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'Convulsion of hatred': Paris prosecutors probe 'suicide' taunts targeting police at protest
Paris prosecutors have launched an investigation after French anti-government protesters in the latest of a series of demonstrations shouted slogans mocking police over a spate of recent suicides in the force, judicial sources said Sunday. The "yellow vest" protesters took to the streets of Paris ...
Thousands of Peruvians say goodbye to ex-President Garcia following suicide
Thousand of Peruvians said goodbye on Thursday in Lima to ex-president Alan Garcia — who killed himself this week — in the second of three days of national mourning declared by President Martin Vizcarra. Garcia shot himself in the head on Wednesday to avoid arrest ...
Odebrecht: The scandal shaking Latin America from Brazil to Peru and beyond
The corruption scandal involving Latin America's biggest construction company, Odebrecht, took a dramatic turn Wednesday with the suicide of former Peruvian President Alan Garcia, who was embroiled in the affair. According to the U.S. Justice Department, Odebrecht paid $788 million in bribes across 12 countries, ...
Alan Garcia was the charismatic chameleon of Peruvian politics, once popular enough to be elected president twice. But his terms were filled with ups and downs and he eventually became caught up in the Odebrecht bribery scandal that rocked Latin America. Garcia, 69, fatally shot ...
Peru ex-President Alan García dead after shooting himself as police tried to detain him
Former Peruvian President Alan Garcia died Wednesday after shooting himself in the head moments after police attempted to detain him amid corruption allegations in Latin America's largest graft probe. President Martin Vizcarra announced on Twitter that Garcia died after undergoing emergency surgery hours earlier. Doctors ...
Okinawa police knew of problems between woman and U.S. serviceman before she was murdered
The U.S. military had informed local police in Okinawa in January of concerns about the relationship between a U.S. serviceman and a Japanese woman, and police had apparently been trying to confirm her safety, before both of them were found dead at the weekend. The ...
Gatekeepers, listeners, tax money: How Akita, once the prefecture with highest rate, halved suicides
Taeko Watanabe awoke one cold March night and found a trail of blood in the hallway, a bloody cleaver on her son Yuki's bed and no trace of him in the house. Then police discovered a suicide note in his bedroom. "They found him in ...
A second student who survived 2018 Florida school massacre reportedly commits suicide
A second student from the Florida high school where 17 were shot dead in 2018 has committed suicide within a week, U.S. media reported Sunday. The Miami Herald said police in Coral Springs told the paper that a current student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High ...
Suicide now leading cause of death among children aged 10 to 14 in Japan
Suicide is down overall, but government statistics show it is now deadlier than cancer for that age group and the leading cause of death for people 10 to 39.
Two 12-year-old girls jump to their deaths from building in Aichi, leaving notes hinting at bullying
Suicide notes purportedly written by the two sixth-graders addressed to their school’s principal and a few friends were found after their deaths. They included accounts of verbal abuse, according to sources.
Japanese artist behind ghastly creature in viral 'Momo Challenge' baffled by disturbing hoax
The ghastly image of a goggle-eyed creature that triggered the so-called Momo Challenge — a viral social-media hoax terrifying children and parents alike — was born in a cluttered two-story studio on the outskirts of Tokyo. The creator of the girl-like monster, Keisuke Aiso, seemed ...
The Prodigy icon Keith Flint dead at 49
Keith Flint, frontman of British rave icons The Prodigy, has died at the age of 49, the electronic pop group said Monday. Flint took his own life, his band mate Liam Howlett wrote in a post on The Prodigy's official Instagram account. "I can't believe I'm ...
