NYC subway crime down 6%, led by drops in robberies and assaults: NYPD Major felonies on the subway system are down 6.4% in the first four months of 2024 after a winter of high-profile subterranean crimes, according to NYPD stats released Monday. 04/29/2024 - 4:08 pm | View Link
Scottish police receive 'thousands' of reports after 'Stasi-like' hate crime law takes effect: MP Scottish police have been inundated with reports since the country's controversially broad hate crime act went into effect ... for those who similarly seek to protect free expression. 04/9/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Police Scotland swamped with more than 7,000 complaints in first week of new hate crime laws Cops were swamped with thousands of anonymous complaints in the week after Scotland's controversial new hate crime laws took effect, the force has confirmed. Analysis by Police Scotland published ... 04/9/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Fugitive Bradford murder suspect's last known sighting: Police release CCTV of Habibur Masum shortly after mother was stabbed to death while pushing her baby son in a buggy in ... Just days ago the suspected attacker had shared a video on his YouTube channel, vlogging his trip from Manchester to Barcelona. The wannabe influencer captured his trip from the moment he boarded ... 04/8/2024 - 8:06 pm | View Link
Hate crime complaints to Scottish police set to outnumber total for all other offences Hate crime reports in Scotland are on course to outnumber all other offences put together, figures show, as front-line officers warned they “can’t cope” with the surge. Around 8,000 hate ... 04/8/2024 - 1:11 pm | View Link
Both President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping strongly reject the current U. S.-China competition as a new Cold War. As recently as September, Biden said that he doesn’t “want to contain China” and that “we’re all better off if China does well.” Xi, in turn, proclaimed that “China doesn’t want a cold war or a hot war with anyone,” following a meeting between the two in San Francisco in November.
(NEW YORK) — Large numbers of New York City police officers began entering the Columbia University late Tuesday as dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters remained on the campus.
Demonstrators had occupied Hamilton Hall hours earlier after setting up an encampment earlier in the month.
Students had defiantly set up tents again after police cleared an encampment at the university on April 18 and arrested more than 100 people.
mdash; Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged with causing criminal damage and damaging the wall built in A. D. 122 by Emperor Hadrian to guard the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire.
They were ordered to appear in Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on May 15.
The sycamore’s majestic canopy between two hills made it a popular subject for landscape photographers.
LONDON — A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in a east London suburb Tuesday, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring four others, British authorities said.
A 36-year-old man was arrested in a residential area near Hainault subway station, police said. The incident is not being treated as terror-related or a “targeted attack.”
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Police said the 14-year-old died in the hospital from his injuries.
King Charles III officially returned to public duties on Tuesday, following a months-long period of recuperation since being diagnosed with an undisclosed type of cancer in February.
The 75-year-old monarch opted for a cause close to home to mark his return to work. King Charles and Queen Camilla visited a cancer treatment center in London, where he greeted doctors, held hands with patients, and gave out gifts to children.
Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, became the first member of the British royal family to visit Ukraine since Russia launched its full scale invasion of the country in February 2022. Sophie is the wife of Prince Edward, the youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II, and brother of King Charles III.
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The Duchess met Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska during the Monday visit.