This is the week we recall the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Although we don’t single out his birthday as a nation any longer, ...

Members of Spanish and Danish royal families gathered in Athens on Friday for the wedding of Nikolaos, son of Greece’s late ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF FEB. 3, 2005 The public will have a chance at a public hearing to voice opinions on a proposed county-wide smoking ban aimed at preventing the exposure of ...

Salim Iskef fled Syria - where Islamic State militants had killed his father - for Sweden, only to be gunned down this week ...

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"He was simply a good man," the priest said. In the middle of a grand, high-ceilinged church in Orebro, Sweden, Jacob Kasselia, a Syrian orthodox priest, looked up towards the stained glass ...

Government offices, schools and workplaces fell silent in Sweden at midday on Tuesday in remembrance of the victims of a mass ...

open image in gallery Syrian refugee Salim Iskef, 29, has been named as among the victims by Swedish media and Reuters (Syrian Orthodox St Mary's Church Orebro) The suspected perpetrator was found ...

Sweden’s right-wing government said on Friday it would seek to tighten gun laws in the wake of the country’s deadliest mass shooting at an adult education center where the attacker appeared to ...

All 11 people who died in a shooting at a school for adults in Sweden have been identified by police but they have not yet released the names. It comes as local media named a second victim in the ...