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A leading international human rights organization asked the Nepalese government Wednesday to take urgent steps to end what it called the widespread abuse and torture of children in police custody.
US-based Human Rights Watch said it had documented more than 200 cases of torture or abuse by Nepalese police against boys and girls...
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State-run China Central Television, the country's main national broadcaster, has suspended its live coverage of the Chinese Super League after the latest in a series of scandals to hit the ailing league, reports said on Tuesday.
A mass brawl at the end of last Wednesday's match between Beijing Guo'an and Tianjin Kangshifu was...
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The head of Lebanon's Christian Phalange Party Amin Gemayel warned Friday against "racial cleansing" targeting Christians in Iraq since the collapse of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2005.
Thousands of Iraqi Christians have been reported leaving their homes, particularly in the northern city of Mosul, following...
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The true stars of the Beijing Games will not be known for sure before 2016 because Olympic supremo Jacques Rogge does not rule out that retroactive doping tests bring down some of the competition's outstanding athletes.
"Anything is possible," Rogge said during an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in the Mexican...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday underlined India's importance to the Middle East peace process as India promised is ongoing support and announced a 20-million-dollar assistance package.
"India is playing an important role in all fields (concerning Palestine), including the peace process ... We appreciate...
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A Hong Kong doctor has been arrested after pictures of semi-naked women taken during consultations at his clinic were found at his home, a news report said Friday.
The 29-year-old general practitioner was arrested after a woman patient complained she saw a digital camera trained on her during a consultation, the South China Morning...
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A director of food safety in China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine died mysteriously in what authorities suspect was a suicide, a magazine reported Wednesday.
Wu Jianping, director of the administration's food production inspection and management division, died on August 2, one day after he...
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Indonesian police on Monday unearthed five
more bodies buried outside the house of an alleged serial killer in
east Java, bringing the number of victims to 10, police and media
reports said. Two weeks ago, the capital city police arrested
Verry Idham Henyansyah after a bag of body parts was discovered on a
roadside in southern...
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In the last days, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
simultaneously began talks with Syria,
discussed a possible agreement with Hamas and promoted a Palestinian investment
conference in the West Bank. He did all this
while being under investigation on suspicion of taking bribes from an American
business man. Olmert is...
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 Japanese police officers arrested on Thursday a U.S. sailor in the death of a taxi driver near
an American naval base outside Tokyo
last month. Masaaki Takahashi, 61, was found dead in his taxi with stabs wounds
in his neck, police officials said. The arrested sailor was identified by the
Police in Kanagawa, near Tokyo,
as...
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 A U.
S. military serviceman is investigated for alleged sexual
assault in Japan, according
to U. S.
and Japanese officials.
The man, whose name has not been
disclosed, is suspected of having attacked a Philippine woman at a hotel on the
southern island
of Okinawa, where a U. S.
Marine was arrested last week for...
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 Pakistani authorities questioned two suspectes Sunday, including a
15-year-old boy, about their links with a militant group allegedly
behind the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, officials
said.
"I can confirm that a teenage boy and his senior partner have been
detained by the police in Dera Ismail Khan on...
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A former Japanese gangster held a woman hostage for nearly 24 hours in his home after shooting a policeman dead and wounding his own son, daughter and another police officer. The woman was reportedly the ex-wife of the gunman, Michiko Mori, who was still in the house in Nagakute, a residential suburb of the central city of Nagoya,...
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 Kayne West must really have some kind of disease that makes him hate the paparazzi so bad. The 31-year-old rapper has just been implied in another scandal regarding a paparazzo. The police arrested West on Friday morning after he had been involved in a fight with a photographer outside a nightclub in Newcastle.According to the “Evening...
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 Rapper DMX was arrested at a Phoenix shopping mall on Saturday on
suspicion that he claimed a false name and Social Security number in order to
leave without covering the medical expenses at a hospital, The Associated Press
reported.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio informed reporters that
DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons,...
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 Police officers in Northern
California arrested Dr. Jan Adams on suspicion of drunken driving early
Thursday morning. He was the plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West’s
mother. His license to practice medicine was suspended because of his DUI
troubles but also because of the problems related to the child support he owes
to his...
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 Warren G, who was arrested in Hollywood on Sunday on
suspicion of marijuana possession with intent to sell, has denied that the
marijuana found in the car belonged to him.
