China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) on Tuesday pledged stern, strict and swift punishment for major vicious crimes to maintain social stability and enhance the public’s sense of safety and well-being. According to a statement issued after an SPP leadership meeting, the top procuratorate stressed a zero-tolerance approach toward crimes targeting students and compromising school safety….
A new analysis by the the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) released on Tuesday has shown that cases of domestic violence against women has risen in Germany in 2023. According to the agency, a total of 180,715 women reported being victims of domestic violence during 2023, an increase of 5.6 per cent over the year…
In a tragic incident, Anthony Nephew, a 46-year-old man from Minnesota, fatally shot himself, his wife, ex-partner, and two children following the election of President-elect Donald Trump on November 5. Authorities revealed that Nephew had expressed frustration over Trump’s victory. Duluth Police Chief Mike Ceynowa stated that the shooter had a history of mental health…
Seven terrorists were killed and three others injured in separate operations by the Pakistani military across the country, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. The ISPR, the media wing of Pakistan’s military, said one incident happened in the North Waziristan tribal district where a terrorist was killed in an intelligence-based operation. The second incident took…
Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a high-ranking official in the Equatorial Guinean government, finds himself at the center of a significant sex scandal. The controversy came to light during a fraud investigation, which led authorities to search Engonga’s home and office. He serves as the director general of the Anti-graft National Agency for Financial Investigation (ANIF). During…
Israel’s military intends to retaliate “significantly” and swiftly against Iran after the latter fired around 180 missiles at Israel’s territory, but it is still weighing what form this reprisal will take, according to a source briefed on the matter. Israel is currently examining a range of options to strike back at Iran, and it is…
Türkiye has announced that it will present evidence regarding the killing of a Turkish-American woman by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. The evidence would be presented to both the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot during a protest against an Israeli settlement…
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has convicted and sentenced an American businessman, Marco Antonio Ramirez, to 74 years in prison over his involvement in a $1.2 million US visa scam. Justice Dada handed down the verdict after she found the foreigner guilty of a 16-count charge of defrauding…
Following the latest Ukrainian drone attacks on the Moscow region, the Kremlin sees its war policy confirmed. “We must continue the special military operation to protect ourselves from such incidents,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, according to Russian state news agencies, using the government’s official term for its war against Ukraine. Earlier on Tuesday, the…
The conflict in Syria which has been going on since 2011, is threatening to escalate again, a United Nations commission has warned. Syria is experiencing “new waves of hostilities”, said Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN’s Syria Commission of Inquiry. He was speaking on Tuesday as he presented his latest report to the UN Human…
