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Dallas protest: Four police officers dead in sniper shooting
Four Dallas police officers have been shot dead by sniper fire during protests against the shooting of black men by police, the authorities say. One suspect is in custody after a shootout with police, while a person of interest turned himself in, Dallas police tweeted. Gunfire broke out as demonstrators marched through the...
Video Footage Shows Man Being Shot by Police at California Gas Station
Video footage of a 19-year old man killed Saturday night during a confrontation with a Fresno, California, police officer June 25, has surfaced. The video, obtained by Fresno ABC affiliate KFSN shows the fatal encounter between Dylan Noble and police at a Chevron gas station. According to KFSN, Noble was killed after police...
Australian man calls police after father burns drugs
An enraged Australian man called police after his father burned his prized cannabis plants in a bonfire, reports say. The father, who lives in the Northern Territory town of Humpty Doo, reportedly set the plants ablaze after repeated disputes with his son. Police said the son called them as he believed burning the plants was a...
Bangladesh attack: Police say hostage mistaken for gunman
Bangladesh police have admitted they mistakenly identified a hostage as one of the gunmen in the deadly attack on a cafe in Dhaka last Friday. Officials initially said troops killed six gunmen when they ended a siege on the Holey Artisan Bakery. Police now say one man identified as an attacker was in fact a hostage also held at...
US protests after police shooting of black man in Louisiana
Protests have taken place in the US state of Louisiana after a video emerged appearing to show two white police officers holding down and shooting dead a black man. The incident took place in the state capital, Baton Rouge, on Tuesday after reports of a man threatening people with a gun outside a shop. A post mortem examination...
Bangladesh attack: Dhaka’s Holey cafe attackers were known to police
Bangladeshi officials have named five of the men who carried out the country's worst terror attack on Friday and said they were known to police. Twenty hostages, most of them foreign, were killed when Islamist militants stormed a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. Two police officers also died and 30 were injured. After a 12-hour...
Bangladesh attack: Dhaka’s Holey cafe attackers were known to police
Bangladeshi officials have named five of the men who carried out the country's worst terror attack on Friday and said they were known to police. Twenty hostages, most of them foreign, were killed when Islamist militants stormed a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. Two police officers also died and 30 were injured. After a 12-hour...
Police Injured as Residents Protest Incinerator in China
A protest on Sunday against an incinerator in a southern Chinese town turned violent as some people attempted to break into government offices and police were injured, residents and authorities said. The protesters in Lubu town in Guangdong province oppose a project to build an incinerator that would also generate power....
Taliban attack on Afghanistan police cadets near Kabul kills dozens
Taliban bombers have attacked an Afghan police convoy outside the capital Kabul, killing at least 30 people and wounding 50 others, officials say. Two bombs hit a convoy of buses carrying graduates from a ceremony on the city's western outskirts. Paghman District Governor Musa Khan told the BBC that all but two of the dead...
Rio 2016: ‘Welcome to Hell’ warn police
There was a nasty surprise awaiting passengers in the arrivals hall at Rio De Janeiro's Galeao International Airport on Monday. Along with the relatives carrying flowers and taxi drivers waiting with name boards there were lines of off-duty police with banners that had a far more ominous message: "Welcome to...
Millionaire ‘Lord’, 21, hurled abuse at police for pulling him over in his Lamborghini
A YOUNG millionaire has issued an apology after launching a tirade of abuse against police when they pulled him over in his £550,000 Lamborghini. Self-styled “Lord” Aleem Iqbal claims he was stopped by police “because he’s young and drives nice cars”. But footage shows him telling officers:...
Bangladesh Avijit Roy murder: Main suspect killed by police
Police in Bangladesh say they have shot dead the main suspect in the killing of secularist blogger Avijit Roy. They say the man, named as Sharif, died in a gun battle with police near the capital Dhaka early on Sunday. Police had been seeking information about Sharif and six other militants suspected in the case. Avijit Roy, an...