American West Coast rapper and producer
Warren Griffin III, better known by his stage name Warren G, was a passenger in
a car that was pulled over on suspicion...
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 American West Coast rapper and producer
Warren Griffin III, better known by his stage name Warren G, was arrested in Hollywood on Sunday on suspicion
of possession of marijuana with intent to sell, police said.
The 35-year-old rap artist was arrested
shortly after 1:30 a.m. Sunday after the car he was a passenger in was...
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 Rapper DMX was arrested again early Friday on suspicion of animal abuse and drug possession. A SWAT team with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office raided his home to serve arrest and search warrants and indicted him on felony drug possession and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges.According to sheriff’s spokesman Capt. Paul Chagolla, the...
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 Former NBA star Dennis Rodman was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion
of domestic violence against his girlfriend, police said Thursday.
The former husband of Carmen Electra, an eccentric basketball
star member of five NBA Championship winning teams during colorful stints with
the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls, was detained...
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 Actor Mel Gibson has committed to star in “Edge of Darkness,”
marking his first starring role in a feature film since he headlined “We Were
Soldiers” and “Signs” in 2002, Variety reports.
Martin Campbell, who last directed “Casino Royale,” will
direct the thriller based on a 1985 BBC miniseries.
It appears 52-year-old...
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 It appears that supermodel Naomi Campbell will show her “ugly”
side in ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” the Associated Press reports. A representative for
ABC confirmed Wednesday that Naomi would play herself in the second season
finale.
“She's going to be in our last episode, which is exciting,” actress
Becki Newton told the AP at the...
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 Former “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff was taken to the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center
on Saturday to get patched up after a surgical wound above his eye reopened,
the Associated Press reports. His publicist, Judy Katz, denied rumors
Hasselhoff checked into rehab.
“He's fine, he had something...
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 The Seattle filmmakers, who
went to Nigeria
in order to make a documentary called “Sweet Crude” and were detained over the
weekend on suspicion of traveling in a restricted area, have finally been
released. According to U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, the next step for them will be
to complete final processing by Nigerian authorities on...
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 Sunday, Emily Leatherman, a 33-year-old woman who has allegedly been stalking John Cusack for a pretty long period of time, was arrested
at the actor’s home in Malibu,
California. Even though a
restraining order barring her to come near Cusack existed, the woman showed up
outside his home this weekend.
Leatherman was caught...
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 Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol in Laguna Beach, California. TMZ reports that the artist was pulled over by the Laguna Beach police at about 11 p.m. because he was allegedly spotted “weaving” in a black Hummer.
According to The Associated...
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 Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland pleaded not guilty to
driving under the influence of drugs charges on Wednesday, after an arrest in
November on a Los Angeles
freeway.
His defense attorney pleaded on behalf of Weiland his
innocence, maintaining that his client was sober when he had a car crash the
last fall. The present DUI...
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 Chinese actress Bai Ling pleaded guilty to disturbing the
peace on Wednesday. The charge stemmed from her arrest in February after she
tried to walk out a gift shop at LAX without paying for two celebrity magazines
and some batteries.
The items were worth $16, however in order to make Ling to
know better the next time, she was...
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 According to Los
Angeles coroner's office, actor Brad Renfro died of
heroin overdose.
Renfro’s drug addiction has been public, and when the
25-year old was found dead on January 15 in his Los Angeles home, drug abuse has been the
first suspicion.
The Los
Angeles County
coroner's spokesman, Craig Harvey confirmed the...
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 According to police reports, actress Mary-Kate Olsen will
not be questioned regarding Heath Ledger's death.
NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly dismissed the media
rumors that stated that the police links Olsen to the mysterious death of the
28-year old actor. “There's absolutely no indication investigators were going
to speak to...
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 Who thought beauty was ingenuous was obviously wrong. And
even who believed that law students obey the laws was wrong, too.
Kumari Fulbright, beauty queen and a law student at University of Arizona risks to win pageants only in
prisons many years, accused of kidnapping, assaulting, robbing and threatening
with a handgun a former...
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 It seems that O. J. Simpson is already gathering materials
for some addenda to his controversial book “If I Did It” or is attempting to
initiate a new one, “Yes, I Did It”; we will get an idea of any literary
possibilities after some light is cast in the Thursday evening event.
Whether Simpson and his gang threatened with a gun and...
