An off-duty St. Paul police officer who was having Father’s Day dinner with his dad and other family at an East Side restaurant foiled an armed robbery by springing into action and detaining the 39-year-old suspect, prosecutors say. Jonathan Valencia was at the Best Steak House at White Bear and Larpenteur avenues Sunday when a […]
A Moscow court has ordered a French citizen accused of collecting information on military issues in Russia be held in jail pending investigation and trial. Laurent Vinatier was arrested in the Russian capital on Thursday as tensions have flared between Moscow and Paris following French President Emmanuel Macron’s statements about the possibility of deploying the […]
Vatican police have detained a former employee who allegedly tried to sell a 17th-century gilded manuscript describing Bernini’s designs for the altar canopy of St Peter’s Basilica back to the Holy See. Vatican prosecutors said the 18-page manuscript, which apparently contains the first known specifications for the gilding of the baldacchino canopy, had disappeared from […]
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police detained a performance artist on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, signaling the city’s shrinking freedom of expression. Police on Monday took away Sanmu Chen on a street of Causeway Bay, a busy Hong Kong shopping district, close to a park that for […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s security officials said Wednesday that a 41-year-old man from Russia had been detained and was being questioned after illegally crossing in from Russia’s ally Belarus. The Border Guard confirmed that a 41-year-old “deserter” from Russia has been detained. Deputy Interior Minister Czeslaw Mroczek said that officials were trying to establish […]
SAO PAULO (AP) — An Indigenous group in Brazil said Wednesday its members detained 12 people for allegedly mining illegally in the Amazon and handed them over to police. The non-profit Urihi Associação Yanomami said in a statement that the incident took place Tuesday in the northern state of Roraima, which borders Venezuela. The organization […]
A South Korean man has been detained in Russia accused of espionage, Russian media report. South Korea’s foreign ministry has also confirmed the arrest, saying they were trying to provide consular support. Baek Won-soon was arrested in the far-eastern city of Vladivostok “at the start of the year”, state agency Tass reported, and is now […]
Turkish police have detained seven more people suspected of selling information to the Israeli spy agency Mossad, authorities said, in the latest wave of such arrests in Turkey. The suspects were taken into custody during simultaneous raids in Istanbul on Tuesday, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. The […]
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained a Dnipro resident who was allegedly recruited by Russia to pass on information on the city’s air defense, the SBU’s press service reported on March 4. According to the SBU, the man was recruited to aid Russian attacks in December 2023 after posting on pro-Kremlin Telegram channels. The […]
Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) has arrested a citizen of the Russian Federation suspected of aiding Islamist terrorist organisations. Source: European Pravda, citing RMF FM Details: The National Prosecutor’s Office has reported that the detained individual is a citizen of the Russian Federation from the Caucasus. Investigation materials indicate that he participated in combat in […]
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has detained a university employee who was providing the Russians with information about the locations of equipment and troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv Oblast. Source: Security Service of Ukraine (SSU); Prosecutor General’s Office Quote from SSU: “The investigation report shows that the detained individual turned […]
Russia’s imprisoning of US citizens as bargaining chips is “nothing new,” an ex-KGB agent said. Jack Barsky told Fox that this gives Moscow an “asset that you can trade.” Ksenia Karelina, a US-Russian ballerina, is the latest American citizen to be detained by Russia. Every US citizen detained by Russia gives the Kremlin an “asset that you […]