Global Crime

Protests continue to unsettle U.K. over the three deaths and numerous injuries at a horrific stabbing attack on girls attending a dance class in Southport. The gruesome attack unfolded on Monday, July 29, at a dance class for children in the seaside town. A 17-year-old man entered the studio and stabbed the children with a [...]

PARIS (AP) — The French government says multiple telecommunications lines have been hit by acts of vandalism, affecting fiber lines and fixed and mobile phone lines as cities around France are hosting events for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Organizers for the Paris Games say their operations were not affected. France’s second largest telecommunications company said it [...]

Riots broke out in a multicultural area of the English city of Leeds on Thursday evening, with hundreds of residents setting fires, throwing stones, and clashing with police. Horrific images poured out from the heavily Pakistani Harehills area in east Leeds, with a double-decker bus being burnt to a crisp, a police car overturned, and [...]

JOHANNESBURG, KENYA - The Kenyan National Police told reporters that a "psychopathic serial killer with no respect for human life" was successfully captured and arrested on Monday. Reportedly, the suspect, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33. confessed to authorities to the murder of 42 women, including his first victim: his own wife.

LONDON - After an hours-long manhunt following the murder of three woman with a crossbow, authorities with the Hertfordshire Police force in England have detained 26-year-old Kyle Clifford as their main suspect. 

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. At least 20 people were killed, including civilians and police officers, when gunmen opened fire at two Orthodox churches, two synagogues, and a police station in separate attacks in the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala in Russia’s North Caucasus region [...]

A street-cleaner and a police officer were injured in a stabbing attack by a man armed with a screwdriver who was shot dead by a second officer in France on Wednesday morning. A monthly ‘big clean’ of the streets of Aubervilliers, a diverse north-Paris suburb in Seine-Saint-Denis, bore witness to an attack on a city employee and [...]

The historic St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto was consumed by fire over the weekend, destroying more than a dozen “priceless” depictions of the life of Christ, reported the Toronto Star. While it’s unclear that arson is at work in the latest fire, the conflagration is one in a string of fires and vandalism in [...]

Police have shot dead a man who was said to have tried to burn down a synagogue in France. The man was spotted on the roof of a synagogue equipped with a knife and iron bar and was ‘clearly trying to burn down the building’ when police arrived, French media reports.

A campaign rally to “stop political Islam” in Germany was ended before it even began after a knifeman attacked anti-Islamification campaigner, and then stabbed an officer after police turned up and attempted to arrest the wrong man. Several people were slashed with a knife in Mannheim, Germany on Friday morning after a knifeman rushed the [...]