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INTS KALNINS/REUTERS Emergency service specialists work at a store with a collapsed roof in Riga Thursday evening. Four people were killed and dozens more were feared trapped after the roof of a busy supermarket in Latvia’s capital Riga collapsed on Thursday evening, a rescue official said. “Around 30 people are injured, there are four people dead, including one rescue service ...

Merrill Newman had taken to travelling the world after retiring. An 85-year-old Korean War veteran following a “lifelong dream” to visit North Korea has been detained in the communist country for more than three weeks, according to reports. Merrill Newman, of Palo Alto, was five minutes from takeoff on his return flight to Beijing on Oct. 26 when authorities boarded ...

HANDOUT/Reuters The suspect was arrested Wednesday in an underground parking lot 6 miles north of Paris. The suspect in a Paris newspaper office shooting that left a photographer gravely wounded and other attacks that triggered a two-day nationwide manhunt was arrested Wednesday evening, French authorities said. Agnes Thibault Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the French prosecutor’s office, said that “a suspect ...

Wissm al-Okili/Reuters A woman looks at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad’s Sadr City on Monday. The attacks have continued through Tuesday. BAGHDAD — A wave of attacks, mostly by car bombs, hit mainly Shiite and commercial areas of Baghdad on Wednesday morning, killing at least 24 people and wounding 87, Iraqi officials said. The bombings were part ...

Anja Niedringhaus/AP A giant picture of Afghan President Hamid Karzai is displayed on a building in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan. Thousands of prominent Afghans are scheduled to meet in the Afghan capital to debate a contentious security agreement with the U.S. In a phone call Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged “mistakes” and asked Afghan President Hamid ...

Hussein Malla Lebanese men remove a body from a burned car at the scene where two explosions struck near the Iranian Embassy. Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon says his country’s cultural attaché has died from wounds sustained in twin explosions that struck near the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, killing 23 people. Ambassador Ghazanfar Roknabadi identified the diplomat as Sheikh Ibrahim Ansari. ...

Facebook Nicholas Mevoli learned to dive without fins and oxygen tanks when he visited the Florida Keys as a child. A young Brooklyn freediver who died over the weekend while competing for a world record did so much damage to his lungs during his 236-foot plunge that he couldn’t survive, his family told The Daily News Monday. Nicholas Mevoli, 32, ...

Facebook Nicholas Mevoli was killed during a freedive competition in Nassau, Bahamas while going for $ 20,000 prize. A 32-year-old New York City man who broke the U.S. constant weight record for freediving soon after beginning his competitive career last year died Sunday while participating in a tournament in the Bahamas, police said. Nicholas Mevoli, who lived in the city’s ...

GEORGE EMMANUEL/AFP/Getty Images Former French hostage Francis Collomp (second right), who escaped his captors during a Nigerian army operation against Islamist group Boko Haram on Sunday is pictured in Kaduna, Nigeria, a few hours after his release. Collomp, whose release was announced Sunday, fled during an exchange of fire between the army and Boko Haram after his cell door was ...

Alexandra Wyman/WireImage Born in Denver and raised in Seattle, Calderwood (L) became a party promoter after high school. The founder of the trendy Ace Hotel has died in London, the chain announced. Alex Calderwood, 47, died Thursday. No details were given on Calderwood’s cause of death. RELATED: AGENT PULLED FROM PRESIDENTIAL DETAIL OVER MAY HOTEL CASE NVESTIGATED COLOMBIAN HANKY-PANKY: SENATOR ...