Murder

A Belgrade court decided for a second time to throw out evidence allegedly placing former Serbian state security officers at the scene of the 1999 murder of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija.

A witness at the trial for the 1999 murder of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija denied defence claims that evidence allegedly placing former State Security officers at the scene of the crime was obtained illegally.

The expected vote on recognizing the killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 as a "genocide" was removed from the Knesset's agenda for the week as of May 29, Israeli media has reported. 

The Greek justice minister has a conflicting stance when it comes to Rouvikonas. On the one hand he is trying to play nice with the anarchist group and its admirers, and on the other he is trying to placate the public, which is surprised and shocked by its antics.

The mother of one of the 10 people killed at a Texas high school said her daughter recently rejected the romantic advances of the 17-year-old charged in the shootings, a possible motive for the violent tragedy.

An appeals court upheld on Tuesday the two life sentences and additional 25 years in jail handed down to two suspects in connection to the murder of two officers in a DIAS motorcycle patrol, carried out in March 2011 in the Rendi district near Piraeus, but also cleared a third suspect who had been previously convicted.

Prosecutors urged judges at the UN court to reject former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s appeal and increase his sentence to life imprisonment for genocide and other wartime crimes.

Two UK-based professors have asked to present an analysis carried out with artificial intelligence-inspired software of Radovan Karadzic’s alleged intent to commit genocide in Srebrenica at the former Bosnian Serb leader’s appeals hearing in The Hague.

Turkey on Feb. 23 condemned the double car bombings in the Somalia capital Mogadishu, where at least 18 people were killed and 20 others wounded on Feb. 23.

Bulgaria ranks fourth in the European Union by number of intentional killings. This is the latest Eurostat data for 2016, according to News.bg.