89 Foreigners Arrested at Thai Bar Flouting Covid-19 Rules
Police raided a party at a bar on a popular resort island in southern Thailand and arrested 89 foreigners for violating coronavirus regulations, officials said Wednesday.
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Families of Slain Couple Sue Houston Drug Squad
The families of a couple shot and killed by Houston police after they barged into their home looking for heroin in January 2019 brought federal lawsuits Wednesday night against the city and a narcotics squad.
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Police Raid Russian Opposition Leader’s Apartment, Offices
Police are searching the Moscow apartment of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, another apartment where his wife is living and two offices of his anti-corruption organization.
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South Korean Tanker Was Boarded by Armed Iran Guard Forces
Armed Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops stormed a South Korean tanker and forced the ship to change course and travel to Iran, the vessel’s owner said Tuesday, the latest maritime seizure by Tehran amid heightened tensions with the West over its nuclear program.
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Germany Bans Far-Right, Pro-Nazi Group; Police Raid Homes
More than 180 police officers raided homes in three German states early Tuesday after the German government banned a far-right group, the interior ministry said.
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Paris Police Under Fire for Forcing Migrants From Tent Camp
France’s interior minister ordered an internal police investigation Tuesday after officers were filmed tossing migrants out of tents while evacuating a protest camp in Paris.
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Austrian Authorities Raid Suspected Islamic Radicals
Investigators in several Austrian regions carried out raids early Monday on people and organizations suspected of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas groups, prosecutors said.
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German Police Raid Homes of 4 Men Linked to Vienna Attacker
Police in Germany on Friday raided the homes and businesses of four men linked to the Islamic State sympathizer who carried out a deadly attack in Vienna this week, as Austria announced the closure of several mosques in the country.
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Lyon Man Questioned by Police Over Greek Priest Shooting
A Greek Orthodox parishioner who was recently caught on video scuffling with a Lyon priest who was shot outside his church and hospitalized over the weekend says local police raided his home on Monday.
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Shocking Corruption Revealed in Houston Police Department
Fallout from a bungled Houston police raid that left a married couple dead deepened Wednesday as prosecutors charged several retired officers with felony records tampering, and the police department released an audit detailing corruption that led to the raid.
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Stolen Banksy Work From Door of Paris Bataclan Found in Italy
Italian police said Wednesday they had retrieved a work by famed street artist Banksy commemorating the victims of the November 2015 Paris terror attacks stolen from the Bataclan concert hall.
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Venezuela: 2 US Mercenaries Among Those Nabbed in Venezuela
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said authorities arrested two U.S. citizens among a group of “mercenaries” on Monday, a day after a beach raid purportedly aimed at capturing the socialist leader that authorities say they foiled.
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San Francisco OKs $369,000 Settlement for Journalist Targeted by Police
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A journalist whose home was raided by police will get $369,000 from San Francisco taxpayers under
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An appeals court in Texas upheld a ruling against the City of Houston in a suit brought by the mother of a woman killed in a high-profile botched drug raid in 2019, known as the “Harding Street” raid. The lower court properly denied the city’s plea to the jurisdiction and the woman may continue to pursue her efforts to depose Houston police officials.
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German Police Raid Neo-Nazi Group Nationwide
German police on Thursday raided sites across the country linked to a far-right group banned by the interior ministry, weeks after an extremist gunman shot dead nine people of immigrant backgrounds.
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I.Coast Burns 3 Tons of Pangolin Scales
Ivory Coast officials on Tuesday burned three tons of scales of the pangolin, the most trafficked mammal on Earth.
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San Francisco to Pay $369,000 for Police Raid of Journalist’s Home
The city of San Francisco will pay $369,000 to settle claims over its police raid on a journalist’s home and office this past May, an action condemned by press advocates as chilling the ability of reporters to get information from anonymous sources.
Read moreGerman Police Raid Far-Right Group Nationwide
German police raided locations across the country early Friday in a probe against an extreme-right group suspected of planning “attacks on politicians, asylum-seekers and people of Muslim faith,” prosecutors said.
Read moreVenezuela Rounds up Six US Oil Executives
Six American oil executives under house arrest in Venezuela were rounded up by police hours after President Trump met Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s chief opponent at the White House, according to family members of the men.
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ACLU Sues ICE for Warrants in Dallas-Area Workplace Raid
The American Civil Liberties Union sued federal immigration officials Wednesday, demanding the search warrants for a raid last year at a Dallas-area electronics repair company that netted over 280 arrests.
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