The rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl in Nepal has sparked widespread outrage and protests in the Himalayan country, with activists and politicians demanding tougher laws on rape, including calls for the death penalty to be imposed for the crime. The little girl went missing from her home in Bara, about 80 miles south […]
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Convicted Australian triple-murderer Erin Patterson appealed her convictions Wednesday for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms. Three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal are hearing her appeal over two days against her convictions on three counts of murder and one of attempted murder relating to a lunch of […]
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Norwegian teen found guilty of U.K. murder plot for Swedish organized crime group with links to Iran
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London — A 19-year-old Norwegian has been found guilty of traveling to England to kill someone on behalf of a Swedish crime group that is under U.S. and U.K. sanctions for its links to Iran. Johannes Kongsnes Natland was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder after an investigation by British counterterrorism officers and a two-week […]
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Police have captured a fugitive who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering iconic singer-songwriter Victor Jara in 1973, during Chile’s military dictatorship, a Justice Department statement said Sunday. Author of songs such as “El derecho de vivir en paz” (The Right to Live in Peace), Jara was a major figure of New Chilean Song, a […]
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Ex-South Carolina police officer wanted for wife’s murder extradited from China after 21 years on the run
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A former police officer wanted for sexual abuse and murder has been brought back to the United States from China after over 20 years on the run, the U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday. Dan Hiers Jr., 53, was suspended from the Charleston Police Department in South Carolina in 2004 after he was accused of sexual […]
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British counterterrorism police take over investigation into “horrific murder” of veteran politician
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British counterterrorism police have taken over the investigation into the death of former politician Ann Widdecombe, according to the U.K. home secretary, after “new information” came to light. “This morning I have spoken to the head of [Counter Terrorism Policing],” Shabana Mahmood wrote on X. “Following new information and evidence, they are now leading on […]
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A murder investigation was launched Friday into the death of Ann Widdecombe, a former member of Parliament who was found dead in her home in southwest England, police said. A suspect was arrested Friday afternoon. The 78-year-old former Conservative lawmaker and prisons minister had “sustained serious injuries” when she was found on Thursday in Haytor, […]