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Tegucigalpa -
A Honduran journalist who was a sharp government critic has been killed in a drive-by shooting, police said Monday, bringing the number of reporters killed in the country to 85 in two decades.
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Paris -
A former top boss of one of the world's biggest model agencies is to be investigated for rape and abusing an under-age girl as well as other women, French prosecutors announced on Monday.
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Bangkok -
An American has been sued by an island resort in Thailand over a negative TripAdvisor review, authorities said Saturday, and could face up to two years in prison if found guilty.
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Mumbai -
Indian police hauled in Bollywood megastar Deepika Padukone for questioning on Saturday in an escalating drugs probe following the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
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Apo -
A climate of fear has gripped Egypt's #MeToo movement as the arrests of witnesses in a high-profile rape case threaten to derail efforts to curb male sexual violence in the Arab country.
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Rio De Janeiro -
Thirty-five years after the end of Brazil's military dictatorship, there has been little justice for the killing and torture committed by the regime -- but an unprecedented deal for carmaker Volkswagen to pay damages for collaborating with the secret p...
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Luxembourg -
The prime suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann on Thursday lost his bid to be freed from jail, with the European Court of Justice rejecting his appeal against a separate rape conviction.
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Sydney -
Australia's Westpac bank has agreed to pay a record AU$1.3 billion (US$923 million) fine for more than 23 million breaches of money-laundering laws, the bank and regulators announced Thursday.
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Miami -
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, singer John Legend and basketball star LeBron James are among donors who have raised $20 million to pay the debts of thousands of Florida felons so they can vote -- a move that could affect the outcome of November's US pr...
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Stockholm -
Police in Sweden say they're struggling to control criminal "clans" exercising their own form of justice, amid an escalation of violent crime in what has long been a tranquil and safe country.
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Den Haag -
A global police sting has netted 179 vendors involved in selling opioids, methamphetamine and other illegal goods on the internet underground, in what officials of Europol said Tuesday put an end to the "golden age" of dark web markets.
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Moscow -
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that Western laboratories had found traces of a Novichok nerve agent in and on his body and demanded that Moscow return his clothes.
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Moscow -
Russia's leading opposition politician Alexei Navalny announced on Saturday he could now walk with a "tremble", and gave the first detailed account of his recovery nearly a month after being poisoned with Novichok nerve agent.
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Moscow -
Russia's leading opposition politician Alexei Navalny announced Saturday that he could now walk with a "tremble", and gave the first detailed account of his recovery nearly a month after being poisoned.
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Bangkok -
The heir to the Red Bull billions will be indicted for reckless driving and cocaine use in a fatal hit-and-run, Thailand's attorney general said Friday, following public outrage after his charges were dropped in July.
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Ottawa -
A driver who allegedly set his car to autopilot and then took a nap as it broke the speed limit on a rural Canadian highway has been charged with dangerous driving, police said.
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Washington -
How the United States got itself into the insane situation in which it finds itself for the 2020 election is all too obvious. Decades of deliberate polarization. Why America wants to raise its ugliest ghosts, however, is much less clear.
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Fpo -
A brazen Hong Kong burglar made off with a collection of stamps and calligraphy worth a reported $500 million in a daylight heist, a police source said Wednesday.
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Washington -
Around 2,500 people have been exonerated of serious crimes after being falsely convicted over the past 30 years in the United States.
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Rome -
After years of investigation, mountains of evidence and hundreds of suspects, Italy's plucky anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri is gearing up for a "historic" court battle against the country's powerful 'Ndrangheta clan.
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Apo -
Torn from their parents, brought up in a convent then abandoned when the Belgian Congo gained independence.
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New York -
With crime on the rise, shops and apartments increasingly vacant and homeless people on the sidewalks, New York on Friday will mark the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and a bitter fight with...
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Coatzacoalcos -
A journalist was found decapitated Wednesday in a violence-plagued area of eastern Mexico, police said, the latest in a string of killings in one of the world's most dangerous countries for reporters.
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Coatzacoalcos -
A journalist was found decapitated Wednesday in a violence-plagued area of eastern Mexico, police said, the latest in a string of killings in one of the world's most dangerous countries for reporters.
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Sansalvador -
Prosecutors in El Salvador are investigating alleged secret negotiations between government officials and a prominent organized crime gang that has long terrorized the Central American nation.
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L'isle-adam -
Didier Fruchet, owner of a horse club with some 80 animals outside Paris, looks with concern at his stables. "It's stressful to be thinking, 'what happened tonight?' When we arrive in the morning we don't know what we are going to find.
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Solingen -
A mother is suspected of killing five of her children in Germany before attempting suicide by jumping in front of a train on Thursday, police said after the bodies were found in an apartment.
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Manila -
A US marine convicted of killing a transgender woman will stay in detention in the Philippines while a court reviews its earlier ruling to free him halfway into his 10-year jail term, officials said Thursday.
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Pezinok -
The case of a murdered investigative journalist delivered a new shock in Slovakia Thursday, as a high-profile businessman was acquitted of ordering the killing that ultimately exposed high-level political corruption and toppled the governing party.
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Manila -
A US Marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in the Philippines has been ordered freed on the grounds of good conduct after serving half his maximum 10-year sentence, his lawyer said Wednesday.
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A photograph of 13 year old Amanda (Milly) Dowler who disappeared in March 2002; her skeletal remains were found in woodland six months later. Surrey Police - this photograph was released to the public domain.
Johnson and Woolridge arrested for impersonating police officers Mug Shots
Two teens used their cell phone to video themselves setting a threatened gopher tortoise on fire, throwing it and then stomping it to death. Facebook
A picture of the Department of Justice, deeply related to this story. Wikimedia Commons
Undated photo obtained on May 21, 2015 courtesy of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department shows suspect Daron Dylon Wint. DC Metropolitan Police Dept./AFP/File
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A picture of the alleged assailant attacking her supposed victim caught on camera. YouTube via Livelink
This photo shows the South African reality, both the impressive aircraft and electic wire caused by the country's extreme crime rate.
A screenshot taken of the Greenville County, South Carolina jail Web site displaying Kimbrell's mug shot and arrest details. Greenville County S.C. jail Web site
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A vacant commercial structure and church, side by side. While many may see nothing other than grit in these pictures, they really show the potential this corridor has for a grassroots revival. MetroJacksonville Member-share
Undated photo obtained on May 21, 2015 courtesy of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department shows suspect Daron Dylon Wint. DC Metropolitan Police Dept./AFP/File
File photo: Richmond police, Richmond Virginia.
Gregory Brooks was sentenced to 120 years in prison for murdering two people. NBC 5 Chicago
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