Mexico This article is more than 5 years oldMexican police force armed with slingshots after guns confiscatedThis article is more than 5 years oldMunicipality mayor stages symbolic protest after state government deems local police force unfit for service
Police in a troubled Mexican municipality have been equipped with slingshots and stones after state officials stripped officers of their weapons.
Only 30 officers of the 130-member police department in Alvarado, on Mexico’s Gulf Coast, have passed control tests and been deemed fit for service, prompting the Veracruz state public secretariat to disarm the force, media reported. Read More...
World newsNapoleon the inspiration for Hitler, says historianNapoleon massacred more than 100,000 Caribbean slaves and should be remembered as a genocidal dictator and inspiration for Hitler rather than a military genius and founder of modern France, a French historian said yesterday.
"I refuse to bow down before the statue any longer, I have opened my eyes," said Claude Ribbe, a respected black academic and part of a governmental commission on human rights whose book, Napoleon's Crime, is published this week, on the bicentenary of the emperor's great triumph at the battle of Austerlitz this Friday. Read More...
Australia cost of living crisis This article is more than 3 months oldAustralia in ‘the midst of a food security crisis’ as 3.7m households struggle to buy enough to eatThis article is more than 3 months oldAlmost 350,000 additional households experienced food insecurity in the past year, according to latest Foodbank survey
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