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Safety for hire: security firms cash in on World Cup in Mexico
AFP, Published on 17/10/2025
» MEXICO CITY - Gunshots rang out in a Mexico City warehouse as Leopoldo Cerdeira emptied a cartridge into a car door propped up on a stand.
Two fake policemen nabbed
Post Reporters, Published on 30/11/2024
» Two Thai men have been arrested for posing as police to rob Vietnamese tourists in Bangkok.
In a climate of fear, Ecuadorans elect a new president
AFP, Published on 16/10/2023
» QUITO - Polls closed in Ecuador Sunday with no reports of violence as both presidential candidates cast their votes in bulletproof vests just weeks after a rival was murdered.
Fear and hope under fire in Ukrainian village near Russian border
AFP, Published on 17/05/2022
» RUS'KA LOZOVA, Ukraine: Waving his arms in a state of agitation, a man asks Ukrainian soldiers if he can safely cross the remains of a destroyed bridge in the village of Ruska Lozova near the Russian border.
Tensions high ahead of Al Jazeera journalist funeral in Jerusalem
AFP, Published on 13/05/2022
» JERUSALEM - Israel bolstered security in Jerusalem ahead of the funeral on Friday of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, two days after she was killed during an Israeli army raid.
In US, death threats for those removing Confederate statues
AFP, Published on 02/05/2022
» WASHINGTON: Since his contracting company began removing Confederate statues from Richmond, Virginia -- controversial symbols of the South's slave-holding past -- Devon Henry has got himself a gun that never leaves his side.
On patrol with Kharkiv's elite 'Spetsnaz' police force
AFP, Published on 01/04/2022
» KHARKIV (UKRAINE) - Shouts, the doors are kicked down and a window smashed. In a matter of seconds, the hotel is surrounded and its occupants find themselves on the ground, wrists tied, or with their hands against the wall and a Kalashnikov in the small of their back.
25 killed in police raid on Rio slum
AFP, Published on 07/05/2021
» RIO DE JANEIRO - A massive police operation against drug traffickers in a Brazilian favela Thursday left 25 people dead, turning the impoverished Rio de Janeiro neighborhood into a battlefield and drawing condemnation from rights groups.
Trump's Proud Boys: US chauvinists who refuse to apologise
New York Times, Published on 01/10/2020
» NEW YORK: When hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump gathered for a Labor Day rally in Oregon, a man in the signature black-and-gold shirt of the Proud Boys approached the crowd with a welcoming smile.
Running in the Indian election? Get an armoured car
AFP, Published on 02/04/2019
» JALANDHAR (INDIA) - The mechanics retrofitting cars with blast-resistant doors and bulletproof windshields in a Punjab garage have been flat out of late -- elections are looming, and politics can be a dangerous game in India.