STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s parliament will try to break months of political deadlock by voting on Friday on whether to give a Social Democrats-Greens coalition four more years in power – though most lawmakers are likely to reject the proposal. The country has been without a government since September, when an election delivered a hung parliament that has already rejected […]

Security forces have become a prime target in the restive region as violence has surged in Kashmir. Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Four policemen were killed when rebels stormed a police post in the southern part of Indian-administered Kashmir’s Shopian district. The state police chief Dilbagh Singh told Al Jazeera the police were attacked on Tuesday while they guarded four families of a […]

A North Carolina sheriff’s deputy was placed on leave after a video emerged of him slamming two teenage girls to the ground. The Harnett County Sheriff’s Office said it placed the officer on administrative leave on Tuesday, a day after video surfaced on Facebook showing the girls being wrestled to the ground during an arrest, according to Durham ABC affiliate […]

Everyone agrees: Friday’s incident at the Brooklyn HRA office, where cops fought to pry a baby from his screaming mom, should never have happened. And there’s a ton of blame to go around here. Police Commissioner James O’Neill immediately ordered an investigation into the nightmare, and rightly so: His officers’ use of force to wrestle away the child — a […]

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian prosecutors on Wednesday filed new graft charges against former prime minister Najib Razak and the former chief executive of scandal-linked state fund 1MDB, in the latest cases over alleged theft of billions of dollars from the fund. Anti-graft investigators this week questioned Najib and the former fund official over accusations that the former premier’s office […]

VANCOUVER/BEIJING (Reuters) – A top executive of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd wanted by the United States to answer to fraud accusations was granted C$10 million ($7.5 million) bail by a Canadian court on Tuesday, a move that could help soothe Chinese anger over her arrest. Meng Wanzhou, 46, Huawei’s [HWT.UL] chief financial officer and the daughter of […]

Devastated mother whose ‘four angels’ were murdered in horrific arson attack on their home that left her in a coma is seen for the first time as she gives message of thanks a year after blaze Michelle Pearson put into induced coma after attack on December 11 last year  It killed Demi, 15, Brandon, eight, and his sisters, Lacie, seven, […]

A North Carolina district attorney says authorities last year didn’t investigate DNA evidence linking a 2016 rape to a man accused in the recent slaying of a teenage girl. The News & Observer reports Robeson County District Attorney Johnson Britt said Tuesday that an investigation into the DNA linking Michael Ray McLellan to the 2016 rape “fell through the cracks.” […]

The Trump administration has dropped a small fortune on an attempt to increase border security staff, but according to the Huffington Post, the effort has yielded extremely minimal results. According to the news outlet, US Customs and Border Protection enlisted the outside contractor Accenture Federal Services, a subsidiary of the global Accenture consulting company headquartered in Dublin, to grow border […]

YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s High Court has allowed an appeal to proceed in the case of two Reuters reporters jailed for seven years on charges of breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act, defense lawyers said on Tuesday. The appeal against the conviction, filed earlier this month, cited evidence of a police set-up and lack of proof of a crime. The […]