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Two activists from the Just Stop Oil group, which claims to be fighting climate change, attacked Diego Velazquez's painting "Venus with a Mirror" at the National Gallery in London with hammers yesterday, smashing the glass protecting the canvas.more

The inquest into the death of a 35-year-old man, who was murdered in front of his wife and two children at their home at Ballincollig in Co Cork over five years ago, has been told that significant progress has been made in the case, and it is anticipated a file will be submitted to the DPP in the near future.more

This morning, sappers from Rozewie found the body of a man in the place where they were looking for a soldier suspected of murdering his six-year-old son. "The body found is the body of the wanted Grzegorz Borys," said Grażyna Wawryniuk from the District Prosecutor's Office in Gdańsk.more

Concentration camp memorial sites in Germany are recording an increase in the number of attacks by right-wing extremists, German media warn.more

Bicycle thieves cause more than €600 million worth of damage each year, the daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad reported on the basis of recent research.more

Mustafa Maya Amaya, captured in October during a police raid on jihadists in Spain, is a recidivist who previously served an 8-year sentence for collaborating with Muslim terrorist organizations, such as: the so-called Islamic State (IS). The dangerous radical resumed his activity shortly after leaving prison - reported the daily "El Mundo".more

Portuguese police have reportedly apologised to the parents of Madeleine McCann for the way detectives investigated the case and treated the family.more

Prominent MP for the UK's ruling Conservative Party Crispin Blunt confirmed last night that he had been arrested the day before in connection with allegations of rape and possession of a restricted substance.more

The system for issuing visas for people drawn from abroad to work as carers in the UK is being massively abused, with some agencies involved even being set up by criminals, Sky News reports today.more

Three activists from the Just Stop Oil group, which claims to be fighting climate change, yesterday sprayed orange paint on Wellington Arch, a nearly 200-year-old triumphal arch located near Buckingham Palace in London.more

During an anti-terrorist operation, the police detained Mustafa Maya Amaya alias Mustafa Maya Amaya in the Spanish autonomous city in northern Morocco - Melilla. "The Taliban", whom he considers "the largest jihadist recruiter in Europe".more

Shoplifting will be targeted like organised crime as part of a plan to help police to crack down on theft. more

A man who was spared jail for abusing his ex-girlfriend went home and attacked her just hours later. more

Acid attacks have risen in London by 45% in a year, Met Police data revealed. The force recorded 107 of such attacks in 2022, up from 74 in 2021, a Freedom of Information request stated.more

The Metropolitan Police plans to use facial recognition technology going forward to try to identify and arrest London's most prolific shoplifters. more

Police arrested six men in Bleiswijk in the central Netherlands last night for transporting 7.7 tonnes of cocaine in a banana truck. The driver of the vehicle was a 43-year-old Pole, the remaining detainees have the citizenship of Belgium and the Netherlands.more

Phone companies are to meet London's mayor and the Met Police commissioner to discuss how smartphones can be designed to make them harder to steal.more

A high street chain is offering customers with intel on shoplifters a reward of up to £500 to help catch the thieves. more

Two Swedish fans were shot dead in Brussels before their national team's match against Belgium in a European Championship soccer qualifier. The drama occurred near Place Sanctelette in the Molenbeek district, about 5 km from King Baudouin I Stadium.more

The number of murders is increasing dramatically in the Netherlands, nine people have been killed in the last week, police say. This is almost twice as much as the average.more

Sadiq Khan is offering all 500 secondary schools in London knife wand metal detectors to screen pupils for weapons in the wake of 15-year-old Elianne Andam’s murder.more

Former long-time Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, 92, has been sentenced by a London court to 17 months in prison suspended for two years for tax fraud. The Briton owes the tax authorities €750 million.more

Rapists and burglars will avoid jail because the country is running out of prison places. more

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the UK has more than quadrupled since the Palestinian Hamas attack on Israel, a charity that helps Jews in the UK reported today.more

Waving a Palestinian flag or singing a chant advocating freedom for Arabs in the region may be a criminal offence, Suella Braverman has told senior police officers. more