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Reuters UK - LONDON (Reuters) - Drug offences rose 14 percent in the second quarter of the year, Home Office figures show, but total recorded crime in England and Wales was down. The rise in drug offences to 55,000 between April and June was attributed by the ...

Globe and Mail - OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper brushed past the Liberals' decision Wednesday to abstain from voting on the Throne Speech, staking the government's survival on a new uncompromising stand on crime legislation. While Liberal Leader Stéphane ...

BBC News - There were 1,825 gun-enabled crimes between April and September 2007, up 162 on the same period last year. However, firearms offences in the black community have fallen by about 10% from 131 to 119 over the same period. Overall, crime in London has ...

International Herald Tribune - PHNOM PENH, Cambodia : A Dutch war crimes lawyer has joined the defense team of one of the top leaders of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime ahead of his trial by Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal, the lawyer said in a statement. Michiel Pestman ...

Croydon Guardian - Latest crime figures for England and Wales will be published by the Government. The last batch of Home Office data, published three months ago, revealed a rise in night-time crime in the wake of 24-hour licensing. There were 940,522 violent crimes ...

New York Daily News - A 20-year-old man was smacked in the face with a baseball bat on Staten Island in what police are calling a possible hate crime. The victim, who is black, was hanging out with a group of friends near the corner of Simonson Ave. and Heusden St. in ...

Baltimore Sun - Earlier this month, Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon held a news conference in a wood-paneled room on the second floor of City Hall to announce the expansion of a federally funded, community-based program intended to reduce homicides and shootings. Hours ...

New York Post - October 18, 2007 -- It used to be that when you got engaged to the granddaughter of a mob boss, you stayed engaged - and you'd have to be really stunad to demand the ring back if you broke up. But oh, how times have changed. A Manhattan man is suing ...

MSN UK News - A Dutch war crime lawyer has joined the defense team of former Khmer Rouge ideologist Nuon Chea, who has been detained pending trial by the U.N.-backed genocide tribunal, a statement said Thursday. "I will do everything that I can to ensure that our ...