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SAN FRANCISCO, August 20, (THEWILL) - A gunman is holding as many as 16 bus passengers hostage in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, officials said. At least six people have been freed from the vehicle that is stopped on a...

BEVERLY HILLS, August 20, (THEWILL) - AFP reports that more than a dozen soldiers were killed during a “major attack” by “terrorist armed groups” in northern Burkina Faso. A statement from the armed forces general staff said “the military detachment of...

SAN FRANCISCO, August 15, (THEWILL) - Russians hailed a miracle on Thursday after a passenger plane carrying 233 people made an emergency landing in a cornfield on the outskirts of Moscow after striking a flock of birds shortly after...

Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on Saturday after an apparent suicide in the New York jail cell where he was being held without bail on sex-trafficking charges, and a source said he was not on suicide watch...

SAN FRANCISCO, August 02, (THEWILL) - A shooting at a Walmart store in Texas left multiple people dead on Saturday with police warning that more than one gunman may have been involved in the attack. At least one suspect was taken...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, (THEWILL) - Boris Johnson took over as Britain’s prime minister Wednesday, promising to pull his country out of the European Union on October 31 by any means necessary. A day after winning the leadership of his Conservative...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, (THEWILL) - Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister. He defeated Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival’s 46,656. With...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, (THEWILL) - The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, has died after suffering poor health for some time, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday, as international tensions run high over Iran’s...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, (THEWILL) - Sixteen civilians were among 19 people killed Monday in a Russian airstrike on a market in northwest Syria, a monitor said, in the latest violence to plague the opposition bastion. At least 45 other...

BEVERLY HILLS, July 19, (THEWILL) - A huge explosion rocked a gas plant in central China on Friday, causing many injuries and shattering windows and doors of buildings in a three-kilometre (1.9-mile) radius, state media said. The number of casualties was...