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Uganda paid tribute on Thursday to SC Villa captain David Owori, a 27-year-old footballer who died after a suspected robbery in Kampala. SC Villa said Owori was the victim of a "brutal assault by unknown individuals" near his home on Tuesday and died in hospi…
Italian police said Thursday they arrested eight people accused of belonging to a migrant smuggling ring that took people by small boat from Algeria to Sardinia. Police said the group allegedly carried about a dozen people at a time from the Algerian port of…
A 36-year-old man has been remanded in custody in Greece on suspicion of murdering British woman Elisabeth-Jane Ross, whose body was found in a suitcase in Athens. The ANA news agency reported that the man was placed in custody on Thursday. Greek media identi…
A 47-year-old woman has been charged after four men were stabbed in Covent Garden in central London with what police believe was a pair of scissors. Stella Gollovena was charged on Thursday with four counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily har…
Nigeria's government said Wednesday that security forces rescued 308 citizens who had been abducted in different attacks in Niger and Kwara states. Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu welcomed the operation. He said 163 of tho…
Members of Uganda’s boxing team were unaccounted for after competing at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Police Scotland said on Wednesday. Police Scotland said it had received reports of several athletes who were unaccounted for and was making enquiri…
A 55-year-old Greek man was arrested in Mystras in the Peloponnese after police found his father’s body in a freezer, the Ana news agency reported Wednesday. Ana reported that the man had kept his dead father in the freezer for two-and-a-half years to continu…
Two men remained in hospital on Wednesday after four men were stabbed in Covent Garden, a busy central London area popular with tourists, London's Metropolitan Police said. A 47-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon and as…
Portuguese police said Wednesday they seized about five tonnes of cocaine from a container ship on the open ocean and arrested three people. Authorities said the ship was travelling from an unnamed Latin American country when it was boarded about 640 nautical…
Police and prosecutors in Germany said Wednesday that a drone found overnight near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig-Halle airport was carrying an unknown explosive device. An airport employee discovered the drone, and police used a robot to remove the deton…
Mexican authorities said the shooting death of influencer Cesar Gastelum may have been retaliation for social media posts about a criminal group. Gunmen on a motorcycle shot Gastelum late Tuesday during a livestream in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state.…
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said Wednesday that an explosive drone found at Leipzig-Halle airport was being treated as a “hybrid attack scenario” and represented “a new level of danger”. Dobrindt told journalists at the airport that the incide…
Eight South Korean student protesters were detained after trying to unlawfully enter Osan Air Base south of Seoul, police and the US military said Wednesday. The Korean Progressive University Student Union posted social media images of its Tuesday demonstrati…
Federal prosecutors have charged Jeanine John Taele, 38, with possessing an unregistered short-barreled rifle after his arrest at President Donald Trump's golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, two days before Trump visited for a Republican fundraise…
Mexican federal prosecutors said on August 4 that authorities dismantled four clandestine oil refineries and seized almost one million liters, or about 6,300 barrels, of petroleum derivatives. The illegal fuel-processing sites were in the central states of Sa…
Around 2,000 people attended the funeral in Zimbabwe on Tuesday for a woman and her two daughters who were killed in their home in Britain last month, allegedly by her husband. Nothabo Zandile Tshuma, 42, and daughters Natalie, 15, and Nala, 5, were buried af…
Brazilian police are investigating eight suspects accused of plotting attacks in Brasilia during the October 4 presidential election, including alleged plans shared in public Telegram groups, security officials said Tuesday. Victor Fernandes, digital rights s…
Greek authorities have arrested the crew of an Italian leisure boat after it was intercepted off the island of Skopelos with illegally harvested coral estimated to be worth 800,000 euros ($920,000). Greece's ANA news agency reported the interception, and a sp…
Indonesian authorities have arrested a 22-year-old Malaysian on suspicion of smuggling methamphetamine and ecstasy into the country, the second Malaysian drug-smuggling arrest reported in days. The person, identified only as DI, was detained in Surabaya on Mo…
Mikhail Razvozhayev, Sevastopol's Moscow-installed governor, said Tuesday that an unidentified soldier killed four people, including three civilians, in the Russian-annexed Crimean city. Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram that initial information indicated the sol…
