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12 hurt after a fire breaks out at a water park under construction in Sweden���s second-largest city 02/12/2024 10:35am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Black smoke rose over Sweden���s second-largest city on Monday after a fire broke out at a water park under construction at one of the country's biggest amusement centers. The blaze at the Oceana water park in the popular Liseberg amusement complex in downtown Goteborg s Moldova destroyed explosives found in a Shahed drone that strayed from the war in Ukraine 02/12/2024 10:34am • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ��� Authorities in Moldova said Monday they destroyed explosives discovered in a part of a Shahed drone that crashed on its territory from the war in neighboring Ukraine, while the foreign minister condemned Russia's ���constant barbaric attacks��� across the border. Police A top Jewish group in Switzerland slams an antisemitic sign purportedly by a local ski rental stand 02/12/2024 10:27am • GENEVA (AP) ��� Switzerland's main Jewish organization on Monday denounced an antisemitic sign put up at a local ski shop near Davos, barring Jews from renting equipment from the store. Regional police opened an investigation. The sign on Pischa Mountain above Davos, a town known for hosting the ann Takoma Park Police search for reckless drivers after 'donuts' and 'burnouts' on DC-area streets 02/12/2024 09:19am • Police in Takoma Park, Maryland, released a community advisory on Sunday after a large crowd gathered and formed a circle around an intersection, driving recklessly and performing what the department called "dangerous maneuvers." Takoma Park Police said the incident began when a crowd blocked off Explosive experts in Greece defuse a parcel bomb sent to a judge 02/12/2024 09:06am • THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) ��� Explosives experts in northern Greece on Monday safely defused a parcel bomb that had been delivered to a senior judge at her courthouse office, police said. The judge in the country's second-largest city of Thessaloniki found the package suspicious and didn't open it, Indonesia police to charge 2 Chinese nationals in furnace explosion at Chinese-owned nickel plant 02/12/2024 08:44am • PALU, Indonesia (AP) ��� Indonesian police on Monday named two Chinese nationals as suspects in the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Sulawesi Island that killed 21 workers and injured dozens of others. Four Chinese and nine Indonesian workers died instantly on Dec. Cyprus president wants the European Union to discuss designating Syria safe zones for refugees 02/12/2024 08:42am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� The European Union won't serve its own best interests if it doesn���t consider designating some parts of Syria as safe zones so refugees and migrants can return there, the president of Cyprus said Monday. President Nikos Christodoulides said Cyprus is working with like-mind Shooting at Greek shipping company kills four, including owner and suspected gunman 02/12/2024 07:05am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Three people were fatally shot Monday in the offices of a shipping company near Athens and the suspected gunman also took his life as police special forces prepared to confront him, authorities said. The shooting occurred in the shipping company office in Glyfada, a seaside s Republicans work to recruit female and minority candidates even as they criticize diversity programs 02/12/2024 06:53am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Republicans are critical of diversity and inclusion programs within the federal government and elsewhere, but they see recruiting women and minority candidates, along with veterans, as key to expanding their slim majority in November. Rep. Richard Hudson, the chairman of th What to know about a shooting at Joel Osteen's megachurch in Texas during Sunday services 02/12/2024 06:31am • HOUSTON (AP) ��� A woman���s motive for opening fire in celebrity pastor Joel Osteen���s megachurch was unclear Monday, a day after the shooting sent worshippers rushing for safety in between busy services. Police say two off-duty officers working security at Lakewood Church, one of the largest m Virginia's Youngkin aims to bolster mental health care, part of national focus after the pandemic 02/12/2024 06:21am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� John Clair, the police chief of a small Appalachian town in southwest Virginia, spends his days consumed by a growing problem: the frequency with which his officers are tapped to detain, transport and wait in hospitals with people in the throes of a mental health crisis. Of Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, who was set to be a superstar, has died in a car crash 02/12/2024 06:04am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, who was set to be a superstar of long-distance running and was a top contender for gold at the Olympics in Paris this year, was killed along with his coach in a car crash in Kenya. Their vehicle was the only one involved in the c Trailblazing Black umpire started his MLB career in DC 02/12/2024 04:01am • Throughout February,��WTOP is celebrating Black History Month. Join us on air and online as we bring you the stories, people and places that make up our diverse community. We all know Jackie Robinson and how he broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. But there's anot Woman killed after she opened fire in Joel Osteen's megachurch, boy with her shot, hospitalized 02/12/2024 01:04am • HOUSTON (AP) ��� A woman in a trenchcoat opened fire with a long gun Sunday inside celebrity pastor Joel Osteen���s megachurch in Texas, sending worshippers rushing to find safety while two off-duty officers confronted and killed the shooter. Two other people were shot and injured, including a 5-yea Russia launches barrage of 45 drones over Ukraine as Kyiv changes more military leaders 02/11/2024 09:00pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russian forces launched 45 drones over Ukraine in a five-and-a-half-hour barrage Sunday, officials said, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continued the reshuffle of his war cabinet as the war enters its third year. In a statement, the Ukrainian air force said it had