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Italy

Italy wants full collaboration from Egypt on student murder investigation

The murder of Giulio Regeni has created diplomatic rifts between Cairo and Rome. Investigators will arrive in Italy to discuss the case on Thursday. New allegations published in La Repubblica point th

06/04/2016

Turkey

Turkey: personal data of 50 million citizens leaked online, hackers claim

Turkey has launched an investigation into an alleged leak of the personal data of almost 50 million citizens. The information is said to have been

06/04/2016

World News

Giulio Regeni Cairo murder 'isolated incident' says Egypt FM

The murder of an Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo has been described by Egypt’s foreign minister as an “isolated incident.” He said Egyptian

02/04/2016

United Kingdom

Children help police capture suspects on the run in the most ingenious way

Children taking part in an Easter egg hunt form a human triangle in a field to help Surrey police in pursuit of two suspected burglars

02/04/2016

Russia

Mass gang arrests in Russian city of Yekaterinburg

Russia’s interior ministry has released a video of a police raid on a restaurant on Wednesday night (March 30) in which 167 suspected gang members

31/03/2016

Romania

Ex-Communist camp commander jailed for crimes against humanity

The ex-commander of a Communist-era Labour camp in Romania has been jailed for 20 years for ‘crimes against humanity’. The camp run by 88-year old

30/03/2016

Syria

'Nightmare over,' Palmyra to be mostly restored by end of 2016

“The nightmare is over for Palmyra,” says Syria’s Head of Antiquities. Mamoun Abdulkarim said the city of ancient temples will be mostly restored by

28/03/2016

World News

Egypt 'identifies' gang who killed Italian student Giulio Regeni

Egypt claims it has identified the criminal gang which killed Italian student Giulio Regeni. The interior ministry in Cairo says its security forces

25/03/2016

Norway

Norway's mass killer Anders Breivik sues his jailers for violating his human rights

Anders Behring Breivik , the man convicted of killing 77 people in Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity is suing his jailers for alleged cruel and

14/03/2016

World News

Gang accused of robbing drug dealers in Spain by posing as policemen

Police in Spain have arrested members of a crime gang suspected of robbing drug dealers by pretending to be policemen. Authorities say some 30

14/03/2016

Economy

Bangladesh cyber bank heist blame game underway

The blame game is underway in Bangladesh after computer hackers stole the equivalent of 73 million euros from the central bank and nearly got away with 10 times as much

14/03/2016

France

'Horror' dentist on trial accused of mutilating patients in France

A dentist is on trial in central France accused of mutilating dozens of his patients. Dutchman Mark van Nierop is facing charges of intentional

08/03/2016

World News

UN reports a rise in allegations of sexual abuse by its personnel

There’s been a rise in the number of allegations of sexual exploitation or sexual abuse against United Nations personnel. Last year there were 99

05/03/2016

Honduras

Honduras: clashes break out after death of activist Berta Cáceres

Clashes broke out in the Honduran capital following a student protest over the murder of prominent environmental rights activist Berta Cáceres

04/03/2016

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Gutting the gun store

Surveillance video footage shows masked robbers breaking into and pillaging a Houston gun store.

04/03/2016

Hungary

Can you be punished for committing a "crime" in a country where it is legal?

Gabor Tanacs examines the case of a Hungarian owner of a brothel in Germany to examine the reality of cross-border justice. ‘Elizabeth’ runs a

04/03/2016

USA

Video: Gang steals 50 guns from firearm shop in 2 minutes

03/03/2016

Brazil

Brazil jails Facebook executive for refusing to share WhatsApp data

Facebook has called the arrest of its Latin America vice president over a court order in a drug trafficking case “extreme and disproportionate”.

02/03/2016

World News

What we do we know about North Korea’s US prisoner Otto Warmbier?

Otto Warmbier, 21, is a third-year business student, from the University of Virginia. His family live in Cincinnati, Ohio. Why is he in the news? He

29/02/2016

North Korea

US student Otto Warmbier held in North Korea 'confesses to severe crime'

An American student detained in North Korea since early January and accused of carrying out a hostile act against the state has been paraded before

29/02/2016