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Arc de Triomphe knife attacker shot dead by Paris police
The attacker, a French national who had been convicted in Belgium for terrorist-related offenses, died at a hospital from his wounds, the French counterterrorism prosecutor’s office said.
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Democrat presidential hopefuls turn decades-old Munich Security Conference into anti-Trump soapbox
European press concluded forum has become as much about political messaging as security policy
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Curling controversy erupts at Winter Olympic Games
Officials announced increased surveillance of matches, with designated umpires monitoring multiple games to better enforce compliance.
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Norway’s Klaebo sets Winter Olympics record after winning 9th gold medal in cross-country skiing
France took silver, while Italy’s Federico Pellegrino, in his final Olympic season, earned bronze
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Puerto Rico enacts law defining unborn children as human beings
On Thursday, Gov. Jenniffer González signed Senate Bill 923, an amendment to the territory’s Penal Code that alters the legal definition of a “human being” to include an unborn child at any stage of gestation.
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US strikes more than 30 Islamic State targets in Syria, U.S. Central Command says
CENTCOM said the strikes aimed to degrade ISIS’s ability to regroup and carry out further attacks.
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Kremlin behind poisoning Russian opposition leader Navalny, five European nations allege
Foreign ministries from the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said testing conducted on samples taken from Navalny, who died two years ago, “have conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine.”
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U.S. has increasingly come to dictate European policy more than the countries
New Hampshire Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen acknowledged Friday at the start of the Munich Security Conference that Europeans "clearly" have been rattled by Trump's talk of the U.S. taking control of Greenland
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Ukrainian Heraskevych disqualified from Olympic skeleton event for helmet of dead athletes from war
The sledder said he trained in Italy with the helmet but was told he would be stripped of his accreditation only minutes before the event was due to start.
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Russia blocks WhatsApp, tells citizens to use state-backed platform Max
“Max is an accessible alternative, a developing messenger, a national messenger,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
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Canadian authorities identify suspected school shooter as transgender teenager Jesse Van Rootselaar
Van Rootselaar is believed to be the perpetrator behind two shootings Wednesday, at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and a nearby residence, which resulted in the deaths of nine people, including Van Rootselaar's mother and step-brother, and dozens of others injured.
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Russia says it will continue following nuclear arms limits if US does
“The moratorium declared by the president will remain as long as the U.S. doesn’t exceed these limits,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said
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Nine dead, dozens wounded in shootings at Canadian high school, residence
The police said approximately 25 people are being assessed and triaged at a local medical center for non‑life‑threatening injuries, and two victims have been airlifted to hospital with serious or life‑threatening injuries.