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 New pictures of actor Owen Wilson revealing his wrists have raised suspicion over his apparent suicide attempt two weekends ago. Just days after being released from the hospital, Wilson was spotted by paparazzi as he left his brother Luke’s house in Santa Monica, with no bandages on his supposed slit writs, even sporting a watch on his...
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 Just little before Lindsay Lohan got arrested, the actress’ former assistant’s mom made an emergency call to police, frantically asking for help over a mysterious SUV following her, unaware that Lindsay was driving it. According to police reports, the assistant had just quit her job, several hours before the arrest. "We were just...
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 Just when you thought Lindsay Lohan was doing better, with two rehab stunts so far this year, the troubled star got arrested again for driving under the influence and later on, cocaine was found in her possession. This could mean the end of her career. The 21-year-old starlet was arrested in Santa Monica on Tuesday morning (at...
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 Lindsay Lohan silently walked into the Beverly Hills PD station late Thursday afternoon to be officially arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence during a Memorial Day weekend car crash, police said.The starlet accompanied by her lawyer arrived at the station at roughly 4:15 p.m., was detained for about an hour and then...
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 Former alcohol and cocaine addict Lindsay Lohan has completed her six week plus stay in rehab at the luxurious Promises facility and headed for Las Vegas. There she attended a birthday party of her roommate/assistant, Jenny, at the Pure nightclub.However, she and her pals stayed off alcohol and drank Red Bulls and water all night. Her...
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 B-list actress and known cocaine/alcohol (former?) addict Lindsay Lohan hosted a Malibu party for her 21st birthday. Reportedly, she wore a bikini suit and stayed mostly indoors, to the dismay of a pack of photographers on the next beach. However, they managed to snatch a few precious pics at the house's open back door.She previously...
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 B-list actress and known cocaine/alcohol addict Lindsay Lohan was involved in a car crash last month in which she was slightly wounded. She was allegedly drunk and had cocaine in her system, according to police sources quoted by TMZ. Lohan had "nearly twice the legal limit" of alcohol and traces of cocaine in her bloodstream,...
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 Golden Globe-nominated film and television actor Tom Sizemore, full name Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr., was sentenced Monday to 16 months in prison for violating his probation. "If you would please just give me one more chance for myself," Sizemore said, begging the judge, Cynthia Rayvis, to show mercy for his methamphetamine...
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 “Criminal Minds” actor Shemar Moore was reportedly arrested Friday morning on suspicion of driving under the influence.
Celebrity gossip website TMZ.com reports that the 36-year-old actor was stopped by police officers Friday morning in Los Angeles for speeding near Santa Monica Blvd. Moore “displayed signs of alcohol...
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 Lindsay Lohan keeps saying she will start behaving herself and then she gets in trouble again. And again. And again: the 20-year-old was involved in a car crash this weekend and she was slightly wounded.
According to witnesses, Lindsay spent her Saturday partying hard and drinking. She was arrested on suspicion of DUI after she crashed...
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 Carpenter Tygert Burton "Ty" Pennington was sentenced to 36 months probation, fined $1,500 and ordered to attend a 90-day alcohol education program after pleading no contest to driving under the influence of alcohol. "I'm happy to bring closure to my recent court proceedings," Pennington said in a...
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One of the founding members of the rock band Creed, singer and songwriter Scott Flippen Stapp, is accused by his wife, Miss New York USA 2004, Jaclyn Nesheiwat Stapp, that he flung a glass bottle of Orangina at her face during an alleged incident Sunday morning. She was not injured, nor was anyone else.TMZ has obtained the police report...
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 Time Warner Inc. has announced that it fired HBO Chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht, three days after he was arrested in Las Vegas on battery charges. HBO Chief Operating Officer Bill Nelson will replace Albrecht while the company looks for a permanent replacement, Time Warner said in a statement.Albrecht confirmed that he had resigned...
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 Chris Albrecht, chairman and chief executive of HBO, has announced his “leave of absence” and his need to rejoin Alcoholics Anonymous.
Albrecht was arrested last Sunday in Las Vegas due to a “domestic dispute” with his girlfriend, as Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson Bill Cassell stated....
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 Actor Tom Sizemore has been arrested once more, for possession of methamphetamine, in Bakersfield, California. The 45-year-old was already on probation for a previous drug conviction. This time the hubbub was sparked by Sizemore and a friend actor's dispute with a hotel clerk. Police subsequently found methamphetamine in his car....
