Three men have been arrested by detectives investigating the murders of two soldiers in Northern Ireland last week, a spokeswoman for the Northern Ireland police said Saturday.
Three arrested over N. Irish soldier killings
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N. Ireland: Vigils for slain soldiers and policeman
People across Northern Ireland attended vigils Wednesday to show their anger over the murder of two soldiers and a police officer. The vigils came as police questioned two men over the murder of Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, who was gunned down on duty Monday night. The men, aged 17 and 37, were arrested separately “as a result of searches in the area,” said a police spokeswoman
Police officer killed in Northern Ireland shooting
A police officer was killed in a shooting in Northern Ireland late Monday, just two days after two British troops were killed at a military base there, authorities said. Police said the officer was shot in the head in Craigavon, a town southwest of Belfast. The victim and a fellow officer were responding in a police car to a call of unknown origin when the shooting occurred, police said.
Shot British troops wanted final pizza
The British soldiers who were killed in Northern Ireland over the weekend had already packed their bags for Afghanistan and changed into desert uniforms when they were shot, a top British military officer said Monday. “Some of them decided to order a final takeaway pizza before they departed,” Brigadier George Norton said from the base where they were killed. “It was then that the brutal attack took place.
Suicide car bomber kills seven in Pakistan
A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a police car on the outskirts of Peshawar Saturday, killing seven security personnel. But two high-ranking officers are doing just that, hoping that by going public they can remove the stigma that many soldiers say keeps them from getting help for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Mexico’s Drug War Takes to the Barricades
Masked teenagers lob bricks at police shields, middle-aged women wave banners and chant slogans against repression, while police tanks fire water cannons into rowdy crowds. These images may evoke anti-globalization protests at some high-powered economic summit, but in northern Mexico, they’re the latest flash point in the nation’s incessant drug war