At least five police officers and two civilians have died in a car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.

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Seven dead in Kandahar car bomb

Three East Haven police officers and their supervisor were charged with beating and harassing Latinos, trying to cover up their actions and thwarting efforts to investigate their conduct.

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East Haven, Conn., Police Officers Accused of Mistreating Latinos

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — An armed eighth-grader gunned down by police officers in the hallway of his Texas middle school Wednesday was brandishing a pellet gun that looked like a firearm, and he refused repeated orders to lower the weapon before the officers opened fire, police said. The carbon-dioxide powered pellet gun 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez was holding looked like a handgun, and the initial report to police that sent officers rushing to Cummings Middle School Wednesday morning was for a student seen holding a gun, Orlando Rodriguez, Brownsville’s interim police chief, said at a news conference. Read full article > >

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Police: Texas eighth-grader killed by police had pellet gun that looked like firearm

Two police officers are to fly out to India to meet the family of 23-year-old murder victim Anuj Bidve who was shot in the head in Salford on Boxing Day.

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Bidve murder police fly to India

KABUL–A man wearing an Afghan army uniform fatally shot two French troops in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, military officials said, the latest in a string of similar attacks that the Taliban claims to have masterminded. Hours later, a roadside bomb killed 10 Afghan police officers in southern Helmand Province , an attack which authorities said was among the deadliest against Afghan security forces this year. Read full article > >

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Rogue Afghan soldier kills 2 French troops

A 37-year-old woman has been arrested in Surrey over alleged payments to police officers, Scotland Yard says.

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Arrest in police payments probe

Politicians and others condemned a group on Facebook whose members, claiming to be New York City police officers, derided the annual West Indian American Day Parade and its participants.

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N.Y.P.D. Under Criticism for Insults on Facebook

Three police officers stabbed in north-west London as they tried to arrest a man undergo surgery.

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Stabbed officers undergo surgery

Three police officers face discipline for their involvement in the detention and handcuffing of two city officials after a parade in Brooklyn.

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City Room: 3 Officers to Face Discipline for Detaining City Officials at Parade

ISLAMABAD — Two police officers were indicted Saturday in the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and will face trial along with five members of the Pakistani Taliban, a state prosecutor said. The policemen were charged with failing to provide Bhutto with proper security and with destroying evidence, said the prosecutor, Zulfikar Ali. Their indictment triggers a new trial for the Taliban members so that all seven defendants can be tried together, he said. Read full article > >

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Pakistan indicts 2 more suspects in assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto

For all its quirks, the trial of 13 police officers on charges of murder, attempted murder or other crimes stemming from a prison massacre last year is remarkable given Haiti’s history.

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Trial of Officers in Haitian Prison Massacre Is Test of System

At least 14 police officers hospitalized.

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Greek Police, Protesters Clash

The second day of the Notting Hill Carnival is under way with record numbers of police officers on the streets.

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Record police numbers at carnival

Four top British police officers will not face further police investigation in connection with an inquiry into phone hacking by journalists, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said Wednesday.

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Hacking probe over for top UK cops

A man arrested in Cumbria by police officers who deployed a Taser stun weapon, later dies in hospital.

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Man dies after Taser shot arrest