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U.S. report blames Myanmar military for Rohingya mass atrocities but doesn't mention genocide
A U.S. government investigation has found that Myanmar's military waged a planned, coordinated campaign of mass killings, gang rapes and other atrocities against the Southeast Asian nation's Rohingya Muslim minority. The State Department report, reviewed by Reuters ahead of its expected public release on Monday, ...
High court upholds life term handed to former U.S. base worker in Okinawa over woman's 2016 murder
A high court Thursday upheld a lower court's ruling that sentenced a former U.S. military base worker to life in prison for the 2016 rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman in Okinawa. The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court dismissed the appeal of ...
Sendai policeman's killer may have tried to steal officer's gun
A university student who stabbed a policeman to death at a police box in Sendai on Wednesday may have tried to steal the officer's gun, investigative sources said Thursday. The body of police officer Hiroaki Seino, 33, had cuts apparently inflicted during his attempts to ...
The accused killer of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts, whose disappearance produced national headlines, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder at a court appearance on Wednesday. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 24-year-old farm worker from Mexico accused of stabbing 20-year-old Tibbetts, appeared in a black-and-white striped ...
Man fatally stabs officer at Sendai police box before being shot to death
Police officer Hiroaki Seino was fatally stabbed early Wednesday by a man who said he had come to hand over some lost cash.
Investigators detail 'crimes of the highest order' by Myanmar against Rohingya
U.N.-backed investigators who examined a bloody crackdown by Myanmar security forces that caused hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh issued a searing critique Tuesday of the United Nations' response to the rights crisis. In a 432-page report, the members of a ...
The imprisoned son-in-law of a murdered Monaco billionaire goes on trial Monday with nine other people suspected in the brazen daylight killing of the heiress, a case which prosecutors say bears all the hallmarks of a sordid crime thriller. Helene Pastor was leaving a hospital ...
Second suspect faces trial in slaying of missing pregnant Native American woman
A second suspect in the killing of a North Dakota woman whose baby was cut from her womb will stand trial this week, more than a year after her disappearance transfixed the state and shined a light on what advocates call oft-overlooked violence against ...
U.S. Border Patrol agent arrested in serial killings of sex workers
Texas state troopers arrested a U.S. Border Patrol supervisor Saturday who they say went on a two-week serial killing spree that left four female sex workers dead and ended only when a fifth woman escaped from him at a gas station and found help. Juan ...
Killings in famed mariachi plaza pose test for Mexico's new government
Five people died after a dramatic shootout at a famed Mexico City mariachi plaza, officials said on Saturday, the latest in a recent string of crimes in the capital that will soon put to the test the incoming government's new tactics to fight violence. At ...
Dallas police face ire over drug search of apartment of man mistakenly shot by off-duty officer
Attorneys for the family of a black man who was killed in his apartment by a white police officer have accused Dallas police of trying to "assassinate his character" and expressed fury that authorities sought a search warrant that resulted in the discovery of ...
Driver rams into crowd in China, killing and injuring dozens
A driver plowed into a crowded public square in China, killing nine and injuring 46, local officials said Wednesday. The incident occurred at 7:35 p.m., according to a statement on the official social media account of Hengdong city in central Hunan province. Police have taken the ...
