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British Prime Minister Theresa May was rushed to safety Wednesday after a knife-wielding assailant attacked a police officer and shots were fired outside Parliament in what authorities are calling an act of terror.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia's arms sales abroad last year have topped $15 billion.

Pro-independence lawmakers in Spain's powerful northeastern Catalonia region have approved a 2017 budget that guarantees funds for a referendum on secession despite warnings from legal advisers that such a vote would be unconstitutional.

The director of Hungary's Military Hospital says a survivor of a January bus crash in Verona, Italy, has died, raising the death toll to 17.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ramped up his anti-European rhetoric on Wednesday, warning that the safety of Western citizens could be in peril if European nations persist in what he described as arrogant conduct.

One year after the attacks, the city's physical scars may have healed, but the pain is apparent beneath the surface.

Today's attack at Parliament in London, which is being investigated as a terrorist incident according to the Metropolitan Police, would be the latest in a series of such incidents in the British capital.

The European Union's chief negotiator for the upcoming negotiations with Britain on leaving the bloc has warned that there will be "serious consequences for everyone" if the two sides fail to clinch a deal within the two years of talks.

The father of the Germanwings pilot believed to have intentionally crashed his aircraft in France two years ago says his son couldn't have committed such an act.

According to a recent survey, 12.5 percent of Dominican women between 20 and 49 married before they turned 15.

A police officer was stabbed and an alleged assailant was reportedly shot after gunfire broke out at the UK Parliament in London on Wednesday.

The Latest on reports of an incident outside Britain's parliament (all times local): 3:05 p.m.

A session of Britain's House of Commons has been suspended as witnesses reported hearing sounds like gunfire nearby.

Police in Calabria, southern Italy have detained a fugitive mobster who authorities say is the boss of an 'ndrangheta crime clan involved in a feud that culminated in a 2007 gangland-style massacre in Germany.

Swiss police say they are trying to reach people trapped inside a train that derailed in the central city of Lucerne, with details of any injuries still unclear.

The British Department of Transport says a ban on laptops and tablets being brought into airline cabins on certain flights must be put in place by Saturday.

Matadors in Spain and Latin America keep risking their lives in the name of this controversial tradition that reaches back through the centuries.

A Norwegian lawyer says a group of Turkish officers based in Norway who had refused to return home after the failed July 15 coup attempt, have been granted political asylum.

Austria's interior minister is doubling the payment for some migrants who voluntarily return to their home countries to 1,000 euros ($1,080.) Wolfgang Sobotka says the added financial incentive is part of plans to repatriate 50,000 migrants who do not qualify for at least temporary residence by 2019.

Opposition politicians, activists and outspoken church leaders in Zimbabwe have gathered to protest what they call attempts to rig next year's presidential election.