News about crime

Indian gang-rape victim dies in Singapore An Indian student whose savage gang-rape on a bus in New Delhi sparked mass protests across the country died on Saturday in a Singapore hospital after suffering severe organ failure.

29 December 2012 11:54

Leila Khrapunova ready to cooperate with Geneva prosecutors Former Almaty Mayor's wife said she was ready to cooperate with Geneva prosecutors who initiated an investigation against the Khrapunovs family in suspicion of money laundering.

28 December 2012 15:45

Two US firefighters shot dead in arson 'trap' A convicted felon shot dead two firefighters and wounded two others Monday after luring them to a blaze that police said he had apparently set as a trap in a small town in New York state.

25 December 2012 14:13

Oil thieves caught in south Kazakhstan Members of an organized criminal group stealing oil from Kumkol-Shymkent pipeline were apprehended in South-Kazakhstan oblast.

21 December 2012 18:05

Drug war debate heats up after another brutal year Even when a feared drug lord lied dead in a funeral home, Mexican authorities could not prevent the cartel kingpin from slipping away.

14 December 2012 12:04

'Worrying' increase in global child trafficking: UN Children -- most of them girls -- now make up 27 percent of all human trafficking cases, marking an alarming increase in recent years.

13 December 2012 15:17

Srebrenica commander faces verdict before UN court The Yugoslav war crimes court will hand down its verdict against Bosnian Serb general Zdravko Tolimir on genocide charges for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

13 December 2012 10:37

At least three dead in US mall shooting At least two people were killed Tuesday when a masked gunman opened fire at a mall in the western US state of Oregon, sparking panic before apparently turning the gun on himself.

12 December 2012 18:39

Kazakh guard sentenced to life for mass border killing A court in Kazakhstan Tuesday sentenced a border guard to life in prison for murdering 14 fellow servicemen in a mysterious May massacre in the remote Tian Shan mountains.

12 December 2012 11:27

Pinochet knew details of rights abuses: ex-judge Late Chilean general Augusto Pinochet was well aware of crimes committed by his secret police during the country's military dictatorship.

11 December 2012 16:51

US fears more victims from dead 'serial killer' The FBI is appealing for information about the travels of a suspected serial killer believed to have murdered up to 15 people over more than a decade, after his suicide in jail last weekend.

07 December 2012 10:51

Kazhegeldin wants to take anti-Aliyev case to European Court of Human Rights if Maltese police fails to investigate Akezhan Kazhegeldin and his two bodyguards promised to seek justice in the European Court of Human Rights if Maltese law-enforcement authorities do not initiate a case against Rakhat Aliyev.

03 December 2012 11:53

WikiLeaks suspect tells court of his despair in 'cage' WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, testifying for the first time, said Thursday he struggled to persuade the military to lift a strict "suicide watch" during his detention but admitted he had contemplated taking his life at one point.

01 December 2012 11:32

New York nanny pleads not guilty to kid slayings A Manhattan nanny accused of stabbing to death two small children in her care before trying to commit suicide pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a hospital court hearing.

30 November 2012 13:42

Mexico police unearth 20 bodies in violence-torn north The bones of nine people were found in desert graves in violence-plagued northern Mexico, raising the number of remains found there since the weekend to 20, authorities said Monday.

27 November 2012 16:39

China arrests 90 over child abductions: state media Police have arrested 90 gang suspects across China and freed 28 children who were allegedly kidnapped from the far west and taken to various cities to steal, the China Daily said on Thursday.

23 November 2012 16:55

Prosecutors made a portrait of modern Kazakhstan terrorist It turned out that these are young people aged under 29. In most cases they are unemployed and have no higher education.

23 November 2012 11:09

Kazakhstan special services prevented 24 terrorist attacks in 2012 The total of 112 crimes related to terrorism and extremism were detected in 10 months of this year: Iogan Merkel.

22 November 2012 19:34

Kazakhstan Interior Minister on complications in countering drug business Kazakhstan Interior Minister speaks about complications in countering drug business.

20 November 2012 13:44

Kazakhstan Interior Ministry gave full picture of mass murder in Ile-Alatau park Kazakhstan Interior Minister announced details of the mass murder in Ile-Alatau national park near Almaty.

19 November 2012 17:56

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