Murder on the rise in New York
AFP, New York
Homicides, gang-motivated shootings, rape and robbery rose in New York last year, slowing to 1.7 per cent an overall decline in major crime, officials announced Monday.
Major crime rose three percent in Manhattan and four percent in the Bronx, two of the five boroughs that make up America’s largest city, deputy police commissioner Dermot Shea told a news conference. Crime rates are closely watched in New York, the financial and entertainment capital of the United States, and have fallen steadily since “zero tolerance” policing was introduced in the 1990s.
Poland sub-zero weather ‘kills 21’
AFP, Warsaw
Twenty-one people died over the weekend in Poland because of freezing weather amid one of the country’s deadliest cold spells, the government said Monday.
“Twelve people died over the last 24 hours. We also recorded nine other victims the day before,” spokeswoman Bozena Wysocka from the government centre for security (RCB) told AFP after temperatures dropped to minus 20 Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit) in certain areas.
11 refugees drown off Turkey coast
Reuters, Dikili
Eleven of the bodies were discovered on the shoreline in the district of Ayvalik, while ten others were found in the district of Dikili, an official told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday.
The incident was also reported by Turkey’s Dogan news agency.
