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Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yosimura said his city will end its 60-year relationship with San Francisco as sister cities a day after the local government in the US city officially approved the sculpture of the so-called "comfort women," the victims of sexual slavery of the Japanese army during the Second World War, DPA reported.

This week’s deadly truck attack in New York could not deter blind Japanese runner Toshiaki Ito from joining 50,000 fellow competitors in the city’s marathon this Sunday.

Federal prosecutors brought terrorism charges Wednesday against the Uzbek immigrant accused in the truck rampage that left eight people dead.

Prosecutors said the suspect was spurred by the Islamic State group’s online calls to action and picked Halloween because he knew more people would be out on the streets.

A driver plowed a pickup truck down a crowded bike path along the Hudson River in Manhattan on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring 11 before being shot by a police officer in what officials are calling the deadliest terrorist attack on New York City since Sept. 11, 2001.

Police and witnesses say a man deliberately drove a rented truck onto a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, killing eight people and injuring at least 12 others, then emerged from the vehicle screaming and brandishing imitation firearms before being shot by police. The suspect was wounded and taken into custody, reports cbsnews. 

American guitarist and composer Marc Ribot is coming to Athens on Friday, October 20, with the Young Philadelphians band for a concert of "punk, funk, soul, noise and post-punk vibrations" at the Onassis Cultural Center.

New York’s most iconic coffee cup, the Anthora, was designed by Czech-American immigrant Leslie Buck in 1963. The word “Anthora” was Buck’s distinctive mispronunciation of “amphora,” the two-handled Greek pitcher associated with the same imagery that appears on the coffee cup.

A new study suggests that an eruption of a large volcano in the tropics could cause El Nino to emerge, UPI said.

Chuck Low, best known as Morris ‘Morrie’ Kesseler in Goodfellas, passed away at a nursing home in New Jersey last month aged 89, it has been revealed.

A grand jury on Aug. 29 indicted 19 people, including 15 Turkish security officials, in connection with a brawl in Washington between protesters and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's security personnel in May, U.S. prosecutors said.