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MURDER

Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 12, 2014
Pistorius found guilty of culpable homicide
Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide on Friday, having escaped the more serious charge of murder for the killing of his girlfriend, and the Olympic and Paralympic track star could face a lengthy prison sentence.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 10, 2014
U.S. Iraq air raids help Kurds and Shiites, but at the expense of Sunnis
A small group of people pick through putrefying human remains laid out on plastic sheets by the side of a road in northern Iraq, searching for any trace of missing friends and relatives.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 9, 2014
Fueling drug gangs' impunity, unidentified corpses pile up in Mexico
In Mexico's blood-soaked northern state of Sinaloa, a simple gravestone adorned with pink, blue and yellow plastic flowers marks the tomb of 42-year-old assistant carpenter Carlos Montano.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2014
For Iraqi families, survivors, answers remain elusive months after Islamic State bloodbath
No one disputes the horrific outcome: Iraqi military recruits were led off their base unarmed and murdered in the hundreds, machine-gunned in mass graves by the Islamic State, whose fighters boasted proudly of the killings on the Internet.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 7, 2014
Soldier who survived Islamic State's systematic slaughter speaks
Eight hundred Iraqi soldiers were divided into lines of ten men, given rushed interrogations by Islamic State fighters and shot dead, the survivor said. By dawn, he was one of only 20 left alive.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 6, 2014
U.S. man charged with '07 murder of Japanese wife in San Diego
Former San Diego resident Anthony Simoneau has been charged with the 2007 murder of his Japanese wife Fumiko Ogawa, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office announced Friday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 2, 2014
Supreme Court upholds death penalty handed down by lay judges for first time
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence handed down by lay judges for the first time since the citizen judge system came into being five years ago.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 31, 2014
Islamic State militants behead captive Lebanese soldier
Islamic State militants beheaded a Lebanese soldier who was one of 19 captured by hard-line Syrian Islamists when they seized a Lebanese border town for a few days in August, a video posted on social media showed on Saturday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 30, 2014
Japanese man found dead in Hudson possibly shot in head
The body of a Japanese man was found floating in the Hudson River last week and may have been shot in the head, according to the New York City Police Department and Consulate General of Japan in New York.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2014
Teen arrested for killing roommate's baby in Tokyo
An 18-year-old girl has been arrested for allegedly murdering the 3-month-old daughter of a woman she lived with in Tokyo, police said Tuesday.
WORLD
Aug 25, 2014
China's state media says teen masterminded slaying of pro-Beijing imam in Xinjiang
Chinese police have concluded that an 18-year-old, who was influenced by religious extremism, was the mastermind behind the murder of a state-backed imam in China's western Xinjiang region, state media said on Monday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 25, 2014
Ferguson's lone black councilman keeps low profile amid protests
In many ways Dwayne James is a beacon of hope in Ferguson, which has been torn apart by racially charged riots. The only black councilman in a predominantly black town, James is widely respected even by political opponents and talked of as a candidate for mayor.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 25, 2014
Police probing suicide victim find his parents slain in their Saitama home
Police investigating the apparent suicide of a 30-year-old man who was hit by a Tobu Isesaki Line train at around 8:30 a.m. Sunday found the victim's parents dead in their home in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, when they went to the house around noon.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 21, 2014
In case of slain journalist Foley, negotiations, silence — then a chilling warning
After months of silence from the captors of American journalist James Foley, his family received a chilling message on the night of Aug. 13: Foley would be executed in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes on the militant group Islamic State.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 19, 2014
As Taliban push for territory quickens, Afghan troops get new kill orders
As U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan, the battlefield they leave behind is changing dramatically and becoming more deadly.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 14, 2014
Florida man pleads guilty in global toxin shipping scheme
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to making deadly toxins and shipping them to customers across the globe, among them a British woman plotting to kill her mother, a London magistrate, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 12, 2014
Girl held in Sasebo slaying faces psychiatric tests during probe
The Sasebo branch of the Nagasaki District Public Prosecutor's Office on Monday moved the 16-year-old girl being held for killing her classmate and dismembering her body to a medical facility for psychiatric tests.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 9, 2014
Sasebo girl detained for psychiatric testing
The Sasebo Summary Court has ordered that the 16-year-old girl held on suspicion of killing a classmate last month and dismembering her body remain detained for psychiatric evaluation, her lawyers said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 6, 2014
Israel says it arrested suspect in killing of three teenagers
Israeli authorities said Tuesday they had arrested a Palestinian suspected of being involved in the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June.
WORLD
Aug 5, 2014
Video shows 'unspeakable acts' carried out by Nigerian soldiers: Amnesty
Footage obtained by human rights group Amnesty International and released on Tuesday appears to show Nigerian soldiers slitting the throats of Boko Haram suspects and dumping their bodies in a mass grave.

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