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Supporters of Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attend a campaign event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Monday. Authorities have accused two RT employees of working with two foreign nationals in the U.S. who set up a company that recruited prominent conservative commentators to post regular videos on topics such as immigration and U.S. politics.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
U.S. charges employees of Russia's RT network over polls influence scheme
Officials accuse them of hiring a company in Tennessee to produce online videos aimed at amplifying political divisions ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Gay Brazilians targeted in deadly stickups, lured by dating apps
Police have also warned of "love cons" involving straight men lured into kidnappings.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Telegram CEO arrested in probe into child porn, drug trafficking on app
The investigation over suspected complicity in various crimes includes the refusal to communicate information to authorities.
Police escort a 26-year-old Syrian man who is a suspect in a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen, in which several individuals were killed, as he leaves the Federal Public Prosecutor in Karlsruhe, Germany, on Sunday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 26, 2024
Suspect in German stabbing rampage is Syrian man who confessed
By Tom Sims and Rene Wagner
After the stabbing, some German politicians have urged enhanced security, stiffer punishment for violent crimes and limits to immigration.
A picture taken in 2021 in Moscow shows the mobile messaging and call service Telegram logo on a smartphone screen. French judicial authorities extended the detention of the Russian-born founder and chief of Telegram Pavel Durov on Sunday after his arrest at an airport near Paris over alleged offenses related to the popular but controversial messaging app.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 26, 2024
Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested in France, sources say
By Ingrid Melander and Guy Faulconbridge
A French police source said Durov was the subject of an arrest warrant in France.
Demonstrators with a stylized painting depicting Telegram's founder, Pavel Durov, protest against the blocking of the popular messaging app in Russia, during a May Day rally in Saint Petersburg on in May 2018.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 25, 2024
Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France, reports say
Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Bourget Airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unidentified sources.
Forensic police inspect the scene of stabbings in Solingen, Germany, on Saturday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 24, 2024
Three dead in knife attack on German festival
Police closed off the center of Solingen, while victims and witnesses were being questioned about the attack on Friday night.
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are escorted outside the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism in Bucharest on Wednesday
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 22, 2024
Romania detains Andrew Tate, raids home in new probe
Tate and his brother have already been accused of having formed an organized criminal network in Romania and Britain.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to let President Joe Biden's administration enforce a key part of a new rule protecting LGBT students from discrimination in schools and colleges based on gender identity in 10 Republican-led states that had challenged it.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 17, 2024
U.S. Supreme Court won't allow LGBT student protection in certain states
The Biden administration sought to restore a provision clarifying that discrimination "on the basis of sex" includes sexual orientation and gender identity.
Members of the French police stand guard on the roof of Paris' commercial court prior to the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 26.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 12, 2024
French police win plaudits after high-risk Olympics
By Adam PLOWRIGHT
The operation was like no other in recent French history, with the around 75,000 police, soldiers and private security guards mobilized on opening night.

Nippon Steel's U.S. setback a wake-up for Japan Inc.'s foreign forays
A water tower at a U.S. Steel mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday
Super Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam after casualties in China's Hainan
Water is whipped up by high winds onto the shore of Phuong Luu lake as Super Typhoon Yagi hits Haiphong, Vietnam, on Saturday.
U.S. eyeing midrange missiles in Japan for drills, U.S. Army secretary says
A Mid-Range Capability, or Typhon, launcher with the 1st Multi-Domain Task Force arrives in the Philippines on April 8, in the capability’s first deployment to the Indo-Pacific region.
Demand for Calrose rice rises amid Japanese rice shortage
Shuzo Fukushi, who heads Rice Meister Kojimachi in Tokyo, shows a bag of Calrose mixed with domestic rice at his store on Thursday.
LDP leadership hopefuls campaign across Japan
Digital transformation minister Taro Kono speaks at a news conference on Thursday.
Almodovar wins top Venice prize for end-of-life film
Director Pedro Almodovar poses with his Golden Lion Award during the 81st Venice Film Festival on Saturday.
U.S. and U.K. spy chiefs warn of deepening Iran-Russia military links
Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William Burns arrives to testify before a closed Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing on U.S. President Joe Biden's proposed budget request for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 12.
No talking, no eating, no standing: Inside sumo's ring purification ceremony
A sumo referee performs the dohyō matsuri, or ring purification ceremony, in January 2017 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
Demand for Calrose rice rises amid Japanese rice shortage
Shuzo Fukushi, who heads Rice Meister Kojimachi in Tokyo, shows a bag of Calrose mixed with domestic rice at his store on Thursday.
Pasocom Music Club returns to the pure pleasures of the dance floor
Pasocom Music Club’s “Love Flutter” marks an important moment for Japan’s electronic community as project members Aoi Shibata (left) and Masato Nishiyama step into a role other artists once held for them — scene veterans who are inspiring the next generation.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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A store clerk tries to cool things down in front of their shop by spraying a hose.
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