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2019-07-27 14:24:27Z
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Russian Police Arrest Hundreds at Moscow Election Protest - TIME
https://time.com/5637055/russia-moscow-election-protest/
2019-07-27 14:24:27Z
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Italian officer Mario Rega killed: 2 American teens "confessed their deeds" after officer stabbed to death, Rome police say - CBS News
Two American teenagers have been implicated in an Italian policeman's murder and are being held pending formal charges, Italy's Carabinieri police force said Saturday.
The two, both 19 years old, "confessed their deeds" after an Italian paramilitary policeman was fatally stabbed in Rome on Friday while investigating the theft of a bag with a cellphone. Elder Finnegan Lee and Christian Gabriel Natale Hjorth are being detained for aggravated murder and attempted extortion, correspondent Seth Doane reports.
A 35-year-old newlywed Carabinieri officer, Mario Rega, was stabbed to death on a Rome street early Friday morning. The Carabinieri said their investigation reveals that shortly before the murder, the two young men stole a backpack from an Italian man, and then threatened him during a phone call that they would not return the backpack unless they were given 100 euros and a gram of cocaine.
The man reported the incident to the Carabinieri, who came to the meeting to stop the criminals. But a scuffle unfolded, and the Carabinieri officer was stabbed to death.
Law enforcement found the Americans in their hotel room at Le Méridien Visconti, ready to leave Italy. Police say they searched the room and found the murder weapon – a "knife of considerable size," hidden behind a ceiling panel.
Populist politicians have taken to social media today railing against "foreign animals" being allowed in Italy.
Rega, the slain officer, was from Somma Vesuviana, Italy. He did volunteer work with the poor, accompanied sick people to Catholic shrines, and brought meals to the homeless at Rome's main station. His funeral on Monday will be at the same church where he was married just 43 days ago.
The two Americans are reportedly from California. A lawyer for one of the men was spotted arriving at Regina Coeli, the Rome jail where they are being held.
A preliminary hearing is being held to determine whether to formally charge them.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mario-rega-killed-rome-police-2-us-teens-confessed-their-deeds-after-fatal-stabbing-of-officer/
2019-07-27 14:05:00Z
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Moscow Police Arrest More Than 400 at Election Protest - The New York Times
MOSCOW — The police in Moscow arrested more than 500 people who had gathered outside City Hall on Saturday to protest what they call unfair elections and demand that opposition candidates be allowed to run for city government.
In anticipation of the unauthorized demonstration, the authorities on Wednesday arrested Aleksei A. Navalny, a foe of President Vladimir V. Putin and a major opposition leader, and sentenced him to 30 days in jail.
Other prominent opposition politicians — including Ilya Yashin, Dmitry G. Gudkov and Ivan Zhdanov — have also been detained. A post on the Facebook page of Mr. Yashin, a street activist, said 10 masked police officers had removed him from his apartment in Moscow overnight before the Saturday demonstration.
The Moscow City Council has 45 seats and is responsible for a very large municipal budget. It is controlled by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party. All of its seats, which have a five-year-term, are up for election on Sept. 8.
To compete in the elections, candidates not endorsed by a political party must collect about 5,000 signatures, depending on the size of their district. Election officials have so far registered nearly 200 candidates, all of whom are largely supportive of Mr. Putin.
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But Moscow’s electoral commission has refused to register several prominent opposition candidates, saying that they had failed to collect enough valid signatures to place them on the September ballot. The candidates, including allies of Mr. Navalny, said the signatures were genuine.
The decision by the electoral authorities to bar some opposition candidates has already sparked days of demonstrations this month. The election dispute comes as the Kremlin is struggling with how to deal with rising opposition in the capital of 12.6 million people.
The protest, which was called by Mr. Navalny, appeared intended also to raise the pressure on Russia’s tightly-controlled political system at a time when Mr. Putin’s rating has dropped because of discontent over years of falling real incomes.
The number of arrests, 561 by Saturday afternoon, was reported by OVD-Info, an independent monitor that tracks data from police precincts. The police could be seen using pepper spray on some crowds.
One of those detained, Alexander Latyshev, 45, told Reuters that he had come to Moscow from the nearby Vladimir region to discuss business with an associate and been randomly arrested by the police.
