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?
Amid chaotic scenes, French police waded into shallow waters off a beach south of Boulogne early on Friday morning and used knives to slash an inflatable small boat – packed with men, women and children – that was wallowing, dangerously, in the waves. All those onboard clambered to safety as the boat collapsed. The intervention…
Watch: Sheriff gives update on active Idaho shooting Two firefighters were fatally shot in a mountain community in Idaho, in north-western US, while responding to a brush fire, officials say. Another firefighter was injured when a suspect opened fire with a high-powered rifle near the city of Coeur d’Alene, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s…
SEOUL, South Korea — Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, U.S. dollar bills and Bibles toward North Korea by sea, police said. The Americans tried to throw the bottles into the sea from front-line Gwanghwa Island so they could float toward North Korean…
