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France

{Watch} Paris clashes after election results announced

Not long after the projections for the first round of the French presidential ballot were made public, clashes broke out in Paris.

23/04/2017

Turkey

Three killed in gunfight at polling station in Turkey

Local media reported the violence was sparked between two groups due to differing political views.

16/04/2017

Sport

Crowd trouble mars Lyon victory-United draw in Brussels

Crowd trouble delays Lyon match-Man United draw with Anderlecht

13/04/2017

South Sudan

Thousands in South Sudan flee upsurge in ethnic killings

UN says makeshift refugee camps on the border with Uganda are full to over flowing following a further spread in ethnic killings

11/04/2017

Italy

Genoa G8: police admits brutality, compensation agreed

Some 16 years after anti-globalisation protests broke out in Genoa, Italy has admitted its responsibility for police brutality and has agreed to pay 45,000 euros each to six people for moral and mater

07/04/2017

France

Poachers kill rhino in French zoo

An endangered white rhino killed for its ivory in France

07/03/2017

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USA cop shooting

An off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer fired his gun during a physical altercation with a group of teenage boys in Anaheim on the afternoon of February…

24/02/2017

Spain

Teen arrested after high school stabbing in Spain

A seventeen year-old has been arrested after stabbing five classmates in a high school in Villena in southeastern Spain.

28/01/2017

Russia

Russian Duma backs draft law easing penalty for domestic violence

The Russian parliament’s lower house the Duma has overwhelming backed a draft law that would ease some penalties for domestic violence.

25/01/2017

Brazil

Brazil's brutal prison violence prompts government action

Brazil's prison violence prompts government action

17/01/2017

Brazil

Mass escape after prison riot in Brazil claims 56 lives

Over 100 prisoners are on the loose and 56 have died after two rival drugs gangs ran riot in a Brazilian prison.

04/01/2017

Italy

Calm restored after riot at migrant reception centre in Italy

The unrest in Conetta comes amid signs that Italy is toughening its stance on migrants, with more deportations and an increased number of reception centres.

03/01/2017

Brazil

Brazil: decapitated bodies tossed over wall after drug gang prison massacre

Around 60 people have been killed in a prison riot in Brazil in what officials say is the biggest prison massacre in the history of the state of Manaus.

02/01/2017

Brazil

Brazil: decapitated bodies tossed over wall as dozens die in prison drug gang turf war

Around 60 people have been killed in a prison riot in Brazil. The fighting was sparked by a war between rival drug gangs in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus.

02/01/2017

West Bank

Palestinian woman shot by Israeli police 'was attempting knife attack'

Israeli police say a Palestinian woman, shot and injured by security forces on Friday, had been trying to carry out a stabbing attack.

31/12/2016

USA

Toddler, 3, shot dead in Little Rock, Arkansas, road rage attack

The three-year-old boy is the second toddler to die in a road rage incident in Little Rock in less than a month.

18/12/2016

Germany

'Casual kicker': Berlin metro attack suspect detained by police

Authorities in Berlin say they have arrested the man suspected of kicking a woman down a flight of stairs in an underground station in the German capital.

17/12/2016

United Kingdom

UK man drowns daughter, dogs, in family revenge "horror"

An Isle of Wight coroner in the United Kingdom revealed on Friday the gruesome way a father killed his daughter in an act of extraordinary revenge.

16/12/2016

Germany

Immigrant who lied about age suspected of rape and murder

An immigrant accused of raping and murdering a German student is the same man who was convicted of a separate attack in Greece.

14/12/2016