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Police, officials targeted in Baghdad
Insurgents in Iraq have stepped up deadly attacks on police officers and government officials, with four such attacks reported Monday. In Baghdad, Interior ministry officials said a bomb planted beneath the car of a religious education official killed...
Balkan police stop cocaine smuggling ring
Police of Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Greece have stopped an international ring that allegedly tried to smuggle 353 pounds of cocaine to Western Europe. A Croatian police spokesman told reporters in Zagreb Wednesday the cocaine was shipped from...
Former mayor charged in Philippines blast
A former Philippines mayor has agreed to cooperate with Manila police investigating a politically motivated bombing this month that killed four people. Hajarun Jamiri, former mayor of Tuburan, was the fourth person arrested in the bombing outside...
Banners vanish, like Cubs' playoff hopes
Chicago police were investigating the theft of three Chicago Cubs banners hours before the team's playoff hopes ended in a disappointing fashion. Just like the hopes and dreams of many a Cubs fan were destroyed this weekend, three banners recognizing...
Ibrahim Gambari, special U.N. envoy to Myanmar, said he feared the death toll in clashes between protesters and police may be far higher than the official one. At least 10 deaths were reported. Gambari briefed the Security Council Friday on his...
Man sleeps through potential standoff
Police in Indiana who surrounded a house thinking they had a potential standoff situation ultimately found their man inside fast asleep. County police were called to the home of Paul Slusser in Osceola Wednesday, after receiving word he and his housemate...
Head-on crash in Wales kills 5 on M4
An early morning head-on collision near the southern Wales town of Newport killed five people Monday and seriously injured a sixth, closing the main M4 highway. Police said the collision happened around 3:15 a.m. involving a red Ford and a red Volvo...
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Miami Police Chief John Timoney said the 2004 expiration of the federal ban on assault weapons has triggered an "arms race" in his city. "The whole thing is a friggin' disgrace," said Timoney, a longtime advocate of tighter gun...
Police quash peaceful protests in two cities
On April 14, hundreds of police and OMON special forces detained over 150 anti-Kremlin activists in a bid to stop an unauthorized March of Dissent rally in Moscow before it began, RFE/RL's Russian Service reported. Among those briefly detained was Garri...
Two policemen arrested by Transnistrian militia on left bank of Nistru
Two Moldovan policemen were arrested on the left bank of the Nistru by the employees of Fighting Organized Crime Department under the secessionist Transnistrian administration. Valeriu Prudnicov, commissar of Bender city, communicated for BASA-press...
