Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry opened its annual Hajj security parade ahead of the pilgrimage season, showcasing the kingdom’s police and emergency response capabilities during a large-scale demonstration.
More than 1,000 demonstrators marched towards the Israeli embassy, waving Palestinian flags and chanting slogans in support of Gaza. Some protesters lit flares from rooftops opposite the embassy while police buses lined nearby streets. The rally remained peaceful but reflected growing anger in Greece over Israel’s h…
Police said Friday they were investigating fake news posted online mocking the 1980 democracy uprising in the southwestern city of Gwangju by claiming the movement was orchestrated by North Korea.
The Israel Prison Service said its personnel acted "according to procedure" in a video shared by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir showing security personnel abusing activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla, Haaretz reported on Friday.
On a cold October night in Walsall, England, last year, John Ashby followed a British Indian woman off a bus, broke into her house and then brutally raped and beat her.
Egyptian-Palestinian activist and academic Ramy Shaath has won a provisional victory against the French government after a commission ruled against his deportation from the country for comments made at pro-Palestine demonstrations and involvement in Palestine solidarity groups.
The incident at the centre of a murder charge against Cuba's former president, Raúl Castro, is burned into the collective memory of both Havana and Miami.
The day after a shooting last month killed a teenager and injured five people at the Mall of Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry blasted what he referred to as “hug-a-thug” policies — reforms put in place prior to his tenure when the state was trying to shed its reputation as the nation’s incarceration capital. He also dema…
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People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and a senior police officer said, as fear and anger grow over a health crisis that doctors are scrambling to contain.
The US Department of Homeland Security's intervention comes amid political tensions between Madrid and Washington and ongoing corruption investigations surrounding ruling Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's inner circle.
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s former managing director, Dr Sophie Galaise, has told a court that she did not lead the decision to cancel pianist Jayson Gillham’s concert after he made comments on stage referencing Gaza, contradicting earlier evidence of a former colleague.
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- Police said Friday they were investigating fake news posted online mocking the 1980 democracy uprising in the southwestern city of Gwangju by claiming the movement was orchestrated by North Korea.
The IDF's Gender Affairs Advisory Unit received 2,420 reports of sexual assault and harassment in 2025, 350 more complaints than in 2024, the military reported to the Knesset on Tuesday.
Russia has called a Ukrainian drone attack on a vocational school in the occupied Luhansk region that left at least four people dead and dozens more wounded a “monstrous crime” and requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over the incident.
A landmark ruling by the Supreme Court on Thursday stated that tattoo procedures performed by nonmedical practitioners do not constitute illegal medical practice, overturning a 34-year-old legal precedent that had effectively criminalized tattooing by nondoctors.
Former Philippine National Police chief Nicholas Torre III says the duty of police officers to implement lawful warrants amid the possible arrest of Sen. Ronald dela Rosa should not be treated as a personal conflict between officials or politicians, but as part of the legal process that law enforcers are sworn to ca…
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- A former chief of staff to now-jailed President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared at a court Friday for a hearing on his potential arrest over alleged irregularities in the 2022 relocation of the presidential residence.
A record 800-plus complaints were received over the way NSW Police handled Sydney’s anti-Herzog protest, as the watchdog described the organisation as obstructive and overly defensive.
Teens convicted of years of violence and sexual harassment against a classmate were ordered to be tried under the Juvenile Act, after an appellate court on Friday overturned an earlier ruling that sentenced them to prison.
Police have issued a timely reminder to drivers after a woman was arrested overnight and charged with drink-driving after she rolled her car while trying to dodge an oncoming freight train.
Convicted one-punch killer Kieran Loveridge has failed in his bid to protect his identity for two years, having said it would allow him to properly rehabilitate in the community.The 32-year-old's sentence for the killing of Thomas Kelly on a drunken night out in Kings Cross expired on Sunday, and NSW was unsuccessfu…
A children’s courtroom was evacuated on Friday in dramatic scenes when a 16-year-old accused of torching a liquor warehouse refused to leave the dock after learning he would not be granted bail.
This week, Donald Trump dropped a personal $10bn lawsuit he had against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a so-called anti-weaponisation fund. The $1.8bn fund will be used to compensate those who think they have been unfairly investigated by the government in the past. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the leg…