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 Carpenter Tygert Burton "Ty" Pennington was arrested over the last weekend on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. TMZ reported he was arrested at 12:35 AM Saturday morning in Los Angeles. He was released two hours later after posting $5000 bail and is due back in court on June 4."I made an error...
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 The chairman and CEO of Home Box Office, Chris Albrecht, was arrested Sunday in Las Vegas after police officers spotted him engaged in "physical confrontation" in the valet parking area outside the MGM Grand hotel shortly after 3 a.m., according to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Bill Cassell, quoted by LA...
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Brooklyn District Attorney’s office announced on Friday a new and weird case. The New York investigators have a new problem to deal with: it seems that a man was attacked and beaten by several police officers. After that, they sodomized the man in a Brooklyn subway station last week. The case was made public this week and has raised a...
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 A mobile home fire killed two women and two school girls on Tuesday morning in Snohomish, Washington. The firefighters found their bodies after they had managed to stop the flames in the community 24 miles north of Seattle. The 44-unit mobile home park is managed by Sherree Simpson who stated that they had just moved in over the...
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The Supreme Court in the American state of Texas has ruled that officials overstepped their authority by taking hundreds of children from a polygamist religious group's ranch. The ranch was owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The kids were taken in April from their parents and placed in foster care...
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 A U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old Japanese girl at a U.S. military base in the island of Okinawa was sentenced by the martial court to four years in prison on Friday, Reuters reports.38-year-old Tyrone Hadnott was arrested by Japanese police on suspicion of rape following the incident in February, when he was released after...
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If this were a cartoon, the situation would quickly be solved
by using a hairdryer to resuscitate the poor cats. But this is the real world
and nothing comes back to life.
So many freaky things happen in the world, that it was only
a question of time until someone would actually pack a freezer with 300 dead
cats.
To be more...
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Detectives on the case investigating the death of an 11-year-old
boy suspect that the murderer himself is no older than the victim, as BBC
reported on Friday. The culprit is believed to be Caucasian, male, age 13, about
1.7 meters tall and was last seen wearing dark clothes with white trainers.
The 11-year-old victim, Rhys...
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The chief executive of the European Union's anti- fraud watchdog OLAF warned Bulgaria Thursday that it must begin convicting corrupt officials, or risk losing the battle against organized crime.
OLAF director Franz-Hermann Bruener met Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev, Deputy Premier in Charge of EU Funds Management Meglena Kuneva and...
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Two employees of Norway's largest banking group as well as the DnB NOR group itself were Thursday suspected of insider- trading, the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority said.
The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime raided the bank Thursday over suspicions that the...
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German police led by prosecutors searched the offices of a federally owned bank Wednesday in connection with a banking blunder last month as the financial crisis developed.
The KfW bank remitted 319 million euros to Lehman Brothers of New York on September 15, the day that the US investment bank failed.
The main office of KfW in...
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A German man was detained at Riga airport in Latvia Tuesday morning on suspicion of kidnapping his three-year-old daughter from nearby Lithuania.
The man was arrested by police after a joint operation by Lithuanian and Latvian police. The child's mother had reported her missing on Monday and told police she had been abducted.
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An investigating judge has accused two aviation technicians and a maintenance chief of manslaughter in the Madrid air crash that killed 154 people on August 20, judicial sources said Thursday.
Judge Juan Javier Perez will question the three on suspicion of manslaughter on 154 counts and involuntarily causing injuries on 18...
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Spanish police have detained 121 people in their biggest sting so far against child pornography on the internet, police said Wednesday.
Ninety-six other people were also indicted.
More than 800 police participated in the operation, seizing millions of video and photograph files, including some material described as...
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The European Union on Wednesday launched a probe into the five-billion-euro German state aid package granted to troubled bank WestLB, but said that the probe did not necessarily indicate any suspicion of wrongdoing, officials said in a statement.
The EU's executive, the European Commission, has opened "an in- depth investigation...
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Customs officials at Frankfurt airport found 8.7 million euros (12.7 million dollars) in cash stashed in the luggage of a student, reports said Sunday.
The money was discovered during a routine check while the 29-year- old German was waiting to board a flight to the Middle East, customs officials told the Bild am Sonntag...
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Authorities in Estonia have arrested a former high-ranking official in the defence ministry and his wife under suspicion of treason, local media reported on Monday.
The prosecutor's office said Herman Simm collected classified information and passed it on to representatives from another country.
The authorities will not release any...
