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Troubled Chinese man kills six with car, shot dead by police
A car rammed into a crowd in central China on Friday, killing six people and injuring seven others, and the driver was fatally shot by police, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The injured were taken to a hospital following the early morning incident in Zaoyang City ...
Justice Clarence Thomas talks at court arguments over racial bias, first time in three years
The Supreme Court was about to adjourn for the day when the Georgia baritone politely inquired of the lawyer at the lectern. Justice Clarence Thomas, the court's only African-American member and lone Southerner, was breaking a three-year silence at high court arguments with a couple ...
U.S. man arrested over stabbing death of Japanese wife in lobby of Tokyo court building
An American man in the middle of a divorce with his Japanese wife is arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing her in a family court building lobby.
Suspect in Gambino mob boss hit flashes pro-Trump slogans on hand
The man charged with killing the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family wrote pro-Donald Trump slogans on his hand and flashed them to journalists before a court hearing Monday. Anthony Comello, 24, was arrested Saturday in New Jersey in the death of Francesco "Franky ...
Two Japanese men arrested in Cambodia for allegedly killing taxi driver
Two Japanese men in their 20s were arrested in Cambodia late Sunday on suspicion of killing a taxi driver in the north of the country, a local police official has said. The men were identified as Reimon Ishida, 23, originally from Chiba Prefecture, and Ryuji ...
Saudi crown prince approved 'intervention' against dissidents, report says
More than a year before the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved a secret campaign to silence dissenters, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The campaign included surveillance, kidnapping, detention and torture of Saudis, said the ...
Former Putin adviser who died in U.S. had broken neck, documents show
Newly released documents show that a former adviser to Russia's president sustained a complete fracture of his neck "at or near the time of his death" in a Washington hotel room in 2015. The documents from the city's medical examiner were released to Radio Free ...
The horrific death toll in the New Zealand mosque massacre has put the spotlight on the lethality of the semi-automatic weapons used by the Christchurch gunman and in numerous attacks in the United States. At least 49 people were killed and dozens wounded when the ...
49 dead and four in custody after mosque shootings on 'one of New Zealand's darkest days'
Shootings at two mosques full of worshippers killed 49 people Friday on what the prime minister called "one of New Zealand's darkest days." Authorities charged one person, detained three others and defused explosive devices in what appeared to be a carefully planned racist attack. Prime ...
Slovak entrepreneur charged with ordering investigative journalist Jan Kuciak's 2018 murder
Slovak prosecutors said Thursday they had charged an entrepreneur with ordering the murder of an investigative journalist whose killing during a corruption probe triggered mass protests and toppled the country's prime minister. Journalist Jan Kuciak had been investigating Marian Kocner's business activities at the time ...
The reputed boss of New York's Gambino crime family was gunned down outside his home, dying a virtual unknown compared with his swaggering 1980s-era predecessor, the custom-tailored tabloid regular John Gotti. Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali, 53, was found with multiple gunshot wounds at his red-brick ...
Police arrested three men Wednesday over the robbery and murder of an 80-year-old woman in Tokyo last month, after investigators found similarities in the case with two other robberies targeting elderly people. Tatsumi Komatsuzono, 27, Hiroki Sue, 22, and Yuta Sakai, 22, allegedly broke into ...
