35 h. 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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43 h. 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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69 h. 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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3 d. ago Police release CCTV image after sexual assault on train at Manchester Piccadilly

The incident took place on October 11

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4 d. 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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6 d. ago Man in his 40s ‘stabbed to death’ at house as cops arrest woman, 45, amid murder investigation

POLICE have launched a murder investigation after a man in his 40s was "stabbed to death" at a house. Officers were called to a home in Chatham, Kent, on Saturday morning following reports of an assault. Kent Police said that officers found a man in his 40s with injuries "consistent with stab wounds" at a...

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7 d. ago Thousands join protests in Rio favela after deadliest ever police raid

Demonstrators demand inquiry after operation on Tuesday in which at least 121 people were killedThousands of protesters have gathered in the Rio favela that this week suffered the deadliest police operation in Brazilian history to demand an inquiry into the killings and an end to security policies that have turned working-class neighbourhoods into “war zones”.At least 121 people, including four police officers, were killed on Tuesday during a police assault on the Complexo da Penha and the Complexo do Alemão, two large tapestries of favelas in north Rio. The operation made global headlines when scores of mutilated bodies were dumped at the entrance to one of those favelas. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’

Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuelsHarrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.In a blistering attack upon the president, Ford told the Guardian that Trump “doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Police appealing for information after robbery and assault at Stepps property

The incident happened between 6.30pm and 7.30pm on Sunday, October 26, when three men entered a house in the Laundry Lane area.

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2 w. ago 'Egyptian national' is arrested over attempted rape on Paris train after footage of attack on Brazilian woman, 26, screaming for help went viral

The man, 26, was apprehended by transport police on Friday evening after the assault (pictured) on Jhordana Dias, also 26, just outside the French capital on October 15.

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2 w. ago Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Met Police urges Epping hotel sex assault convict to turn himself in

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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2 w. ago Hadush Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Met Police urges Epping hotel sex assault convict to turn himself in

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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2 w. ago Hadush Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Met Police lead London hunt for Epping hotel sex assault convict freed in error

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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2 w. ago Two women assaulted 'due to their sexuality' in suspected north London hate crime

Police appeal after assault on Holloway Road left two women in hospital

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2 w. ago Dublin police condemn ‘thuggery’ after protest outside hotel housing asylum seekers turns violent

Six arrests made after crowd hurled fireworks and other missiles at officers during protests following alleged sexual assault on a young girlSix people have been arrested after Irish police battled hundreds of protesters outside a Dublin hotel used to house asylum seekers after an alleged sexual assault on a young girl.The crowd burned a police vehicle and hurled fireworks and other missiles at officers outside the Citywest hotel on Tuesday night. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Man in court charged with assault and having blade after car 'driven at police'

Police were made aware of a car driving dangerously on Provan Road in the east end at around 5.40pm on Saturday.

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2 w. ago Prince Andrew's attempt to 'dig up dirt on Virginia Giuffre' claim branded 'deeply concerning'

A Cabinet minister has said reports that Prince Andrew tried to get the Metropolitan Police to dig up dirt on his sexual assault accuser Virginia Giuffre are 'deeply concerning'

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3 w. ago Aberdeen crime: Police officer taken to hospital after assault near Pittodrie stadium

The officer was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

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3 w. ago Most athletes have chosen to ‘shut up and dribble’ over Gaza | Nathan Kalman

Only a handful of North American athletes have spoken out against Israel’s assault on Gaza, a silence shaped by fear, sponsorship and the policing of speech“I will not just shut up and dribble I get to sit up here and talk about what’s really important.” So proclaimed LeBron James in 2018 when confronted with the question of whether athletes have the right to speak about the political and social justice questions of their time.Yet since 7 October 2023, elite athletes in North America have had startlingly little to say about what most human rights groups in the world, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and the United Nations have characterized as Israel’s genocide in Gaza (a situation currently in flux due to a mutually agreed upon ceasefire and prisoner exchange).Nathan Kalman-Lamb is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick. Derek Silva is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at King’s University College at Western University. They are ...

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3 w. ago Teens who assaulted Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine learn their fate in court

Former DOGE staffer, whose August assault became a MAGA cause celebre, thanks police and courts after assailants sentenced to probabtion

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