Once unthinkable in US, drug shoot-up rooms get serious look
By DAVID KLEPPER Across the United States, heroin users have died in alleys behind convenience stores, on city sidewalks and in the bathrooms of fast-food joints — because no one…
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Foreign fighters are evading Europe’s security net
By LORNE COOK and DOMINIQUE SOGUEL When Ibrahim El Bakraoui blew himself up in the Brussels Airport check-in area, killing and maiming scores of travelers, it was at least the…
The Latest: Dutch riot police, anti-migrant protesters clash
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Latest on the flow of refugees from the Middle East and elsewhere to Europe (all times local): 4 p.m. Riot police have clashed with demonstrators in…
IS claims Jakarta attacks that left 5 gunmen, 2 others dead
By NINIEK KARMINI and ALI KOTARUMALOS Attackers set off suicide bombs and exchanged gunfire outside a Starbucks cafe in Indonesia’s capital in a brazen assault Thursday that police said “imitated”…
Dutch Safety Board: Buk missile downed MH17 in Ukraine
A missile launched from rebel-held Ukraine ripped the cockpit from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Dutch investigators reported Tuesday, adding that some passengers may have remained conscious for another minute or…
Shell to cease Alaska offshore Arctic drilling
By DAN JOLING Royal Dutch Shell will stop drilling for oil and gas in Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast following disappointing results from an exploratory well backed by billions in…
Police break up US-Italy drug ring run out of NYC pizzeria
FRANCES D’EMILIO By night, the Calabrian immigrant family served up piping-hot pizza. After hours, Italian and U.S. authorities say, the restaurant in the New York borough of Queens was busy…
Snowden leak: NSA helped British steal cell phone codes
By KEN DILANIAN Britain’s electronic spying agency, in cooperation with the U.S. National Security Agency, hacked into the networks of a Dutch company to steal codes that allow both governments…