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  Israel questions legitimacy of ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu, vows to contest court order

  World | November 28, 2024 8:44 IST

  The 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 | October 05, 2024 12:41 IST

  Haiti 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 | August 27, 2024 6:48 IST

  Al-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 | July 16, 2024 17:05 IST

  The 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 | February 19, 2024 11:28 IST

  The 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 | November 14, 2023 10:56 IST

  Burkina 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 | April 04, 2022 0:08 IST

  Journalists 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 | April 17, 2021 12:34 IST

  The 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 | June 04, 2020 19:58 IST

  A 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 | April 13, 2020 12:51 IST

  April 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 | November 10, 2019 15:15 IST

  Family 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 | July 06, 2019 17:53 IST

  A 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 | November 15, 2016 17:56 IST

  A 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 | December 05, 2015 17:28 IST

  Washington: 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 | August 03, 2015 16:03 IST

  Srinagar: 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 | March 21, 2015 18:34 IST

  New 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 | December 01, 2014 18:37 IST

  Raipur:  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 | February 09, 2014 11:10 IST

  Guatemala 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 | October 09, 2013 21:59 IST

  Patna: 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

  Politics | August 06, 2013 22:19 IST

  New 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