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Israel became the first country in the world to ban the sale of fur to the fashion industry on Wednesday, in a move hailed by animal rights group PETA as a “historic victory.”

An English sheep farmer was horrified to find a gang of “Asian” men slitting the throat of a pregnant ewe in broad daylight near a public footpath. 

Florida deputies released a video Tuesday showing a woman tossing a dog off a second-floor balcony at a Daytona Beach residence.

European Court of Justice (ECJ) Advocate General Gerard Hogan has stated that a ban on ritual Halal slaughter in the Belgian region of Flanders violates European Union law and should be overturned.

Police in Pearland, Texas, are asking for the public’s help in finding the person or persons responsible for the killing and butchering of three horses in that city since May. Two other horses were killed in nearby areas.

A Muslim resident of the southern French city of Nice recorded himself slaughtering a sheep in his bathtub for the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday and posted the video on social media.

A woman was accused of animal cruelty Thursday after officials discovered more than 100 animals at her property in Frankewing, Tennessee.

An illegal alien has been arrested in Clearwater, Florida, for allegedly beheading his family’s cat and then displaying the severed head on a stick.

Police officers in Telford, England, have arrested seven men after uncovering what they believe to be an illegal slaughterhouse at a blood-spattered residential address.

Saripalli Chanavenkateshwaram Rao’s rooster cut his throat with the blades attached to its feet on the way to an illegal cockfighting event.

A sheep was stabbed to death in a village in southern England, following a string of mysterious ‘Satanist’ animal killings in the area.

Thousands of people have signed a petition calling on the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to pursue anti-Brexit barrister Jolyon Maugham for his allegedly “unnecessary and cruel bludgeoning of a trapped and scared fox” in Central London on Boxing Day.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California prosecutors found no evidence of animal cruelty or other crimes during an investigation into a spike in horse deaths at Santa Anita Park racetrack over the past year, according to a report issued Thursday.

At least 15 horses were reportedly found shot to death Monday near a strip mining site in rural eastern Kentucky. 

President Donald Trump signed H.R. 724 on Monday, a bill criminalizing animal abuse and the creation and distribution of pictures and videos of animal torture.

The House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that would make certain types of animal cruelty a federal felony.

According to most reports, British soccer hooliganism has all but disappeared due to huge numbers of police and video cameras at stadiums and the surrounding areas.

A lioness is beaten with sticks while her cubs are dragged away — a Gazan zoo closed after a long campaign has reopened, with conditions seemingly as bad as ever.

Sellers and activists clash as California moves toward becoming the first state in the union to ban furs.

A recent report claims that Google-owned video platform YouTube is removing videos of robot fights for “animal cruelty.”

School examiners failed a 16-year-old vegetarian for remarking on her negative view of halal slaughter, claiming inaccurately that she had made “obscene racial comments… throughout an exam paper”.

A pair of Tunisian migrants are under investigation by Italian authorities for animal cruelty after allegedly slaughtering sheep in a parking lot.

According to the head of a Swedish animal protection group, behaviour in “immigrant-dense areas” is responsible for an increase in cruelty cases toward hedgehogs and other animals.

Brooke Houts has more views on one video than the rest of her account — unfortunately for her, it is one she tried to bury.

Farm factories in China are breeding lions and tigers en masse and then harvesting their organs to meet the growing demand for traditional Chinese “medicine,” the NGO World Animal Protection revealed in a report on Tuesday.

A New Hampshire woman is accused of pushing her dog into a nearby lake and watching it drown, police said.

An animal welfare organization rescued nearly 200 dogs from a hoarder in New Jersey on Tuesday, with many animals lacking basic care needs.

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat who voted against a bill that would protect babies who survive abortion from infanticide, is sponsoring a bill to save kittens.

Around one in 10 UK councils are supplying sharia law-compliant halal meat to schools produced in a way considered cruel by all major animal rights groups.

Authorities arrested a Florida man on Saturday for allegedly using a “sniper rifle” to fatally shoot an eight-month-old puppy from a second-floor balcony.

Meat killed according to Islamic sharia law, in a method considered cruel by all major animal rights groups, “should be labelled in shops”, a Liberal Democrats peer has said.

A woman received a three-year jail sentence on Thursday after she was found guilty of throwing a four-year-old Chihuahua to its death off the seventh floor of a San Francisco parking garage in February.

Authorities have confirmed that environmental health officials are investigating after they were sent footage of a family chopping up animal carcasses on a tarpaulin outside their house in Dagenham, London.

Animal cruelty has become a central campaign issue in next week’s Turkish presidential election as concerns grow about animal welfare following a spate of attacks against strays.

British vets are demanding the production of halal meat is properly recorded, as well as calling for the amount produced in the UK to be cut as exports of the Sharia-compliant meat to Saudi Arabia have increased.

A man accused of kicking swans in the head for “karate practice” at a Florida park last week is facing animal cruelty charges.