“I was just sitting on a bench” when they took him, he said from inside a police bus.
There was a heavy police presence at the Moscow mayor’s office on Tverskaya Street, one of Moscow’s main thoroughfares, with police trucks and buses parked in the building’s courtyard and other buses positioned nearby to take detainees away, according to The Associated Press.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/world/europe/moscow-protest-election-russia.html
2019-07-27 13:13:14Z
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Moscow Police Arrest Nearly 400 at Election Protest - The New York Times
MOSCOW — The police in Moscow arrested more than 400 people who had gathered outside City Hall on Saturday to protest what they call unfair elections and demand that opposition candidates be allowed to run for city government.
In anticipation of the unauthorized demonstration, the authorities on Wednesday arrested Aleksei A. Navalny, a foe of President Vladimir V. Putin and a major opposition leader, and sentenced him to 30 days in jail.
Other prominent opposition politicians — including Ilya Yashin, Dmitry G. Gudkov and Ivan Zhdanov — have also been detained. A post on the Facebook page of Mr. Yashin, a street activist, said 10 masked police officers had removed him from his apartment in Moscow overnight before the Saturday demonstration.
The Moscow City Council has 45 seats and is responsible for a very large municipal budget. It is controlled by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party. All of its seats, which have a five-year-term, are up for election on Sept. 8.
To compete in the elections, candidates not endorsed by a political party must collect about 5,000 signatures, depending on the size of their district. Election officials have so far registered nearly 200 candidates, all of whom are largely supportive of Mr. Putin.
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But Moscow’s electoral commission has refused to register several prominent opposition candidates, saying that they had failed to collect enough valid signatures to place them on the September ballot. The candidates, including allies of Mr. Navalny, said the signatures were genuine.
The decision by the electoral authorities to bar some opposition candidates has already sparked days of demonstrations this month. The election dispute comes as the Kremlin is struggling with how to deal with rising opposition in the capital of 12.6 million people.
The protest, which was called by Mr. Navalny, appeared intended also to raise the pressure on Russia’s tightly-controlled political system at a time when Mr. Putin’s rating has dropped because of discontent over years of falling real incomes.
The number of arrests, 435 by Saturday afternoon, was reported by OVD-Info, an independent monitor that tracks data from police precincts. The police could be seen using pepper spray on some crowds.
One of those detained, Alexander Latyshev, 45, told Reuters that he had come to Moscow from the nearby Vladimir region to discuss business with an associate and been randomly arrested by the police.
“I was just sitting on a bench” when they took him, he said from inside a police bus.
There was a heavy police presence at the Moscow mayor’s office on Tverskaya Street, one of Moscow’s main thoroughfares, with police trucks and buses parked in the building’s courtyard and other buses positioned nearby to take detainees away, according to The Associated Press.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/world/europe/moscow-protest-election-russia.html
2019-07-27 13:07:30Z
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Two Americans arrested in Rome over killing of police officer - CNN
The Carabinieri police force said in a statement that the pair were arrested Friday night for "the crime of aggravated murder and attempted extortion."
Police named the suspects as Christian Gabriel Natale Hjorth and Elder Finnegan Lee, and said both were from San Francisco, California. Photos of the pair have not been released.
Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega was stabbed eight times at 2 a.m. local time on Friday, in the Prati neighborhood of Rome on Via Pietro Cossa, near the hotel where the two young men were staying, police said. Officer Rega was declared dead at 4:30 a.m.
The police statement said surveillance footage and witness testimonies had allowed the Capitoline Investigative Unit to identify the two responsible for the "heinous crime."
The two Americans were arrested inside their hotel room in Rome.
"They were already ready to leave the country," police said. "During the search of the hotel room, which was occupied by the two detainees, the murder weapon was found and seized, a knife of considerable size, cleverly hidden behind a ceiling panel, as well as the clothes worn during the crime.
"The two, once at the station, were interrogated by the Carabinieri, under the direction of the magistrates of the Public Prosecutor of Rome, in the face of overwhelming evidence, they confessed to the charge."
Only one of the men is accused of stabbing the officer, but both admit to taking part in the fracas, police said.
