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by Sebastian Smith Agence France-Presse RIO DE JENEIRO, Brazil (AFP)–Rio de Janeiro’s drug war hit a bloody crescendo Monday when at least 11 suspected criminals and two soldiers were reported killed in a huge military sweep through impoverished favelas and during a rush-hour police car chase. The military command heading security in Brazil’s second biggest city said the two troops killed were the first lost since conservative President Michel Temer sent them into protect Rio. […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Monday, Aug. 20, defended the police’s arrest of three lawyers in a Makati bar raid for alleged obstruction of justice and intimidation. According to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, a lawyer himself, lawyers Lenie Rocel Rocha, Jan Vincent Soliven, and Romulo Bernard Alarkon needed a refresher course in criminal law. In the first place, he said “lawyers have absolutely no involvement in an ongoing police investigation.” “Their role is when […]
by Anne Pascale Reboul and Joseph Schmid Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — France’s interior minister Gerard Collomb was due to appear before parliament on Monday, as opposition MPs accused the government of a cover-up over a former top presidential security aide who was charged with gang violence. In the most damaging scandal to hit President Emmanuel Macron since he took office last year, Alexandre Benalla was charged Sunday after he was […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has accused the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police of taking away his security detail without any explanation. Trillanes said his military and police escorts were no longer detailed to him effective end of June. According to the PNP, the non-renewal of the police personnel was in compliance with the Alunan doctrine, which says that more than two security personnel was tantamount to a private army. […]
NANTES, Frances (AFP) – Groups of young people clashed with police in the western French city of Nantes late Tuesday after a 22-year-old man was shot dead by an officer during a police check. Cars were burned and a shopping centre partly set alight in the Breil neighborhood as police confronted young people, some armed with molotov cocktails. The circumstances in which the man was killed are being investigated by the police. The incident occurred […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) – Items seized from six premises linked to ousted Malaysian leader Najib Razak, including cash, a vast stash of jewellery and luxury handbags, are worth up to $273 million, police said Wednesday. “The total cost of all the items, the retail price, will be touching 910 (million) to 1.1 billion ringgit,” Amar Singh, the police’s head of commercial crime, told a press conference. That is equivalent to $225 million to […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte clarified that he instructed policemen to enforce the law, and did not order the police to immediately arrest “tambays” or loiterers but just to accost them first and advise them to go home. In his speech during this year’s National Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Summit on Friday, June 22 in Davao City, President Duterte said he was aware that loitering was not a criminal offense. “I never […]
by Jennie Matthew Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Fallen Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to New York police on Friday to face sex crime charges, nearly eight months after his career imploded in a blaze of assault accusations and triggered the global #MeToo movement. The former powerbroker — once the toast of Hollywood, whose films won scores of Oscars — is likely to be charged with raping one […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Disgraced former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities in New York on Friday following a months-long investigation into allegations that he sexually assaulted women, US media reported. The New York Times said Weinstein was expected to surrender on Friday morning, citing unnamed law enforcement officials. Weinstein’s defense attorney, contacted by AFP, declined to comment Thursday. The reports surfaced with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and […]
by Tom BARFIELD and Deborah COLE in Berlin Agence France Presse MUNSTER, Germany (AFP) — German authorities investigating a deadly van ramming attack focused Sunday on mental health problems of the driver, as the city of Muenster mourned for the two people killed on a sunny afternoon at an open-air restaurant. “There are strong indications at the moment that this was a lone perpetrator and that there were no links to the terror scene,” federal […]
MUENSTER, Germany (AFP) — German police said Sunday they did not see an extremist motive behind a ramming attack with a van that claimed two lives and placed the driver’s mental health issues in the foreground. There are “no indications of a political motive,” said Hajo Kuhlisch, chief of police in western city Muenster where the attack took place. Rather, “the motive and origins (of the crime) lie within the perpetrator himself,” he added. Far-right […]
by Tom Barfield © Agence France-Presse MUENSTER, Germany (AFP) — A man smashed a van into a packed restaurant terrace in Germany Saturday killing at least two people before shooting himself dead, with authorities ruling out an “Islamist” motive. Images of the scene showed broken and upturned tables and chairs strewn across the pavement in the center of the picturesque medieval city of Muenster. While stressing that the investigation was still ongoing, state interior minister […]
