Police end Dresden tree sit-in
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German police broke through a blockade of activists and felled a 200-year-old beech tree on Tuesday to clear the way for a new bridge over the Elbe river that is opposed by environmentalists and UNESCO.
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The bloodied uniform of a British policeman murdered by a machete-wielding mob during a riot in London 19 years ago has been removed from a crime museum for new forensic tests, police said.
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A 34-year-old is charged after a man was arrested with an axe close to where the Queen was due to begin a walkabout.
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On Tuesday three police officers were seen standing at the spot where a ladder was used for Mr Hatch&#39;s ascent. His fellow campaigner Mr Pyke, who dressed as Batman&#39;s sidekick Robin, was stopped by armed police at the scene.
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A website offering e-copies of the sixth Harry Potter book is closed after an investigation by the BBC News website.
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The FBI and police search of a vacant lot known to neighborhood residents as a graveyard for people ordered killed by the late mob boss John Gotti ended Sunday after yielding the remains
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba - It didn't take Winnipeg police long to solve the great Christmas tree heist - a trail of pine cones from the scene of the crime led directly to a suspect's living room. "It's got to be the dumbest crime of the century," apartment caretaker Cindy Peterson said Wednesday.
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Police closed a busy street in central London on Friday and were examining a suspicious vehicle there, a spokeswoman said.
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By Steve Mayes, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 6--OREGON CITY -- City officials temporarily halted the removal of  53 trees along McLoughlin Boulevard on Monday after a sudden wave of  opposition surfaced over the weekend.
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City officials said Thursday they are shutting down nearly a third of the 350 prostitution "windows" in Amsterdam's famed Red Light District as part of a crackdown on crime.
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Parishioners ended their brief vigil at a Roman Catholic parish in Natick yesterday after police threatened to arrest anyone who refused to leave, a move critics say represents a bolder stance by church officials against sit-ins.
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Three officers have been relieved of their commands as a result of the investigation into the deadly fire at the former Deutsche Bank building.
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The seventh and final working meeting of the Police Restructuring Commission ended today.
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Police closed off a hospital here after a shooting was reported inside the building Sunday.
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Â· Police call for crackdown on cheap alcoholÂ· 'Feral' gang had been on seven-hour drinking binge
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A bonfire celebration in York, the home  town of Guy Fawkes, has been banned on health and safety  grounds, the local council said Tuesday.
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A demonstration by pro-hunt campaigners outside Peter Hain's home in south Wales comes to a peaceful end.