United States racial unrest

The police authorities have arrested the driver who hit and killed a pedestrian on Tuesday afternoon, then abandoned the scene, on Marathonos Avenue, East Attica.

Traffic police and an ambulance from EKAV rushed to the site, while following an investigation the police located and arrested the driver.

The U.K. government warned yestersay hat violent disorder would "not be tolerated" after police made dozens of arrests at far-right rallies following clashes between protesters and officers.

Three high-school students in the Cretan city of Hania were arrested on suspicion of firing an air gun at passing traffic during school hours, police have said.

The three students, aged 14, 15 and 16, were taken to the local police station and charged with breaking gun laws.

A 41-year-old police officer involved in the fatal shooting of a Roma youth during a weekend altercation with police following a car chase in Viotia is expected to appear before a prosecutor on Thursday.

In separate incidents that unfolded across European cities, police have had to intervene in potentially dangerous situations involving individuals exhibiting threatening behavior.

A French police officer who shot and killed a 17-year-old driver will be investigated for voluntary homicide, following two days of fires and violent protests that injured scores of officers, officials said Thursday.

Some 40,000 police officers will be deployed overnight to quell violence that engulfed cities and towns in the wake of the shooting.

The shooting death of Breonna Taylor was front and center on the first day of a criminal trial for the only police officer charged in the deadly 2020 raid.

Brett Hankison, now a former Louisville police officer, fired 10 shots in the raid, none of which hit Taylor, but prosecutors said they endangered the couple and child who lived next door.

A police officer has been arrested over the death of a suspect in the Kadıköy district of Istanbul. An investigation was launched after Çetin Kaya was shot dead while the police tried to detain him on Nov. 29.

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges on Nov. 19 after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S.

Rittenhouse, 18, began to choke up, fell forward toward the defense table and then hugged one of his attorneys as he heard a court clerk recite "not guilty" five times.

Former policeman Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison on June 25 for the murder of African American George Floyd, the killing that sparked America's biggest demonstrations for racial justice in decades.