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US shooting investigated as potential hate crime

A 51-year-old man from Kansas has been charged with killing an Indian engineer and wounding two other men when he opened fire in a bar.

USA

Epidemic: US heroin deaths quadruple in five years

The US is facing an opioid epidemic and fatal overdoses of heroin have more than quadrupled in five years ending 2015

Malaysia

What is VX, the world's deadliest nerve agent use by North Korea?

Malaysian police revealed they've discovered traces of a highly toxic nerve agent on the face of Kim Jong-Nam, who was murdered earlier in February

Spain

Spain's Urdangarin escapes jail pending appeal

A Spanish court has decided not to send the King of Spain's brother-in-law to prison while he awaits the outcome of an appeal against a six-year-sentence for charges including tax fraud and money laun

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World News

How weak links in justice system hit Europe's most vulnerable children

Sexually-abused children are among European youngsters whose suffering is being exacerbated by failings in the justice system, a ground-breaking new report…

Malaysia

Malaysia seeks four North Koreans over Kim Jong-nam murder

Malaysian police are seeking four more North Korean suspects in connection with the killing of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half brother of the isolated country’s…

Turkey

'Come home', begs husband after finding wife abducted in 1990

The husband of a Turkish woman kidnapped in Saudi Arabia 27 years ago has pleaded for her to give up her new life and return home.

United Kingdom

Post-Brexit hate crimes in England and Wales reach record levels

Hate crimes in England and Wales have risen to record numbers in the three months immediately following the UK's vote to leave the European Union

Belgium

Minister promoting cycle lanes has bike stolen

A Belgian mobility minister was left red-faced after his bike was stolen at an event to promote cycle lanes.

North Korea

North Korean leader's half-brother 'assassinated with poisoned needles' in Malaysia, sources

Kim Jong-nam reportedly murdered at Kuala Lumpur airport by poisoned needles

Georgia

Poisonous plot at the pinnacle of the Georgian Orthodox Church

Cyanide plot to kill the godfather of the Georgian nation

Romania

Watch: Romania's leaders 'appear' as convict cut-outs at Bucharest protest

Large cut-outs of Romania’s leaders dressed as convicts have appeared at protests in Bucharest.

United Kingdom

Rolf Harris cleared in new sex crime trial

86-year old cleared of new charges, still imprisoned on earlier convictions

Vatican

Pope slams people trafficking and Rohingya abuse

People trafficking and Rohingya abuse 'intolerable' says pope

Italy

'Mafia art collection' on display in southern Italy

It is no ordinary exhibition…because the precious paintings featured all belonged to an art-loving mobster!

Tanzania

Babies targeted as FGM victims get younger, say campaigners

Babies are among the victims of female genital mutilation (FGM), campaigners claim, reflecting a growing trend of younger girls being targeted.

Philippines

Amnesty: Philippines drug war killings could be 'crime against humanity'

It’s a damning indictment of the war on drugs being waged in the Philippines, Amnesty International says the widespread killings of alleged offenders by police and others are a “flagrant violation of

Canada

Quebec mosque attack: Who is gunman Alexandre Bissonnette?

The man charged with shooting six worshippers dead in a Quebec City mosque has been named as Alexandre Bissonnette. Who is Bissonnette?

USA

Pop icon Michael Jackson's daughter says her father was murdered

Paris Jackson, the only daughter of pop icon Michael Jackson tells Rolling Stone magazine she is convinced his 2009 death was no accident

France

Roman Polanski pulls out of César awards after outcry

The film director Roman Polanski has pulled out of presiding over the prestigious César awards in France, following protests over his implication in a rape case involving a…