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Police in Sweden said Tuesday that “about 10 people” were killed in a shooting earlier in the day at a school for adults in the city of Orebro, west of Stockholm. The police offered very little information on the incident throughout the most of the day, saying only that five people were wounded, including the suspected…

Apple CEO Tim Cook gestures as he poses on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of the mini-series “Disclaimer”, out of competition, at the 81st Venice Film Festival, in Venice, Italy August 29, 2024.  Louisa Gouliamaki | Reuters Apple on Tuesday released a new app for creating invitations and sending them to contacts….

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, attends the inauguration of a new hub in France dedicated to the artificial intelligence sector, at the Google France headquarters in Paris, France, on Feb. 15, 2024. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters Google parent company Alphabet is set to report its fourth-quarter results after the bell Tuesday. Here are the…

A week into office, United States President Donald Trump surprised the world and many of his policymakers by announcing his plans to create a missile defence shield, calling it the “Iron Dome for America”. At first, the name evoked Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system, which is designed to intercept and destroy low-level targets, rockets,…

Lucy Letby is serving 15 life sentences for seven baby deaths at neonatal units between 2015 and 2016. The case of a British nurse sentenced to life imprisonment for killing seven newborn babies is being reviewed as medical experts argued there was no evidence to support her conviction for murder. Lucy Letby is serving 15…

The cost of some essential food items has more than doubled in Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that was captured by M23 rebels last week, according to locals and an NGO. As a result of the soaring costs and worsening displacement crisis, basic nutrition is out of reach…

Jenin, occupied West Bank, Palestine – For nearly two weeks, 11 bodies lay in the morgues of Jenin as Israeli raids ravaged the city and its refugee camp. Their families were too frightened to bury them in Jenin because of Israeli snipers, drones and artillery. “Families are afraid to bury their loved ones in the…

Veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was killed 1,000 days ago while covering an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on May 11, 2022. She was wearing a helmet and a clearly marked press vest when she was killed in what the Al Jazeera Media Network condemned as…

San Salvador, El Salvador — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador’s president has offered to accept and incarcerate deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including criminals with American citizenship currently imprisoned in the U.S. President Nayib Bukele confirmed the offer in a social media post, saying El Salvador…

Hadi Matar, 26, is accused of repeatedly stabbing the elderly writer during a 2022 lecture. The trial of a man who attacked Indian-British author Salman Rushdie two years ago on a charge of attempted murder is due to start in the United States. Jury selection was set to begin on Tuesday for the trial of…