KABUL, June 29 -- The police chief of southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province was shot to death Monday in a violent melee between police officers and an elite Afghan security squad trained by U.S.-led coalition forces.

Two motorists involved in a traffic dispute on the South Side kept their verbal battle up for 40 blocks this evening before one driver ran over and seriously injured the second driver, police said.The victim -- a 48-year-old man -- was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in serious condition with head injuries. Police said about 6 p.m. the victim got into a verbal argument over a ...

Iranian police were out in force across the capital Tehran as the authorities upheld the official results of this month's fiercely-disputed presidential election over opposition protests.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government Monday blamed U.S.-led coalition forces for the killing of Kandahar's police chief and criminal investigations director on coalition forces, saying the Afghan guards that shot them to death were working for and trained by the coalition.

BERLIN, June 29 (UPI) -- The Berlin police and other government-linked agencies and officials are under rising pressure to investigate their ties to the Stasi, East Germany's infamous secret police.

WASHINGTON — The Iranian government's electoral watchdog Monday confirmed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide victory in the disputed June 12 presidential election after police wielding batons and cables prevented more than a thousand demonstrators from organizing a rally to protest the results.

Honduran police fired tear gas at demonstrators but the nation remained generally calm Monday, one day after military troops removed President Jose Manuel Zelaya and sent him into exile.

Haitian police say a demonstrator found slain after a clash with U.N. peacekeepers during a funeral procession was killed by a bullet, and not by a rock as peacekeepers initially reported.

Iranian police were out in force across the capital Tehran on Monday as the authorities upheld the official results of this month's fiercely-disputed presidential election over opposition protests.

Racial and ethnic profiling by the police is illegal in France, but according to a study published Tuesday, young Arab and black men are stopped for identity checks far more often than young whites.