‘A fight for his life’: A strange and winding saga on a Michigan freeway Police reports detail the abnormal occurrences that led up to a Michigan man being arrested, hospitalized, evaluated at a mental health facility and then released. Two months later, police allege, he ... 04/19/2024 - 7:15 am | View Link
Nonfatal police shootings in Detroit: First-of-its-kind investigation raises questions A first-of-its-kind investigation by the Free Press raises questions whether 10 nonfatal Detroit police shootings were justifiable. 04/18/2024 - 4:22 pm | View Link
Tip leads to arrest in cold case of off-duty officer fatally shot in car The case sat unsolved for five years until detectives received a tip in early 2023 that reinvigorated their investigation and led to charges. 04/18/2024 - 3:28 am | View Link
Off-duty SC police officer charged with murder in Chick-fil-A parking lot shooting Anthony DeLustro, an off-duty police officer, is charged with murder after shooting a man in a Chick-fil-A parking lot in Summerville, South Carolina. 04/11/2024 - 1:35 am | View Link
Why did Dexter Reed traffic stop, shootout with Chicago Police escalate so rapidly? A COPA news release issued Tuesday indicated that a seatbelt violation was the "purported" reason Reed was pulled over. But a letter issued April 1 expressed that COPA had doubts about this. 04/10/2024 - 5:02 am | View Link
Decorated Chinese athlete He Jie had been stripped of his Beijing half-marathon win Friday after an investigation found that the three African runners who competed alongside him had “actively slowed down” to let him cross the finish line first during the race on Sunday, April 14.
He won the 21 km.
ISLAMABAD — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.
The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a nationwide protest against alleged election rigging ahead of the Feb.
BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U. S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA. It will be San Francisco’s first time hosting the beloved animals long-term—the result of a yearlong advocacy campaign, Breed said.
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San Diego previously announced it was receiving two pandas back in February.
China is home to the only natural habitat for pandas and owns most of the black-and-white bears in the world.
Earlier this month, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Written in lyric form and titled “Forever In Our Hearts,” it recounts his achievements while singing his praises in highly effusive language. “With courage and wisdom/you show citizens the way,” it gushes. “Oh Modi, oh Modi/their hopes never sway/A people’s beacon, in whom they see light/Oh Modi, oh Modi, guiding day and night.”
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Such reverence captures the essence of Modi’s popularity.
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.