TEHRAN, August 10 - Brazil had a record number of murders last year, with homicides rising 3.7 percent from 2016 to 63,880 according to a study released on Thursday, just months before a presidential election in which violence has become a key issue.
TEHRAN, July 19 - The number of murders and other violent crimes involving weapons continues to rise in England and Wale, official figures show, despite years of initiated efforts to decrease crime rates across the UK.
TEHRAN, June 08 - The chief of NATO criticized Ukraine for its intelligence stunt involving the staged murder of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, saying the incident has the power to “undermine” the free press and “fuel propaganda.”
TEHRAN, May 30 -The reported killing of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko on Tuesday in Kiev was actually a ruse played by the Ukrainian law enforcement to prevent a planned hit, the Ukrainian authorities said.
TEHRAN, May 10 - A 16-year-old boy gunned down on a basketball court was the 100th homicide of 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. As the city struggles to maintain order, Mayor Catherine Pugh blames gun companies for the violence.
TEHRAN, April 03 -British capital London has overtaken America’s New York City in terms of murder, as police across the pond deal with a surge in knife crime, according to reports.
TEHRAN, March 12 -Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák announced Monday he would resign, amid a political crisis following the murder of investigative reporter Ján Kuciak.
TEHRAN, March 3 -Honduran authorities on Friday said they arrested a high-ranking executive of a hydroelectric company on Friday on charges of helping plan the murder of indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres two years ago.
TEHRAN, February 28 - A British woman who stabbed an autistic teenager to death has been jailed for life in Australia. The vicious murder made Jemma Lilley, 26, feel “euphoric,” the court heard.
TEHRAN, December 23 - The man accused of deliberately plowing into Christmas shoppers on a busy street in the Australian city of Melbourne was charged on Saturday with 18 counts of attempted murder and one count of conduct endangering life.
TEHRAN, November 29 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that the country is seriously pursuing killing of an Iranian young man by a US police officer.
TEHRAN, November 28 - A grenade attack on French soldiers in Burkina Faso has left three civilians wounded, as France’s President Emmanuel Macron arrives in the African country to begin his first tour of Africa.
TEHRAN, November 9 - A nurse who is already serving a life sentence for two murders may have killed more than 100 patients over several years at two hospitals in northwestern Germany, prosecutors said Thursday.
TEHRAN, October 23 - A gunman in the Alexandria, VA, left at least two dead and another person ‘seriously’ injured after a shooting at around 20:45 local time on Sunday.
TEHRAN, October 19 - The largest Mexican state is facing murder of young women and girls. 346 women and young children have been killed in the largest Mexican state since 2011.
TEHRAN, August 28 - A male nurse jailed for life two years ago for killing two hospital patients with lethal drug overdoses has murdered at least 90 patients in total, and possibly twice as many, police say, calling it post-war Germany's worst killing spree.
TEHRAN, June 20, YJC - The brutal murder of a teenage Muslim girl in the US state of Virginia has sparked outrage among Muslim communities across the country.
TEHRAN, May 12, YJC - North Korea has denounced an alleged failed assassination attempt by the US and South Korean intelligence agencies against its leader Kim Jong-un as a “declaration of war.”
A North Korean national suspected of murdering the half-brother of the country’s leader says he has fallen victim to a “conspiracy” by Malaysian authorities, who seek to harm Pyongyang’s dignity.
A white US Navy veteran arrested for shooting two technology engineers from India and another man at a restaurant in Kansas reportedly thought he had killed some "Iranian people."