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Italian police seize $30M from Vatican in probe (AP)

September 21st, 2010

Italian financial Police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Just when the Catholic Church didn't need another scandal, Italian authorities have seized euro23 million ($30.18 million) from a Vatican bank account and begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with a money laundering probe. The Vatican said Tuesday it was 'perplexed and surprised' by the investigation. Italian financial police seized the money as a precaution Tuesday and prosecutors placed the Vatican bank's director general and its chairman, a man who speaks frequently about morality in financing, under investigation for alleged mistakes linked to violations of Italy's anti-laundering laws, news reports said. In Tuesday's case, police seized the money from a Vatican bank account being held at the Rome branch of Credito Artigiano Spa according to news agencies ANSA and Apcom. (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)AP - Italian authorities seized euro23 million ($30.18 million) from a Vatican bank account Tuesday and said they have begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with…

Italian police probe Vatican bank officials (AP)

September 21st, 2010

AP - Just when the Catholic Church didn’t need another scandal, Italian authorities have seized euro23 million ($30.18 million) from a Vatican bank account and begun investigating top officials of…

German police report shooting at hospital (AP)

September 19th, 2010

AP - A woman opened fire in a hospital in Germany’s Black Forest on Sunday, killing at least one person and wounding several others, before fatally shooting herself, German officials…

Police: Rocket hits Kabul on Afghan voting day (AP)

September 17th, 2010

An Afghan policeman stands guard near posters of candidates contesting in the upcoming Afghan parliamentary elections in Jalalabad, Afghanistan Thursday Sept. 16, 2010. Afghan officials and political figures sought to reassure wary Afghans on Thursday that it will be safe to vote in this weekend's parliamentary election despite an upswing in violence in recent months. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - Police say a rocket struck Kabul about three hours before citizens planned to head to the polls to vote in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections.


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UK Police: 5 arrested in alleged threat to pope (AP)

September 17th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI kisses the head of a boy, as he arrives for a celebration of Catholic education at St Mary's University College, Twickenham,  London  Friday Sept. 17, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day visit, the first-ever state visit by a Pope to Britain. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid, Pool)AP - An alleged threat to Pope Benedict XVI led to the pre-dawn arrests of five men in London on Friday on the second day of the pontiff’s trip to…

Police: 5 arrested in London over threat to pope (AP)

September 17th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI kisses the head of a boy, as he arrives for a celebration of Catholic education at St Mary's University College, Twickenham,  London  Friday Sept. 17, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day visit, the first-ever state visit by a Pope to Britain. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid, Pool)AP - Five men have been arrested in London over an alleged threat to the pope and police searches are under way at locations across the British capital, police said…

Police: Eiffel Tower bomb threat was false alarm (AP)

September 15th, 2010

A police officer stands front the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, Tuesday Sept. 14, 2010. Paris' Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat. About 2,000 people were cleared from the 324 meter (1,063-ft.) monument on the banks of the Seine River, and police were checking it for suspicious objects. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - The Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat, but explosives experts scoured France’s most-visited monument and…

Mexican police neutralize car bomb in border city (AP)

September 11th, 2010

A crime scene investigator points his flashlight at a body in front of a home in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, early Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. According to eyewitness accounts at the scene, gunmen opened fire from a car at people standing outside a house, killing five and injuring two. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - Mexican police carried out the controlled detonation of a car bomb Saturday in the troubled border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from Texas.


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Attacks in southern Russia kill 2 police, wound 5 (AP)

September 11th, 2010

Relatives mourn Gusalov Alan, 42, killed in a suicide car attack in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, North Caucasus, Saturday, Sept., 11, 2010. The Thursday bombing on the edge of the central market of the capital of the North Ossetia republic where a suicide car bombing killed 17 people and wounded more than 140 was the most serious terrorist attack in Russia since the March subway bombings in Moscow that killed 40. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Several attacks in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region have left two police officers dead and another five wounded, officials said Saturday.


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Colombian rebels kill 8 police in mortar attack (AP)

September 10th, 2010

AP - Leftist rebels firing homemade mortars killed at least eight police officers and wounded four in a pre-dawn attack Friday on a police barracks near the country’s border with…