Murder probe launched after missing Saitama boy found dead, apparently strangled
The body of Ryosuke Shindo, 9, was found near stairs in his apartment building hours after his mother informed the police he had failed to return home from his English conversation school.
Over 300 slain in Brazil's Amazon over land and resources in past decade, HRW report says
A Human Rights Watch report on Tuesday found that more than 300 people have been killed over the past decade in conflicts over the use of land and resources in the Amazon, many by organized criminal networks profiting from illegal deforestation. Of those cases, only ...
DNA links Florida man to 'serial' slayings of at least four women
Three women shot in the head, each dumped a month a part — the 2006 killings scared Daytona Beach's street people so badly that they memorized suspicious men's license plate numbers and gave them to police. And then suddenly the slayings stopped. Ten years later, ...
U.S. sees Moscow behind murder of Georgian in Germany, report says
The United States sees Moscow behind the murder in Germany last month of a Georgian man who had fought against Russian forces in Chechnya, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. "The United States believes that Russia is responsible for this assassination," one of several unnamed ...
Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, hit for aiding authoritian regimes, adopts 'human rights policy'
An Israeli spyware company that has been accused of helping authoritarian governments stifle dissent says it has adopted "a new human rights policy" to ensure its software is not misused. The NSO Group said Tuesday it would institute a series of oversight measures to ensure ...
South Africa's Ramaphosa vows to intensify war on rape and murder of women as violent crimes spike
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday unveiled a raft of plans to tighten laws to fight rape and murder of women as the nation reels from high profile murders in recent days. "Violence against women has become more than a national crisis," he said ...
Socks help solve 28-year-old cold-case murder outside Philadelphia, authorities say
A pair of socks helped lead to an arrest in the killing of a Pennsylvania woman nearly 30 years ago, authorities said. Philadelphia prosecutors and state police announced the arrest of Theodore Dill Donahue, now 52, on charges of murder and other counts in the ...
Mexico wants full probe into botched case of 43 missing students believed slain
Mexico's president said Wednesday he will push the country's attorney general and judicial council for a full investigation into officials accused of botching the investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students so badly that the principal suspects are being freed. President Andres Manuel Lopez ...
The gunman in a West Texas rampage that left seven dead obtained his AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check that previously blocked him from getting a gun, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official ...
Hundreds of Palestinian women held a demonstration in the West Bank on Monday to demand an investigation into the death of a 21-year-old woman who many suspect was the victim of a so-called honor killing. Israa Ghrayeb, a makeup artist from a village near Bethlehem, ...
Mayoral candidate slain in Colombia coca town in suspected rebel attack
A little over a week before her lifeless body was found in an abandoned, burned-out vehicle, Karina Garcia could sense she was a marked woman. As she was out canvassing for votes to become the first female mayor of Suarez, in Colombia's coca-strewn countryside, four ...
Police end probe of Kawasaki stabbing rampage with motive still a mystery
Police on Monday formally ended their investigation of a man who went on a fatal stabbing rampage in Kawasaki earlier this year targeting schoolchildren before killing himself. Ryuichi Iwasaki, 51, carried out the knife attack on the morning of May 28 at a spot where ...
