Safety

Police station in Istanbul attacked by two female assailants

Two women opened fire on police station in Istanbul on Thursday, according to local media.

The Dogan news agency reported that the women fired a hand grenade and then started shooting at the police station in the Bayrampasa district of the city.

One assailant and one police officer was wounded, according to the Hurriyet Daily News and Anadolu News Agency.

Get 'Gershad' to dodge the morality police in Iran

I was overjoyed the other day to hear that Iranian youths have developed a mobile app that helps people dodge the patrols of Ershad, Iran's morality police. The Ershad check whether Iranian citizens' outfit or makeup undermines the social order: If a woman's headscarf reveals too much of her hair, for example, she gets told to cover up properly.

Police prevent Peloponnese farmers from driving to Athens (pics)

“We cannot understand why they prevent us from moving on. We left our tractors at Corinth, and police stopped us again here ” said the farmers of Peloponnese, who were stuck on the highway at Chaidari for hours since riot police did not allow them to pass through so as to participate in the mass protest in the center of Athens.

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