A group of demonstrators protest outside a police precinct in response to the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police officers, in Memphis, Tennessee on Jan 29, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) Memphis, a city in the US state of Tennessee, disbanded on Saturday the special police unit whose officers fatally […]
Protestors rally against the fatal police assault of Tyre Nichols, at Washington Square Park in New York City, on Jan 28, 2023. The city of Memphis on Jan 27, 2023 released a graphic video, depicting the fatal police assault of Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man. (PHOTO / AFP) MEMPHIS, Tenn – The specialized police unit […]
This still image from a Memphis Police Department body-cam video released by the city of Memphis on Jan 27, 2023, shows Tyre Nichols handcuffed on the ground surrounded by police officers, in Memphis, Tennessee. (PHOTO / AFP) MEMPHIS, Tenn – Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist stopped by Memphis police earlier this month, is seen pummeled […]
A woman with her daughter walks past a barricade that was set up by members of the police as they protest bad police governance, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Jan 26, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haitian police officers on Thursday blocked streets and forced their way into the country's main airport to protest the […]
A boy plays with a flower in front of a banner with images of British journalist Dom Phillips (left) and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and the word "Justice" written in Portuguese, during a rally demanding authorities conduct a thorough investigation into the circumstances leading to their deaths, and do more to protect indigenous lands against […]
Monterey Park police officers stand at the scene of a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, on Jan 22, 2023. (ROBYN BECK / AFP) LOS ANGELES – A gunman killed 10 people at a ballroom dance hall during a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration late on Saturday near Los Angeles before fleeing the scene and […]
In this file photo dated Dec 9, 2022, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reacts during his visit to Royal Air Force RAF Coningsby, near Lincoln, eastern England. (JOE GIDDENS / POOL / AFP) LONDON – British police fined Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday for failing to wear a seat belt while he filmed a […]
Protesters, supporters of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro, sit in front of police inside Planalto Palace after storming it, in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan 8, 2023. (ERALDO PERES / AP) BRASILIA — Brazil's federal police on Friday carried out raids against people suspected of involvement in the Jan 8 storming of government buildings by supporters of […]
A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking at the Despatch box during Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons in London on Jan 11, 2023. (JESSICA TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) LONDON – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government will on Monday announce new proposals […]
LONDON – A seven-year-old girl was left with life-threatening injuries after she and five others, including another child, were hurt in a drive-by shooting on Saturday near a church in London where a funeral was taking place, British police said. Detectives said the girl had been taken to hospital and remained in a life-threatening condition […]
Federal Interventor Ricardo Cappelli (center) inspects military troops as they wait for a protest announced by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Jan 11, 2023. (GUSTAVO MORENO / AP) BRASILIA – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that security force members were complicit in letting an anti-government […]
Relatives and friends of the victims of clashes with the Peruvian police gather at a field adjacent to the airport carrying their coffins in the Andean city of Juliaca, southern Peru, on January 11, 2023. (JUAN CARLOS CISNEROS / AFP) LIMA – Peruvians in the southern region of Puno carried coffins through the streets on […]
Police face activists as they start the evacuation of the village of Luetzerath, western Germany, on Jan 11, 2023, while anti-coal activists stage an "active defence" of the village, which is slated for forced evacuation, ahead of a planned demolition to expand a coal mine. Police have secured approval from the state interior ministry to […]
Students and police gather outside of Richneck Elementary School after a shooting, Jan 6, 2023 in Newport News, Virginia. (BILLY SCHUERMAN/THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT VIA AP) A 6-year-old boy shot his first-grade schoolteacher during an "altercation", police in Virginia say. "This was not an accidental shooting," Police Chief Steve Drew said on Friday evening of the shooting […]
People celebrate during the first New Year event without restrictions since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, US, Jan 1, 2023. (JEENAH MOON / REUTERS) A teenager accused of attacking three policemen with a machete on New Year's Eve near Times Square was charged with attempted […]
This file photo taken on June 9, 2022, shows US Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger walking outside the room where the Capitol riot panel will hold its first public hearing to reveal the findings of a year-long investigation, in Washington. (ANDREW HARNIK / AP) WASHINGTON – US Capitol Police are prepared for any possible future […]
Fireworks light up the sky as people react while they celebrate after counting down to the new year at a church in Kampala, Uganda, on Jan 1, 2023. (BADRU KATUMBA / AFP) KAMPALA – At least nine people were killed and several others injured in a New Year stampede in Uganda's capital, Kampala, police said […]
Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro hold a demonstration against the presidential election results that elected Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as the new President at an improvised campsite in front of the Army headquarters in Brasilia, on Dec 29, 2022. (EVARISTO SA / AFP) BRASILIA – Brazilian police said they had arrested at least […]
Guards stand in front the entrance of the Bataclan in Paris on Nov 13, 2018, during a ceremony held for the victims of the Paris attacks of Nov 2015, which targeted the Bataclan concert hall as well as a series of bars and killed 130 people. (BENOIT TESSIER / POOL / AFP) PARIS — The […]
The scene after a fatal mass shooting at a condominium building in the Toronto suburb of Vaughan, Ontario, Canada Dec 19, 2022. (CARLOS OSORIO / REUTERS) TORONTO – Six people, including the suspect, died and one person was wounded in a shooting at a high-rise condominium building near Toronto on Sunday when a 73-year-old gunman […]
