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September 12, 2017

Egyptian lawyer linked to slain Italian arrested in Cairo

A rights group says Egyptian authorities have arrested a lawyer who assisted the family of an Italian graduate student killed ...

September 12, 2017

South Africa marks 40th anniversary of Steve Biko's death

South African leaders on Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Steve Biko, the anti-apartheid activist and ...

September 12, 2017

Police: Afghan man assaulted in Germany for wearing crucifix

Berlin police say an Afghan man was attacked in the German capital by two assailants who yanked a crucifix necklace off of ...

September 12, 2017

Zimbabwe's first lady denies assault, says she was attacked

Representatives of Zimbabwe's first lady say a young woman who accused her of assault was the actual aggressor, allegedly ...

September 12, 2017

German prosecutors seek maximum term in neo-Nazi murder case

Prosecutors asked a German court Tuesday to impose the highest possible sentence against the main defendant in a high-profile ...

September 12, 2017

German, Portuguese police bust Nigerian fake marriage gang

Police in Germany and Portugal have raided properties linked to a gang suspected of arranging fake marriages in order to make ...

September 12, 2017

Rome's mayor expresses outrage at rape of Finnish woman

Rome's mayor has expressed outrage after a young Finnish woman was raped in the Italian capital, the latest sexual assault ...

September 11, 2017

Florence prosecutors await DNA results in rape probe of cops

Italian prosecutors said Monday they are awaiting results of DNA tests aimed at establishing whether two paramilitary ...

September 11, 2017

The Latest: Afghan migrant admits rape, killing in Germany

The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local): 1:20 p.m. An Afghan migrant has admitted raping and killing ...

September 10, 2017

4 metal band members arrested in connection with kidnapping

The four members of a well-known Polish death metal band have been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a woman after a ...

September 09, 2017

2 Italian police suspended after alleged rape of US students

Italy's Carabinieri paramilitary police corps has suspended on a precautionary basis two policemen who allegedly raped two ...

September 09, 2017

State gets more time in alleged sexual-fantasy murder case

An Illinois judge has given prosecutors more time to secure an indictment of an ex-Northwestern University professor and an ...

September 08, 2017

2 US students accuse Italian police of rape in Florence

Florence prosecutors on Friday were investigating allegations by two U.S. students that they were raped by Carabinieri ...

September 08, 2017

Iceland riveted as notorious 1828 murder case is retried

Residents on Iceland's remote farm of Stapakot were jolted awake on March 14, 1828, when a maid from a neighboring property ...

September 08, 2017

German teen accused of killing child, friend, stands trial

A 19-year-old German accused of killing a child and a 22-year-old acquaintance, then posting pictures of the crimes online, ...

September 08, 2017

Report: Suspect in 1975 sisters' slaying to plead guilty

A convicted sex offender accused in the 1975 murders of two young sisters who disappeared from a Maryland shopping mall is ...

September 06, 2017

Indian journalist's killing provokes outrage, anguish

The killing of an Indian journalist provoked outrage and anguish across the country on Wednesday, with thousands protesting ...

September 06, 2017

Swedes charge Rwandan-born man over 1994 genocide

A 49-year-old Rwandan-born man was charged in Sweden Wednesday over the 1994 genocide in his African homeland.

September 06, 2017

2 men found guilty in brutal slaying of Aboriginal woman

More than six years after an Aboriginal woman bled to death from a violent sexual assault on a remote beach, a jury convicted ...