Headlines
  • Despite a recently extended ceasefire, 14 people were killed by Israeli strikes on the country's south on Sunday, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
  • Hezbollah rejected claims made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the pro-Iranian group violated the ceasefire agreement, saying on Sunday that it will react to Israel's "violations" of the ceasefire in Lebanon.
  • Abbas Araghchi, Iran's foreign minister, departed Islamabad for Moscow, where he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday.
  • North Korea and Russia agree on "long-term" military cooperation.
  • At least 19 people were killed in a bombing on a highway in southwestern Colombia, and the authorities are holding a drug lord who was formerly a member of the FARC insurgent group accountable.

Author: crimeandmoreworld - News Desk

February 25, 2020

Serbian Parents Of Missing Children Protest...

Serbian parents who say their newborn babies were stolen from hospital maternity wards have called for better legislation to help them find their missing children. They held a protest outside parliament in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, on February

February 23, 2020

Missing women in India Rise More...

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Global report 2018 on human trafficking, the majority of the detected victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation were women. The report also stated that 35% of the trafficked persons were sent to forced labour – including a large number of women

New Unity Government in Sudan Must...

According to Amnesty International, since the peace agreement was signed in 2015, South Sudanese authorities have blocked the establishment of the Hybrid Court of South Sudan (HCSS)

February 22, 2020

India: Sharp Increase in Use of...

In 2015, only dour cases reached trail stage and there was conviction in none of them. The conviction rate – the percentage of people booked under the sedition charges being convicted in court, was just 15.4% in 2018, 16.7% in 2016 and 33.3% in 2017, according to data available in the Crime in India 2018 report by the NCRB

UN: 100,000 civilian casualties in Afghanistan...

According to the U.N. report, 3,493 civilians were killed last year and 6,989 were injured. While fewer civilians were hurt or killed by ISIS fighters, more civilians became casualties at the hands of the Taliban and Afghan security forces and their American allies

February 21, 2020

A World Record of Sorts –...

The investigators have claimed that the duo, along with an accomplice who often helped them and who also has been arrested, had been running a sleaze racket in the city and they had filmed 182 women in compromising positions over the last six years and used the videos to extort money from them.

February 19, 2020

Now Crimes Being Related to TikTok...

After a temporary ban on the app last year by Madras High Court, the app is back in India after a fried hiatus. And if user numbers of 2019 is anything to go by, TikTok is set to become more popular

Kosovo Police Investigate Officer’s Killing Of...

Investigators sealed off the site where a police officer reportedly shot her parents and two brothers to death and then killed herself in Gjilan, southeastern Kosovo. All five people were discovered dead at the scene

February 18, 2020

Afghan Refugees

As Afghanistan grapples with the possibility of a peace deal, the future of millions of Afghan refugees also looks a little more hopeful. United Nations and other officials at a refugee conference in Pakistan warn that peace alone will not be enough to send them home

February 14, 2020

Myths About Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity...

The 65-page report, “‘My Teacher Said I Had a Disease’: Barriers to the Right to Education for LGBT Youth in Vietnam,” documents how LGBT youth in Vietnam face stigma and discrimination at home and at school over myths such as the false belief that same-sex attraction is a diagnosable, treatable, and curable mental health condition

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