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close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for February 9 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Norovirus cases in England are 66% higher than the average at this time of year, official data showed on Thursday, with the biggest rise in confirmed infections …

Spain’s constitutional court on Thursday rejected a challenge lodged more than a decade ago by the conservative Popular Party against a law allowing abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. The legal challenge had “not obtained the support” of the court, the verdict said. The main opposition PP’s legal …

Two Brazilian tourists were allegedly sexually assaulted, with one possibly raped, while they visited the Eiffel Tower on Sunday. “The rape of a woman at the foot of the Eiffel Tower once again highlights the dangerousness of the Champ de Mars site,” said Rachida Dati, mayor of the Seventh Arrondissement …

Mexican authorities said Thursday that former top security official Genaro Garcia Luna embezzled as much as $745.9 million from government technology contracts. Pablo Gómez, the head of Mexico’s anti-money laundering unit, said Garcia Luna and associates set up companies that got 30 dubious government contracts while he was Mexico’s top …

An apparent gas explosion in an apartment building in the south-central Russian city of Novosibirsk Thursday morning killed at least seven people, including a 2-year-old child, according to local emergency services. Regional Gov. Andrey Travnikov said nine people had been taken to the hospital, with two in intensive care. Earlier, …

Russia’s foreign minister met with Sudan’s military rulers on Thursday, state media in Sudan reported, the final stop on Sergey Lavrov’s tour of Africa. The top Russian diplomat Africa trip has been seeking to strengthen ties and expand influence at a time when the West has sought to isolate Moscow …

A Russian woman living in New York has been convicted of attempted murder and other charges after trying to kill a lookalike with poisoned cheesecake to steal her identity, prosecutors announced. Viktoria Nasyrova, 47, faces up to 25 years in prison for the crime at her March 21 sentencing. The …

Nigerian authorities on Thursday directed all universities to shut down for nearly three weeks for this month’s presidential elections, citing security concerns. The National Universities Commission said “concerns expressed on the security of staff, students and properties of our respective institutions,” were a factor in the decision, in a letter …

Mexico’s inflation rate rose in January to 7.91%, leading the country’s central bank to boost its principle interest rate to 11% on Thursday. ANNUAL INFLATION RATE IN EGYPT REACHES NEW HIGH AS CURRENCY SURGES The Bank of Mexico said inflation was not going down as expected, and was likely to …

Parents returned Thursday to the Montreal-area daycare center where two children were killed when a bus rammed into the building, stopping to grieve and to recount the difficult moments they witnessed. André Beaudoin, a father of a 2-year-old boy who attends the center in Laval, said he had to push …