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A lone attacker armed with an assault-style rifle killed four people, including a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer, before fatally shooting himself inside a skyscraper in New York’s Manhattan area, according to the police.

The shooting is still under “active investigation”, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters at a news conference late on Monday. Police said the motive behind the shooting was still unknown.

The rampage happened at the skyscraper –…

Agadez, Niger – On a torrid afternoon in July, Elhadj Amadou Dizi Illo sat on a low stool in his souvenir store in Agadez, beads of sweat dotting the skin under his bright yellow turban as he dusted a heap of ornamented knives on the floor.

Opposite the store, a sign on a brown, mudbrick building with lattice doors announced the Hotel Auberge, which has long closed down. Two buildings down, another structure bore the word “Antiquite” written boldly in chalk. It, too, was closed….

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The “worst-case scenario of famine” is unfolding in Gaza, according to a warning issued on Tuesday by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the world’s leading hunger monitoring system.

“Mounting evidence shows that widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths,” the IPC warning said.

“Latest data indicates that famine thresholds have been reached for food consumption in most of…

Post-war Poland has enjoyed proper independence now for little more than 35 years. And it wants to keep it that way. But there are external pressures which Poles believe put them under very real threat.

The ruling, which Uribe’s legal team said he will appeal, is the latest decision in a long-running, hugely politicised case.

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been found guilty of witness tampering and bribery in a landmark trial, becoming the country’s first ex-president to ever be found guilty at trial.

Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia ruled on Monday that there was enough evidence to determine that Uribe, 73, conspired with a lawyer to coax three former members of paramilitary…

Germany and Spain have announced joint efforts with Jordan to airdrop humanitarian aid into Gaza, acknowledging the inadequacy of such measures amidst a severe famine.

Germany and Spain are set to airdrop humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip in cooperation with Jordan. This comes despite senior officials from both European nations admitting the insufficiency of such aid.

On Monday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro…