The trial concerned the murder of Francisco Alves, which occurred on October 5, 2012. Franscico Cleidivaldo Mariano de Moura confessed to the murder, which he insists occurred in self-defense.
Haiti's National Police agency has reported the reclamation of a hijacked cargo ship carrying large amounts of rice following a five-hour gunfight with gang members.
The 'Panama Papers' trial of 27 people charged in connection with money laundering began Monday; 11 million financial documents show how some of the wealthiest people in the world hide their money.
Cliver Alcalá of Venezuela was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in Manhattan on Monday to more than 21 years in prison after admitting he provided weapons to drug-funded rebels.
Oldham, England, resident Kulsuma Akter, 27, was stabbed to death after walking with her baby on Saturday afternoon. The child was in a pram at the time and was not wounded.
Armed militants attacked a police convoy in southeastern Iran on Tuesday, killing six officers. The Jaish al-Adl group has claimed responsibility for the ambush.
Ales Bialiatski, activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been imprisoned in Belarus for 1,000 days as of Tuesday, amid fears about his worsening health.
A prison beatdown in Peru's notorious mountaintop Challapalca prison reportedly left Natalee Holloway's killer Joran van der Sloot with cuts and bruises.
South Africa's Oscar Pistorius is struggling to find employment after prison as members of his church see him as a "shadow" of the man he once was, report says.
Eduardo Chávez, the head of municipal traffic police, was shot to death on Thursday in Mexico's resort town of Acapulco; the crime is still under investigation.
An investigation has been launched in the Dominican Republic after an immigration officer was accused of 'raping a 14-year-old girl' near the resort town of Punta Cana.
Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, more commonly known as Bobrisky, has been sentenced to six months in prison under a rarely-enforced law against "spraying" money.
The Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that victims of stray bullets during law enforcement or military operations must be compensated by the state, including in cases with inconclusive forensics reports.
Belarusian authorities have convicted a famous dissident rock band and sentenced the members to 2 years of correctional labor; the move was the latest in a crackdown on dissent.
An Australian police officer is being called a hero after she fearlessly confronted a suspect who stabbed multiple people at Westfield Bondi Junction and put an end to his rampage.
A pedestrian found a foul-smelling suitcase and discovered that it contained bones, but the police have determined that the 58-year-old victim died from an illness, not from any foul play.
The first victim of the serial stabbing in Sydney, Australia, to be identified in news reports is Ash Good, a mother who died trying to save her nine-month-old baby, who was stabbed.
Joel Cauchi, 40, was identified as the suspect who killed six people during a stabbing spree at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction in Sydney.
A suspect was arrested after stabbing and injuring multiple individuals, including a priest, during a church service in a suburb of Sydney on Monday night.
17 police officers serving at the Idrizovo prison in Skopje, North Macedonia, were detained Monday under suspicion they helped assist escapees in two separate incidents last year.
Robert Woodland Romanov, a U.S. citizen, appeared in court Monday after being arrested in Moscow on charges alleging he trafficked large amounts of illegal drugs.
At least 29 suspected Maoist rebels were killed by police in India in the central state of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday; this comes three days before the beginning of a national election.
The man who kidnapped, raped and killed Kamarie Holland, a 5-year-old Georgia girl, in 2021, has been given four death sentences; he was found guilty on Friday of 4 counts of capital murder.
A human smuggling ring in Germany that involved bribery of immigration officials was busted in a large-scale raid early on April 17, 2024. The scam illegally supplied visas to hundreds.
Pakistani security forces reportedly killed seven militants in the country's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when they tried to enter from Afghanistan.
An Australian church bishop and priest who was stabbed in a "terrorist incident" on April 16 said he is recovering quickly and has forgiven his attacker.
Peter Murrell, the 59-year-old husband of former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon, has been charged with embezzlement; this comes as part of a probe into the finances of Scotland's governing party.
A Dominican soldier identified as Paulino de la Cruz has been arrested under suspicion he raped a 14-year-old Haitian girl while tasked with searching for illegal immigrants.
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-laden vest near a van carrying Japanese autoworkers in Karachi. The workers escaped, but three bystanders were wounded.
15 British soldiers accused of lying to an inquiry into Bloody Sunday, during which 13 civilians were killed in the Northern Ireland conflict, will not face perjury charges.
Canadian police said Tuesday that two former UN employees in Montreal have been charged in a conspiracy to sell military equipment in Libya between 2018 and 2021.
Australia reportedly has arrested seven teens who allegedly believe in a religiously motivated extremist ideology and have ties to a church stabbing suspect.
Ahmed Alid, 45, was convicted Thursday of fatally stabbing 70-year-old Terence Carney in Hartlepool, England. Alid reportedly told police he killed Carney "for the people of Gaza."
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that the country's gangs and cartels generally "respect the citizenry" in favor of killing each other.
Mexico City prosecutors on Thursday sought to downplay a suspected serial killer's case; he allegedly targeted women for more than a decade and kept women's bones in his room.
The Kherson region, which remains partially under Russian occupation, has allegedly suffered abuses under the reign of Moscow, with troops targeting marginalized populations.
A 16-year-old girl believed to have been killed in 1969, has finally been identified 21 years after her remains were found after her DNA was matched to a relative who died on 9/11.
Natalee Holloway, Brittanee Drexel and Amy Lynn Bradley are three women who went on vacations that ended in tragedy. These women went on vacation and never made it home.
The Belarusian service of the German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle has been labeled an 'extremist organization' by authorities in Belarus; all of its activities have been banned in the country.
Six troops linked to a United Arab Emirates-backed secessionist group were killed in an explosion in southern Yemen on Monday. Al-Qaeda militants are blamed for the attack.
A 36-year-old man has been arrested in a London suburb after allegedly killing a 13-year-old boy and injuring four others with a sword early Tuesday morning.
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers have been charged with cutting down the famous Sycamore Gap tree that fell over on Hadrian's Wall in northern England last year.
Two grandparents, alongside their infant grandchild, were killed in a six-vehicle collision involving a vehicle being chased by police in eastern Canada.
Poland's chief rabbi said that Warsaw's main synagogue was attacked with three firebombs by an unknown perpetrator; the synagogue sustained minimal damage.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, an exiled opposition leader in Belarus, said she has not heard from her imprisoned husband Siarhei Tsikhanouski for 421 days; he has been behind bars since 2020.
Mexican authorities said they have questioned three people and found abandoned tents linked to the case of an American and two Australians who went missing in Baja California.
There are reports of Russian exiles being targeted all over the world, from countries known to have a large Russian population to those once thought safe like Spain and the U.K.
Hundreds of people in Serbia lit candles and laid flowers to commemorate the victims of the country's first-ever school shooting last year in which nine children and a school guard were killed.
8 soldiers were sentenced to death by a military court in eastern Congo for cowardice and other crimes related to fleeing the battlefield, as the government struggles to quell violence in the area.
An Australian teenager participated in a deradicalization program before writing he was "going on the path of jihad," stabbing a man and being shot and killed himself by police.
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