Police also noted that the Americans had stolen a backpack from an Italian citizen shortly before the murder. The suspects subsequently answered the owner's cellphone, which they had also taken, and told him "they would not return the backpack without 100 euros and 1 gram of cocaine," police added.
After police were contacted by the victim, officers met the American suspects under the guise of retrieving the backpack.
They subsequently identified themselves as law enforcement officers, upon which one of the suspects took out a knife and stabbed the officer eight times before fleeing the scene, police said.
The police said that the pair "did not hesitate to engage in a scuffle which culminated in the tragic deadly wounding of Mario Rega Cerciello."
Matteo Salvini, Italy's far right interior minister, expressed his condolences over the officer's death. "Mario, a police officer, a hero, a boy with all his life ahead of him, who had been married for just 40 days," he wrote on Twitter. "How much sadness, how much anger. A prayer, a hug to his loved ones."
Italian state police (Polizia di Stato, in Italian) also paid tribute to the murdered officer shortly after news of his death emerged, with a number of police cars sounding their sirens outside the Carabinieri headquarters in Rome.
The investigation into the officer's murder is ongoing.
CNN has contacted the US Embassy, which referred questions to the US State Department. CNN has not yet received a response from the State Department.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/27/europe/italy-police-killing-americans-arrested-intl/index.html
2019-07-27 12:36:00Z
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RCMP release video of homicide suspects in Saskatchewan store - PrinceGeorgeMatters.com
RCMP have released surveillance video showing two Port Alberni teens suspected of killing three people in northern B.C.
In the video, Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLeod, 19, can be seen walking through the aisles of a Co-op store in Meadow Lake, Sask., then leaving.
McLeod is wearing a black pants and blue T-shirt with a "Cathulu" image on it, while Schmegelsky is wearing a button-down camouflage shirt and camouflage pants.
Police said the video was recorded Sunday, July 21. A search for the teens is underway in the area of Gillam, Man., which is where they were last sighted.
McLeod and Schmegelsky are charged with second-degree murder in the death of 64-year-old Leonard Dyck of Vancouver. Dyck’s body was found at a highway pullout two kilometres from where the teens’ burned-out Dodge pickup truck was found on Highway 37 near Dease Lake on July 19.
The pair are also suspects in the killings of 23-year-old Lucas Fowler of Sydney, Australia, and 24-year-old Chynna Deese of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Their bodies were discovered July 15 beside the Alaska Highway, 20 kilometres south of Liard Hot Springs. Fowler and Deese had been exploring northern B.C. in Fowler’s 1986 blue Chevrolet van with Alberta licence plates, which was found at the scene.
Police said they released the video in the hope it would generate more tips.
https://www.princegeorgematters.com/local-news/rcmp-release-video-of-homicide-suspects-in-saskatchewan-store-1609876
2019-07-27 10:21:19Z
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Hong Kong protest: Riot police clash with protesters as march descends into violence - CNN
When protesters in Hong Kong targeted the Chinese government's headquarters in the city, social media users in China were united in outrage.
"The dignity of our motherland won't be allowed to be trampled," one person wrote on Weibo, the country's highly-censored equivalent to Twitter, while another warned the young protesters that "playing violently is how you seek death."
A third commenter sought to reassure others, writing that "the central government promised that Hong Kong won't be changed for 50 years. There's only 28 years left before Hong Kong becomes part of (China)."
That 2047 deadline, on which the clock began ticking after the United Kingdom handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997, is at the forefront of the minds of the mostly young protesters who have been taking to the streets for almost two months now, in increasingly violent confrontations with police and pro-government groups.
What began as protests over a now-suspended extradition bill have broadened to cover a host of demands, including calls for greater democracy and more government accountability, that many feel they are running out of time to achieve.
Even as democratic values have increasingly come under threat around the world, and many voters in democracies are increasingly expressing apathy or despair, young Hong Kongers are determined to continue a fight for freedom which began decades ago under British rule, before time runs out and Hong Kong becomes just another Chinese city.
"Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times," protesters chanted on Saturday in Yuen Long.
Read more here.
https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/hong-kong-yuen-long-protests-intl-hnk/index.html
2019-07-27 12:24:00Z
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