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An 18-year-old with a sword attack at a school Friday in central Sweden, killing a 17-year-old and wounding three others, two of them severely, authorities said. The perpetrator carried out the attack at the Brinell School in Fagersta, northwest of Stockholm, while classes were in session with about 400 to 500 students, officials said. The…
Last year, Cuban immigrant Yasmany Moreno de Armas was working and living in Florida. He’s now in the Central African Republic, after the Trump administration sent him and dozens of deportees to the deeply impoverished and conflict-ridden nation. The 31-year-old said he only learned the U.S. government was deporting him to Africa after he arrived…
Tehran’s grocery stores are well-stocked, but many families can barely afford the basics. Unemployment is soaring and those with jobs are working more hours for money worth half as much as a year ago, putting food, medicine and everything else β Β except for heavily subsidized gasoline β further out of reach. “We have virtually given…
The West African nation of Liberia received the first group of “third country” deportees from the U.S. on Thursday, including migrants from Latin America, U.S. officials told CBS News.Β Roughly 20 deportees from different countries landed in Liberia, after being deported from the U.S. A U.S. official, however, told CBS News that after the plane…
Iran on Thursday executed an Afghan national convicted of the killing of police officers during anti-government demonstrations, the 30th in a wave of hangings since the start of the Iran war, a rights group said. Ghaem Hosseini was executed after being convicted of involvement in the deaths of four police officers, according to the state-linked…
The wreck of a steam tugboat dating from the early 1900s is the latest relic to emerge from shrinking waters in Serbia as Europe’s rivers run dry, with the continent engulfed in prolonged, extreme heat and drought. The rusting hull β once a famed vessel known as the Slovenian β surfaced earlier this month from…
A helicopter taking tourists on a safari crashed Wednesday in a remote part of northern Kenya, killing all seven people on board β six passengers and the pilot.Β Five Americans were among those killed in the crash, the U.S. State Department confirmed in a statement to CBS News. They included a Florida-based Telemundo TV station…
Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios has been provisionally suspended from professional tennis after testing positive for cocaine.Β The former Wimbledon finalist, who got his first major win in more than two years at last year’s Miami Open, has been provisionally suspended since Aug. 4, according to the International Tennis Integrity Agency, after a sample provided…
President Trump said Tuesday he has paused the 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods that were set to take effect Wednesday. “I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to…
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will head to Rome this week for talks on the future of the United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, whose mandate ends this year, a Lebanese official told the AFP news agency. The visit scheduled for Thursday comes after Italy and France said in June that they wanted to set…