# killings - Thursday 8 October, 2020
# On Trial
# On Trial
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh are accused of being involved in a “brutal hostage-taking scheme”.
# killings - Tuesday 8 May, 2018
# Mark Nash
# Mark Nash
Nash was found guilty in 2015 of murdering the two women, whose mutilated bodies were found in sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman 21 years ago.
# killings - Tuesday 4 July, 2017
# South Sudan
# South Sudan
Men, women and children in South Sudan have been shot, hacked to death with machetes and burnt alive.
# killings - Tuesday 27 December, 2016
# EXTRACT
# EXTRACT
Gerard Murphy writes about the prison in this extract from his book The Year of Disappearances.
# killings - Saturday 19 November, 2016
# Anchorage Killings
# Anchorage Killings
There had been fears a serial killer was roaming the Anchorage trails, picking off one or two people at a time.
# killings - Sunday 6 November, 2016
# South Carolina
# South Carolina
The man’s confessions may have solved a quadruple murder that baffled police and investigators for 13 years.
# killings - Saturday 25 June, 2016
# Volatile
# Volatile
The country’s justice minister said the group’s leader told them they had to rape very young girls to be assured of supernatural protection.
# killings - Tuesday 14 June, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
Conor Behan DJs at gay club The George, and says that it’s important we recognise the Orlando attack was an attack on the LGBT community.
# killings - Monday 18 January, 2016
# Syria
# Syria
Syria’s state news agency SANA said at least 300 civilians were killed.
# killings - Friday 7 August, 2015
# Russia
# Russia
Tamara Samsonova was arrested on suspicion of poisoning a friend – and her diary details 10 other killings .
# killings - Friday 3 April, 2015
# Kenya
# Kenya
The Pope has condemned the killings as “senseless brutality”.
# killings - Saturday 7 March, 2015
# Masked Killer
# Masked Killer
“The killer came here because there were foreigners. He wanted to kill foreigners, that’s for sure,” a waiter at the club said.
# killings - Saturday 14 February, 2015
# Chapel Hill
# Chapel Hill
A potential motive was a dispute over parking spaces.
# killings - Wednesday 14 January, 2015
# Controversy
# Controversy
The photo features the Mona Lisa in a Hijab.
# killings - Thursday 8 January, 2015
# Oldenburg
# Oldenburg
A psychiatric expert told the trial that the 38-year-old defendant had confessed to the killings .
# killings - Wednesday 31 December, 2014
# Lunch Fix
# Lunch Fix
Don’t have time to mull over the news? Here’s everything you need to know.
# killings - Wednesday 22 October, 2014
# Trial
# Trial
More than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad were shot and 14 were killed.
# killings - Saturday 2 August, 2014
# Serial Killer
# Serial Killer
Chester D. Turner is Los Angeles’ most prolific killer.
# killings - Monday 7 July, 2014
# Attack
# Attack
Israeli air force have responded to the latest rocket attack by hitting 30 targets near Rafah.
# killings - Saturday 5 July, 2014
# On Edge
# On Edge
TheJournal.ie spoke to a leading Israeli commentator, who fears for stability in the region after the latest round of bloodshed
# killings - Thursday 22 May, 2014
# Terrorism
# Terrorism
The local government said, the bloodiest in a series of violent incidents blamed on radical separatist Muslims.
# killings - Tuesday 25 February, 2014
# RIP
From The42
# RIP
The 34-year-old father was rushed to hospital after being beaten with metal bars.
# killings - Thursday 30 January, 2014
# Investigation
# Investigation
A priest and a mother of eight were among those shot dead by members of the British Army Parachute Regiment in 1971.
# killings - Saturday 4 January, 2014
# Violence
# Violence
Fighting erupted in the Ramadi area on Monday, when security forces broke up an anti-government protest camp.
# killings - Monday 4 November, 2013
# Norway
# Norway
The identity of the suspect, who was himself injured according to Norwegian media, as well as the motives for the attack were not immediately clear.
# killings - Saturday 21 September, 2013
# Guns
# Guns
This week’s Washington DC shootings brought to 36 the number of Americans killed in mass shootings in 2013.
# killings - Friday 20 September, 2013
# Bombings
# Bombings
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are targeting oil facilities, foreigners and security forces.
# killings - Saturday 10 August, 2013
# Iraq
# Iraq
The death toll is the highest since assaults in July near Baghdad.
# killings - Wednesday 3 July, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
After living in Afghanistan, I got to see first-hand what the people of that country go through, writes Noel Scanlon, who says he wishes he could be more optimistic about the country’s future.
# killings - Saturday 29 June, 2013
# Co Kerry
# Co Kerry
A Lithuanian man in his mid-twenties has been charged with the murder of Jolanta Lubiene and the unlawful killing of her daughter Enrika.
# killings - Saturday 15 June, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Assad’s regime would not use chemical weapons as it is gaining an advantage against the rebels.
# killings - Thursday 30 May, 2013
# USA
# USA
Robert Bales is accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers last year, and also faces six charges of attempted murder and seven of assault.
# killings - Friday 24 May, 2013
# War
# War
Transferring more weapons to Syria can only “exacerbate a hellish scenario for civilians” says Oxfam, who say extending the embargo would avoid fuelling an arms race.
# killings - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
# Baghdad
# Baghdad
11 bombings struck Baghdad, as well as the cities of Kirkuk and Tarmiyah.
# killings - Sunday 21 April, 2013
# Read Me
# Read Me
Boston native, Larry Donnelly reflects on the the horrific events that happened at the Boston Marathon this week, saying he’s been heartened by the expressions of solidarity from countless Irish people who have such a special affinity with the most Irish city in the US.
# killings - Saturday 22 December, 2012
# Pennsylvania
# Pennsylvania
Police still trying to discover motive behind shooting of three people in a rural area of Pennsylvania.
# killings - Saturday 1 December, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
The conflict in Gaza is the latest to show the power of social networking – but online platforms need to examine the role they play, writes Jillian York.
# killings - Friday 9 November, 2012
# Breivik
# Breivik
Complaints range from not having a personal light and TV switch, censored phone calls, “screaming” prison mates and cold coffee.
# killings - Tuesday 25 September, 2012
# Gangland
# Gangland
The Justice Minister has said the “evil perpetrators have absolute no respect for human life” following the death of two men in Laois and Dublin. Both were shot in front of their children.
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