( Reuters)-The murder rate in Canada last year rose to its highest level since 2005, pushed up in part by the country's worst-ever mass shooting, in which 22 people died, Statistics Canada said on Thursday. Statscan also noted societal stresses it said had been caused by lockdowns linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.... Canadian police reported 743 murders in 2020, up from 687 in 2019.... The murder rate increased to 1.95 per 100, 000 people, the highest in 15 years, from 1.83 per 100, 000 people

FRESNILLO, MEXICO( NYTIMES)-The violence was already terrifying, she said, when grenades exploded outside her church in broad daylight some five years ago.... He would break with the failed tactics of his predecessors, he said.... Lately, it has become a national horror show, with cadavers found dangling from bridges, stuffed into plastic bags or even tied to a cross. Across Mexico, murders have dropped less than 1 per cent since Mr Lopez Obrador took office, according to the country's statist

“ During[ Terry] McAuliffe’s tenure as governor, the murder rate went up 43 percent and the rape rate went up every year.” — Glenn Youngkin, Republican nominee for Virginia governor, in a YouTube video, Aug.... 13, 2018, so we will take the 2013 year-end statistics as our baseline and 2017 as our endpoint.... But we won’t factor this into our ruling. Virginia recorded 298 homicides in 2013 and 416 homicides in 2017, a 40 percent increase....

BERLIN( Reuters)-German police said on Wednesday they had uncovered a plot by anti-vaccination activists in Saxony to murder the eastern German state's premier, adding to concerns about increasingly violent protests over plans for mandatory vaccinations. The plot to kill Michael Kretschmer, leader of a state in which COVID-19 infection rates are among the highest in Germany and vaccination rates are the lowest, had been discussed in a group chat on messaging platform Telegram, police said. Membe

Louis’ 2020 murder rate hit a 50-year high.... " When people set things on fire, when people assault folk during the protest, those are things that we have to monitor," its police chief, John W. Hayden Jr., recently noted.... Certainly, something has to change or the nation will break more records in 2021. This editorial first appeared in the New York Post....

A second man also found with knife injuries has been arrested on suspicion of murder....

BOGOTA, Colombia — A court refused Monday to allow a trial for a retired general accused of offering incentives that led soldiers to murder 104 civilians and pass them off as guerrilla fighters killed in combat during Colombia’s long civil conflict. Support our journalism.... This policy allegedly motivated some soldiers to abduct civilians, murder them and present them as dead guerrilla fighters. Story continues below advertisement Montoya denies the charges.... In all, an estimated 262, 000

James Lewis, 76, walks in Cambridge, Massachusetts.... He was convicted of extortion and served more than 12 years in prison. But investigators couldn't pin the murders on Lewis, and he remained the prime suspect.... After spending three years behind bars awaiting trial, the charges were dismissed when the victim refused to testify against him....

KILLER nurse Lucy Letby is facing a retrial on one count of attempted murder against a baby girl. Letby, 33, was previously convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others in a year-long reign of terror.... 3 Letby was given a whole life sentence last month Credit: PA 3 She was convicted of murdering seven babies Credit: MEN Media....

Join our Whatsapp channel INTERNATIONAL ratings agency Moody’s decision to keep Pakistan’s long-term credit rating unchanged at Caa3, with stable outlook, is reflective of the poor standing of a cash-strapped nation in global financial markets. The rating indicates a higher probability of default and a greater degree of investment risks amid weak debt affordability.... A year ago, Moody’s had downgraded Pakistan from Caa2 to Caa3, relegating it to almost the bottom of the riskiest markets, shor