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Suspects in the stabbing of an Iranian presenter fled UK after attack, police say

3Apr

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Suspects in the stabbing of an Iranian presenter fled UK after attack, police say

LONDON -- British counterterrorism police investigating the stabbing of a journalist who works for a TV channel critical of the Iranian government said that three suspects had fled the country within hours of the attack.Pouria Zeraati, a presenter at London-based Iran International, was stabbed in the leg Friday afternoon outside his home in London. Police said Zeraati, who has been released from a hospital, was attacked by two men who fled in a car driven by a third man.“We have established that after abandoning the vehicle, the suspects traveled to Heathrow Airport and have left the U.K.,’’ Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command, said in a statement late Tuesday. “We are now working with international partners to establish further details.’’P...

Car That Hit Pedestrians Outside New Year’s Eve Concert Was Filled With Gas Canisters, Police Say

2Jan

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Car That Hit Pedestrians Outside New Year’s Eve Concert Was Filled With Gas Canisters, Police Say

A car involved in a deadly New Year’s Eve crash outside a busy concert venue in Rochester, N.Y., was filled with at least a dozen gas canisters, police said.Two people were killed when a car hit another vehicle and plowed through a group of pedestrians outside the Kodak Center in Rochester as nearly a thousand concertgoers were leaving an event early Monday morning, authorities said.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Why the Noise of L.A. Helicopters Never Stops

29Dec

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Why the Noise of L.A. Helicopters Never Stops

The Jay Stephen Hooper Memorial Heliport sits on top of a brutalist brick-and-concrete building, the C. Erwin Piper Technical Center, across from Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. It’s an area where trains, buses, and highways all converge, and where the sounds of helicopters coming and going are barely noticeable above the din of engines and the smell of exhaust. From the ground, the heliport is barely visible. The best view of it is nearby, from the Cesar Chavez Bridge, over the Los Angeles River, which, in this part of the city, is just a low stream of water in a giant concrete aqueduct. From there, looking over a rail yard, one can see the helicopters parked at an angle on the roof, and the blinking of video monitors inside of an observation tower. On a recent evening, just befor...

Jailed Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Says He’s Fine After Weeks Missing

26Dec

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Jailed Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Says He’s Fine After Weeks Missing

Updated Dec. 26, 2023 4:06 pm ETJailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny resurfaced on social media Tuesday, telling his supporters not to worry about him a day after his associates confirmed he has been traced to a remote penal colony in Russia’s Far North.“I am fine,” Navalny said in his first comments since his disappearance almost three weeks ago, posted via his allies on the social-media platform X. “Thanks again to everyone for your support.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

25Dec

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Alexei Navalny Lives – WSJ

Some residual good news for courage in 2023: Alexei Navalny is alive and has been located in a distant prison colony. His team says the leading opponent of Vladimir Putin’s despotism was moved without announcement to a prison called the Polar Wolf in the remote Arctic region of Yamalo-Nenets. This a frozen, isolated area known for some of the most brutal conditions in the Putin-era gulag.The context for his isolation is the Russian presidential election scheduled for March 17. There’s no chance Mr. Putin will lose in the rigged political system. But before Mr. Navalny disappeared, he and his team launched a campaign to expose that Mr. Putin is far less popular than the Kremlin claims.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Jailed Putin Foe Alexei Navalny Has Been Relocated, Team Says

25Dec

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Jailed Putin Foe Alexei Navalny Has Been Relocated, Team Says

Jailed Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who had been missing for more than two weeks, has been relocated to a penal colony in the country’s far north and is doing well, his team said on Monday.Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, had missed court dates and his team couldn’t find him at various penal institutions in Russia. His disappearance had prompted concern among his supporters in European capitals and in Washington.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

24Dec

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Message From a Cuban Jail

Mary Anastasia O'Grady writes "The Americas," a weekly column on politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada that appears every Monday in the Journal. Ms. O'Grady joined the paper in August 1995 and became a senior editorial page writer in December 1999. She was appointed an editorial board member in November 2005. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Indianapolis-based Liberty Fund. In 2012 Ms. O’Grady won the Walter Judd Freedom Award from The Fund for American Studies. In 2009 Ms. O'Grady received the Thomas Jefferson Award from The Association of Private Enterprise Education. In 2005 Ms. O'Grady won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism awarded by the International Policy Network for her articles on the World Bank, the underground economy in Brazil and th...

Biden Administration Puts New Emphasis on Fighting Violent Crime

24Dec

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Biden Administration Puts New Emphasis on Fighting Violent Crime

INDIANAPOLIS—The Biden administration is walking a tightrope on law enforcement, raising its support for local police fighting violent crime without abandoning its longtime goal of curbing misconduct in some departments.In the past month alone, the Justice Department announced it would flood federal agents and racketeering prosecutors into Memphis, Tenn.; charged 20 people in South Carolina with trafficking guns and drugs; and seized a cache of machine guns, rifles and silencers in Rhode Island. The top federal prosecutor in Washington said he would try more teenage carjacking suspects as adults, blasting what he described as overly lenient criminal-justice laws that had “swung too far” in the nation’s capital.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe8568...

London police investigate alleged theft of Banksy stop sign

23Dec

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London police investigate alleged theft of Banksy stop sign

LONDON -- Detectives are investigating the alleged theft of a Banksy work of art after witnesses shot photos and video of a man removing a red stop sign adorned with three military drones, London police said Saturday.The sign was taken less than an hour after the elusive street artist posted a photo of the work on his Instagram page Friday.Video showed a man with bolt cutters climbing up on a bicycle to remove the work from a sign post on a street corner in the Peckham area of south London while another man steadied the bike. The man who cut the sign free then ran off with it in his hand.A voice on a video of the incident could be heard saying, “it makes me so annoyed,” as the man ran away. A witness who only wanted to be called Alex told the PA news agency that the small crowd of people ...

Charlie Sheen’s neighbor arrested after being accused of assaulting actor in Malibu home

23Dec

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Charlie Sheen’s neighbor arrested after being accused of assaulting actor in Malibu home

Charlie Sheen’s neighbor was arrested after being accused of assaulting the actor in a Malibu, California, home this week, authorities saidLOS ANGELES -- Charlie Sheen’s neighbor was arrested after being accused of assaulting the actor in a Malibu, California, home this week, authorities said.Electra Schrock was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Friday. She was also taken into custody for force likely to create bodily injury and burglary.Authorities arrived at the residence Wednesday afternoon after receiving a battery-disturbance call.Schrock, 47, was expected to appear in court Friday.Representatives for Sheen did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Sheen, 58, is known for his role on “Two and a Half M...