The three victims, said to be a mayor and two journalists, were shot in a pedestrian area outside the restaurant in Imatra, Finland late last night, Metro reports. The attack occurred moments before a police patrol car arrived at the ...
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Fidel Castro laid to rest in private funeral
The three-minute ceremony at Santiago de Cuba’s Santa Ifigenia Cemetery ended nine days of public mourning for the charismatic but polarizing revolutionary who led Cuba for half a century, CNN reports. Cuban President Raul Castro slid the box of ashes ...
Read More »Pro-European candidate Van der Bellen wins presidential election in Austria
According to an exit poll conducted by Austrian broadcaster ORF on Sunday, independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen has been elected as Austrian president after winning 53.6 percent of the vote, Deutsche Welle reports. “From the start, I have always ...
Read More »Two feet of snow cover Hawaii
Weather experts say that it is not unusual for snow to fall in tropical Hawaii, but rarely has it fallen so heavily at such low altitudes, the BBC reports. The snow is heaviest around two of the island’s highest peaks, ...
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