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| Sixteen arrested after clashes at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 10:19 AM PDT  Israeli police arrested 16 Palestinians Sunday as they clashed with demonstrators at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, a sensitive holy site that is frequently the scene of tensions. "This morning, after the site was opened for visitors and tourists, the suspects threw rocks at the police, wounding two of them," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP. The mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City -- built on the holiest site in Judaism and considered the third holiest in Islam -- has over the past week seen clashes between Muslim protesters and Israeli police. Dozens of Palestinians were wounded Wednesday in clashes with police after Jewish visitors were allowed onto the compound, which is known to Jews as the Temple Mount -- the site where the biblical first and second temples stood. Full Story | Top |
| Palestinian rock throwers arrested at holy site Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 02:56 AM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police entered the compound of Jerusalem's holiest site to disperse Palestinians who were throwing rocks at them on Sunday, as thousands of tourists packed the Old City for the Easter and Passover holidays. Full Story | Top |
| Researchers use Twitter to predict crime Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 07:13 PM PDT  Hidden in the Twittersphere are nuggets of information that could prove useful to crime fighters -- even before a crime has been committed. Researchers at the University of Virginia demonstrated tweets could predict certain kinds of crimes if the correct analysis is applied. The results are surprising, especially when one considers that people rarely tweet about crimes directly, said lead researcher Matthew Gerber of the university's Predictive Technology Lab. Gerber said even tweets that have no direct link to crimes may contain information about activities often associated with them. Full Story | Top |
| Hate crime charge in NYC attack on Sikh professor Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 06:39 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of pulling the beard of a Sikh professor in an attack where young men called the professor "Osama" and a "terrorist" has been arrested and charged with a hate crime, police in New York City said Saturday. Full Story | Top |
| Hate crime charge in NY attack on Sikh professor Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 06:31 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of pulling the beard of a Sikh professor before a group of young men who had called the professor "Osama" and a "terrorist" attacked him, has been arrested and charged with a hate crime, police said Saturday. Full Story | Top |
| Captain of sunken SKorean ferry, 2 crew arrested Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 01:21 PM PDT MOKPO, South Korea (AP) — The captain of the ferry that sank off South Korea, leaving more than 300 missing or dead, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of negligence and abandoning people in need. Two crew members also were taken into custody, including a rookie third mate who a prosecutor said was steering in challenging waters unfamiliar to her when the accident occurred. Full Story | Top |
| Alleged fraudster visits Austrian police, arrested Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 01:08 PM PDT VIENNA (AP) — A German sought by authorities for alleged fraud has been arrested in Austria — after dropping into a police station to ask officers whether he was under investigation. Full Story | Top |
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