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German prosecutors said Friday two men had been arrested on suspicion of links with the Pakistan-based Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), a group seen as a modern successor to al-Qaeda.
Omid S, 27, an Afghan-born German national, and Huseyin O, also 27, a Turkish national, were taken into custody by federal police on Thursday in the Frankfurt...
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The Swedish nuclear watchdog on Wednesday filed charges against the operators of a Swedish nuclear plant over failing to uphold security checks at the plant.
The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority said the Oskarshamn nuclear plant operators had failed to ensure 24-hour checks of people entering and leaving the site.
The security...
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Allegations that an arms maker bribed Slovenia's prime minister have inflamed the election campaign in a nation that likes to see itself as a sunny post-Balkan success.
Less than two weeks before Slovenes choose a new parliament, the EU nation of 2 million is abuzz with one word: Patria, the state-controlled Finnish firm that won...
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Romanian border police have arrested a 37-year- old German citizen on suspicion of multiple counts of human trafficking and enforced prostitution, the Romanian Mediafax news agency reported on Monday.
The man was arrested on the Romanian-Hungarian border, and was travelling in the direction of Germany in the company of three women...
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A man suspected of raping his stepdaughter over a dozen years and even fathering her child was arrested in central Serbia, local newspapers reported Saturday.
The man, 55, allegedly began raping his stepdaughter in 1996, when she was just 12-years-old. A war veteran, he was exposed after the girl finally told her mother about the...
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British terrorism police arrested three men late Thursday in north-western England on the suspicion of violating terrorism laws, authorities said.
Two of the suspects were detained at Manchester Airport and the third near the town off Accington. Police said they were searching their homes in Blackburn.
All three men are believed to...
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British anti-terrorism police Friday interviewed three men arrested the previous day in north-western England on suspicion of violating terrorism laws.
Two of the suspects were detained at Manchester Airport and the third near the town of Accrington. Police said they were searching their homes in Blackburn.
The three men are are...
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 Teenager Rob Knox, who played the role of student Marcus
Belby in “Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince”, was killed outside the Metro
Bar in southeast London
in the early hours of Saturday morning, BBC News reports. It appears that the
18-year-old boy was trying to defend his brother from a man holding a knife.
A...
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 After numerous infanticide cases occurring in Germany in recent years, another shocking event was revealed Monday by police.
A 44-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of having killed three of her babies.
The little bodies were discovered Sunday by two of the woman’s grown children, who were looking in the refrigerator...
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 Belgian security authorities believe that a terrorist attack on the
country is possible over Christmas after 14 suspected extremists
detained earlier in the week were released, the Interior Ministry said
Saturday.
The country's security services have been put on a higher alert
level until January 2, but citizens have been told...
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 Belgian police warned of possible terror attacks over the Christmas
period Friday as they announced the detention of 14 suspected
extremists around Brussels.
The detainees were being held on suspicion of planning to break a
former footballer, Nizar Trabelsi, out of the prison to which he was
condemned for 10 years for planning an...
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British canoeist John Darwin who turned up alive more than five years
after he was believed to have died in a drowning accident appeared in
court Monday on fraud charges.
Darwin, 57, was remanded in custody at the Magistrates' Court in
Hartlepool, north-east England, and was ordered to appear again on
December 14.
He was...
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 German police arrested three men under suspicion of Islamist
terrorist group affiliation.
The group was suspected of planning attacks on Frankfurt International
Airport and a major US military base.
Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung told German television
that the three had been planning to launch the attacks on their targets...
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 Devastating fires are sweeping the Canary Islands, destroying the Spanish archipelago's unique wildlife. Both Gran Canaria and Tenerife were affected, with some 24,000 hectares (60,000 acres) of land already gone up in smoke. Around 10,000 people fled out of their homes to seek safety from the fires.The fires had not affected beaches or...
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 Part of a building located next to the Metropolitan Police in London collapsed Tuesday morning, trapping one person under a pile of rubble.Witnesses told reporters arrived at the site they’ve heard a loud noise, like an explosion before the top two floors came down. The statements prompted speculation of a terrorist attack, but the...
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The British police arrested four people in connection with the suicide attacks of July 7, 2005, including the widow of one of the attackers. The widow is reportedly Hasina Patel, whose husband Mohammad Sidique Khan was one of four young British Muslims who blew themselves up in the 7/7 attacks, killing 52 people on three London...
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