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France has fully mobilised its security forces, including elite units, to ensure citizens' protection during this weekend's presidential election, following the fatal shooting of a police officer in central Paris. Speaking after an emergency meeting of top security officials, Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said all elite units were on top alert for the election to back up the 50,000 police already earmarked for special election duty. Shooting further complicates election. The Paris shooting occurred as France was at the business end of one of the most dramatic and divisive presidential elections in its modern history writes James Glenday. "The Government is fully mobilised," he said in a statement. "Nothing must be allowed to impede the fundamental democratic process of our country. It falls to us not to give in to fear and intimidation and manipulation which would play into the hands of the enemy." The first round in France's two-stage el

An officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ekiti State, Sunday Afolabi, was shot dead on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, by gunmen. A source at the command of NSCDC, who spoke in confidence, said Afolabi was killed on Afao Road at 3.30 p.m. The late officer was killed barely one month after his wife was delivered of their first baby. But the police said Afolabi was killed by suspected “cult boys”. His body was recovered from the scene and deposited at a mortuary. NSCDC spokesman Tolu Afolabi confirmed the killing to reporters yesterday. He said investigation had begun into the incident to unmask the killers. The late Afolabi, who served in the Intelligence and Investigation Unit of Ekiti NSCDC, was reportedly shot in the heart. He is survived by a wife and a one-month-old baby. The slain officer, who was said to be 35, joined the security agency in 2010. He hailed from Ayegbaju-Ekiti in Oye Local Government Area. Officers at

The state of Arkansas carried out its first execution in 12 years on Thursday just before midnight, after a series of rejected appeals that reached all the way up to the Supreme Court cleared the way for 51-year-old Ledell Lee to be put to death by lethal injection. The execution took place after several last-minute appeals temporarily postponed the execution, which was initially scheduled for 7:00 p.m. CST. Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said that a federal appellate court had "denied all requests from inmate Ledell Lee for a stay of his execution," in a Twitter post at shortly after 9:00 p.m., noting that a temporary stay issued earlier by the Supreme Court remained in place while more appeals were considered. But after 11:00 p.m., the Supreme Court issued orders denying the outstanding appeal requests, allowing the execution to proceed. According to on-site reports from ABC station KATV, the Arkansas Department of Corrections said the first drug was

Two Seattle police officers were shot Thursday while responding to a robbery at a 7-Eleven, according to the city's police department. The two officers, one male and one female, were brought to the Harborview Medical Center. The hospital tweeted that the male officer was upgraded to serious but stable condition, and that the female officer remained in satisfactory condition. One officer suffered a shot to the chest, but was wearing a vest sustained minor injuries. The other officer was shot in the chin and the rib cage.  Follow UW Medicine   ✔ @UWMedicine Condition update: Male officer has been upgraded to serious condition; female officer remains in satisfactory condition.  @ SeattlePD 11:51 PM - 20 Apr 2017     72 72 Retweets     146 146 likes Officers responded to a robbery on the 600 block of First Ave. shortly after 1 p.m. local time. A fight had ensued between the two officers and the suspects. One of the officers was

An Oregon man was arrested after police said he poured gasoline on a stranger and then lit him on fire at a Denny's restaurant in Happy Valley, Oregon, ABC affiliate KATU reported on Thursday. The 24-year old man, identified by police as Deshaun Swanger according to KATU, was arrested shortly before 8 p.m. local time. Police said the suspect poured liquid onto the victim, a 69-year old man who is now in critical condition, and then lobbed a burning object at him. The suspect then fled the scene. "This just seems like a, a random act of violence," said Sgt. Jason Ritter of the Clackamas County Sheriff's office, according to the KATU report. The victim was taken a local hospital, where he remained in critical condition as of Thursday, KATU said. A surveillance tape recorded the suspect walking into the restaurant, and police put out a notice of his description. He was later apprehended, with the local Clackamas County Sheriff's Office tweeting, "We g

Former Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins, who is accused of kidnapping his 15-year-old student, was arrested in northern California Thursday after more than a month on the run, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The student, Elizabeth Thomas, has been rescued, officials said, describing her as "healthy" and "unharmed." Around 11 p.m. Wednesday, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation received a call to its tip line about a possible sighting of the duo, according to TBI public information officer Josh Devine. The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office in California had received a similar tip, he said. Once investigators located a Nissan Rogue, they were able to confirm through its VIN number that it belonged to Cummins. The car was then kept under surveillance for several hours. Authorities from the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office found the pair at a cabin in a rural area in Cecilville early Thursday morning. Deputies set up a perimeter aroun

Professor Ango Abdullahi is the spokesman and de facto leader of the Northern Elders Forum. His notorious mendacities and constant submissions and assertions remind me of Shakespeares’s profound words in his classic play titled ‘Macbeth’ where he spoke of “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. A few days ago the Professor claimed that, “the north sustained the entire Nigerian state from 1914 up to 1974”. This is a lie from the pit of hell. The truth is that the opposite is the case: it is the south that sustains the north and it has been doing so from 1914 up until today. Lord Lugard was the first Governor-General of colonial Nigeria and the architect of the 1914 amalgamation between what were formerly known as the “northern” and “southern” protectorates of Nigeria. In 1914 he described the north as “the poor husband” and the south as “the rich wife”. Can someone please tell me how a “poor husband” can sustain a “rich wife”? It is rather t