Tag: arrest
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Who would arrest Netanyahu? ICC warrant divides the world
The arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forced a reckoning Friday for the U.S. ally’s global status more than a year after it launched its devastating war in Gaza. The warrants — also issued for former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif — drew a diplomatic dividing line…
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Hungary’s Orban breaks with neighbors to dismiss ICC’s arrest warrant for Netanyahu
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban said Friday he would invite Benjamin Netanyahu to visit his country and that he would guarantee that an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against the Israeli prime minister would “not be observed.” Orban’s remarks stand in contrast to several European leaders who promised to respect the court’s decision. Ireland’s prime…
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Las Vegas police arrest 57 striking casino workers, says union
Police in Las Vegas arrested 57 striking casino workers on Thursday at a protest outside Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, the Culinary Union said on X. Hundreds of casino workers at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas walked off their jobs last week over stalled talks to win a new five-year union pay contract. Images and videos posted on X…
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ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu, Gallant, Deif over war crimes in Gaza
The ICC said the warrants were related to “crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May, 2024,” including the “war crime of starvation as a method of warfare” and “intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population.” It said the chamber found there were “reasonable grounds”…
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Louisiana trooper avoids jail time in deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene
FARMERVILLE, La. — A Louisiana state trooper pleaded no contest Monday to significantly reduced charges that spare him jail time in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene, the first conviction of any kind in a prolonged police brutality case that once prompted national outrage. Kory York had faced the most serious charges…
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Police arrest man charged with threatening and shooting neighbor in the neck after standoff
A white Minneapolis man accused of shooting and critically injuring his Black neighbor was arrested early Monday following a SWAT standoff, after the department faced backlash for failing to address his escalating threats that turned violent. John Herbert Sawchak, 54, was arrested in connection with allegedly shooting his neighbor, Davis Moturi, 34, in the neck…
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1960s civil rights protesters who staged historic sit-in finally have arrest records cleared
Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn’t going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself arrested. Finally on Friday, that arrest and the records of six of his friends were erased as a judge signed an order…
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Guatemalan jailed journalist José Zamora granted house arrest after 2 years behind bars
GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan judge on Friday ruled that jailed journalist José Zamora can leave prison and be held in house arrest after over 800 days behind bars. Zamora, a well-known journalist who founded the now-defunct El Periódico newspaper and whose work has criticized successive governments, was arrested in July 2022 on money laundering…
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Police arrest suspect in shooting incidents at Harris campaign office in Arizona
Police in Tempe, Arizona, have arrested a 60-year-old man suspected of shooting at a Democratic National Committee office over the last two months and hanging suspicious bags of white powder from politico signs in a nearby village. Police announced the arrest late Tuesday and identified the suspect as Jeffrey Michael Kelly. He was charged with…
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Bangladesh tribunal issues arrest warrant for former leader Sheikh Hasina
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, currently in India, citing her alleged involvement in mass killings during violent protests that erupted earlier this year. The protests, which began as a student-led movement against public sector job quotas, escalated into some of the…