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Poland

British teenage boys accused of Auschwitz theft

Two teenage British boys are in detention in Poland after they were accused of stealing artefacts from the Auschwitz death camp. Pupils of the Perse

23/06/2015

USA

Rapper P. Diddy arrested after 'gym weight attack'

23/06/2015

Germany

Ahmed Mansour released by German authorities, says Al-Jazeera

German authorities have released journalist Ahmed Mansour. According to Al-Jazeera he will be released without charges. مراسل #الجزيرة : السلطات

22/06/2015

Republic of Ecuador

Exclusive: Assange can spend rest of his life in our embassy, says Ecuador president

18/06/2015

United Kingdom

Swedish prosecutors want to question Assange before July

15/06/2015

Mexico

Mexico finds 42 ton stash of marijuana

Mexican authorities have confiscated nearly 42 tons of marijuana in the city of Tijuana. The large find was discovered inside a family home on the

14/06/2015

World News

Hundreds join search for missing Swedish teenager

More than 900 volunteers in Sweden are helping police in their search for a teenage girl who has been missing for four days. 17-year-old Lisa Holm

11/06/2015

Italy

Italian police seizes Turkish ship carrying 12 tons of hashish

Italian police have seized a Turkish ship in the strait of Sicily carrying 12 tons of hashish – a discovery worth some 40 million euros. The ship

04/06/2015

Mexico

Mexico shoot-out leaves at least 43 dead

A gunfight in Mexico between security forces and an armed gang has left at least 43 people dead. The shoot-out in which officials say one police

23/05/2015

USA

A Texas shootout between rival gangs leaves nine dead

A shootout between rival gangs in Waco, Texas, has left nine people dead and more than a dozen injured. The fight, which involved members of at least

18/05/2015

Cinema

The controversy of Pope Pius XII in 'Shades of Truth'

Tackling a controversy which has dogged the Roman Catholic church for almost 70 years. In “Shades of Truth” US actor David Wall plays

15/05/2015

France

Monkey business: theft of rare primates from French zoo mystifies police

A zoo in France is appealing for the return of 17 rare monkeys stolen by suspected animal traffickers over the weekend

12/05/2015

Indonesia

How Indonesia executes condemned prisoners

29/04/2015

South Korea

Captain of doomed South Korea ferry jailed for life for homicide by appeals court

The captain of a South Korean ferry that sank last year, killing more than 300 people, was jailed for life for homicide by an appeals court on

28/04/2015

World News

Reform calls over 'fundamental flaws' of European Arrest Warrants

27/04/2015

Egypt

Relics return home: Egypt receives smuggled antiquities from US

History returns home as 2.3million euros worth of smuggled antiquities arrived in back in Egypt. Some 123 artifacts were seized by US customs as part

25/04/2015

USA

Former New England Patriots star, Aaron Hernandez gets life sentence

Former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez has been handed a life sentence. A jury found him guilty of murdering a friend of his

15/04/2015

USA

Mother of accused 'killer cop' Michael Slager speaks out

The mother of the white police officer charged with murdering Walter Scott, a black father-of-four, last week has spoken about the tragedy. Michael

10/04/2015

USA

Dashboard video captures build-up to deadly South Carolina police shooting

It starts out as a routine traffic stop. But newly-released pictures, filmed from the dashboard of policeman Michael Slager’s patrol car, show the

10/04/2015

USA

Calls for calm as South Carolina protesters voice their anger over shooting

Civil rights leaders have called for calm following the charging of a South Carolina police officer with murder for shooting a black man in the back

09/04/2015