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Nervousness in Germany on eve of elections
AFP, Published on 22/02/2025
» BERLIN - German politicians made a final scramble for votes on Saturday on the eve of key elections in which conservatives hope to win despite the dramatic rise of the far right targeting a record showing.
Under-fire London police face 'rotten apple' protest
AFP, Published on 20/01/2023
» LONDON: Campaigners on Friday dumped a basket of 1,071 rotten apples outside the headquarters of Britain's biggest police force, in protest at officers accused of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls.
Serial rapist sacked from London police
AFP, Published on 17/01/2023
» LONDON: A British police officer who admitted being a serial rapist was formally sacked on Tuesday, as the government called on forces across the country to root out the criminal and corrupt in their ranks.
US virus deaths top WWII fatalities as Biden warns worst yet to come
AFP, Published on 21/01/2021
» WASHINGTON - New US President Joe Biden warned the worst of the pandemic is still to come, as the number of American coronavirus deaths surpassed the country's troop fatalities in World War II.
Iconic Vienna hotel turns to drive-in cake
AFP, Published on 28/11/2020
» VIENNA: The coronavirus pandemic may have forced many of Vienna's luxury hotels to close indefinitely as global travel restrictions keep away the many millions of tourists who usually visit the Austrian capital every year.
Pandemic, protests, politics driving US gun sales
AFP, Published on 07/10/2020
» JACKSON (UNITED STATES) - From the countryside to the cities, Americans are engaged in a frenzy of gun-buying fueled by the pandemic, protests and politics.
Ex-cop in custody after shooting black man in Atlanta
AFP, Published on 19/06/2020
» WASHINGTON - A white former police officer was taken into custody in the United States on Thursday after being charged with the murder of a black man outside a fast-food restaurant, in the latest case to spark fury.
Atlanta police officer charged with murder for shooting black man
AFP, Published on 18/06/2020
» ATLANTA: An Atlanta police officer has been charged with murder for shooting a 27-year-old man in the back, justice officials announced Wednesday in the latest case to spark anger over police killings of African Americans.
'We are done dying': protesters march on Georgia capitol
AFP, Published on 15/06/2020
» ATLANTA - Protesters were marching on the Georgia state capitol on Monday after the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer sparked further public outrage over the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of US law enforcement.
Another police killing of a black man stokes US tension, debate
AFP, Published on 15/06/2020
» WASHINGTON - The fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer, this time in Atlanta, Georgia, poured more fuel Sunday on a raging US debate over racism after another round of street protests and the resignation of the city's police chief.