Twelve-year-old girl arrested in Florida after post threatening to kill classmates
A 12-year-old girl has been arrested in Florida for allegedly threatening over Snapchat to kill other students at her school on Monday, police said. The girl, who was not identified, posted the message on Friday and she was taken into custody on Saturday night and ...
At least 14 people have been killed since Monday in eastern DR Congo in attacks blamed on a militia responsible for a series of massacres, local officials said. Dozens of armed groups have troubled the DR Congo's restive east for decades despite a U.N. peacekeeping ...
Alleged Nigerian serial killer changes plea to not guilty after confessing to slaying nine women
A suspected Nigerian serial killer reversed his plea to not guilty in court Thursday after earlier confessing to strangling nine women in a string of ritual-style killings. Gracious David West, 26, was arrested in September on accusations he lured his victims to hotels in Port ...
American family may have been 'bait' in Mexican cartel fight
The nine American women and children killed in northern Mexico were victims of a territorial dispute between an arm of the Sinaloa Cartel and a rival gang, officials said on Wednesday, and may have been used to lure one side into a firefight. Members of ...
A former senior Rwandan official went on trial in Belgium on Monday accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide in his country. Friends and relatives of the alleged victims of 71-year-old Fabien Neretse were present as he arrived at the Brussels court, leaning on ...
Mexico shows footage of 'El Chapo' son's capture, and defends his release to avoid cartel bloodbath
Mexico's government on Wednesday showed dramatic video footage of the moment when its forces briefly captured a son of kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman this month before they were ordered to release the suspected trafficker to avoid a bloodbath. With President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ...
'Global ring' involved in smuggling 39 Vietnamese found dead in U.K. freight container, court told
A court heard on Monday that a global ring had been involved in smuggling the 39 people whose bodies were found in a truck near London, as the driver faced charges of manslaughter and people-trafficking. The discovery of the bodies last week in a refrigerated ...
U.S. condemns executions by Turkish-allied Syria groups in Kurd region American forces vacated
The United States said Monday it was appalled and seeking more information after accounts that pro-Turkish fighters in Syria have summarily executed civilians including a female Kurdish politician. The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces said that at least nine civilians were "executed" as part of Turkey's ...
Prompted by deadly shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, that left 29 people dead over a 13-hour period from Friday, the Foreign Ministry warned Japanese citizens in the United States to stay vigilant against such dangers. "Heeding to the possibility that shooting incidents ...
Almost 700 summary executions in Congo in six months, says U.N.
Nearly 700 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo were victims of summary and extrajudicial executions this year, with a third carried out by security forces, the United Nations reported on Thursday. In the six months between January and June, which followed a momentous presidential ...
Hunt for Canadian murder suspects centers on remote Manitoba town
Canadian police said Wednesday they have sent reinforcements to an isolated northern town where a torched car was linked to the suspects in three murders. Canadians Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, are sought in the murders of Australian Lucas Fowler and his American ...
Libya on Wednesday extradited to Britain the brother of a suicide bomber who attacked an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in May 2017 and killed 22 people, officials said. Salman Abedi's brother, Hashem, who was arrested in Libya days after the bombing, was handed over ...
