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US federal law enforcement agencies and the European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol, announced arrests to stop a global operation selling illegal drugs over the internet. Officials at the US Department of Justice said they arrested 150 people accused of selling illegal drugs, including counterfeit opioids (painkillers) and cocaine, through …

According to the director who was injured in the shooting, Joel Souza, the shot that killed a cinematographer on the set of last week’s New Mexico film was fired by actor Alec Baldwin while practicing with his gun. Souza, director of the film “Rust” was shot in the shoulder while …

AFP — The police investigation Saturday (23/10) into the fatal shooting with a property gun by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of the film focused on the specialist in charge of the gun and the assistant director who handed it over to Baldwin. 42-year-old Ukrainian-born cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was …

The probe into Tuesday’s catastrophic Beirut port explosion was suspended for the second time in less than three weeks after two politicians wanted for questioning filed new complaints against the lead investigator, Judge Tarek Bitar. The investigation has been hit with a snag since Bitar sought to question some of …

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, Lebanon’s powerful group, on Monday urged the government to replace judge Tarek Bitar, who was appointed to lead an investigation into the explosion at the country’s port. “I told the families of the victims, if you hope to get the truth from this judge, …

Austria’s conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned Saturday to save his coalition government from collapse after a junior party urged him to step down amid an investigation into alleged corruption. Kurz’s move, which denies any wrongdoing, satisfied his coalition partner, the Greens. His resignation came three days before a special session …

The investigation into last year’s big explosion in Beirut has been slow because of what observers say was interference by the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah group. Lebanese judge Tarek Bitar has survived two attempts to sack him. The most recent was Monday when the court dismissed the complaint against Bitar, but …

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Monday requested the court’s permission to continue its war crimes investigation into the actions of the Taliban and the Islamic State group-Khorasan in Afghanistan. The ICC has for 15 years investigated alleged war crimes in Afghanistan, but that investigation …