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Four men were arrested on Tuesday (25 June) on suspicion of trespassing after entering the grounds of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's home in northern England, police said. North Yorkshire police said the group was detained just after noon and escorted off the property. They were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass. A group called Youth Demand posted video showing a member it said defecated in the pond on Sunak’s property. The incident comes just over a week before the U.K.’s general election that will determine if Sunak remains in power. Polls and pundits have predicted the Labo...
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Albanian-Turkish YouTuber and researcher Diamond Tema, known for his videos on religion and philosophy, has been forced to leave Turkey following online threats of arrest over a debate on Islam he took part in. Tema, who has more than 870,000 subscribers on the video-sharing platform, blasted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development Party over its alleged Islamist leanings. In the debate, he also criticised opposition parties, such as the main opposition Republican People's Party and IYI Parti, or Good Party. In a video titled "He who tells the truth will be sued...
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Spain's Civil Guard, in collaboration with Europol and the FBI, has dismantled one of the largest media networks linked to the so-called Islamic State. According to Europol, servers were taken down in Germany, the Netherlands, the United States, and Iceland, with Spanish authorities arresting nine people. The servers supported multiple media outlets linked to the so-called Islamic State, the European law enforcement agency said, and were used to disseminate global propaganda and messages capable of inciting terrorism in at least thirty languages. The operation is part of judicial and law enfor...
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Poland has arrested 18 people on allegations of pursuing hostile activities or planning sabotage on behalf of Russia and Belarus, the interior minister said on Monday. The allegations including plans to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ten of those arrested since December were directly involved in planning various forms of sabotage across Poland, Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak told a news conference. Polish authorities have linked some recent arsons or attempted arsons to Russian-sponsored agents. Polish, Belarusian and Ukrainian nationals are among those arrested in re...
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A far-right Greek MP has been arrested after a punch-up in the country's parliament. Konstantinos Floros, a former member of the extreme Spartans Party, allegedly assaulted Vasilis Grammenos, from the nationalist Greek Solution Party. Parliament Speaker Constantinos Tasoulas ordered that Floros be handed over to the police and face criminal charges of assaulting a member of Parliament. Floros, who is now an independent MP, was then arrested by the police. Inside MPs had been debating whether to lift the immunity of the MP Kyriakos Velopoulos, who is the president of the Greek Solution Party. H...
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Georgians have protested against the ruling party’s controversial "foreign agent law", with arrests reported Monday night. The draft bill was under discussion by the parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Tuesday, according to OC Media. The Ministry of Internal Affairs said fourteen people were detained. The bill is nearly identical to a proposal the governing Georgian Dream party was pressured to withdraw a year ago after large street protests. On Monday, protesters sang patriotic songs and shouted “slaves” outside the parliament, suggesting the house was bending to pressure from Russia. Man...
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Washington (AFP) - Washington voiced concern Friday after Venezuela's leftist authorities issued an arrest warrant for leading opposition figure Juan Guaido, who lives in exile in the United States. "The United States remains deeply concerned about political persecution against members of the democratic opposition," a State Department spokesperson said. The United States recalled an August 2021 agreement signed in Mexico between President Nicolas Maduro's government and the opposition, which used to consider Guaido the interim president. Under that agreement, "both parties agree to work toward...
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Washington (AFP) - A Massachusetts man has been arrested for providing information about Chinese dissidents in the United States to China's government, the Justice Department said Monday. Litang Liang, 63, of Brighton, was arrested on May 9 on charges of acting as an agent of the People's Republic of China (PRC) without notifying US authorities, according to the department. The announcement of Liang's arrest came on the same day as a court in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou revealed that a 78-year-old US citizen, John Shing-wan Leung, had been sentenced to life in prison for espionage. The ...
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Washington (AFP) - A man accused of massacring five neighbors after they asked him to stop firing his rifle in his yard was captured Tuesday after a days-long manhunt, Texas law enforcement said. Francisco Oropesa had eluded authorities since the shooting Friday in the small town of Cleveland in southeastern Texas. "We now have this man in custody," San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told reporters at a press conference Tuesday night. "He was caught hiding in a closet underneath some laundry." The 38-year-old Mexican national is accused of attacking his neighbors after they allegedly asked...
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Beijing (AFP) - China said on Tuesday that "political manipulation" was behind the arrests of two men the United States accused of setting up an unauthorised Chinese police station in New York. Authorities in the city also charged dozens of Chinese security officials over a campaign to monitor and harass US-based dissidents. "China firmly opposes the US side's slandering, smearing, engaging in political manipulation, and maliciously concocting the so-called transnational repression narrative," foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters. "We urge the US to immediately reflect on itse...
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