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Heavy rain, snow and wind pummeled much of California Thursday, causing at least five deaths, leaving thousands without power and forcing wildfire victims threatened by floods to flee their homes. Southern California authorities concerned with rising streams and excessive runoff ordered

At least eight people were killed as a car bomb exploded at a police academy in Bogota, the Colombian Defense Ministry said Thursday. The explosion targeted the General Santander police academy in the south of the capital, Bogota. The car forced

Authorities have conducted raids in several parts of Germany on suspected members of a far-right group calling itself the National Socialist Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Deutschland. Prosecutors and regional police in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said more than

Supporters of the far-right Islamophobic group Pegida staged an anti-Islam demonstration in front of a mosque in the Netherlands late Wednesday. The demonstration was held outside the Abi Bakr Issidik Mosque, frequented by members of the Moroccan community, in Utrecht, the

French authorities say a strong explosion and fire has hit a science building at the University of Lyon. At least three people have been slightly injured. The university says construction work was the cause and that it was “accidental.” The town