hate crime investigation. The assault took place early Wednesday morning when the woman was driving and stopped at …