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While the world is watching Gaza, violence fuels growing tensions in the occupied West Bank 10/14/2023 12:55pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — While the world is focused on the war in Gaza, tensions have risen in the occupied West Bank, where 55 Palestinians were killed over the past week in clashes with Israeli troops, arrest raids and attacks by Jewish settlers. U.N. monitors said it was the deadliest week for Palestin Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated after bomb threats with France on alert 10/14/2023 10:23am • PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum in Paris and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff Saturday after receiving bomb threats. The government has put France on high security alert after a fatal school stabbing by a suspected extremist. The Louvre communication service said no one was hurt and n Prince George's Co. police charge DC teen in domestic killing of relative 10/14/2023 09:22am • Prince George's County, Maryland, police have arrested a teenager they believe murdered a family member earlier this month. Police said Jammi Cooper, 36, was killed in a shooting on Oct. 5, at around 10:50 p.m. while in the unincorporated portion of Capitol Heights. Both he and the teen are resid Police in Warsaw detain a man who climbed a monument and reportedly made threats 10/14/2023 08:08am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in the Polish capital on Saturday detained a man who climbed the top of a monument and reportedly threatened to blow himself up. Large numbers of police and special counterterrorism officers sealed off a large square where the man had shouted something through a megap Prince George's Co. police arrest 3 for deadly Hyattsville-area shooting 10/14/2023 07:47am • Prince George's County, Maryland, police have arrested three local men allegedly involved in the murder of a D.C. resident earlier this year. Officers arrested three Prince George's County residents — 27-year-old Josue Vasques, 30-year-old Kenneth Gails and 33-year-old Marcus Chapman — and ch Increased security at Bowie State University after homecoming shooting 10/14/2023 05:51am • Bowie State University is tightening security after a shooting during homecoming events this past weekend. In an online message posted by University President Dr. Aminta Breaux on Friday, she outlined the security measures students can expect to see when they return to the Prince George's County, France is deploying 7,000 troops after a deadly school stabbing by a suspected Islamic radical 10/14/2023 05:50am • ARRAS, France (AP) — France will mobilize up to 7,000 soldiers to increase security around the country after a teacher was fatally stabbed and three other people wounded in a school attack by a former student suspected of Islamic radicalization, the president’s office said Saturday. Some schoolc UN will repatriate 9 South African peacekeepers in Congo accused of sexual assault 10/14/2023 05:25am • LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The United Nations said it will repatriate nine peacekeepers from a South African contingent in eastern Congo who were accused of sexual assault and other abuse. The U.N. decided to immediately repatriate the peacekeepers and a senior officer of the South African army “due Gunmen kill 6 construction workers in volatile southwestern Pakistan 10/14/2023 02:53am • QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen shot and killed six construction workers overnight in the volatile southwestern Baluchistan province, Pakistani police said Saturday. Police officer Hidayatullah Dashti said gunmen opened fire overnight at eight construction workers in the city of Turbat, about 377 m Brothers arrested outside Maryland State House take case to Supreme Court 10/14/2023 02:12am • An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court by Second Amendment activists in Maryland could affect protections for police officers and the public's right to document the activities of law enforcement. The case, which began as the arrest of two protesters outside the State House in February 2018, could h Colleges and universities work to balance safety with community connection 10/13/2023 11:33pm • After a mass shooting at Baltimore's Morgan State University that injured five people on Oct. 3, university president David Wilson said the school's proposing security upgrades, including a $6.4 million "security barrier" to protect the campus. This week, American University sent out a letter to Prince George's Co. police see increase in construction thefts targeting Latinos 10/13/2023 11:10pm • A disturbing trend in Prince George's County, Maryland, is now on the police department's radar after Latino construction workers have been robbed at gunpoint of their tools and money on job sites. "These are individuals out here making a living. They're out there working in the sun and in the co Live updates | Day 7 of the latest Israel-Hamas war 10/13/2023 09:30pm • Israel’s military ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians living in Gaza City to evacuate Friday ahead of a feared Israel ground offensive. The directive came on the heels of what the United Nations said was a warning it received from Israel to evacuate 1.1 million people living in northern Gaz New York officers won't face charges in death of man who caught fire after being shot with stun gun 10/13/2023 09:25pm • Police officers in upstate New York will not face criminal charges in connection with the death of a man who doused himself with hand sanitizer and then caught on fire when one of the officers shot a stun gun at him, the state attorney general's office said Friday. Jason Jones, 29, was taken off lif Judge authorizes attempted murder trial in shooting over Spanish conquistador statue 10/13/2023 09:20pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A judge on Friday ordered an attempted murder trial for a New Mexico man accused in the shooting of a Native American activist amid confrontations about aborted plans to reinstall a statue of a Spanish conquistador outside a government office. State District Court Judge Jason