7 h. ago Sleuth known as 'Indiana Jones of the art world' helps police finally solve 50

Dutch art detective Arthur Brand, who has been compared to Indiana Jones, has helped police to solve the mystery of how a famous painting went missing from a Gdansk museum in 1974.

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22 h. ago No Other Land: Israeli Oscar winner says US policy 'is helping to block' Palestinian freedom

Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham spoke out on the conflict in the Middle East as he picked up the gong for Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land at the 97th Academy Awards

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36 h. ago Judo Olympian urgently seeks help to find missing brother after his disappearance following distressing 3am voicemail in Bristol

Olympic judoka Lubjana Piovesana has issued a desperate plea for help in finding her missing brother, Luis, as police express growing concern for his safety.

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38 h. ago Judo Olympian appeals for help amid police ‘worry’ for missing brother

Lubjana Piovesana, 28, says the next hours are ‘critical’ in the search for Luis Piovesana, who went missing in Bristol.

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40 h. ago Our 'luxury' flats have been invaded by heroin addicts who sleep in the corridors and leave syringes on the stairs... but the police won't do anything to help

David Parchot, who has had a flat in the centre of Bournemouth for the last nine years, said 'residents have had to come home to the carpet peppered with used needles and drug addicts using cocaine'.

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5 d. ago EPA pushes White House to ignore scientific finding that helped form current climate policy

The 2009 finding says carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health

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5 d. ago Google Maps discovery exposed killer who was on the run after shooting men in rage

Leslie Todd Parvin had gone on the run after shooting Edgar Lopez and Pablo Gutierrez-Guzman dead in 2010. But a quick Google Maps search helped police track him down

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5 d. ago Police in Lanarkshire town appeal for public’s help to curb anti

Officers took to social media following various online reports of unacceptable behaviour in and around Carluke.

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6 d. ago In 1997, a victim was found beaten to death with ‘greed’ written in blood on the wall. Cops just arrested a suspect

Stephen Edenfield’s case went unsolved for 28 years before DNA analysis helped police find a suspect in his murder

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6 d. ago Phone theft crackdown: Police to get power to search homes without warrant to tackle street crime 'epidemic'

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the measures introduced in the Government's Crime and Policing Bill on Tuesday will ‘help take back control of town centres’

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1 week ago Brazil mayor shot in ‘fake attack’ for election boost before losing vote in landslide anyway

José Aprígio da Silva was seriously hurt in October by assailants with assault rifles but police say it was fakedAs campaign strategies go it was unorthodox and illegal: buy an AK-47, hire a pair of phony hitmen, and stage a fake assassination attempt against the mayor that would generate public sympathy and help him win a second term in power.That, Brazilian police claim, was the gameplan last October when, on the eve of the local election, an armoured vehicle carrying José Aprígio da Silva came under fire in Taboão da Serra, a town on the outskirts of São Paulo. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Brazil mayor was shot in ‘fake attack’ for election boost – but still lost in landslide

José Aprígio da Silva was seriously hurt in October by assailants with assault rifles but police say it was fakedAs campaign strategies go it was unorthodox and illegal: buy an AK-47, hire a pair of phony hitmen, and stage a fake assassination attempt against the mayor that would generate public sympathy and help him win a second term in power.That, Brazilian police claim, was the gameplan last October when, on the eve of the local election, an armoured vehicle carrying José Aprígio da Silva came under fire in Taboão da Serra, a town on the outskirts of São Paulo. Continue reading...

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