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United Kingdom

Explosive devices found at two London airports and Waterloo station

Explosive devices found in two London airports and Waterloo station prompt counter terror probe

05/03/2019

Italy

Mafia "super fugitive" arrested in Naples

Mafia "super fugitive" arrested in Naples

03/03/2019

USA

Superintendent who defecated in public says police shouldn't have released mugshot

An attorney for Thomas Tramaglini, who resigned as the top administrator of the Kenilworth school district, said "his life has been ruined because of this."

28/02/2019

USA

Authorities are warning parents about '48-Hour Challenge'

"We don't know that anyone is doing it yet and but we saw it out there and we wanted to present it to parents," police in Indiana said.

21/02/2019

France

Former boxer in 'Yellow Vest' protest gets one year jail sentence

Christophe Dettinger, a former boxer who hit police during a 'Yellow vest' protest was handed an 18-month suspended sentence in addition to jail time on Wednesday.

13/02/2019

Indonesia

Papua police apologises after using snake in an interrogation

Indonesian police apologised after a video circulating on social media showed officers using a snake to extract a confession from a suspect.

11/02/2019

Norway

Snowed under? Norway police race each other using shields as sledges

Police in Norway put themselves on a slippery slope by racing each other using their shields as sledges.

11/02/2019

Turkey

1,200-year-old Bible seized in Turkish anti-smuggling operation

Six people were arrested for attempting to sell the Biblical text.

07/02/2019

France

Thousands of France’s ‘gilets jaunes’ join 12th weekend of protests

"Gilet jaune” (yellow vest) protesters took to the streets on Saturday for another weekend of anti-government action, as they paid homage to those injured by police in previous demonstrations.

02/02/2019

United Kingdom

Facial recognition technology leads to arrests in London

Three people were arrested in the British capital this week as a direct result of controversial facial recognition technology that is being trialled by police.

02/02/2019

France

French court rules police use of controversial rubber bullets legal

Top French court upholds police use of controversial rubber-bullet launchers.

01/02/2019

Italy

Two tonnes of cocaine seized in huge Italian narcotics bust

It's the largest registered find of narcotics in Italy in 25 years with Italy, Spain, Colombia and United Kingdom authorities working together.

31/01/2019

France

French authorities ask Google to remove photo of Macron as Pinochet

The French government has allegedly requested that Google removes a photomontage of Macron as Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

31/01/2019

Spain

Hard terrain slows efforts to reach Spanish child trapped in well

A team of miners is edging closer in efforts to find a two-year-old boy who fell down a well in southern Spain 12 days ago. However, the hard terrain has slowed them down.

25/01/2019

Europe Decoded

British restaurant owner defiant amid abuse over anti-Brexit receipts

The owner of a London restaurant that hit headlines for printing anti-Brexit messages at the bottom of its receipts says he will not be deterred by threats.

24/01/2019

France

Gilets jaunes: growing calls for ban on Flash Ball riot control guns

Protesters have been left with serious injuries after being shot at with a LBD40 — a weapon described as "non-lethal" that fires 40-mm rubber balls.

18/01/2019

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Watch: Man arrested after a bizarre police chase in Dallas, Texas

A bizarre police chase featuring a mini-van ended with the arrest of a man in the parking lot of a local gas station in Dallas, Texas.

16/01/2019

United Kingdom

UK police get new powers to tackle dangerous drones

UK transport ministry gives police new powers to tackle the threat posed by illegal drone use to aircraft. It follows the disruption caused by drone sightings at London's Gatwick airport just before Christmas

08/01/2019

World News

Which European countries have the most police?

The number of police officers in Europe has slowly decreased in recent years, new figures from the bloc's statistics division revealed.

04/01/2019

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Migrants hidden in mattresses

Spanish border officials at the country’s frontier with Morocco in Melilla uncovered two migrants trying to enter the country while hidden in mattresses

01/01/2019