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Killer of 3 in English city of Nottingham sentenced to high-security hospital, likely for life 01/25/2024 10:45am • LONDON (AP) ��� A 32-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia who fatally stabbed two college students and a man in the central English city of Nottingham was told Thursday that he would ���most probably��� spend the rest of his life in a high-security medical facility. The sentencing of Valdo Caloc Pedestrian struck and killed on BW Parkway in Prince George's Co., northbound lanes reopen after 5 hours 01/25/2024 10:20am • Listen live to WTOP for the latest traffic updates on the 8s. A pedestrian was struck and killed early Thursday morning on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Prince George's County, Maryland. The incident kept the northbound side of the roadway was closed for over five hours. U.S. Park Police Students in Greece protest plans to introduce private universities 01/25/2024 09:56am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Several thousand university students and supporters took part in a protest in central Athens Thursday to oppose plans by Greece���s conservative government to allow privately run universities. The protesters, chanting ���Students, United, Will Win,��� filed past the main Athe Police chief: Man fatally shot by DC police officer after jumping out of ambulance, running through traffic 01/25/2024 09:50am • A D.C. police officer fatally shot a man who was reportedly having a mental health crisis Wednesday after officials say he jumped out of an ambulance, ran through traffic and came at officers with a "metal object." The shooting happened near the intersection of North Capitol Street and New York A A child dies after being rescued off Cyprus with 59 other Syrian migrants 01/25/2024 08:57am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� One of the five children who were hospitalized in Cyprus after being rescued from a rickety boat carrying 60 Syrian migrants has died, officials said Thursday. The migrants, who were rescued early Wednesday by Cyprus police, apparently ran out of food and water after the boa Russian courts jail a Putin critic and a woman convicted of a blast that killed a pro-war blogger 01/25/2024 08:51am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� A Russian court on Thursday sentenced a woman to 27 years in prison for a cafe blast that killed a prominent pro-war blogger after he was given a bust of himself that later exploded. In a separate proceeding, a Moscow court convicted a former leader of separatist rebels in South Korean lawmaker is injured in an attack weeks after the opposition leader was stabbed 01/25/2024 08:49am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� A South Korean governing party lawmaker was treated for lacerations at a Seoul hospital after being attacked Thursday by an unidentified man who repeatedly struck her in the head with a rock-like object. A police official in Seoul���s Apgujeong district said a suspect was Antisemitic acts have risen sharply in Belgium and France since the Israel-Hamas war began 01/25/2024 08:39am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� The number of antisemitic acts registered in France and Belgium rose sharply since Hamas' attack on Israel triggered the war in Gaza, according to figures released Thursday in both countries. In France, data from the Interior ministry and the Jewish Community Protection Service wat Police say a man in Puerto Rico fatally shot 3 people before killing himself 01/25/2024 08:37am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� A man in southwestern Puerto Rico fatally shot his former girlfriend and two members of her family before killing himself, police said Thursday. The incident occurred late on Wednesday in the coastal town of Yauco, where the bodies of the man���s former girlfriend, 30, A man is charged with 76 counts of murder in a deadly South African building fire last year 01/25/2024 07:53am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� A man was charged with 76 counts of murder and 86 counts of attempted murder on Thursday for allegedly causing a deadly fire at an apartment building in South Africa last year that was one of the country's worst disasters. Prosecutors said he made a written confession in which 19-year-old killed at Deanwood double shooting identified 01/25/2024 07:06am • A 19-year-old man has been identified as the person killed in a double shooting Monday afternoon near the Deanwood Metro station in Northeast D.C. D.C. police said on Wednesday that 19-year-old Tyreek Sheldon Moore, of Northeast, was shot around 3:30 p.m. Monday in the 4600 block of Minnesota Ave How To Tech: Why it's important to turn on Apple's new Stolen Device Protection 01/25/2024 07:00am • LONDON (AP) ��� You���re in a crowded bar when a thief watches you unlock your iPhone with your passcode, then swipes it. That sinking feeling hits when you realize it's gone, along with priceless photos, important files, passwords on banking apps and other vital parts of your digital life. Apple r 2nd suspect arrested in fatal Mother's Day shooting of DC 10-year-old 01/25/2024 06:46am • A second D.C. teenager has been arrested and charged with murder in connection to the fatal shooting of 10-year-old Arianna Davis that happened on Mother's Day last year. D.C. police said 19-year-old Dallas McKinney, of Southeast, was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder while ar Poland's pro-EU government and opposition disagree on whether 2 pardoned lawmakers can stay on 01/25/2024 06:45am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� The fate of two Polish opposition politicians became the focus Thursday of a running feud between the country���s new pro-European Union government and conservative opposition as the sides disagreed whether they can remain lawmakers. The weeks-old government of Prime Ministe Hong Kong's top court restores activist's conviction over banned vigil on Tiananmen crackdown 01/25/2024 05:20am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong���s top court on Thursday restored a prominent detained activist���s conviction over a banned vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, marking the latest setback for the city���s democracy supporters. Chow Hang-tung, a former leader o