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Three explosions rocked Stockholm over just a four-day period as Sweden is coming off a record year for gang-related bombings.

President Daniel Noboa of Ecuador on Tuesday laughed off Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro’s offer of security assistance against gang members, ignoring Maduro’s warning to steer clear of entanglements with the United States.

An official from Long Island, New York says “organized gangs” are making their way through the United States-Mexico border on President Joe Biden’s watch and exacerbating crime in many American communities. 

CARACAS, Venezuela — Colombia, Peru, Chile, and other Latin American countries are on high alert after the escape of Héctor “the Child” Guerrero, the leader of Venezuela’s largest known criminal organization, the Tren de Aragua (“Aragua Train”).

Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, used his U.N. address to assert his country’s “right to be correct” on how to fight gangs.

A Haitian gang opened fire on a church protest in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, killing at least seven people. Video showed bodies lying in the streets, plus several people who appeared to have been taken hostage by the gangsters.

The U.S. Embassy in Haiti was closed on Tuesday due to nearby gunfire in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Haiti has been torn by gang violence and near-anarchy ever since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021.

A New Hampshire nurse and her daughter were kidnapped by armed men while serving on a mission in Haiti. “We can confirm that Alix Dorsainvil, our Director’s wife, and their child were kidnapped on the morning of Thursday, July 27th

Three people were killed and five injured when shots rang out during New Mexico’s 41st Annual Red River Memorial Motorcycle Rally on Saturday.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, who has made fighting gang violence into a defining issue for his presidency, sent 5,000 soldiers and 500 police to surround the northwestern town of Nueva Concepcion on Wednesday after alleged gangsters killed a police officer.

Civilians in Haiti reportedly killed five more alleged gangsters and burned their bodies in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, part of a growing trend of frustrated citizens taking the law into their own hands as criminals run rampant across the country.

The Swedish Supreme Court has ruled to uphold the disbarring of a female lawyer who maintained a romantic relationship with a known gang leader she represented as a public defender.

A group of three foreigners were arrested in Rome after allegedly using dating apps to lure homosexual men to areas where they ambushed and robbed them.

Ten people have been arrested in the Stockholm region this week following two shootings that took place within an hour of each other on Tuesday evening.

El Salvador on Friday moved the first 2,000 inmates to the new Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), a 40,000-bed “mega prison” larger than all 20 of the country’s existing prisons combined. Over 64,000 suspects have been arrested so far in President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang violence.

Ten criminals waiting to take the place of every one arrested, an officer said who quit after realising his job has become pointless.

Sweden has announced it will be studying the effect of criminality on politics as criminal pressure is becoming a growing problem. 

El Salvador on Tuesday formally opened an immense prison called the Terrorism Confinement Center. The prison has 40,000 beds, making it one of the largest in Latin America, with more capacity than all of El Salvador’s 20 existing penal facilities combined.

Haitian police rioted in the capital of Port-au-Prince on Thursday, blocking streets, burning tires, vandalizing vehicles, and attacking the residence of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday demanded the formation of an international peacekeeping force to combat gang violence and restore stable government in Haiti.

Haiti reached an unfortunate milestone on Tuesday morning, as the last ten senators in its parliament departed from their offices, leaving the country with no elected officials whatsoever. (Prime Minister Ariel Henry is still there, but he was not elected – he became “acting” leader of the government after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021.)

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday wrote a letter to the U.N. Security Council proposing the creation of an international “rapid action force” to help police in Haiti combat the gangs that have taken over critical infrastructure and blocked humanitarian aid.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said on Monday at least $6 million worth of relief supplies were lost to looters in Haiti in the month of September alone.

John Fetterman embraced a spelling of Braddock, Pennsylvania, during his first mayoral run that “acknowledge[d] an allegiance that many of the younger residents there have with the Crips gang.

Thousand or so young men, mostly from migrant backgrounds according to reports, terrorised towns along with Lake Garda in northern Italy.

Swedish police have expressed concern that weapons being used in Ukraine may make their way to Sweden once the conflict ends.

Three home invaders have been sentenced for holding a gun to a man’s head in front of his son and fiancée and brutalising his pet dog during a burglary in multicultural Manchester.

Three men have each been charged with three murder counts in connection to an April gun battle in Sacramento that killed six, authorities said.

A New York judge dismissed an indictment charge against a juvenile accused of murder, allowing the teen to walk free, per a report. 

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele slammed the Biden State Department on Monday, saying his government only received American assistance to fight crime under the administration of President Donald Trump, while President Joe Biden has chosen to side with gangsters.

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.

A man from China was kidnapped by a gang and used as a “blood slave” in Cambodia for nearly half a year before escaping this month.

Sadiq Khan is reportedly planning to effectively decriminalise marijuana for those under the age of 25 in the British capital.

Despite the galloping developments in trauma medicine London has still defied overall trends with a record year of youth murders.

The Blackley Estate in Manchester, England has been dubbed a “warzone” less “safe” than Afghanistan by a local veteran.

Sweden has seen over 80 explosions take place in various parts of the country, a number far greater than any of its neighbours.