Crime

Bloodied suspect carrying samurai sword charged with brutal beating of woman, killing her dog

He claimed God came to him, ordering him to kill his friend. He later claimed God instructed him not to kill her, but to offer a sacrifice like the binding of Isaac, which led him to stab his dog.

Illustration image of handcuffs on the hands of an arrested man, in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025.
People vote in the 2024 U.S. presidential election on Election Day at a voting site in Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 5, 2024.

Israeli green card holder charged with illegal voting in 2024 US presidential election

Meital Saar, wife of Kfar Saba Mayor Rafi Saar, attends a hearing on the extension of her detention in connection with a suspected bribery and corruption investigation, at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court, October 19, 2026.

Kfar Saba mayor, wife suspected of fraud released to house arrest, forbidden to communicate

A shop assistant, who refused to be identified, displays T-shirts presenting the official logotype of radical Islamic Shiite group Hezbollah (L) and another of Lebanese Army´s special forces (R), on sale at an army and navy police supply shop, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 28, 2006.

Hezbollah sends Latin American recruits to Lebanon for training before targeting Jewish communities


Christa Pike getting 'life-saving medical care' after surviving Tennessee execution

Her lawyers repeated their calls for Pike's sentence to be commuted to life in prison after enduring what they called "chemical torture."

Witness Catherine Sweeney with WPLN recounts the planned execution of Christa Pike at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, US, September 30, 2026. Pike had not been declared dead when the witnesses were asked to leave the room they were witnessing in.

Killing of mafia head Yushayev leaves Hadera vulnerable to further organized criminal violence

Yushayev was shot dead at a restaurant in Caesarea on August 23. His murder continues to occupy both police investigators and figures in the region's criminal underworld.

Yanis Yushayev

Christa Pike set to be first Tennessee woman executed in 200 years, lawyers ask Gov. Lee for mercy

Pike's lawyers have since uncovered documented proof of her childhood sexual and physical abuse. She was reportedly raped several times as a toddler and throughout her teenage years.

Christa Gail Pike, 36, the only woman on Tennessee's Death Row, is pictured in this 2007 Tennessee Department of Correction booking photograph obtained by Reuters March 22, 2012.

Pakistani teenager suspected to have used AI system for guidance in attempted poisoning of father

The NCCIA said in a statement that the suspect was influenced by the popular US television series Breaking Bad and had asked various AI chatbots for information on how to produce methanol. 

 A poison warning on a bottle; illustrative

Chinese national among 212 arrested in Pakistan as authorities crack down on call center fraud

Authorities recovered a large amount of equipment from the raided sites, including almost 400 computers and more than 300 phones.

Pakistani police officers keeping security in a public area. Ilustrative.

German prosecutors investigate alleged 105-year-old former-Nazi PoW camp guard over WWII crimes

Germany hasn't had a statute of limitations for murder or accessory to murder since 1979, allowing the prosecution of Nazi crimes from WWII.

 BARRACKS AT the Stutthof concentration camp, photographed after its liberation.

Court adds two years to sentence of man who stole cars from Kibbutz Be'eri after Oct. 7

Judges Gilat Shalev, Itay Bresler-Gonen, and Fani Gilat Cohen accepted the state’s appeal against the original five-and-a-half-year sentence, while rejecting Haddad’s appeal.

The remains of the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists when they infiltrated Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023, near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, as seen on Jan. 4, 2024.

Hadera man arrested for allegedly assaulting nurse at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

According to police, a patient approached the nurse during her shift, and an argument developed during which he allegedly began behaving violently and verbally abusing her.

A nurse walks through the corridors of the sterile ward at the Timone pediatric hospital in Marseille on January 23, 2026. (Illustrative)

Pakistani girl, 3, sold into marriage for $9,000 under 'walwar' custom, sparking int'l outrage

Police arrested the girl’s father and are searching for the 60-year-old man identified as her alleged husband as investigators examine links to the killing of her older sister.

Pakistani girl helps make bricks at a kiln during World Day Against Child Labour on the outskirts of Islamabad on June 12, 2014.

'Irresponsible statement': IDF denies reports of tunnels in Kalkilya, says only 'shafts' located

"The presence of a tunnel route was ruled out. It was also determined that the shafts were not located in proximity to the area of the security barrier," the military stated.

Israeli Border Police forces from the Jerusalem Envelope unit uncover a tunnel that Palestinians allegedly attempted to dig beneath the separation barrier near the village of Al-Jib, West Bank, September 9, 2026.