Nigerian High Court judge Faruku Hassan Bunza has been freed after being kidnapped from his home in northwestern Kebbi state, police said Monday. Bunza was abducted by unidentified gunmen in Bunza town on July 26. Bashir Usman, a spokesman for Kebbi state pol…
A 35-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant died after falling from a fourth-floor flat in Bursa, western Turkey, and police detained her husband, state news agency Anadolu reported Monday. The Sudanese woman died late Sunday. Anadolu said her 37-year-o…
A Swiss man carrying out a mining survey and a Central African Republic soldier assigned as his security detail were killed in an attack north of Bangui, military officials said Monday. A high-ranking officer told AFP on condition of anonymity that “unidentif…
Greek police said Sunday they had arrested a 26-year-old suspect in the homicide investigation of a British woman whose body was found inside a suitcase in an abandoned building in Athens. Police said the victim was a 38-year-old UK national and that her body…
A gunman opened fire at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Saturday, causing fatalities before the suspect also died, police said. Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said authorities were still working to determine the number of victims…
Police in Brazil said a 33-year-old man stabbed three people to death on Saturday, Aug. 1, at the factory where he worked in Sao Bernardo do Campo, in the greater Sao Paulo area. Police said the man entered the workplace and stabbed the three victims, who die…
Russia's national anti-terrorism committee said a homemade explosive device blew up at a restaurant in Moscow's Kudrinskaya Square on Saturday, killing three people and wounding 21, TASS state news agency reported. The committee said the dead were a woman car…
Sri Lanka deployed hundreds of troops and Special Task Force commandos on Sunday after a riot at Mahara Prison, outside Colombo, killed one inmate and wounded six others, police said. Deputy police inspector-general Sanjeewa Medawatte said the situation was u…
US television journalist Savannah Guthrie appealed for public help Saturday, six months after her 84-year-old mother disappeared from the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona. Nancy Guthrie disappeared on the night of January 31 to February 1. Recovered security came…
A truck bomb exploded near a police station in Cucuta, close to Colombia's border with Venezuela, wounding 14 people days before President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella is due to take office, officials said Saturday. The latest official toll said 11 police o…
Liberian President Joseph Boakai has dismissed 12 government officials after major cocaine seizures that triggered public calls for tougher action. A late Thursday statement said Boakai ordered dismissals, suspensions and investigations after reviewing the st…
London's Metropolitan Police said Friday it had questioned two people suspected of helping late Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, who is accused of sexually abusing dozens of employees and subjecting them to gynaecological examinations. Police said one man in h…
A Malaysian pilot arrested in Indonesia with more than 70,000 ecstasy tablets in his suitcase risks the death penalty or life imprisonment if convicted of smuggling, Indonesian officials said. The 39-year-old pilot, identified only by the initials MSO, was ar…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney denounced a shooting at the Rahma Islamic Centre in Winnipeg as an act of Islamophobia after no one was injured in the Wednesday night incident. “This violent act of Islamophobia is appalling and has no place in Canada. I'm…
Mexico said on Thursday it had captured the alleged mastermind behind the assassination of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo, who was killed in November 2025 during Day of the Dead celebrations. Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch identified the suspect as Ramon…
Nepal's Prime Minister Balendra Shah appealed for calm on Thursday after unrest in the country's south left three people dead and led authorities to impose curfews in Sunsari and neighbouring districts. Officials said the violence began late Sunday in a villa…
The home of Colombian congressman Ariel Rodriguez was targeted with an explosive device in Cucuta shortly before midnight on Wednesday, police said. Police said the device was thrown into the backyard of Rodriguez, a Liberal Party congressman and supporter of…
Nigerian police said they arrested a Chinese man in Abuja and deported him to Shanghai to face wildlife trafficking charges over about 12 tonnes of pangolin scales. Police identified the man as Cai Jinlian, 42, and said he was arrested on July 18 and sent to…
Nigerian authorities dismantled an alleged meth lab in southwestern Ogun state on Wednesday after a $360 million bust that officials said pointed to Mexican cartel involvement. Officers from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency brought in workers to take…
Andrei Cherezov, the director and founder of Russian drone manufacturer Russian Air Transport Laboratory, was wounded in a shooting in Tula early Wednesday, and prosecutors opened an attempted murder investigation. Russia's Izvestia newspaper reported that Ch…
