Police: Murders in South Africa down but about 50 still killed per day, rape cases increase

September 30th, 2009 Report: Sudanese refugees face rape daily in ChadNAIROBI, Kenya — Women and girls who fled the fighting in Darfur face rape and other violence daily in eastern Chad, even inside the very refugee camps where they have sought sanctuary, according to a report released Wednesday. The Amnesty International report says the women and girls are attacked by villagers living nearby, members of the Chadian army and aid workers in the camps.

September 25th, 2009 Mexico Police arrest 5 in drug rehab executionsCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city. Police say the men were members of the Sinaloa cartel, a violent gang entrenched in a brutal turf war for control of drug routes to the United States.

September 22nd, 2009 SAfrica: Murder down; rape, robbery, hijacking upCAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa's murder rate — one of the world's highest — has dropped slightly, but the country faces a distressing rise in rapes, robberies and hijackings, South African police said Tuesday. The number of murders decreased 3.4 percent to 18,148 between April 2008 and March 2009.

September 4th, 2009 Ex-soldier gets 5 life sentences for Iraqi deathsPADUCAH, Ky. — A former soldier has received five consecutive life sentences for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the slaying of three of her family members.

September 4th, 2009 Ex-soldier to be sentenced in Ky. for Iraqi deathsPADUCAH, Ky.

September 4th, 2009 Tahoe kidnap case prompts look at other cold casesRENO, Nev. — Police in northern Nevada are scouring old records of major unsolved cases to determine if any match the profile of the man charged in the abduction and assault of a Lake Tahoe girl 18 years ago.

August 11th, 2009 South African health chief: Swine flu to hit hardJOHANNESBURG — South Africa's health minister says that while swine flu has arrived late to the continent, it may hit harder here than elsewhere in the world. Aaron Motsoaledi, speaking at a regional conference on the pandemic, said Tuesday that Africa is typically "worst affected" by any communicable disease with its weak health systems and poverty.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India has recorded a rise in the number of rape cases during the past five years with states like Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal accounting for a large number of them, parliament was informed Wednesday. According to the data compiled by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), a total of 20,737 rape cases were registered in 2007 against 19,384 in 2006, while the figure was 18,359 in 2005 and 18,233 in 2004 against 15,847 in 2003.

July 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Though there have been 251 murders and 226 cases of rape, the crime rate in the national capital has gone down on the whole in the first six months of this year compared to the previous year, Delhi Police announced here Saturday. There is a fall of 7.46 percent in the rate of heinous crimes in Delhi while there is a three percent fall in non-heinous crimes, Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S.

June 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - An interstate wrestling champion, who allegedly worked as a sharpshooter for the notorious Krishan Pehlwan gang, was arrested here Sunday for his alleged involvement in a number of murder cases in Punjab and Haryana, police said. Rakesh Kumar alias Raka, a 22-year-old former interstate champion in the 84 kg freestyle wrestling, was wanted in several murder cases.

June 19th, 2009 1 in 4 South African men surveyed admit to rapeCAPE TOWN, South Africa — A leading South African research group said one in four male South Africans it surveyed admitted to committing rape — a finding that cast a harsh light on a culture of sexual violence that victims groups say is deeply embedded in society. According to police statistics, some 36,000 women were raped in 2007 — nearly 100 per day.

June 2nd, 2009 Police say 61 miners found dead in South AfricaJOHANNESBURG — Police say the bodies of another 25 illegal miners have been brought up from an abandoned shaft where 36 others had been found dead over the weekend in central South Africa. Police are calling on relatives to help identify the 61 victims who died searching for gold.

June 1st, 2009 FBI: Crime falls, but small town violence risesWASHINGTON — Cities in the United States got safer in 2008, while small towns grew more dangerous, according to FBI data released Monday. The FBI says violent crime nationwide dropped by 2.5 percent last year.

May 31st, 2009 NOIDA - Admitting that the rise in crime figures in Ghaziabad was "not a good sign", a senior official of the Uttar Pradesh Police Sunday claimed that the force had also become more public friendly and was registering more cases than earlier. In 2007, a total of 19 robbery cases were registered in Ghaziabad, while in 2008, the figure was 16.

May 28th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Police in Ghaziabad Thursday said they have gunned down a "dreaded criminal", who allegedly killed four women three years ago and had escaped from a lockup. Manoj Kumar, "wanted in over a dozen cases including robbery and murders", was killed in a shootout with police at Pilakhuwa town in this Uttar Pradesh district, Superintendent of Police K.K.