Behind India’s Manipur conflict, a tale of drugs, armed groups and politics | Business and Economy

Behind India’s Manipur conflict, a tale of drugs, armed groups and politics | Business and Economy

Sugnu, India – Ratan Kumar Singh, a 58-year-old high school teacher, never imagined he would be happy to see armed fighters, or “revolutionaries” as he called them. But on May 28 last year, Singh welcomed them to his town of Sugnu in Manipur, a state in India’s northeast corner bordering…

FBI launches criminal investigation into Baltimore bridge collapse | Police News

FBI launches criminal investigation into Baltimore bridge collapse | Police News

Probe will examine circumstances leading up to cargo ship’s collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, sources say. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has opened a criminal investigation into the collapse of a Baltimore bridge last month, the United States law enforcement agency announces after its agents raided the…

Germany cancels pro-Palestine event, bars entry to Gaza war witness | Israel War on Gaza News

Germany cancels pro-Palestine event, bars entry to Gaza war witness | Israel War on Gaza News

Police in Berlin interrupted and cancelled a pro-Palestine conference soon after it started, hours after one of the main speakers said authorities held him up at the airport and prevented him from entering Germany. Officers initially halted the Palestine Congress because another speaker was subject to a ban on political…

Mexico withdraws diplomats from its embassy in Ecuador after raid | Police News

Mexico withdraws diplomats from its embassy in Ecuador after raid | Police News

Mexico has withdrawn personnel from its embassy in Ecuador following the unprecedented storming of the building by security forces, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said. The two countries severed ties after the raid made on Friday in a bid to arrest former Ecuadoran Vice President Jorge Glas, who was sheltering…

How US police are co-opting a law meant to protect victims of crime | Police News

How US police are co-opting a law meant to protect victims of crime | Police News

Columbus, Ohio – Some of the final moments of Ta’Kiya Young’s life unfolded in a supermarket car park last August. Suspected of stealing from a Kroger’s grocery store in Blendon Township, Ohio, Young had just climbed into her black Lexus sedan when two police officers approached her. “Are you going…

What is the Texas immigration law ‘SB4’, and why is it so controversial? | Migration News

What is the Texas immigration law ‘SB4’, and why is it so controversial? | Migration News

A US federal appeals court has blocked Texas’s controversial immigration law, hours after the Supreme Court allowed the state to begin enforcing the measure. Here is what we know about the law and the latest updates: What is the Texas immigration law? The law known as Texas Senate Bill 4 (SB4)…

British police officer named in Chris Kaba murder pleads not guilty | Police News

British police officer named in Chris Kaba murder pleads not guilty | Police News

Judge lifts officer Martyn Blake’s anonymity because there are no ‘immediate’ threats to his safety. A British police officer, named for the first time as Martyn Blake, has pleaded not guilty to the murder in 2022 of Chris Kaba, a 24-year-old Black man. Kaba, who was unarmed, was driving in Streatham…