COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Copenhagen’s public transport agency says it has ordered the immediate removal of posters opposing Israeli settlements on the capital’s city buses after getting “a considerable amount of complaints.” Movia, owned by eastern Denmark local authorities, said Thursday the campaign by the Danish Palestinian Friendship Association was “unnecessarily …

BERLIN – A spokesman for Germany’s Interior Ministry says there is no evidence that the Russian bikers who entered Germany on Sunday were part of the nationalist Night Wolves group. The pro-Kremlin Night Wolves have declared their intention to commemorate the Russian and Allied defeat of Nazi Germany 70 years …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The head of Denmark’s intelligence agency has announced his resignation hours before a government report on the police force’s handling of two fatal shooting attacks in February. Jens Madsen, chief of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service since January 2014, says in a statement it has been …

SKOPJE, Macedonia – Authorities in Macedonia say police have clashed with an armed group in the northern town of Kumanovo, and parts of the town have been sealed off. Macedonia’s state-run news agency MIA reported that four police officers were injured by gunfire, and three of them were taken to …

BAGHDAD – Iraqi police officials say attacks on Shiite pilgrims across the Iraqi capital killed more than a dozen people and wounded at least 40. The largest of the attacks happened in central Baghdad when a suicide bomber attacked pilgrims buying food and drinks on their way back from the …

Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez|Steely Dan|Sightings Ben Affleck: Did Friends Intervene? Twice last week, before the idiotic B-Lo/J-Lo wedding was called off, I was told the same thing:Ben Affleck‘s close pals staged an “intervention,” the kind used for addicts, to stop his wedding toJennifer Lopez. It looks like they got through …

SALGAR, Colombia – An avalanche of mud and debris roared over an alpine town in western Colombia before dawn Monday, killing at least 52 people in a flash flood and mudslide triggered by heavy rains. Residents were stirred from bed in the dead of the night by a loud rumble …

A federal panel on underage drinking recently called for higher taxes on alcoholic beverages to reduce alcohol consumption by minors. While this recommendation may seem reasonable at first glance, it’s unlikely to work. Moreover, it’s part of an ongoing effort by neo-prohibitionists to reduce alcohol consumption in general. A panel …

GARY, Ind. – Police say the remains of two babies have been found in small boxes above ceiling tiles in a northwestern Indiana funeral home. Gary police and the Lake County coroner on Wednesday removed the bodies of a stillborn and a newborn from Smith, Bizzell and Warner Funeral Home. …

PHILADELPHIA – After six years of pleading and the murders of two of their own, the vast majority of federal correctional officers and other workers are being equipped with pepper spray. Officers in an ongoing pilot program say it’s a game-changer in prison safety. The Bureau of Prisons says it’s …