Ecuadorian police found seven charred bodies inside a house in La Troncal, a town in the southern province of Canar, authorities said. Police said the bodies were found Tuesday in a rural area. A police report said two of the bodies were tied with wire and th…
A 38-year-old British woman was found dead in a suitcase in an abandoned building in central Athens, Greek state broadcaster ERT reported Wednesday. ERT said a homeless person found the body on July 18. The broadcaster said Interpol data helped identify the w…
Israeli police said Wednesday they arrested an Israeli settler suspected of violently assaulting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank while wearing military uniform in June. Police said the attack took place on June 6 in the Palestinian town of Huwara in th…
Patrick Bruel, one of France's best-known pop singers and actors, has been accused by two more women of sexual abuse, their lawyer said Tuesday. The allegations lodged this month include sexual assault and rape. They follow Bruel being charged in June with ra…
Two suspects have been arrested in Luxembourg in an investigation into the deaths of three French nationals in South Africa, French prosecutors said on Tuesday. The bodies of three adults were found on July 11 at two separate locations near Pretoria, said Gau…
The gang rape of two teenage girls in eastern Guinea has sparked a nationwide campaign against sexual violence and calls for justice. The April rapes were filmed and shared on social media. Four men were arrested in Mandiana, in eastern Guinea, and another su…
Bosnian police arrested a 31-year-old foreign national suspected of vandalising the Catholic pilgrimage site of Medjugorje and setting fire to a nearby altar days before a major youth prayer gathering. Police confirmed the arrest on Tuesday. A police spokeswo…
A French couple has been taken into custody after the remains of five infants were found in boxes at their home in Orange, southeastern France, judicial sources said on Wednesday. The remains were discovered on Monday, a day after the 32-year-old woman gave b…
Japanese police arrested a 61-year-old Kyoto man after neighbours said years of loud guitar playing and radio noise had caused health problems, a local police officer said. The officer told AFP that Kazunori Yokoi had allegedly played dozens of guitars and hi…
One person died and two others were wounded Monday in a shooting near Mexico City's Zocalo public square and presidential palace, authorities said. Mexico City's Security Secretariat described the shooting as a "direct attack" in which a 42-year-old man was k…
Gunmen killed at least 30 people, including eight children, in an overnight attack on a farming village in northern Nigeria, residents, a community leader and Amnesty International said on Monday. The attack took place in Naridon village in Kaduna state. Resi…
A bullet struck the facade of the US consulate in Toronto early on Monday in the second shooting at the diplomatic compound in four months, police said. No one was injured. Toronto Deputy Police Chief Frank Barredo said an officer guarding the consulate heard…
A protest against the Lyon-Turin railway project caused about €1 million in damage and left more than 120 police officers injured during clashes at a construction site in northern Italy, officials said. Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday against the…
Gunmen kidnapped High Court judge Faruku Hassan Bunza from his home in Bunza town in northwestern Nigeria’s Kebbi state on Sunday morning, police said. Kebbi police spokesman Bashir Usman told AFP that the judge was abducted shortly after returning to Bunza.…
Paris prosecutors said Tuesday that a man arrested over a knife attack that wounded three women in the French capital has been removed from custody and placed in a police psychiatric unit. The unidentified man was stopped by an off-duty police officer on Mond…
Seven people suspected of involvement in recent fires in Algeria have been placed in pre-trial detention as a wave of forest and scrub fires has killed at least six people since mid-July. The official APS news agency cited an Algiers court as saying the suspe…
Portuguese maritime police intercepted a speedboat carrying more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine off the coast of Lisbon, Italian financial police said on Monday. Four people were arrested: two Spanish nationals, one Albanian and one man from Gibraltar, according…
Three people were killed and at least four others, including a toddler, were wounded in a shooting at Seattle Center near the Space Needle during the Bite of Seattle food festival on Sunday, officials said. Seattle police arrested one suspect and were searchi…
Indonesian authorities arrested former anti-graft prosecutor Febrie Adriansyah after seizing millions of dollars and more than 70 kilogrammes of gold bars from his home and other properties, an official said Friday. Assistant Attorney General for Oversight Ru…
Costa Rican police arrested Alejandro Arias Monge, described by officials as the country's most wanted drug trafficker, on Friday in an operation that officials said left one person dead and eight police officers injured. Arias Monge, known as "El Diablo," wa…
Thieves stole a 2,500-year-old gold necklace from a museum in eastern France on Friday, prosecutors said. Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch said the thieves smashed the display glass protecting the Celtic-era jewellery at the Chatillon-sur-Seine museum in Bu…
