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A Japanese court jailed 34-year-old former nurse Ayumi Kuboki for life on Tuesday (Nov 9) for the "angel of death" murders of three patients in September 2016. The degree of culpability in the killings at a Yokohama hospital…

One civilian was killed by Houthi snipers in Taiz governorate, southwest of Yemen, to be added to the list of hundreds of murdered victims among unarmed civilians, who were killed by Houthi snipers in the city, which has been besieged for…

A Pakistani-American man accused of raping and beheading his girlfriend, the daughter of a former ambassador, went on trial on Wednesday (Oct 20) in the capital Islamabad. The brutal murder of Ms Noor Mukadam, 27, sparked protests…

Poachers in Vietnam have shot dead five critically endangered langurs, a type of monkey killed for bushmeat and traditional medicine, state media said on Tuesday (Oct 19). Rangers and police found the dead grey-shanked douc langurs…

A large explosion tore through a Shi’ite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers (Oct 15), killing at least 32 people and wounding 68, Afghan state news agency Bakhtar said, the second massive attack in a week…

The mayor of a Taiwanese city launched a task force on Friday (Oct 15) to look into whether negligence played a part in a fire at a residential building that killed 46 people. The fire in the 40-year-old housing block in…

An Indian man who used a cobra and a viper to murder his wife was sentenced to life in jail on Wednesday (Oct 13) in what prosecutors called the "rarest of rare" cases. Sooraj Kumar set loose a highly venomous Russell's viper snake on…