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DETROIT — Six people are dead, including the suspect, in a mass shooting in Northern Michigan, Michigan State Police confirmed Friday. Details of the attack were emerging late Friday from the MSP officials, including that a person was critically wounded. MSP Lt. Ashley Miller told WWJ Newsradio that said a call came in to 911 dispatchers reporting a shooting at around 11:40 a.m. Friday, near ...

Nigel Farage is returning to Parliament after comfortably defeating a satirical candidate dressed as a trash can, in an election victory that allowed an ethics probe to resume into the Reform UK leader’s personal finances. Farage got 62.8% of the vote in the constituency centered on the English resort town of Clacton-on-Sea to retain his seat in the House of Commons, beating his main ...

Yeiner Mena had only recently finished building a new home with his wife in the remote Colombian city of Quibdo when the strongest earthquake in 50 years reduced it to rubble. “We lost everything,” Mena, 30, said. “We are alone.” The challenge facing new President Abelardo de la Espriella is to prove to families like Mena’s that they’re not. A conservative lawyer and political outsider, De la ...

Two slicks have appeared in Iranian waters, satellite imagery and video verified by Reuters show, as tit-for-tat attacks on oil tankers and other vessels by Iran and the United States spark concerns about environmental damage to the Gulf.

BARCELONA – Spanish authorities on Thursday removed the remains of three kings who ruled the Aragón region in the 11th century from a monastery threatened by a wildfire.

Maternal deaths have doubled in the epicenter of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, as pregnant women avoid hospitals and medical staff and supplies are diverted to fight the virus.

KYIV – Ukraine has sent Russia an offer suggesting they both halt attacks on civilian targets in the Black Sea, a source said, after mounting strikes on vessels and ports there raised fears over ​global food supplies.

CALI/PEREIRA, Colombia – Hopes of finding more survivors of the powerful earthquake that rocked Colombia early this week were fading on Thursday as rescue workers narrowed their searches, while families in the worst-hit areas waited for news of missing relatives.

QUSRA, West Bank – Israeli troops took up positions inside Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra on Thursday, the mayor said, after settlers trapped Palestinian families this week in a siege Palestinians say is aimed at forcing them from their land.

The death toll from the powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake that devastated western Colombia has risen to at least 254, according to the latest local and aggregated reports, as rescuers raced against time Wednesday to find people still alive beneath collapsed buildings.

 A threat that Air Force One could be targeted by a shoulder-fired missile prompted the Secret Service to secretly move President Donald Trump onto an unmarked government jet during a trip to Turkey last month, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia will respond in kind if European countries start to seize Russian merchant vessels and the commander of Russia's Pacific Fleet said his forces were ready to "inspect and detain" foreign vessels from what ​he called hostile states.

BEIJING – Typhoon Dolphin's remnants channelled vast amounts of moisture into Beijing and the central province of Henan on Wednesday, as the ​capital braced to receive more than one-third of its average annual rainfall in 24 hours.

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan's government has condemned "dangerous" planned Chinese navy drills with an Indonesian warship off the island's east coast, saying Beijing was trying to create a false impression to the international community that it controls those waters. China ​views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, and in June began coast guard patrols off the island's east coast, causing anger in Taipei and concern in ⁠Washington and some other Western capitals.

 Pakistan’s defense minister said the United States and Iran are “close to some sort of arrangement” over the Strait of Hormuz, even after both sides appeared to harden their positions in the long-deadlocked negotiations.

DUBAI – The U.S. and Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis reported separate attacks on shipping on Tuesday as prospects for ending the Iran war appeared to dim, with Tehran saying the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed unless Washington accepts its conditions.

At least 77 people were killed after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia early on Monday, knocking down buildings across several cities and leaving others trapped in the rubble.

BANGKOK – A gunman killed a Thai official inside a local government office on the capital Bangkok’s outskirts on Monday, authorities said, days after a teenager’s shooting spree at a school in the same province reignited debate over gun control.

The Yemeni military said seven people including military personnel and civilians ​were killed and 30 others wounded in a Houthi attack ⁠on the Red Sea port ‌city of Mocha, civilian ​infrastructure and armed forces.