A 29-year-old German police officer has died of injuries suffered during a knife attack that left five other people injured in the central square of Mannheim, officials said Sunday. The officer was stabbed several times in the head and neck by a 25-year-old immigrant from Afghanistan and underwent emergency surgery after the attack Friday, officials said. The officer was placed …
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Japanese police are searching for suspects in the spray-painting of the word “toilet” on a Tokyo shrine that commemorates the country’s war dead, in an apparent protest against the ongoing release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, news reports said Monday. The red graffiti on a stone pillar at the entrance of Yasukuni Shrine was discovered …
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Dozens more former youth inmates filed lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages for sexual abuse they allegedly endured at Illinois detention centers dating back to the late 1990s. Thirteen women and 95 men filed two separate lawsuits on Friday in the Illinois Court of Claims against the state Department of Corrections and the state Department of Juvenile Justice. Each …
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A man with a gun was fatally shot in a confrontation with police officers outside a Lowe’s home improvement store. Police in Nashua responded Sunday night to a report from police in Pelham that he had left his home there with a gun. “Two officers ultimately discharged less-lethal munitions, and one officer discharged a firearm. Life saving measures were attempted, …
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Gunmen fatally shot a police officer assigned to protect polio workers in Pakistan’s northwest, an official said Monday. At least 11 police have died this year while on security duty for vaccination campaigns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The gunmen fired at a team working in the Wargari area of Lakki Marwat district, said police official Sajid Khan. One of the …
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The body of an unidentified man was recovered Sunday off a beach northeast of the Greek capital with a 22-pound barbell attached to his leg with a rope, the coast guard said. Authorities were alerted to the presence of the body at Schinias Beach near the town of Marathon, early Sunday afternoon. A diver retrieved the body about 110 yards …
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President Biden’s son Hunter Biden is slated to face an historic trial in Delaware on Monday, when prosecutors are expected to dive into the first son’s crack cocaine addiction and his purchase of a handgun. Biden’s trial will begin Monday in a federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, where he faces three felony firearm offenses regarding the 2018 purchase of a …
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The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit challenging the state’s abortion ban over its medical exceptions. The court ruled against a group of women who suffered serious pregnancy complications and became the first in the country to testify in court about being denied abortion access since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. In a unanimous ruling, the …
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Thai police have broken up a large network that illegally helped foreigners, mostly Russians, to stay in Thailand long-term through the use of company nominees or shell companies, officials said Friday. Police said a 45-year-old Russian woman who came to Thailand in 2012 operated the scheme with a Thai woman who was listed as an executive or a shareholder of …
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A court in Russia on Friday ordered a detained Russian American journalist to be held until at least Aug. 5, pending investigation and trial, a further step in the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent and free speech. Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service, was taken into custody on Oct. 18 and charged with …
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