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Israel questions legitimacy of ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu, vows to contest court order
World | Nov 28, 2024, 08:44 AM ISTThe ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, his former defence minister, and Hamas military commander Ibrahim Al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif, over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Gaza conflict.
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Haiti SHOCKER: 70 killed in violent gang massacre, over 6,000 forced to flee town
World | Oct 05, 2024, 12:41 PM ISTHaiti has been reeling from a worsening conflict for years, where armed gangs control most of the capital Port-au-Prince and other regions where they indulge in kidnappings, rapes, murders and more. The gang shot people and set fire to dozens of homes and vehicles on Thursday.
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Burkina Faso massacre: Al-Qaida group kills more than 100 people in one of the worst jihadi attacks
World | Aug 27, 2024, 06:48 AM ISTAl-Qaida took responsibility for the attack, announcing in a statement that it had seized “complete control over a militia position” in Barsalogho, a key location in Kaya. The town is strategically important as security forces have used it to defend against jihadis.
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Kenya SHOCKER: Serial killer massacres 42 women including his wife, dumps their bodies in canal
World | Jul 16, 2024, 05:05 PM ISTThe head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Mohamed Amin, said Collins Jumaisi Khalusha had confessed to killing 42 women, including his wife, since 2022. They gave no evidence to support his claim of killing 42.
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Papua New Guinea: 26 people massacred in tribal violence, say police
World | Feb 19, 2024, 11:28 AM ISTThe massacre was a major escalation in ongoing tribal violence in the region. Images had emerged of bodies being loaded onto a police truck, ABC reported.
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Burkina Faso: 70 killed, mostly children and elderly, in village massacre amid Islamist insurgency
World | Nov 14, 2023, 10:56 AM ISTBurkina Faso's government was overthrown by the military junta, which promised to take care of the perilous security situation of the country. Despite that, the West African nation continues to grapple with Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands and displaced millions.
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Bodies with hands tied, gunshot wounds found strewn on streets as Russian troops withdraw from Kyiv
World | Apr 04, 2022, 12:08 AM ISTJournalists saw the bodies of at least nine people in civilian clothes who appeared to have been killed at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs.
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Four Sikhs among eight killed in mass shooting at FedEx facility in US
World | Apr 17, 2021, 12:34 PM ISTThe gunman, identified as 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole, a former employee. He allegedly died by suicide after the shooting on late Thursday night at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis.
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Peshawar school massacre: JC to submit its report to Pak's top court by end of June
World | Jun 04, 2020, 07:58 PM ISTA single-member judicial commission has completed probe into the 2014 Army Public School massacre and is likely to submit its report to the Supreme Court by the end of this month, a media report said on Thursday.
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Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: 101 years of a tragedy which claimed hundreds of lives
India | Apr 13, 2020, 12:51 PM ISTApril 13, 1919--The day which is marked on every Indian's mind for the painful memory it evokes. Today, India commemorates 101 years of the ghastly Jallianwala Bagh incident in the Sikh holy city Amritsar.
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Last victim of Mexico border killings buried as others leave
World | Nov 10, 2019, 03:15 PM ISTFamily and friends said goodbye Saturday to the last victim of a cartel ambush that killed nine American women and children from a Mormon community in northern Mexico where cartels have disrupted an otherwise peaceful, rural existence.
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Novel revisits Bengal’s Cossipore-Baranagar massacre
India | Jul 06, 2019, 05:53 PM ISTA new novel focuses on the Naxal movement and narrates with vivid details the 1971 Cossipore-Baranagar massacre in West Bengal in which several Naxalite youths were killed allegedly by police and Congress activists.
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Senari massacre: Bihar court awards death sentence to 10, three get life in jail
India | Nov 15, 2016, 05:56 PM ISTA Bihar court on Tuesday sentenced 10 persons to death and three others to life imprisonment in connection with the Senari massacre in which 34 people were killed by Maoists in 1999.
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California mass shooters may have been radicalised: Barack Obama
World | Dec 05, 2015, 05:28 PM ISTWashington: The couple who carried out the deadly California massacre that claimed 14 lives may have been radicalised to commit an act of terror, President Barack Obama said today, asserting that Americans will not be
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Survivors of 1998 Kashmir massacre accuse CBI of 'inaction'
India | Aug 03, 2015, 04:03 PM ISTSrinagar: Seventeen years after 19 members of three families were kil1ed in Jammu and Kashmir's Salian village, survivors and relatives of the victims on Monday protested here, accusing the CBI of "inaction and cover-up".On the
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16 policemen acquitted in 1987 Meerut massacre
India | Mar 21, 2015, 06:34 PM ISTNew Delhi: Sixteen policemen were acquitted by a court here on Saturday of the charges of murder and other crimes in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre case in which 42 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh's
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Maoists massacre 13 CRPF troopers in Chhattisgarh
India | Dec 01, 2014, 06:37 PM ISTRaipur: Maoist guerrillas Monday gunned down 13 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers returning after a search operation in Chhattisgarh, officials said.Additional Director General of Police R.K. Vij told IANS that the dead included two
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Nine killed in massacre in northern Guatemala
World | Feb 09, 2014, 11:10 AM ISTGuatemala City: A military spokesman said that nine members of a family, including a baby and a young girl, were shot to death in a remote part of northern Guatemala.Army spokesman Ismael Cifuentes said that
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Patna HC acquits all 26 convicts in Laxmanpur Bathe massacre
India | Oct 09, 2013, 09:59 PM ISTPatna: The Patna High Court today acquitted all the 26 men convicted in the Laxmanpur Bathe massacre of 1997 citing lack of evidence and witnesses. A lower court had convicted all these 26 accused and
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Swamy seeks probe into Chidambaram's role in 1987 Hashimpura massacre
National | Aug 06, 2013, 10:19 PM ISTNew Delhi, Aug 6: The Delhi High Court today sought Uttar Pradesh government's response to Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy's plea seeking further probe to ascertain the alleged role of Finance Minister P Chidambaram in