Ukrainian police on Saturday freed the remaining hostages being held in a post office by an man believed to be strapped with explosives, and arrested the hostage taker after an hours-long standoff in the city of Kharkiv. “All hostages freed in Kharkiv. The assailant was arrested,” President Petro Poroshenko wrote on Twitter, while Interior Minister… Read More Police free hostages held in Ukrainian post office
Street protests hit Iran for a third day running on Saturday, spreading to the capital Tehran with crowds confronting police and attacking some state buildings, and a social media report said two demonstrators had been shot dead in a provincial town. The wave of anti-government demonstrations, prompted in part by discontent over economic hardship and… Read More Two dead as police clash with anti-government demonstrators in Iran
A 25-year-old Los Angeles man was arrested in the city on suspicion of making a hoax phone call that led a police officer in Kansas to kill an unarmed man at a home where the caller said hostages were being held, authorities said on Saturday. The arrest of Tyler Barriss took place on Friday afternoon,… Read More Los Angeles police arrest man for hoax call that led to police killing Kansas man
Erica Garner, the daughter of a New York man whose death during an attempted arrest helped spark the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement against police brutality, died on Saturday, a posting on her official Twitter account showed. Garner suffered a heart attack triggered by an asthma attack a week ago, family members told the New York… Read More Black Lives Matter activist Erica Garner dies at 27
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