Crime - Page 17

A court in northern Nigeria’s Kano state, which enforces Islamic law (sharia) alongside common law, sentenced an atheist man to 24 years in prison on Tuesday on the charge of “blasphemy” for a Facebook statement he posted in April 2020 deemed offensive to Islam, Nigeria’s Premium Times online newspaper reported.

South Korea’s first reported patient of the Chinese coronavirus’s omicron strain was allegedly indicted in recent days “for lying to health authorities” in an epidemiological survey associated with her November 2021 infection, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.

Two black female students have been identified as being behind alleged vandalism at a Sacramento, California, high school in an apparent hate hoax involving a death threat and the N-word.

Haitians protesting against a recent spike in crime in the Haitian city of Les Cayes on Tuesday stormed a local airport and burned a small jet owned by a U.S.-based Christian missionary group, Reuters reported.

North-central Nigeria has suffered from a spate of attacks by unidentified militants across the neighboring states of Kaduna and Niger and the national capital region of Abuja in recent days, with gunmen separately attacking an airport, major rail line, and Christian villages, local media reported on Tuesday.

El Salvador’s government declared a month-long state of emergency on Sunday in response to a recent spike in murders nationwide, the Venezuelan news website Runrun.es reported.

At least 190 migrants arrived in Britain on Thursday, bringing the total number of migrants who have illegally crossed to Britain by boat to over 4,000 since the start of 2022.

A nine-month pregnant woman living in Singapore recently alleged she was “pushed to the ground” and “kicked” by Singaporean government employees assigned to monitor social distancing at a local park after she confronted the people for their suspicious behavior, Singapore’s Mothership digital news platform reported Thursday.

Government authorities in northwest China’s Xi’an city recently launched a criminal investigation into a local resident surnamed Yao for allegedly “obstructing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases” by failing to self-isolate after knowingly contracting the Chinese coronavirus, China’s state-run Global Times reported Tuesday.

Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser took $3 million in coronavirus aid funding from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue plan to make Black Lives Matter (BLM) Plaza permanent. 

A 70-year-old man attacked the chairman of South Korea’s ruling party Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), Song Young-gi, with a hammer during a campaign stop in Seoul on Monday, causing Song to suffer injuries to his head requiring stitches, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.

Crime and homelessness are among the top concerns of California voters — but Democrats ignored them at their recent statewide convention, preferring instead to focus on what they called Republican-led attacks on “democracy.”

Christine Quinn, the star of the Netflix real estate sales reality series, Selling Sunset, was rudely awakened Friday morning by the noise of home invaders trying to break into her L.A. abode, according to reports.

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it restarted all of its domestic plants in Japan following a two-day-long production halt caused by a cyberattack on the computer system of a Toyota parts supplier, Kyodo News reported.

LOS ANGELES — A 30-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday to the murder of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, the wife of legendary music executive Clarence Avant.

Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui — sentenced to three years in prison in December 2019 for “illegal medical practice” after using the CRISPR gene-editing system to alter the DNA of human embryos — may be “released” from prison in the “near future,” China’s state-run Global Times reported on Monday citing unnamed sources.

Mexican actor and conservative activist Eduardo Verastegui at CPAC on Saturday blamed Biden and Harris for the “migration crisis” on border.

Roughly two-thirds of NY voters think bail law should be changed to give judges discretion to “keep dangerous criminals off the streets.”

Most voters think “crime is getting worse in America,” and 83 percent believe it will be an important issue in the midterm elections.

Citing illegal immigration and drugs and weapons smuggling, the Dominican Republic is building a wall on its border with Haiti.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said the school board recalls in San Francisco “should be a five-alarm fire” to Democrats, who have gotten on the wrong side of the major issues of education and crime.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher and former San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Brooke Jenkins argued that San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s lax prosecution policies are an example of how people “wind up actually throwing

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Brooke Jenkins argued that the criminal justice system needs to be reformed, but there is a belief that “anyone who wants order in society” should be demonized,

Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) job approval rating has dropped from previous years, as there is a growing concern about the city’s rise in crime while she runs for a third consecutive term.

A Pakistani court acquitted Muhammad Waseem on Monday for the 2016 “honor killing” of his sister, a social media celebrity named Qandeel Baloch, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

During the “Defund the Police” movement in 2020, school resource officers were pulled from schools and budgets were cut. As crime continues to surge two years later, schools are bringing officers back to boost safety, Fox News reported Monday.

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) correlated increasing thefts in New York City to the expiration of the child tax credit in an interview published on Monday, Fox News reported.

Americans show what their key priorities are only weeks ahead of the first primary elections, according to the most recent Trafalgar Group poll.

The soft-on-crime policies of the left and Democrats are a “recipe for destroying civilization,” said Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

The number of people using heroin under Kabul’s notorious Pul-e-Sukhta bridge — long synonymous with hard drug use — has increased since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, people living near the bridge told Deutsche Welle (DW) on Thursday.

An “unidentified man” allegedly punched a South Korean diplomat on a Manhattan sidewalk on Wednesday night in New York City, causing the South Korean to suffer a broken nose, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) reported on Friday.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher joked about mask mandates in California by remarking that “in San Francisco, you have to have the mask on when you’re shoplifting indoors,” and telling local politicians to get their apologies ready for when they get caught breaking mask rules during the Super Bowl.

The Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) said it is increasingly worried about “violent attacks on children…”

Authorities arrested a man in a Pennsylvania county after they say he murdered his girlfriend, attempting to decapitate her.

Eyewitness video footage published by the New Zealand Herald on Wednesday shows police officers dragging a naked female protester by her hair before handcuffing and arresting the woman for her participation in an anti-coronavirus vaccine mandate rally in front of the New Zealand parliament building in Wellington.

A recent report reveals “low morale”within the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) following the 2020 BLM riots and massive budget cuts.