The Florida state attorney’s office says a woman who turned her husband’s guns in to authorities will face a misdemeanor trespassing charge, and that she will not be charged with burglary. Her husband was under arrest for domestic violence charges, accused of ramming her car with his, when the woman …
In this Friday, Feb. 23, 2018 photo, a soldier pats down a resident during a surprise operation at the Vila Kennedy slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The military intervention of Rio’s police force, slated to last all year, is heavy on promises to crack down on criminals but light …
FILE – In this Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, file photo, Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers an opening speech during the Forum on Myanmar Democratic Transition in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — With Myanmar drawing condemnation for violence that has driven at least 370,000 Rohingya to …
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Military police launched a major anti-crime operation in northern Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting dozens of men and confiscating automatic rifles in a sweep that led gang members to burn public buses and left the city that hosted last year’s Olympics on edge. The …
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At least 12 people were killed overnight during looting and violence in Venezuela’s capital amid a spiraling political crisis, authorities said Friday. Most of the deaths took place in El Valle, a working class neighborhood near Caracas’ biggest military base where opposition leaders say a group …
When 1,700 specialists in global health descended upon Washington D.C. this past weekend, they brought suitcases full of data and experience. The Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference offered marathon sessions that covered everything from noncommunicable diseases and breastfeeding to climate science and injury prevention. We edit a daily …
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Opposition figures in Turkey say they have faced threats, violence, arbitrary detentions, a lack of TV airtime and even sabotage in the campaign for a referendum on expanding the president’s powers. The complaints come even as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself has slammed European countries …
The country’s social and economic tensions are giving way to eruptions of violence. Things are not well in Brazil. The country’s social and economic tensions are rising and seem increasingly prone to erupt into violence. For the past six days, for instance, there has been a frenzy of looting, mugging, …
ATLANTA (AP) — In a post-9/11 world, American airports have taken all sorts of steps to keep travelers safe. But significant vulnerabilities remain. The attack that killed five people Friday at the Fort Lauderdale airport raised concerns about how to further protect travelers and what place firearms have in U.S. …
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government has vowed to take action against police officers shown beating villagers in a video that has circulated on the internet. A front-page story on Monday in the state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper about the Nov. 5 incident was a rare official acknowledgment …
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is calling for a renewed culture of nonviolence to inform global politics today, saying military responses to conflicts only breed more violence. Francis cited Mother Teresa, Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. as models of nonviolent peacemakers in his annual message for the …
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the most ever. The disastrous tally has been pushed to new heights by soaring abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, a class of drugs known as opioids. Heroin deaths rose 23 percent in one year, to …