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Gunmen kill 6 policemen in an ambush in southeastern Iran, media reports say 04/09/2024 10:58am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Gunmen ambushed a police convoy in Iran's restive southeast on Tuesday, killing six policemen, media reports said. The attack on a road in Sistan and Baluchistan province also left two other policemen wounded, according to yjc.ir, a website affiliated with the state broadcastin Norwegian court finds police acted unreasonably in fining activists who blocked government buildings 04/09/2024 10:39am • COPENHAGEN (AP) ��� A Norwegian court on Tuesday ruled that police acted unreasonably when they fined 18 activists for blocking entrances to government buildings last year, and acquitted the activists of charges of failing to pay the fines. The group had taken part in actions in February and March Floodwaters swept a bus from a bridge in Kenya. All passengers survived 04/09/2024 10:11am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Fifty-one passengers were rescued after their bus was swept away by floodwaters on a bridge in northern Kenya, authorities said Tuesday. The bus is stuck in the river about 30 meters from the bridge, although the waters are subsiding, Tana River county commander Ali Ndiema to After police officer's death, Greek soccer fans will need a state-issued QR code to attend games 04/09/2024 09:48am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Greek authorities launched a ban on paper tickets for all league soccer matches on Tuesday as part of an effort to crack down on the violence that has plagued the sport for decades. Under new rules, fans will only be allowed into stadiums using their cellphones and displaying Librarians fear new penalties, even prison, as activists challenge books 04/09/2024 08:35am • When an illustrated edition of Margaret Atwood���s ���The Handmaid���s Tale��� was released in 2019, educators in Clayton, Missouri needed little debate before deciding to keep copies in high school libraries. The book is widely regarded as a classic work of dystopian literature about the oppression Truck driver fatally shot in confrontation with police officer in Michigan 04/09/2024 08:18am • ST. JOSEPH TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) ��� The driver of a semitrailer-truck rammed a police vehicle in southwestern Michigan, crashed it into a home, tried to flee and was fatally shot by an officer, officials said. St. Joseph Township officers responded to a request Monday evening to check on the welfare Protesters demanding restoration of Nepal's monarchy clash with police 04/09/2024 07:41am • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) ��� Hundreds of protesters demanding the restoration of the monarchy in Nepal clashed with riot police on Tuesday in Kathmandu. Supporters of the former King Gyanendra, who was removed from power in 2008, attempted to crash through police barricades in a bid to reach the office Man dead after being struck in Prince George's Co. 04/09/2024 06:54am • A man is dead after being struck by a vehicle in the Accokeek area��of Prince George's County, Maryland. Police say it happened around 9 p.m. on southbound Indian Head Highway at Manning Road East. There, they found a man in the road. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the v Haiti police recover hijacked cargo ship in rare victory after 5-hour shootout with gangs 04/09/2024 12:31am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Haiti���s National Police agency says that it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours. Two police officers were injured and an undetermined number of gang members were killed in the shootout Maryland governor and members of Congress to meet to discuss support for rebuilding collapsed bridge 04/08/2024 11:48pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Monday he plans to meet with members of Congress to discuss support for rebuilding the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which has blocked the main shipping channel at Baltimore's port for nearly two weeks. ���I���m going to be spending part of Protesters in southern Mexico set state government building afire and torch a dozen vehicles 04/08/2024 11:27pm • CHILPANCINGO, Mexico (AP) ��� Protesters in southern Mexico set the state government building afire Monday and torched at least a dozen cars in the parking lot. The protests occurred in the violence-wracked city of Chilpancingo, the capital of the Pacific coast state of Guerrero. The protesters are Police seek connections between death of infant on Los Angeles area freeway and 2 deaths elsewhere 04/08/2024 10:26pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Authorities were investigating any connections between the deaths of an infant girl found Monday on the shoulder of a busy Los Angeles area freeway, a man discovered slain at a suburban apartment complex and a woman killed in a solo car crash near a beach. The series of events Killer in Las Vegas law office shooting had 'very specific targets,' police say 04/08/2024 10:03pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A man opened fire Monday during a deposition hearing in a child custody case at a law office in an affluent neighborhood of Las Vegas, leaving two ���very specific targets��� dead before the shooter killed himself, police said. Las Vegas police homicide Lt. Jason Johansson said at Ecuadorians wanted an action man. President Noboa has fulfilled that role ��� embassy raid included 04/08/2024 09:16pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ��� While world leaders have expressed shock and bewilderment over Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa���s decision to raid Mexico���s embassy last Friday, the extraordinarily unusual move ��� and Noboa's relative silence about it ��� is unlikely to hurt him with his constituents. Hospital video captures armed escape of Idaho white supremacist prison gang member from hospital 04/08/2024 07:33pm • Security video captured most of an ambush at an Idaho hospital that left three corrections officers with gunshot wounds and allowed a white supremacist prison gang member to escape, a police detective testified Monday. The testimony from Matthew Canfield, a violent crimes detective with the Boise Po