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The assault on Thursday in the city of Nakano in central Japan took the lives of two women and two police officers. It was a rare episode of violence in a country where gun crime remains low.

A search of a reservoir in Portugal that came more than 16 years after the British girl went missing resulted in the collection of some material but did not solve the mystery of her disappearance.

A man was arrested on “suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving,” but the police later said the episode was not being treated as “terror related.”

Turkey’s president has made a spectacle of the Ottoman past, using monuments and TV shows to rally his voters. His cultural opponents have faced censorship, or jail.

The assault on Thursday in the city of Nakano in central Japan took the lives of a woman and two police officers. It was a rare episode of violence in a country where gun crime remains low.

The mercenary group’s leader said his fighters would hand the ruined city to regular Russian forces, who are already stretched and will have to fill the gap left by the mercenaries.

The woman from Nutbush, Tenn., renounced her American citizenship in 2013 to live a quiet life in Küsnacht on Lake Zurich.

Video of the national bird being handled by Miami zoo visitors caused an outcry in New Zealand. Even the prime minister weighed in.

After seizing the city in eastern Ukraine after a long, brutal fight, the Wagner mercenary force is turning it over to the depleted Russian Army to defend.

Net migration to Britain has exceeded 600,000 a year, stirring tensions in a government that promised to stem arrivals.