The former Cleveland police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 has resigned from a small police department in West Virginia. Timothy Loehmann had been hired to work as a probationary police officer and an at-will employee for the city of White Sulphur Springs in southeastern West Virginia, Mayor Kathy Glover said in a […]
ROME (AP) — Police detained several activists who poured red paint down Rome’s famed Spanish Steps on Wednesday to raise awareness about femicides in Italy. The protesters, from an organization called “Bruciamo Tutto,” or ”Let’s Burn Everything,” spilled paint down the 135-step monument, then dipped their hands in the paint, meant to represent blood, to […]
Police have detained several activists who poured red paint down Rome’s famed Spanish Steps to raise awareness about femicide in Italy. The protesters, from an organisation called Bruciamo Tutto, or Let’s Burn Everything, spilled paint down the 135-step monument, then dipped their hands in the paint, meant to represent blood, to leave hand prints on […]
Jun. 26—A video of a man picking up and smashing wild snapping turtles near Portland’s Evergreen Cemetery ponds on Saturday sparked outrage on social media and is now being investigated by Portland police. A police spokesman said the department is investigating but would not provide any more information about the case. Ruthann Weist, the police […]
A key medical exam in India has sparked anger, protests and allegations of cheating after thousands of candidates secured abnormally high marks in this year’s test. The National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate), or NEET-UG – conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) – is the gateway to studying medicine in the country, as its […]
After an attack in northern Germany that injured a Ghanaian girl and her father, the police received multiple tips, including information about possible suspects, a police spokesman told dpa on Sunday. The investigation is extensive and will take some time, he added. According to initial police findings, an 8-year-old Ghanaian girl and her 10-year-old sister […]
Campaigners are calling for an investigation into the kidnapping and beating of Stephen Kwikiriza, a vocal opponent of a controversial drilling and pipeline project in Uganda. Kwikiriza was abducted on June 4 in Kampala by what appeared to be plainclothes officers from the Ugandan military. Five days later, he was dropped 150 miles away, by […]
An 11th-hour decision to halt a plan to charge a fee for cars entering the heart of New York City has provoked outrage from environmental advocates and Democratic lawmakers, potentially scuppering hopes of congestion pricing taking hold in any US city in the near future. New York City was, on 30 June, primed to be […]
Supporters have complained about the tiny prison cell Imran Khan is being kept in – X/Twitter Photographs of Imran Khan’s cramped, windowless prison cell have raised accusations that the Pakistani government is lying about his treatment in jail. Supporters of the former prime minister have accused the Pakistani government of lying about his treatment in […]
Editor’s note: The video in this story may be disturbing for some viewers. The audio has been muted due to profanity. TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A video obtained by Nexstar’s WFLA shows two Lakeland, Florida, police officers punching a teenage boy and using a Taser on him as they tried to get him to leave […]
Some Nigerians have expressed outrage after the country’s national anthem was changed with little consultation. President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday signed into law the bill to revert to Nigeria’s old national anthem which was dropped by a military government in 1978. The newly re-adopted anthem, which begins “Nigeria, We Hail Thee,” was written by Lillian […]
Editor’s note: The video in this story may be disturbing for some viewers. The video’s audio has been muted due to profanity. This story contains reporting from Linnie Supall. TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A video obtained by WFLA shows two Lakeland police officers punching a teenage boy and using a Taser on him as they […]