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A mob of about 50 people beat a foreign national to death Thursday in South Africa's port city of Durban, a flashpoint for anti-migrant sentiment, police said.
A Kenyan court convicted ex-governor Okoth Obado and two former aides of murdering student Sharon Otieno. Sentencing is set for 27 November 2026. The post Kenya’s Obado Awaits Sentence for Murder appeared first on The Rio Times.
In tonight's programme: Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie is convicted of 191 murders, 190 of which were of children. Also, a former Rwandan soldier and outspoken government critic, Robert Kabera, is found decapitated in Uganda. Plus we meet a young Ivorian music lover who travels around the country looking for old-school sounds that need a little TLC.
A self-proclaimed Kenyan preacher and his associates were on Monday found guilty of murdering 191 people, mostly children, in an infamous starvation cult.
Starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 28 others were found guilty of murder by a Kenyan court on Monday over the deaths of 190 children and an adult in one of the world’s worst cult-related tragedies in recent history. The preacher was arrested in 2023 after police received a tip-off, and weeks later authorities began uncovering bodies in shallow graves in the Shakahola Forest near the coast in southeastern Kenya. Prosecutors say Mackenzie and his Good News International Church organised a...
Known for raising his voice against the illegal sale of addictive substances at chemist shops, Parvinder Singh Jhota was shot in broad daylight inside a medical store in a busy marketplace in Mansa on October 13
The victim belonged to a family from Kalaburagi that had come to Mysuru during Dasara to sell balloons and toys
Montreal police arrested a 33-year-old man over the murder of Leïla Ben Salem, a Tunisian federal employee killed during a work video call. The post Montreal Police Arrest Ben Salem Suspect appeared first on The Rio Times.
The police recovered the charred remains of the girl from near the Pambla dam in Idukki
South Africa's police stated a murder detection rate of 9.5% against a 60% target, and Parliament's police committee wants to know how it was calculated. The post South Africa Logs 9.5% Murder Detection Rate appeared first on The Rio Times.
Duane "Keffe D" Davis, the former Los Angeles gang leader who boasted for years of his involvement in the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, only to deny it when he came to trial, was sentenced to a minimum 40 years in prison on Tuesday. The sentence, which will likely see him die in custody, comes three decades after the gunning down of one of the most influential hip hop artists of the late 20th century, and after years of criticism over investigations that went nowhere.
An Indonesian domestic helper in Hong Kong has been remanded in custody after being charged with killing her 93-year-old employer at the weekend. Kharsina, 52, was brought to the Kwun Tong Court on Wednesday to face a count of murder. Police arrested her in the early hours of Monday after her 93-year-old employer was found unresponsive in her flat at Long Yiu House in Kai Tak’s Tak Long Estate on Sunday. Paramedics rushed the elderly woman to hospital after administering emergency treatment at...
Jhota was shot at a chemist shop in Mansa town and rushed to the local civil hospital, where doctors declared he was brought dead
Anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota was murdered in broad daylight on October 13 after confronting the accused, who was running a medical shop, for allegedly selling drugs to an elderly man
A 30-year hunt for justice ends with the sentencing of Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, who has written about Shakur's shooting.
Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison over the 1996 murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur.
The sentence marks an end to the mystery around Tupac's cold case, which has intrigued hip-hop fans for nearly 30 years.
For decades, Tupac Shakur’s murder remained unsolved. Now, Keffe D is being sentenced for his killing.
The former father-in-law of slain Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung called her a “birthing machine” and tried to assault her before he allegedly plotted with his two sons to kill her three years ago, a court has heard. Choi’s partner, Chris Tam Fong-chun, recounted on Tuesday a bitter argument between the influencer and her former in-laws in what he said was a watershed moment leading to a breakdown in the relationship in mid-2022. Choi was previously married to Alex Kwong Kong-chi, 31, who...
The body was noticed by local residents who had gone for their morning walk near the lake bed.
Residents of the gated community gathered at the Malkajgiri Police Commissioner’s camp office in Begumpet, raising concerns over children’s safety while parents are away at work.
Hong Kong police have arrested a domestic helper on suspicion of murdering her 93-year-old employer, a cancer survivor who lived alone, with an investigation suggesting she was repeatedly assaulted in the hours before her death. The elderly woman was found unresponsive in her flat in Long Yiu House at Tak Long Estate in Ngau Tau Kok on Sunday morning, police said. The 52-year-old helper, hired to provide round-the-clock care for the woman, sought help from building security staff at about...
Justices Anita Sumanth and Sunder Mohan, however, confirm his conviction for murder of a nine-year-old girl and modify the sentence to life imprisonment
"It is a murder case rather than suicide because the victim was alive. The college authorities took no accountability; their ambulance had no driver. No one was ready to pick him up and take him to the hospital. The warden stopped us from giving him CPR to save his life," says a first-year student