7 h. ago Trump backer and financier partner accused over Bond Street Tube 'racist assault' no longer in UK, say police

British Transport Police issue update on investigation after family were racially abused and assaulted in central London

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7 h. ago Couple wanted over racist assault at London tube station believed to have fled country

It is believed the man left the UK on October 14 and the woman on October 24

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7 h. ago Couple accused over Bond Street Tube 'racist assault' no longer in UK, say police

British Transport Police issue update on investigation after family were racially abused and assaulted in central London

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53 h. ago Former NBA guard Patrick Beverley arrested on felony assault charge in Texas

Former NBA guard Patrick Beverley has been arrested and charged with felony assault in what police in Texas are calling a “family violence” incident

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3 d. ago Police investigate serious assault at Manchester city centre bar Manahatta

Greater Manchester Police are appealing for witnesses after an incident at the Deansgate bar in the early hours of November 1

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5 d. ago Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador endured systematic torture, report finds

Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prisonMore than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during their detention, according to a report published on Wednesday.The report, compiled jointly by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Cristosal – a group investigating violations in Central America – says conditions at El Salvador’s sprawling “terrorist continent center” (Cecot) breached the UN’s standard minimal rules for the treatment of prisoners. It cites “inhumane prison conditions, including prolonged incommunicado detention, inadequate food” and other shortcomings. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Attacks on Scots cops reach record levels amid calls for offenders to stay in jail

There have been calls for prisoners convicted of police assault not to be given early release after new figures showed assaults on cops at ten year high

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6 d. ago ‘The press has basically been under assault’: Kansas county to pay $3m over police raid on local newspaper

The incident ignited a significant outcry regarding press freedom

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6 d. ago Police seek couple over racially aggravated assault at tube station

Police want to speak to a couple in connection with a racially aggravated assault at Bond Street tube station in central London.

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6 d. ago Trump supporter and financier named as couple in Bond Street Tube ‘assault and racist abuse’ police appeal

Philip Ostermann and Melissa Rein Lively have been named as the subjects of the British Transport Police appeal

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7 d. ago Police launch appeal after racially aggravated assault at London station

Police launch appeal after racially aggravated assault at London station  The Independent

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7 d. ago Police hunt couple who ‘subjected woman to racist attack’ at London tube station

One of the children was in a pushchair when the man is said to have attacked with ‘pepper spray’

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7 d. ago Cops release CCTV of man while probing assault and robbery on Glasgow street

Police Scotland have released an image of a man following an assault and robbery in the Yoker area of Glasgow.

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7 d. ago Image released following racially aggravated assault and abuse

Image released following racially aggravated assault and abuse - Central London  British Transport Police

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8 d. ago Growth in global demand for ‘green’ office buildings slows amid Trump policies

Fall reported by Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors as UN calls for accelerated action in buildings sector to meet global climate goalsThe growth in global demand for “green” office buildings has slowed after Donald Trump’s assault on environmental protection policies caused a slump in interest in the US, according to a survey of construction industry professionals.Building occupiers and investors across North America and South America expressed significantly lower growth in demand for green commercial buildings, a shift that “seems to be in response to a change in US policy focus”, according to a survey of members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics). Reported demand across the rest of the world also fell, albeit not as sharply. Continue reading...

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1 week ago LA man posed as ‘famous singer’ to meet women and sexually assault them, police say

Davionne Jackson, 33, was arrested more than 2,000 miles from home

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1 week ago Senior police officer investigated after drone crash injures child

Drone fell on child while in operation searching for assault suspect, police say

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1 week ago Scots doctor who assaulted dozens of women once examined rape victims for police

Former GP Krishna Singh is serving a prison sentence but it has now emerged that he examined victims of sexual assault and rape for Strathclyde Police.

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1 week ago Police release CCTV image after sexual assault on train at Manchester Piccadilly

The incident took place on October 11

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1 week ago Brazil to seek independent inquiry into deadly police raid that killed 121 people

Brazilian president Lula called police assault on two of Rio’s largest clusters of favelas ‘disastrous’ and a ‘massacre’Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has said his government will seek an independent investigation into what he called a “disastrous” police “massacre” that left at least 121 people dead.Four officers and at least 117 others were killed when police launched a major assault on two of Rio’s largest clusters of favelas, the Complexo do Alemão and the Complexo da Penha, early last Tuesday to execute 100 arrest warrants. Continue reading...

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