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A shootout between police and armed men in Garland, Texas has taken the gunmen's lives after they opened fire on the guests of an anti-Islam exhibition, local officials say.

The New York Times report that Russian hackers managed to break into the White House computers in 2014 and were able to read US president Barack Obama’s emails.

The White House admitted the Russian hacker invasion last April but underlined that they were unable to procure any classified information.

Columbia University recognized newspaper coverage of local calamities and international emergencies in the 99th annual Pulitzer Prizes on April 21.

The trial proceeding against 89 members of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn started Monday in Athens.

Party leaders have been accused of creating ''a criminal organization'', but they were not present in the court room as reported by AFP. Accusation to party members also included murder, racist violence and possession of weapons.

The first film selected, 'Comoara' ('The Treasure') is directed by director Corneliu Porumboiu, who in 2006 won Cannes' Golden Camera prize for best first film with his '12:08 East of Bucharest' feature.

The movie stars both professional and amateur actors, focusing on two men who have surprising adventures as they attempt to find treasure.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday afternoon Alexis Tsipras - or one of his aides - wrote that "the foundations for a substantive restart of Greek-Russian relations" was taken during a meeting in Moscow with Vladimir Putin.

He also repeated that Greece is a "sovereign country with the right to conduct a multi-dimensional foreign policy and to exploit its geopolitical role".

Bulgaria is bracing for a new refugee influx as the weather gets milder in the spring, the New York Times says in a recent article summarizing Bulgaria's effort to curb the flow through border security measures.

Al-Qaeda fighters have liberated several hundreds of prisoners of a jail they have stormed in Southeastern Yemen, officials suggest.

The mental health of the co-pilot of crashed Germanwings passenger plane was a "serious lead" in the inquiry, but not the only one, French prosecutors said on Saturday.

One of the two pilots on the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps was locked out of the cockpit before the plane went down, killing 150 people, a source close to the investigation told AFP March 26.