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Europe at 'breaking point' over organised crime, says Europol

The EU's law enforcement agency released a report on organised crime Monday highlighting the extent of the problem on the continent.

Belgium

Stolen Roman statue recovered by Italian art police after chance discovery in Belgium

The find was made in Brussels by two off-duty officers from the Carabinieri Art Squad, Italy's specialist art and antiquities crime unit.

World News

North Macedonia officials 'handed fake passports to foreign criminals'

Nine officials in North Macedonia's interior ministry have been arrested on suspicion of illegally issuing passports to overseas criminals.

World News

Weinstein appeals rape conviction blaming 'cavalier' judge

More than a year after a landmark verdict for the #MeToo movement, Weinstein's lawyers argued their client's right to a fair trial was denied.

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France

Five women arrested in southern France in suspected attack plot

Five women were arrested overnight in the city of Bezier in connexion with a possible terror plot, police said Sunday.

Taiwan

Taiwan prosecutors launch probe into train crash that killed 50

Taiwanese authorities are seeking an arrest warrant for the driver of a lorry that rolled onto a railway, causing one of the country's worst rail accidents in decades.

United Kingdom

'Sobriety tags' on offender's ankle fight alcohol-related crime in UK

The electronic devices analyse offenders' sweat and alert the probation service if they detect alcohol.

United Kingdom

British police 'acted appropriately' at Sarah Everard vigil, review

It found that the Metropolitan Police was justified in adopting the view that the risks of transmitting COVID-19 at the vigil were too great to ignore.

World News

Fake COVID-19 vaccines are being sold online, warns Interpol

Criminals have been producing and selling fake coronavirus vaccines, putting people's health - and bank accounts - in danger, Interpol has warned.

USA

10 people killed in Colorado supermarket shooting

Police arrested a lone suspect after an hours-long standoff at a Boulder supermarket.

Italy

Italian prosecutor seeks Salvini trial over migrant ship he rejected

The right-wing leader, a former interior minister, faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty

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Hundreds take to streets in Venezuela over murders of three women

The demonstrators were taking a stand against femicide and the gender-related killing of women and girls.

Nigeria

Police and army in bid to rescue 317 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria

Unidentified gunmen stormed the Government Girls Secondary School in the town of Jangebe and took the girls away, say police.

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Rollerblading police unit established in Pakistani port of Karachi

The force has already been deployed to work outside the venue of the Pakistan Super League cricket tournament.

Greece

Greece: 5,000 students gather outside courthouse over campus security

World News

British barrister Karim Khan elected next ICC prosecutor

Khan, an assistant U.N. secretary-general, was widely seen as the favorite to get the job. But neither Khan nor any of the other candidates garnered enough support to be appointed by consensus, prompting Friday’s election in the U.N. General Assembly Hall.

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Hundreds march in memory of murdered woman in eastern Alsace

Prosecutor Alex Perrin said the killings were "totally premeditated" by the 45-year-old, who was not known to the police or intelligence services.

South Korea

Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong handed prison sentence over bribery scandal

Lee will now serve two and a half years in prison for his involvement in a bribery scandal involving then South Korean president Park Geun-hye.

United Kingdom

UK 'Super Recogniser' officer spots more than 2,000 suspects

Andy Pope, a police officer in Birmingham, has said his talent for recognising faces is "impossible to explain". He's also managed to spot wanted suspects while they were wearing face masks.

USA

Suspect home searched in FBI probe into Nashville explosion

The motive behind the bomb blast has yet to be found but FBI agents have converged on a house of interest in the Nashville suburbs.