BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities Friday detained a suspected French drug dealer a few days after releasing him on bail, judicial officials said. The officials said members of Lebanon’s General Security Directorate detained Abdel Karim Touil at the request of the country’s prosecutor general and he was being held at the Justice Palace in Beirut. […]
Semafor Signals Supported by Insights from Sirena, Sobesednik, and Wired The News At least five people have been detained in Moscow after attending the funeral of Alexei Navalny, the Russian watchdog OVD-Info reported, suggesting the Kremlin is continuing its crackdown on the opposition leader’s supporters. One woman who attended the rally and was caught on […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavy gunfire paralyzed Haiti’s capital Thursday, and at least four police officers were slain, as a powerful gang leader announced that he would try to capture the country’s police chief and government ministers. The move came during the absence of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who is in Kenya trying to finalize […]
Polish law enforcement officers have arrested Mykhailo Tkach and his cameraman close to the Polish-Belarusian border while they were filming a story about the transit of goods between Poland, Russia, and Belarus. The footage was partly deleted by the Polish authorities. Source: Mykhailo Tkach, Ukrainska Pravda journalist The Ukrainska Pravda team is outraged that the […]
The Wilmington Police Department detained a suspect after an attempted armed robbery at Buffaloes Market Sunday morning. Officers responded around 9:30 a.m. to the 4900 block of Wrightsville Avenue for an attempted robbery, according to a Police Department press release. The person entered the store, bought a soda, then displayed a handgun to the clerk, […]
Editor’s note: The article initially said that the murder took place in Dusseldorf, Germany. It was later clarified that it took place in the nearby city of Oberhausen, which is part of the Dusseldorf administrative region. The German police had already detained the person suspected of murdering 17-year-old Ukrainian basketball player Volodymyr Yermakov in Germany, […]
Federal prosecutors have filed an appeal with a Miami judge seeking to overturn a Denver court’s decision that allowed an American man accused of sexually abusing boys at a Haitian orphanage to be sent to a halfway house until trial. Earlier this month, Magistrate Judge Scott Varholak in Colorado denied a request by federal prosecutors […]
A week-long protest of the wives of mobilized Russian soldiers, The Way Home, began in the center of Moscow on Feb. 3 with the demand that authorities return the men from the war of aggression against Ukraine, the Russian Telegram news channel SOTA reports. The movement of wives of mobilized soldiers, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, and opposition politician Maxim Katz called for participation in […]
Teenagers in a vehicle who had allegedly pointed a gun were detained during a large police mobilization Friday afternoon in far East El Paso, police said. The gun incident occurred about 4:45 p.m. in the area of the Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers restaurant in the 1800 block of North Zaragoza Road near Montwood Drive, police […]
A Tampa police officer was fired Thursday after the department said he threatened to detain an employee of the company that towed his personal vehicle. John Holmstrom was on duty on Aug. 30, 2023, when he learned that his car had been towed from his apartment complex, the police department said in a news release. […]
A fifth suspect has been detained over an alleged threat of an attack on Cologne Cathedral over the festive period, Germany authorities have said. The 41-year-old German-Turkish man was detained on Sunday night in the western city of Bochum in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Police detained three people on Sunday morning and one man […]
Three more people were detained on Sunday in connection with a reported threat of an attack on the Cologne Cathedral over the holidays, German authorities said. The detentions came only days after a 30-year-old Tajik man was detained in relation to an alleged plot to attack the world-famous cathedral by Islamic extremists in the western […]