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Inspector general faults Park Police in 2020 protest response

WASHINGTON -- Two U.S. Park Police officers broke department protocol by striking and pushing a videographer and reporter together covering protests against police violence in the summer of 2020, a federal watchdog found.

Tribune News Service · May 25, 2023

Inspector general faults Park Police in 2020 protest response - Roll Call

Two U.S. Park Police officers broke protocol by striking and pushing a news team covering police violence protests in 2020, a watchdog found.

Roll Call · May 25, 2023

Olympics-France prepares its guard against drone strikes, security threats

France will deploy 35,000 security agents and the military to secure the 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony, a river parade through the heart of Paris, from security threats including drone strikes, the interior minister said.

Reuters · May 23, 2023

More bodies found in search for Kenyan forest death cult followers

Kenyan investigators exhumed 21 more bodies on Tuesday as they resumed a search for followers of a doomsday cult, who the interior minister described as victims of a "highly organised crime".

Reuters · May 9, 2023

Money from France will not help Comoros swallow the Wuambushu pill

Azali Assoumani, president of the Union of Comoros and the African Union rotating chairman, told RFI that he will not accept the forced repatriation by France of around ten thousand people from Mayotte to the Comoros. Nor will he accept a financial compensation to take undocumented Comorians from Mayotte as…

Radio France Internationale · May 8, 2023

Death toll rises to 23 after Russian shelling of Ukraine's Kherson - governor

Russian shelling killed 23 people in and near the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Wednesday, hitting a hypermarket, a railway station and residential buildings, the regional governor said.

Reuters · May 3, 2023

Lebanon Launches ‘National Survey’ Campaign to Register Syrian Refugees

The Lebanese Interior Ministry kicked off on Tuesday a “national survey” campaign to enumerate and register Syrian refugees in the country. The survey is part of a series of new measures aimed at setting legal guidelines for the refugees’ stay in the country. The move comes in wake of political…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 3, 2023

What we know about the Kenyan starvation cult and the pastors allegedly behind the deaths

The bodies of more than 100 people have been found in the Shakahola forest since police began searching the area in east Kenya.

ABC News · May 2, 2023

Push to reduce premature births begins

The Interior Ministry aims to reduce the rate of premature births by 50% and also cut down teenage pregnancies through promotion of preventive measures from the grassroots level.

Bangkok Post · May 2, 2023

Second Kenyan pastor arrested over alleged 'mass killings', says minister

The head of a church in eastern Kenya has been arrested in relation to "mass killings" and 100 of his followers have been evacuated from church premises, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said on Thursday.

Reuters · Apr 27, 2023