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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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Legal troubles continue piling up on Andrew Tate, the former kickboxing world champion, turned social media influencer who once proudly proclaimed himself a “misogynist”. On Monday night, Tate and his brother Tristan were detained in Romania and handed an arrest warrant issued by UK authorities over allegations of "sexual aggression" in a case dating back to 2012-2015. The brothers - who are both dual UK and US citizens - have rejected the charges. The British civil case against Tate is just the latest legal blow to the social media influencer, however. In December 2022, he was arrested along ...
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A suspected drug trafficker and former associate of the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has been arrested in Medellín following an international operation, Spanish police said on Saturday. He is thought to be one of the main leaders of the Medellín Cartel - once recognised as the largest drug-trafficking syndicate in the world. The group was a powerful and highly organised Colombian drug cartel and terrorist organisation that was founded and led by Pablo Escobar. The suspect was arrested in a joint operation by the National Police of Spain and Directorate of Police Intelligence (DIPOL) ...
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Sweden’s Security Service said Thursday it had arrested four people on suspicion of preparing “terrorist offenses” with links to Islamist extremism and organised crime. The service did not confirm whether any specific attacks had been planned, but in a brief statement it said it had “worked on the case for a long period of time.” Sweden media reported there was a major police operation in Tyreso, south of Stockholm. Public broadcaster SVT said there was a “powerful explosion in a clubhouse" but it is unclear what caused the blast. In August, Sweden's security service raised its terror alert to...
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A former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction group wanted for involvement in several robberies, has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run, German authorities said on Tuesday. Daniela Klette, 65, was arrested at an apartment in Berlin on Monday afternoon. According to the investigators, a tip from the public received in November guided them to her, though they refrained from providing further details. Klette, who had a foreign passport under a different name, put up no resistance, the head of Lower Saxony state's criminal police office, Friedo de Vries, told ...
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More than 100 people were detained in eight cities across Russia after they came to lay flowers in memory of Navalny, according to OVD-Info, a group that monitors political repression in Russia. On Saturday, police blocked access to a memorial in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk and detained several people there as well as in another Siberian city, Surgut, OVD-Info said. A video shared on social media from Novosibirsk showed people sticking red flowers upright in the snow under the watchful eye of police who blocked access to the memorial with tape. In Moscow, flowers were removed overnight fr...
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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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