Nicaraguan police have arrested six more opposition figures, including the sixth presidential candidate, on July 5 in a sweeping crackdown ahead of the November elections. According to a statement quoted by CNN, police detained presidential candidate Medardo Mairena, farmers’ groups …
An escaped python bit an Austrian man while he was sitting on the toilet at his home on July 5, according to the police. Police in the province of Styria said in a statement that the 65-year-old Graz resident felt …
Gunmen have kidnapped 140 students from their boarding school in northwestern Nigeria, according to local officials on July 5. Armed men stormed into the Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna state and abducted most of the 165 students boarding in …
A 28 year old police office was stabbed by a “lone wolf” assailant who later killed himself. The officer suffered a punctured lung and underwent surgery overnight. He has been upgraded from serious to stable condition. Secretary for Security Chris …
Alleged gang members have shot and killed a Swedish policeman who was on duty at a Gothenburg suburb The unnamed police officer, aged 33, was talking to residents before he was shot and killed in Biskopsgarden, an area known for …
Seventeen people, including police, were injured in an explosion after police intentionally detonated seized illegal fireworks on June 30 in a south Los Angeles neighborhood. Police Chief Michel Moore told reporters that about 7:30 p.m. local time, the bomb squad …
Police in Greece arrested the fugitive deputy leader of neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn after months of evading arrest since he was sentenced to over 13 years in prison. Counter-terrorism officers arrested 59-year-old Christos Pappas, who has been on the run …
Dozens of Palestinian journalists gathered outside a United Nations (UN) building in the city of Ramallah on June 28 to demand for protection after police assaulted them while covering protests. Journalists reportedly had submitted a letter to the UN to …
Hong Kong’s new police chief has proposed a “fake news” law to combat “hostility against the police,” which analysts regard as the next step in the territory’s crackdown on free expression. “I understand that there are residents who are still …
Hong Kong police have arrested on June 27 a former senior journalist of the now-closed pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily at the airport in suspicion of violating the national security law. Police said in a statement that they arrested Fung Wai-kong …