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A 26 year-old former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train AI systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died.

Le bilan de l'attaque à la voiture-bélier commis sur un marché de Noël à Magdebourg en Allemagne s'est alourdi à cinq morts et plus de 200 blessés, a annoncé samedi le chef du gouvernement régional Reiner Haseloff.

A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 38 people on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officials said.

A rocket fired from Yemen hit an area of Tel Aviv, leaving 16 people injured, days after Israeli airstrikes hit Houthi rebels who launched missiles in solidarity with Gaza.

A nine-year-old was among five people killed when a Saudi doctor intentionally drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg, an official said Saturday.

An "overheated" immigration system admits record numbers of newcomers has harmed Canada's decades-old consensus on its benefits, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said.

Facing a government shutdown deadline, the Senate rushed through a plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, pausing demands for a debt limit increase

As the U.S. Congress scrambled to come up with a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump shocked many lawmakers by demanding that any such bill must also increase the country's debt ceiling.

Identified by local media as 50-year-old Taleb A., a psychiatry and psychotherapy specialist, authorities said he has been living in Germany for two decades.

It was writings laid bare in a notebook found in Luigi Mangione’s possession, authorities say, that would help investigators build the federal case against him – a well-planned homicide that involved stalking the movements of his alleged victim, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Une voiture a percuté la foule d’un marché de Noël vendredi dans la ville allemande de Magdebourg, faisant plus de 60 blessés, ont indiqué les autorités locales, qui suspectent un «attentat», huit ans tout juste après un acte similaire à Berlin. 

The driver of the car was arrested, said German news agency dpa, citing unidentified government officials in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

An Indiana man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during a winter hike was sentenced to a maximum of 130 years in prison Friday in the case that’s long cast a shadow over the teens' small hometown of Delphi.

The attack took place around 9:50 a.m. on the last day of school before Christmas at the Precko Elementary School in Zagreb.

Lock up political critics? Donald Trump is open to it. But his prevailing tactic entering his second term is suing the media into submission.

A 7-year-old girl died and a teacher and five other students were wounded in a knife attack at a school in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, on Friday, police said.

A spending bill backed by Donald Trump failed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday as dozens of Republicans defied the U.S. president-elect, leaving Congress with no clear plan to avert a fast-approaching government shutdown that could disrupt Christmas travel.

At least 35 children were killed and six others critically injured in a crowd crush at a funfair in southwest Nigeria on Wednesday, police said.

Immigration in 2024 drove U.S. population growth to its fastest rate in 23 years as the nation surpassed 340 million residents, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday.

The charges filed against Yaoning “Mike” Sun followed those against a former aide to two New York governors, Linda Sun, in September.

La justice française a condamné jeudi Dominique Pelicot à la peine maximale dans le procès hors norme des viols en série en France, mais a prononcé des peines plus basses que celles réclamées par l’accusation pour ses 50 coaccusés, une décision que Gisèle Pelicot a affirmé «respecter». 

The Bucharest court of appeals ruled on Thursday against sending internet personality Andrew Tate to trial on charges of human trafficking and sent the case back to prosecutors.

Putin used the tightly choreographed event, which lasted over 4 hours, to reinforce his authority and demonstrate a sweeping command.

The Bank of England kept its main interest rate unchanged at 4.75 per cent with new data showing inflation rising to 2.6 per cent, further above the bank's two per cent target.

WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it. 

The shooter at a religious school in Wisconsin had two handguns with her but used only one in the attack that killed a teacher and a student and wounded six others, the city's police chief told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Elon Musk derided a Republican-backed government spending bill that if not passed by Friday night would lead to a government shut down.

Donald Trump a de nouveau évoqué sur les réseaux sociaux l’idée de faire du Canada le 51e État américain, parlant de cette possibilité comme d’une «excellente idée», au moment où son voisin du Nord est en pleine crise politique. 

A teen charged with killing three girls and wounding 10 other people in a stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England this summer remained silent in court Wednesday as not guilty pleas were entered on his behalf.

A U.K. police force went to court to claim the money, held in seven frozen bank accounts, from the Tates and a woman identified only as J.

The suspect was described as an Uzbek citizen recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services.

The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from a Pennsylvania jail.

Wrapping up their own investigation on the Jan. 6 2021 Capitol attack, House Republicans have concluded it's former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney who should be prosecuted for probing what happened when then-President Donald Trump sent his mob of supporters as Congress was certifying the 2020 election.

Hannah Kobayashi, the Hawaii woman whose disappearance last month sparked a weekslong search complete with grainy surveillance images and tearful family, says she was unaware of 'everything that was happening' while she was out of touch.

Le président américain élu Donald Trump qui prend souvent un malin plaisir à tourner en dérision les dirigeants du Canada n’a pas laissé passer l’occasion d’en rajouter au sujet de la démission de la ministre des Finances Chrystia Freeland.

A Texas-based company is pulling several of its products off the shelves after the FDA discovered a potentially deadly ingredient in product samples.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is escalating his legal campaign against media outlets by suing renowned pollster J. Ann Selzer, her polling firm, The Des Moines Register newspaper and its parent company Gannett.

Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was killed as he left for his office. His assistant also died.

A senior Russian general was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine's security agency levelled criminal charges against him.

Former Amazon driver Ahmed Eldidi has been charged with four war crimes, including torture, mutilation and murder.

"It's horrible what happened to that woman."

A teenage student opened fire with a handgun Monday at a Christian school in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and another teenager during the final week before Christmas break. The shooter also died, police said.

Deux personnes ont été tuées lundi lors d'une fusillade dans une école chrétienne à Madison, dans le nord des États-Unis et un suspect mineur a été retrouvé mort, a déclaré la police.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in the German parliament on Monday, putting the European Union's most populous member and biggest economy on course to hold an early election in February.

The incident immediately brings to mind the deaths of six people from tainted drinks in Laos, but Fiji's tourism chief said this situation is "a long way from that."

Ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad says he had no plans to leave the country after the fall of Damascus a week ago but the Russian military evacuated him after their base in western Syria came under attack.

The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is "several hundred" and may run into the thousands, the island's top government official told a local broadcaster on Sunday.

Israel said Sunday it will close its embassy in Ireland as relations deteriorated over the war in Gaza, where Palestinian medical officials said new Israeli airstrikes killed over 30 people including several children.

Déjà paria au sein de la famille royale pour sa proximité avec le défunt financier et criminel sexuel Jeffrey Epstein, le prince Andrew, frère de Charles III, est au cœur d’un nouveau scandale embarrassant concernant ses liens avec un homme soupçonné d’espionnage pour la Chine.

Planned face-to-face peace talks between Congo and Rwanda have been unexpectedly canceled, the Congolese president said.