Silver Scorpio – International News | Spot News | Top News | Flash News | Live News

(Reuters) – Dozens of Palestinians clashed with Israeli police in East Jerusalem on Tuesday on a “day of rage” declared by Hamas Islamists in protest against Israel’s consecration of an ancient synagogue in the city.
World
The violence was another challenge to U.S. efforts to revive Middle East peace talks after Israel angered Palestinians and touched off [...]

New Zealand Police Minister Judith Collins has slammed a stunt in which a newspaper sent people masquerading as terrorists with fake bombs to Super 14 rugby games as “unbelievably stupid”.
The Sunday Star-Times commissioned people dressed as terrorists to enter stadiums in the southern city of Christchurch and the northern city of Hamilton last weekend, Ms [...]

Shots were fired at Johannesburg’s new public buses introduced for the World Cup on Friday but passengers escaped unharmed, South Africa police said.
“Four occupants in a sedan shot at a BRT [Bus Rapid Transit] bus last night [Friday] but no one was injured,” police spokesman captain Katlego Mogale said.
Friday’s shooting was the third such incident [...]

The New South Wales Greens have raised concerns about new gun laws which mean security guards can now carry high-powered firearms.
The new regulations were gazetted just before Christmas, and in parliament this week the Greens unsuccessfully tried to disallow them.
They say the changes allow security guards with firearms licenses to use prohibited pistols and shotguns, [...]

Two homemade bombs exploding in quick succession have killed 12 people, including 10 civilians, in an increasingly volatile part of north-western Afghanistan.
Police spokesman Abdul Raouf Ahmadi said the first blast hit a civilian vehicle in Badghis province, killing 10 passengers. The second, minutes later nearby, struck a police car, killing two policemen.
The strikes took place [...]

The Tasmanian Government has been criticised for allowing a police boat to continue patrols despite a marine engineer’s report describing it as unfit for use in the ocean.
The engineer’s evaluation of the PV Fortescue obtained by the Liberals under freedom of information laws assesses the $1.2 million boat as being “unsuitable for ocean patrols”.
The Fortescue [...]

LONDON: A popular Indian-origin shopkeeper in the Yorkshire town of Huddersfield has been killed while trying to repel members of a teenage gang who were trying to rob him.
Gurmail Singh, 63, suffered head injuries and fell to the ground during the scuffle at his shop, and died of his injuries at the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary [...]

LAS VEGAS — The nation’s largest Muslim advocacy organization has filed a complaint with police in a Las Vegas suburb, saying seven Muslim men from southern California were detained and told they were acting suspiciously while praying in a shopping center parking lot.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Friday it filed the complaint this [...]

KIGALI, Rwanda — A Rwandan police spokesman says 16 people have been wounded in the second wave of grenade attacks to hit the capital in two weeks.
Police spokesman Eric Kayiranga said Friday that two people were critically wounded in the blasts late Thursday. Eyewitness Karim Habimana said he saw someone hurl a grenade from [...]

Jakarta, Sep. 19 (ANI): Indonesian police said today the DNA test on the body of a man shot dead in an operation in Solo on Thursday matched that of wanted militant Noordin Mohd Top.

“It’s a 100 per cent match… from the fingerprints to the [...]

Peshawar, Sep.18 (ANI): The death toll from a suicide car bomb blast that tore through a bazaar and gutted shops in Ustarzai, a small mainly Shia northwest town which lies between the garrison city of Kohat and Hangu, has risen to 33. Police sources also confirmed injuries [...]

Melbourne, Sep 17 (ANI): A blonde woman is said to have scared a bunch of builders into running for safety, after she rushed up to a construction site in the nude saying “Who wants me?”

But instead of taking her up on her offer, the builders ran for cover and called up the [...]

Sydney, Sep. 15 (ANI): Female police officers at an Australian police command have alleged that they were sexually harassed and intimidated by their male counterparts apart from being told that their place was in the home.

According to a complaint filed by a senior female constable at the Goulburn Local Area Command, five of her [...]

London, September 14 (ANI): The ship used in the film Pirates of the Caribbean has been stolen.

The vessel was legged from Customhouse Quay in Greenock Renfrewshire.

The raiders also took some cash, an 8×12ft American flag, a survival suit and a life ring.

But the US flag, an immersion suit and a life belt were all later [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Sep. 6 (ANI): The Malaysian Indian Congress Youth has asked Selangor Mentri Besar Dr Mohammad Khir Toyo to apologize for his comments on the “cow head” incident, which, they said, has hurt Hindu sentiments.

“He must immediately retract his statement and issue a public apology,” The Star Online quoted MIC leader S. Subramaniam, as [...]

Islamabad, Aug.31 (ANI): While the Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered removal of all security restrictions on disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, there still exists an ‘invisible’ security blanket around his residence.

According to The Daily Times, when a team of journalists visited Khan’s house on [...]

London, Aug 25 (ANI): Kerry Katona has been warned by police after being secretly filmed while snorting cocaine at her Cheshire pad.

A Cheshire Police spokesman has revealed that Katona has been given a caution for the “possession of a controlled drug”.

“Following a police investigation, today at Wilmslow police station a 28-year-old woman has been [...]

Patrick Kane Arrested | Patrick Kane Girlfriend | Patrick Kane | Patrick Kane Mugshot | Patrick Kane Arrest | Patrick Kane Salary | Blackhawks’ Kane Arrested | Kane Arrested After Allegedly Assaulting Robbing Cab Driver
M. Kane, 21, the NHL’s best rookie in 2008, was charged with robbery and other counts following an altercation with a [...]

London, July 16 (ANI): Despite having tracked a thief who stole his computer, an English salesman failed to have any arrests made because cops felt it to be “too expensive” to collar the person.

Twenty-eight-year-old salesman Dale Fryer, of Cramlington, Northumberland, called cops after two [...]

Chelsea Steele – Sprayberry High School – High School Cheerleader – Cheerleader Arrested for Robbing Wheelchair Confined Child
Chelsea Steele, 17, a Sprayberry high school cheerleader accused of stealing $147 from several children, and underage possession of alcohol. A judge granted Steele a $5,000 bond, but she remained in jail on Wednesday night, the sheriff’s department [...]