91 m. ago Freemasons seek injunction against Met policy requiring officers to declare membership

Exclusive: Organisation accuses Sir Mark Rowley of religious discrimination and ‘whipping up conspiracy theories’Freemasons have demanded an emergency injunction from the high court to halt the Metropolitan police’s new policy that orders officers to tell their bosses if they are members of the organisation.The Freemasons filed papers in London on Christmas Eve and claim the Met’s policy amounts to “religious discrimination” against Freemasons who are also police officers. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Walmart confirms extended holiday return policy & it includes post

WALMART has officially updated its return policy, giving shoppers more time to return Christmas gifts. As the end of the festive season approaches, the retail giant is making changes to its shopping rules. With the holidays typically bringing a surge in returns, Walmart, like many other retailers, is preparing for a higher-than-usual return rate. Estimates...

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24 h. ago Police Scotland: Hundreds of officers leaving after less than 5 years

The Scottish Government is being accused of pushing police officers to ‘breaking point’.

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26 h. ago 201 officers quit Police Scotland after less than 12 months in last five years

Scottish Labour blamed “the SNP’s abject mismanagement” for the situation.

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32 h. ago French union say 'non' to migrant crackdown as drive to impose new hardline tactics stalls over police safety fears

Unions representing the officers have blocked plans for police to stop dinghies by using tactics such as jamming the propellers, saying they could face prosecution if any migrants died as a result.

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37 h. ago Police launch Boxing Day raid as boy, 15, 'murdered' in broad daylight stabbing

Metropolitan Police officers made five arrests on Boxing Day following the alleged murder of 15-year-old Adam Henry who was stabbed to death in Islington on December 9

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40 h. ago Clergy abuse survivors frustrated by New Orleans archdiocese’s protracted bankruptcy

Long-winded legal wrangling and recalcitrant Catholic church leadership thwarted hopes for timely settlementAn image of his great-grandmother stayed with James Adams for years and strengthened his faith: she was withered, nearly blind, touching his cheeks when they sat together, as if the feel of his face gave her sight. A working woman whose husband, a police officer, killed himself, she raised four children; her faith was a rock against life’s travails. She died at 98, when Adams was 28, about to marry.Many years later, in 2020, Adams, a New Orleans banker, was president of the Catholic Community Foundation, the archdiocese’s fundraising arm, when Archbishop Gregory Aymond ousted him – as he’s recounted from a witness stand in court and in multiple media interviews. Overnight, Adams became a church enemy because of what a priest did to him as a boy. His story mirrors the legal saga that has tarnished Aymond’s career. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Delaware State Police say DMV gunman let customers leave, fired at approaching officers

Investigators say a man accused of fatally shooting a Delaware State Police trooper at a DMV office allowed customers to leave and then fired at approaching officers before being killed

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62 h. ago Police found him in an attic but he wouldn't come down until he'd finished one thing

He eventually descended the loft ladder to waiting police officers

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63 h. ago Christmas Day driveway chaos as person seen wrestling with police officers

Multiple police cars and two ambulances rushed to a village street in Greatham on Christmas Day evening after reports of an altercation involving a group of people

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69 h. ago ‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires

Russian state has tolerated parallel probiv market for its convenience but now Ukrainian spies are exploiting itRussia is scrambling to rein in the country’s sprawling illicit market for leaked personal data, a shadowy ecosystem long exploited by investigative journalists, police and criminal groups.For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called probiv market – a term derived from the verb “to pierce” or “to punch into a search bar” – has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials, traffic police, bank employees and low-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago Police officer on 999 call will face trial over woman's death in Liverpool

'She was, and remains, an inspiration to us all'

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3 d. ago Woman in her 80s dead after ‘serious assault’ on Christmas morning as another woman, 63, arrested in murder probe

AN ELDERLY woman has died after a reported serious assault on Christmas Day. The woman, in her 80s, died in a flat in Wiltshire and a 63-year-old woman, known to the victim has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Paramedics and police officers raced to the flat but tragically they couldn't save the victim and...

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3 d. ago Falling price of cocaine forces drug traffickers to reuse narco

Previously vessels would be sunk once they had completed their cargo runs from South America to EuropeThe plummeting price of cocaine is forcing drug-traffickers to reuse the “narco-submarines” they would previously have scuttled once the custom-built vessels had completed their cargo runs from South America to Europe, according to a senior Spanish police officer.While semi-submersible vehicles have been used regularly in Colombia and other parts of South and Central America since the 1980s, they were not detected in European waters until 2006, when an abandoned sub was found in an estuary in the north-west Spanish region of Galicia. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 'Car bomb' kills three in Russia days after senior Putin general was killed

Two police officers were killed after approaching a man acting suspiciously near where a Russian general died in a car blast two days earlier, authorities said

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4 d. ago British boy, 13, stabbed to death in Portugal before house blown up in gas explosion

One officer was injured by the explosion as police in Tomar responded to a suspected domestic violence alert

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4 d. ago Southport road closure UPDATES as 'car ploughs into male pedestrian'

Police officers and paramedics rushed to the scene following reports that a male pedestrian had been hit by a car in the early hours of Thursday morning, with motorists told to avoid the area

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4 d. ago Three killed in Moscow car explosion according to Russian authorities

The explosion came after two police officers approached a man acting suspiciously close to the scene of a prior car blast in Moscow - which days ago killed a senior general as he made his way to work

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5 d. ago Three killed in Moscow car explosion, say Russian authorities

Witnesses quoted on Russian television said an explosion occurred around 1.30am on WednesdayTwo traffic police officers and a third person have been killed in a car explosion in Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said early on Wednesday.Authorities said earlier the blast occurred near where a senior Russian general, Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov, was killed this week. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago What happened next: how a shocking rape and murder case was solved – 58 years later

In Portishead, a dusty box of forgotten files led Jo Smith and her team to a criminal who had escaped justice for more than half a century. This was the longest-running cold case to be solved in the UK, and possibly the worldIn June 2023, Jo Smith, a major crime review officer for Avon and Somerset police, was asked by her sergeant to “take a look at the Louisa Dunne case”. Louisa Dunne was a 75-year-old woman who had been raped and murdered in her Bristol home in June 1967. She was a mother of two, a grandmother, a woman whose first husband had been a leading trade unionist, and whose home had once been a hub of political activity. By 1967, she was living alone, twice widowed but still a well-known figure in her Easton neighbourhood.There were no witnesses to her murder, and the police investigation unearthed little to go on apart from a palm print on a rear window. Police knocked on 8,000 doors and took 19,000 palm prints, but no match was found. The case stayed unsolved. Continue...

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