Tag results for: Crime

What You Need to Know: Supporters of the Eritrean Government clashed with a group of anti-government protesters on Saturday night, leaving multiple police cars torched and multiple police officers injured.  A meeting of supporters of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, at the Opera House in The Hague was stormed by anti-government youth, resulting in the violent clashes.  The two groups then turned on...

What You Need to Know: 53 people have been killed in what Papua New Guinea Police have called a ‘massacre’ in the nation’s highlands.  The deceased are believed to have been shot and killed in an ambush in Enga Province, with the attack the result of fighting between at least 17 different tribes.  Speaking to ABC news, Constabulary acting Superintendent George Kakas...

What You Need to Know:  Last week, members of Australia’s Parliament voted to pass a motion calling for the repatriation of controversial journalist and founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, who is an Australian Citizen.  52-year old Assange has been in British custody for nearly five years, accused of breaching the Bail Act of 1976, Assange was arrested by British Police inside...

What You Need to Know: Armed men laid siege to a police station for thirty minutes in Zamfara State’s Kasuwa-Daji town early Tuesday morning, leaving four dead including two policemen. The gunmen then kidnapped forty women and children, presumably to be held for ransom.  Police spokesman, Yacid Abubakar, stated the attack began at around 1:30am and lasted around thirty minutes, stressing that...

What You Need to Know: Aleksandra Kuligowska, a Polish doctor who was kidnapped by armed assailants last week has been freed through a joint operation conducted by French and Chadian forces.  Kuligowska and a Mexican colleague, who had escaped before the rescue was conducted, were abducted by the assailants pretending to be patients while volunteering at Saint-Michel Catholic hospital in Chad’s...