President Donald Trump on Monday said he is placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying National Guard troops in order to address what he claims is out-of-control crime in the capital city. Trump, who has threatened to put Washington under federal control, made the announcement at a news conference at the…
Several hundred people marched in London on Sunday to demand Hamas release the Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian militant group in Gaza, criticizing Britain’s plan to recognize Palestine as a state, Agence France-Presse reported. Joined by several relatives of the hostages, the march ended at the 10 Downing Street office of Prime Minister Keir…
AFP via Getty Images Atlanta police sealed streets around Centers for Disease Control (CDC) headquarters near Emory University A police officer has died after he was injured in a shooting outside the headquarters of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. David Rose, 33, who graduated from the police academy in…
The move comes after a commission found Deshabandu Tennakoon guilty of gross abuse of power. Sri Lanka’s Parliament has voted to fire the country’s police chief for misconduct and gross abuse of power in the island’s first impeachment of an inspector general. Lawmakers on Tuesday voted to sack Deshabandu Tennakoon, who was accused of sending…
Two runaway wallabies sparked a cross-border chase in Belgium and France, with police and firefighters hot on the heels of the fast-hopping marsupials. Firemen captured one of the fugitives on Tuesday near the northern French city of Lille, days after the pair broke out of their enclosure in the border town of Mouscron, Belgium. But…
An off-duty Customs and Border Patrol agent was shot in New York City’s Riverside Park late Saturday in an alleged robbery that did not appear to target him because of his job, police said. Miguel Mora, 21, is being investigated as a person of interest in the attempted robbery and shooting, New York Police Commissioner…
Three current and former Louisiana police chiefs, a U.S. marshal and a businessman have been federally charged with participating in an immigrant visa fraud scheme, prosecutors announced Wednesday. A federal grand jury in Shreveport returned a 62-count indictment against the five people on July 2, Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander Van Hook for the Western District…
France’s far-right National Rally party has accused authorities of a “new harassment campaign”, after police raided its headquarters in an inquiry into its campaign finances. Party president Jordan Bardella said the “spectacular and unprecedented operation” was a “serious attack on pluralism and democratic change”. Prosecutors said they were investigating potential acts of “fraud committed against…
New Delhi — Police have arrested three people suspected of brutally murdering five members of a family who were accused of witchcraft in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Police said the victims were hacked to death and their bodies then burned by a mob of dozens of residents in the village of Temta on Sunday…
A year after a deadly crackdown, Kenya’s streets are alive with protests again, this time after a blogger died in police custody and officers shot a demonstrator at close range. As outrage grows, so do calls for accountability. Why does police brutality persist in Kenya, and how do officers continue to evade justice?
