A dual US and German citizen was arrested on Sunday for allegedly attempting to burn down the US embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, according to the justice department. Officials said they arrested Joseph Neumayer, 28, at John F Kennedy Airport in New York. He was deported by Israeli authorities after he was found with explosive...
Damien McGuinness BBC News in Berlin Reuters German police carried out a series of raids on Tuesday, arresting the leaders of the extreme-right Kingdom of Germany A self-declared “king” of Germany and three of his senior “subjects” have been arrested and their group banned for attempting to overthrow the state. Peter Fitzek, 59, was among...
A group of pro-Palestinian extremists occupied an engineering building on the campus of the University of Washington last night. They targeted the building because it was partly funded by a donation from Boeing. The occupation of the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building began shortly before the building closed at 5 p.m. Monday, according to Victor Balta, a...
BBC Police said more than 100 vehicles were found to be speeding Two drivers were arrested and a number of vehicles seized during a police operation in south Devon, officers have said. The operation on 16 April in Teignbridge was part of a “day of action” to keep roads safe, Devon and Cornwall Police said....
A man has died in a single-vehicle crash in Devon, police say. Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were called to reports of a collision involving a car on Pinn Lane, near Otterton, at about 02:15 GMT. on Tuesday An 18-year-old man from the Holsworthy area was pronounced dead at the scene. Two other men...
Two people have been arrested for throwing powder paint on Tower Bridge as the men’s elite runners were passing during the 45th edition of the London Marathon. A group called Youth Demand said two of its supporters jumped over the barriers and threw the substance on the bridge at about 10:35 BST. The Metropolitan Police...
On Friday morning, FBI Director Kash Patel announced on X that the FBI had arrested a state judge in Wisconsin, allegedly over her efforts to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents out of her courtroom while she was adjudicating a case involving an immigrant they were targeting. Patel bragged about the arrest on social...
Jordan’s government has banned the Muslim Brotherhood a week after it said members of the Islamist group had been arrested on suspicion of planning rocket and drone attacks. Interior Minister Mazen al-Faraya told a news conference that all of the Brotherhood’s offices would be closed and its assets confiscated, and that any activities would be...
The Dominican Republic says it has arrested more than 130 Haitian women and children on the first day of a crackdown of undocumented migrants in Santo Domingo’s hospitals. Many of the women arrested on Monday were pregnant and others had recently given birth. The crackdown is part of the government’s plan announced last year to...
Police have arrested 48 people in south Devon during a large crackdown on organised crime capturing over £197,000 worth of drugs and counterfeit goods. Devon and Cornwall Police said its Proactive Unit (PAU) had seized £143,535 worth of drugs, 39 weapons, £47,155 in cash and £7,000 of suspected counterfeit goods in Teignbridge, South Hams and...
AFP via Getty Images A cockfight in Ecuador. File photo Police in Ecuador say they have arrested four people in connection with an attack by gunmen at a cockfighting ring in which 12 people died. Weapons and replica police and army uniforms were seized during police raids in the north-western Manabà province on Friday –...
Why would a judge in Fairfax County, Virginia release a sex offender with a detainer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Perhaps residents in northern Virginia should demand an answer to that question — and soon. ICE first encountered Ander Cortez-Mendez in February 2018, when the Guatemalan crossed illegally into Texas and was ordered to appear...
BBC Yasin Akgul, a photojournalist for AFP, was arrested at his home It was early morning on 23 March when the police came to Yasin Akgul’s door in Istanbul – while his children were still in bed. Just hours before, the Turkish photojournalist had returned home from covering mass anti-government protests. Now he was a...
Devon and Cornwall Police The new mobile police station has been in various locations around Torquay Public feedback gathered from a mobile police station has led to increased uniformed patrols and arrests in Torquay, Devon and Cornwall Police has said. The force has been running the community initiative in various locations in the town since...