The Mexican army says it has arrested a key player in the Sinaloa drug cartel in the northern city of Culiacán. José Ángel Canobbio, also known as “El Güerito” (little…
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USA: Man pleads guilty in shooting of teen Ralph Yarl
An 86-year-old man in Kansas City, Missouri, has pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a teen who accidentallyvisited the wrong address. Andrew Lester on Friday…
USA: New York police charge five with murder of trans man
Five people were charged by New York State police with the murder of a missing transgender man, whom authorities say was tortured for more than a month. Sam Nordquist, a…
Brazil: Suspect in Christmas cake poisoning found dead in jail cell
A Brazilian woman suspected of poisoning her husband’s family with an arsenic-laced Christmas cake has been found dead in her prison cell in what police think was most likely a…
Ireland: €5m worth of cocaine seized in Kildare
Two men have been arrested following a seizure of €5m (£4m) worth of cocaine in County Kildare. On Wednesday, gardaí (Irish police) stopped and searched a vehicle and a residential…
UK: Three girls sexually assaulted near Clapham Common
A man has been arrested in connection with three incidents of sexual assault in which teenage girls were touched while walking near Clapham Common. It happened on Wednesday, 8 January,…
Austria: Police search for ‘shaman fraudster’ suspect
Police in Austria have issued a European arrest warrant for a woman they believe posed as a shaman to defraud victims out of large sums of money. Police said they…
Italy: Police arrest 181 in bid to stop Mafia rebuilding in Sicily
Italian police have launched a series of raids targeting Mafia clans operating in and around the Sicilian capital Palermo. More than 1,200 officers were involved in the operation, which the…
Ireland: Rocked allegedly used as murder weapon ‘likely’ transported- Geologist
A rock which was allegedly used to fracture a pensioner’s skull was “highly likely” transported to the scene of the attack, a geologist has told a murder trial. Alan Vial,…
France: British conman jailed for six years for running over French policemen
A notorious conman who spent four years in a British jail has now been sentenced to six years in France for ramming his car into two policemen while trying to…