Two people were stabbed Thursday in separate attacks near Manhattan's Central Park, officials said. New York City police commissioner Jessica Tisch said the victims were an Asian male and a Jewish male. Both were hospitalized and were expected to survive. New…
The United States announced sanctions on Thursday targeting more than 50 Mexican individuals and entities allegedly linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, including a man Washington says is the cartel's new leader. According to the US Treasury Departmen…
Brazil recorded its lowest rate of intentional violent deaths in 14 years in 2025, but the decline was accompanied by record levels of femicides and deaths caused by police actions, the Brazilian Forum on Public Security said in its annual crime report. The w…
A German man seen as the top suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann is under investigation after an altercation with police officers in northern Germany, police said Thursday. Christian Brueckner, who has been named as a suspect…
A Croatian Olympic Committee official was arrested on Thursday over alleged corruption, local media reported, in the latest development in a graft scandal at t…
French prosecutors have charged a 70-year-old woman with the murder of Karen Carter, a British expatriate who was fatally stabbed in southwestern France in 2025. Carter, who played for the local Reines du Foot, or “Queens of Football,” team, was killed in the…
Liberian authorities announced the seizure of nearly four tonnes of cocaine valued at about $317 million in a major drug bust that included the arrest of two foreign nationals. The Liberian National Police posted photos showing a large open-bed truck carrying…
A local mayor in central Mexico was shot dead inside town hall facilities, authorities said Wednesday. The victim was Valentin Lavin, mayor of Temoac in the state of Morelos. The source described Morelos as a region close to Mexico City where several drug car…
French modelling scout Daniel Siad, who had close ties to convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been found dead at his home outside Paris, prosecutors and his lawyer said. Siad was 69 and had said he also held Swedish citizenship. The prosecutor's of…
A 55-year-old woman who was seriously injured in a May 16 car ramming in Modena, northern Italy, has died of her injuries, the local hospital said. The woman was hurt along with her husband and six other people when Salim el Koudri, a 31-year-old Italian of M…
A Hong Kong court sentenced British woman Isabel Rose, 26, to six years in prison after convicting her of blackmail and perverting the course of justice over a rape report that authorities found was untrue. Court documents said Rose met the British man involv…
A survivor and a local government chairman said an armed bandit gang kidnapped more than 40 people in northwestern Nigeria over the weekend. Alhaji Lauwali Abdullahi, a resident of Mayanchi district in Zamfara state's Maru local government area, said a gang a…
A Los Angeles court has heard text messages that prosecutors said showed American singer D4vd asking a teenage girl about an abortion after a sexual encounter, during a hearing on whether there is enough evidence to prosecute him. D4vd, whose real name is Dav…
German authorities warned on Tuesday that artificial intelligence and digital technology are playing a growing role in the sexual abuse of children, with criminal abusers increasingly using those tools. Holger Muench, head of Germany's Federal Criminal Police…
A man suspected of fatally shooting six child welfare workers at a shelter for mothers in Stade, northern Germany, died by suicide in jail on Tuesday, officials said. The Lower Saxony state justice ministry said jail staff found the suspect dead in his single…
Italian police said on Tuesday that they had seized pure cocaine with an estimated street value of 250 million euros, or $286 million, at a port in northwest Italy. Police said about 770 kilograms, or 1,700 pounds, of cocaine was hidden in a refrigerated cont…
A man with a knife attacked a Greek-American couple at the base of the Acropolis shortly after the site opened on Tuesday, 21 July, Athens police said. Police said the attack happened at about 8:05 am local time, five minutes after the gates opened to the Par…
A UN report said victims of transnational online scams in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand lost an estimated $88.3 billion to $114.1 billion last year, far above the estimated $18 billion to $37 billion lost in 2023. The UN Office on Drugs…
Taiwanese prosecutors have charged a former TSMC employee with stealing what they described as the chipmaker's core technology and trying to leak it to China. The Taiwan High Prosecutors Office's Intellectual Property Branch said Monday that the man, identifi…
A US Army veteran was arrested on Monday after a fire was started outside a federal building in New York that houses immigration courts and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, officials said. Andrew Arrabaca, 43, allegedly poured gasoline outside t…
Three people were arrested on Monday over a mass poisoning in North Macedonia that officials said was allegedly caused by contaminated river water entering a town's drinking supply during high temperatures. Health authorities said more than 3,100 people had b…
