Tag: crime

BOGOTA, Colombia (news agencies) — The mayor of Colombia’s second-largest city banned prostitution in some of the city’s most famous neighborhoods for six months Monday, arguing it was necessary to ...

JERUSALEM (news agencies) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed to shut down Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel, calling it a “terror channel” that spreads incitement, after parliament passed ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (news agencies) — Two days after Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco’s 2018 assassination, her widow sat down with the chief of the state’s civil police, ...

QUITO, Ecuador (news agencies) — Armed gunmen attacked a group of people in Ecuador ’s coastal city of Guayaquil killing eight people and injuring eight others, the Interior Ministry said, ...

UNITED NATIONS (news agencies) — Haiti now needs between 4,000 and 5,000 international police to help tackle “catastrophic” gang violence which is targeting key individuals and hospitals, schools, banks and ...

MOSCOW (news agencies) — Nine people have been detained by Tajikistan’s state security service over suspected contact with the perpetrators of last week’s attack by gunmen on a suburban Moscow ...

TAXCO, Mexico (news agencies) — A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco brutally beat a woman to death Thursday because she was suspected of kidnapping and killing a ...

Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end ...

MOSCOW (news agencies) — Russia’s top investigative body said Thursday that another suspect has been detained as an accomplice in the attack by gunmen on a suburban Moscow concert hall ...

Last year singer Casandra Ventura alleged the rapper sexually assaulted her in 2018Once hip hop's flashy impresario credited with commercialising the genre, Sean "Diddy" Combs has seen his star plunge ...