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Vt. police shoot man after standoff
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Burlington police shot a man armed with two kitchen knives following an hours-long standoff Monday night in a downtown apartment building. The man, whose identity and condition were not immediately known, was wheeled from the South Square apartment building at 101 College St. on a gurney just before 10...
London Police Preparing For Chance Of 10 Coordinated Terror Attacks
The order appears to be a response to the coordinated attacks in Paris last November. By Ryan Biek | March 21, 2016 According to a new report, London police have been ordered to prepare for the possibility of as many as 10 terror attacks happening simultaneously. An anonymous government official told the Sunday Times,...
Spain Erasmus student bus crash ‘kills 13’
At least 13 people have been killed after a bus carrying foreign students crashed on a Spanish motorway between the cities of Barcelona and Valencia. Most of the 57 people on board the bus were students on the Erasmus programme who were returning to Barcelona after a trip to a fireworks festival. Footage from the scene shows a...
Undercover Md. officer viewed as threat, ‘deliberately’ shot
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — A suburban Washington, D.C., police officer who died in an unprovoked shootout Sunday was deliberately shot by another officer who did not know him and perceived him to be a threat, police said Wednesday. Prince George's County Police Officer Jacai Colson was in plain clothes during the shootout...
A motorist was almost dead, but …
Close call! A motorist was nearly hit by a massive train in Brook Park, Ohio, after his work van got stuck on a railway...
Police gun down knife-wielding maniac who killed man, slashed woman, set homeless person on fire in Queens
A deranged slasher terrorized a Queens neighborhood for more than six hours Sunday, killing a liquor store owner, burning a homeless man’s skin off his body, knifing a mother of four and tossing a caustic liquid at two cops before officers’ bullets ended his madness. Stunned residents watched as hundreds of cops...
Turkish police raid critical newspaper
Turkish police have raided the offices of Zaman, the country's biggest newspaper, hours after a court ruling placed it under state control. Police entered the building in Istanbul late on Friday, firing tear gas at protesters who had gathered outside. Zaman is closely linked to the Hizmet movement of influential US-based...
CALAIS BURNS: Migrants in violent clashes with police over Jungle camp demolition
FIRES have been started across the Calais Jungle camp as French authorities continued dismantling shelters and tents with hammers today. As smoke filled the air, migrants turned on police who used tear gas to try to disperse the rioters. Demolition crews entered the crime-ridden camp on Sunday morning after a judge gave his...
Greek police start removing migrants from Macedonian border
ATHENS — Greek police started removing migrants from the Greek-Macedonian border on Tuesday after additional passage restrictions imposed by Macedonian authorities left hundreds of them stranded, sources said. The migrants had squatted on rail lines in the Idomeni area on Monday after attempting to push through the border...
Number of Islamist radicals in France doubles in 2015 rising to over 8,000 – report
The number of Islamic radicals in France doubled last year reaching 8,250 people, according to figures leaked to local media. The main hotspots of radicalization are big cities including Paris and Lyon. Around 70 percent of the suspected radicals were male and 80 percent of the cases were characterized as “serious,”...
Hacker exposes private data of America’s biggest police union
A hacker has breached the computer systems of the Fraternal Order of Police, the biggest police union in the US. Files containing private information of officers, private forum posts and contracts were included in the data dump. The anonymous hacker shared the data as a 2.5 GB torrent file on a blog called Cthulhu on Thursday,...
German police arrest first suspect in Cologne sex assaults
German authorities have arrested a 26-year-old asylum seeker from Algeria who stands accused of participating in the mass New Year’s sex assaults in Cologne. Up until this point, the handful of suspects have only been accused of theft. The man, arrested in the town of Kerpen, North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany,...