Human remains found in southern France last week have been identified as those of Delphine Jubillar, a woman missing since 2020, Toulouse prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet said on Sunday. The remains were found during searches on agricultural land in Mailhoc, in the…
Norway unveiled a memorial in Oslo on Sunday to the 77 people killed in the July 22, 2011 attacks, the deadliest peacetime massacre in the country's history. Anders Behring Breivik set off a bomb in a van near government headquarters in Oslo, killing eight pe…
A charred body found by firefighters in farmland in the southern Italian province of Salerno has been identified as local sports journalist Luigi Esposito, prosecutors said. Firefighters discovered the body while extinguishing a fire in a farm plot in Eboli,…
A 23-year-old man was arrested in Paris after allegedly saying he intended to set fire to the Bois de Boulogne, one of the French capital's largest parks, a police source said. Police were called late Friday to a fire in the western Paris park. The source sai…
Authorities in The Hague evacuated residents from dozens of homes on Saturday after an illegal drug lab was found in their neighbourhood, Dutch officials said. It was the second time in 24 hours that residents were asked to leave because of the lab. Barrels c…
Laos authorities said on Saturday that they could not determine blame or the cause of the 2024 deaths of six tourists previously linked to methanol-tainted alc…
Ukrainian-born millionaire Vadym Yermolaiev, who was wounded in a bombing attack in Monaco last month, said he did not know who might want him dead and had not believed his life was in danger before the attack. Yermolaiev, 58, remains in hospital. In his firs…
One person was killed and a police officer was wounded in northern Denmark on Friday after a gunman opened fire on officers responding to a report of a building fire, police said. The shooting happened in an industrial area of Norresundby. Police said a civil…
Two South African soldiers died after falling down a mine shaft during an operation against illicit mining, a police spokeswoman said. Police spokeswoman Athlenda Mathe said the incident happened at an abandoned mine west of Johannesburg while soldiers were p…
A United Nations rights expert demanded justice for workers killed at a palm plantation in Honduras and urged reparations for the families of those killed. Morris Tidball-Binz, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said…
A Mexican journalist who focused on security issues was killed Thursday in a drive-by shooting in the central state of Puebla, the local government announced. Josue Martinez was director of Noticias San Martin Texmelucan, where he covered security and major e…
Vietnamese police are investigating an alleged international diamond smuggling ring accused of moving 28,000 gems worth nearly $11 million, with Vietnam's largest jeweller drawn into the probe. The former head of Phu Nhuan Jewelry's gem certification subsidia…
An American mother was kept in pretrial detention on Tuesday on charges that she suffocated her 18-month-old twins and then tried to blame their deaths on vaccines, US media reported. Andrea Shaw, 23, claimed that her children suffocated eight days after rece…
Nigerian women and girls are being tricked or forced into prostitution along West African migration routes, with traffickers using false job offers, imposed debts and fear of traditional curses to keep victims under control, according to an AFP report. Blessi…
British prosecutors said Monday that they had charged 28-year-old Joshua Kerry with the murder of Ann Widdecombe, a veteran right-wing former member of parliament. Frank Ferguson from the Crown Prosecution Service said prosecutors had decided to prosecute Ker…
On 14 July 2026, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said it had dismantled a tax fraud network that caused budget losses of at least 46.9 million euros, or $53 million, in Greece and other countries. The EU prosecutors' office said searches and seizures…
German prosecutors said Tuesday that a 68-year-old Berlin man has been charged over allegations that he sedated and raped women he met on dating apps and filmed the assaults. The Berlin prosecutors' office said the charges brought so far cover 22 alleged rape…
Peter Nygard, founder of one of Canada's largest clothing brands, was found guilty on Monday in Montreal of sexual assault in an additional criminal case. He was also found guilty of forcible confinement after his lawyers did not contest the allegations. Pros…
A Nigerian school principal said on Monday that some of the more than 40 schoolchildren kidnapped in May were blindfolded and beaten while in captivity, and that male staff were blindfolded, handcuffed and chained. Rachael Alamu, head of one of the affected s…
UK police arrested 12 people as part of an extreme right-wing terrorism-related investigation into an alleged threat against an Islamic event in eastern England, counter-terrorism police said. The UK Ijtima, a large Islamic gathering held in Suffolk over the…
Toronto police said the two people killed in a weekend shooting at a music festival were targeted. Police Chief Myron Demkiw said the victims were males aged 25 and 20 who knew each other, and that police believe they were targeted. Four other people were inj…