A Department of Homeland Security patrol car is pictured outside the federal building in El Paso, Texas, Feb 8, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) One person was killed and three others wounded in a shooting at an El Paso, Texas, shopping mall on Wednesday, police said. One suspect was in custody and police were looking for […]
JOHANNESBURG – A head-on collision between a bus and a cash-in-transit van left 20 people dead on Monday on a major road in South Africa's northern Limpopo province, with dozens taken to hospital, transport officials and an emergency medical company said. Emergency medical care company ER24 said police were investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash […]
This handout image courtesy of Michigan State Univeristy Police and Public Safety show the suspect of a shooting at their campus in East Lansing, Michigan on February 13, 2023. At least three people were killed February 13, 2023 and five others injured when a gunman opened fire on a university campus in the United States. […]
Activists hold signs addressing the Tyre Nichols case at a Memphis City Council meeting, Feb 7, 2023, in Memphis, Tennssee. (PHOTO / AP) UNITED NATIONS – United Nations experts have expressed grave concern over the deaths of two Black men in January in the United States at the hands of police, saying the use of […]
A van arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London on Feb 6, 2023 during the two-day sentencing of serial rapist police officer David Carrick. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON — A former London police officer was jailed on Tuesday for more than 30 years for an "unrestrained campaign of rape and abuse of women" over nearly […]
This Sept 22, 2022, photo shows Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew Holness addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters. Holness on Jan 31, 2023 told lawmakers that Jamaica would be willing to take part in an international military deployment to Haiti. (PHOTO / AP) KINGSTON – Jamaica would be […]
In the photo taken on Jan 27, 2023, protesters gather in Lafayette Park outside the White House in Washington, over the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police. (PHOTO / AP) MEMPHIS — Three members of the Memphis Fire Department who responded to the fatal police confrontation with Tyre Nichols […]
A group of demonstrators protest outside a police precinct in response to the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police officers, in Memphis, Tennessee on Jan 29, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) Memphis, a city in the US state of Tennessee, disbanded on Saturday the special police unit whose officers fatally […]
Protestors rally against the fatal police assault of Tyre Nichols, at Washington Square Park in New York City, on Jan 28, 2023. The city of Memphis on Jan 27, 2023 released a graphic video, depicting the fatal police assault of Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man. (PHOTO / AFP) MEMPHIS, Tenn – The specialized police unit […]
This still image from a Memphis Police Department body-cam video released by the city of Memphis on Jan 27, 2023, shows Tyre Nichols handcuffed on the ground surrounded by police officers, in Memphis, Tennessee. (PHOTO / AFP) MEMPHIS, Tenn – Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist stopped by Memphis police earlier this month, is seen pummeled […]
A woman with her daughter walks past a barricade that was set up by members of the police as they protest bad police governance, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Jan 26, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haitian police officers on Thursday blocked streets and forced their way into the country's main airport to protest the […]
A boy plays with a flower in front of a banner with images of British journalist Dom Phillips (left) and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and the word "Justice" written in Portuguese, during a rally demanding authorities conduct a thorough investigation into the circumstances leading to their deaths, and do more to protect indigenous lands against […]
Monterey Park police officers stand at the scene of a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, on Jan 22, 2023. (ROBYN BECK / AFP) LOS ANGELES – A gunman killed 10 people at a ballroom dance hall during a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration late on Saturday near Los Angeles before fleeing the scene and […]
In this file photo dated Dec 9, 2022, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reacts during his visit to Royal Air Force RAF Coningsby, near Lincoln, eastern England. (JOE GIDDENS / POOL / AFP) LONDON – British police fined Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday for failing to wear a seat belt while he filmed a […]
Protesters, supporters of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro, sit in front of police inside Planalto Palace after storming it, in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan 8, 2023. (ERALDO PERES / AP) BRASILIA — Brazil's federal police on Friday carried out raids against people suspected of involvement in the Jan 8 storming of government buildings by supporters of […]
A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking at the Despatch box during Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons in London on Jan 11, 2023. (JESSICA TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) LONDON – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government will on Monday announce new proposals […]
LONDON – A seven-year-old girl was left with life-threatening injuries after she and five others, including another child, were hurt in a drive-by shooting on Saturday near a church in London where a funeral was taking place, British police said. Detectives said the girl had been taken to hospital and remained in a life-threatening condition […]
Federal Interventor Ricardo Cappelli (center) inspects military troops as they wait for a protest announced by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Jan 11, 2023. (GUSTAVO MORENO / AP) BRASILIA – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that security force members were complicit in letting an anti-government […]
Relatives and friends of the victims of clashes with the Peruvian police gather at a field adjacent to the airport carrying their coffins in the Andean city of Juliaca, southern Peru, on January 11, 2023. (JUAN CARLOS CISNEROS / AFP) LIMA – Peruvians in the southern region of Puno carried coffins through the streets on […]
Police face activists as they start the evacuation of the village of Luetzerath, western Germany, on Jan 11, 2023, while anti-coal activists stage an "active defence" of the village, which is slated for forced evacuation, ahead of a planned demolition to expand a coal mine. Police have secured approval from the state interior ministry to […]