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660 illegal migrants from the Middle East were transferred to European Union countries by a criminal group that was investigated by the services of several countries, including Poland, said Seweryn Stopa, the head of the Center for Combating Illegal Migration at Europol. The turnover of this group is at least EUR 7 million.more

Uber drivers have been accused by 550 women in the US of sexual harassment. The case will be heard in a San Francisco court, the BBC news service reported today.more

Bill to be brought forward in autumn will create new ‘aggravated’ versions of existing offence.more

The English city of Telford and its police have ignored reports of hundreds of child sexual abuse for decades because they feared accusations of racism or fueling racial tensions, according to a report released yesterday.more

A man has died and two others remain seriously injured after potentially taking ‘a rogue batch of illegal drugs.’more

A court in Amsterdam decided to reopen criminal proceedings in the case of the murder of investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries. Originally, the sentence was due on July 14, but last week the prosecutor's office presented new evidence, including that the murder was ordered by a 27-year-old Pole, Krystian M.more

Efforts to manage seriously violent inmates in Irish prisons, including those viewed as "possessing a serious potential to kill", have been ineffective or even counterproductive. more

An 18-year-old British man on a flight to Menorca wrote on social media that he was going to blow up the plane he was flying, and in response the Spanish Air Force pulled up the F-18 fighter jets that were escorting the machine. The young man was taken into custody from where he was released on bail; he claims it was all about a joke, El Periodico de Espana website reported yesterday.more

Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died in hospital after he was shot at a political campaign event, say local media. Mr Abe was shot at twice while he was giving a speech in the southern city of Nara on Friday morning.more

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that a Polish citizen was deprived of liberty in Iran in September 2021. Consular and diplomatic actions are being taken to enable him to return to Poland as soon as possible, the ministry said.more

The suspected perpetrator of Monday's massacre in Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, had been planning the crime for weeks; he fled after the attack wearing women's clothing, local police reported yesterday. The perpetrator of the attack, in which six people were killed, was alleged to have acquired the weapon legally. He had already heard the charges yesterday.more

Second Lieutenant Jan Stangryciek, one of the last members of the Polish Air Force living in Great Britain, was robbed in his own home in London. As he added, the perpetrators of the thefts were three Poles.more

22-year-old Robert E. Crimo began shooting on the American Independence Day parade route at Highland Park in a Chicago suburb. The governor of Illinois reported that at least 30 people had been shot. According to the media, six people were killed.more

Polish people living in Ireland are being extradited back to their native country for offences as minor as possession of €50 worth of cannabis. more

A 27-year-old Pole, Krystian M., was arrested today on suspicion of directing the murder of investigative reporter Peter R. de Vries, the prosecutor's office reports.more

The death toll from yesterday's shooting at the Fields shopping centre in Copenhagen has risen to three, with four people in serious condition, the city's police chief Inspector Soren Thomasse announced today. As of now, there is no indication that it was a terrorist attack, he added.more

A homeless man who walked the streets of Bonn in eastern Germany with the head of a deceased colleague in a bag and put it in front of the district court, did not kill his companion, the daily "Bild" reports, citing the results of the autopsy. The deceased suffered from a serious disease and it was probably the cause of his death.more

The bodies of at least 46 dead people were discovered inside a truck in San Antonio, Texas, USA. At high temperatures, they died from exhaustion and heatstroke. 16 survivors were taken to hospitals. City councilor Adriana Rocha Garcia described the victims as migrants.more

The alleged perpetrator of a nighttime shootout at a gay club in Oslo that killed two people and injured 21 had ties to Islamic extremism, Norwegian special services PST reported.more

A shooting occurred in the Norwegian capital Oslo in the early hours of today, leaving two people dead and 10 injured, Reuters reported. According to police, it could have been a terrorist act. An LGBT parade due to take place today has been cancelled.more

25-year-old Pole Dawid Łukasz M. was sentenced by a court in Newry in Northern Ireland to a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison for the high-profile murder of his girlfriend, 20-year-old Patrycja, almost two years ago.more

A 45-year-old Slovakian man and a 46-year-old Polish woman were sentenced yesterday by a Bristol court to prison terms of 16 and nine years for modern slavery. The two dragged at least 29 people to the UK, whom they then imprisoned and used for slave labour.more

A Polish migrant had not even been in the capital for an hour before he was beaten up for asking for directions, he claims. more

Two men of Turkish origin have been arrested and taken into custody in Toulon in connection with mysterious stabbings that occurred in nightclubs and discos, the public prosecutor's office said. Syringes and drugs were found on one of the men.more

Officials in the city of Uvalde, Texas, in the US, are exploiting loopholes and other laws in the state to keep documents from the recent shootout, which killed 21 people, not disclosed, US public radio NPR said today.more