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Robert Durst, a millionaire real estate heir, has been surrounded by controversy and unsolved deaths for decades. His story was made into a documentary series by HBO, called "The Jinx," which has reignited interest in his case, leading to his recent arrest in New Orleans in connection with
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Almost a year after the unexpected death of Sunanda Pushkar, the glamorous wife of a well-known South Indian member of Parliament, the Delhi Police have determined the cause of death as murder. The police commissioner, B. S. Bassi, revealed on Tuesday that the authorities believed Pushkar had ingested or been
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Delhi Police registered a case of murder against unknown persons in the death of Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of former Union Minister, Shashi Tharoor. The police have confirmed that the death was unnatural and caused by poisoning. This development comes after a medical report revealed that Sunanda died of poison,
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At least 70 journalists lost their lives in 2013 while covering conflicts, reporting on sensitive topics, and documenting combat in their home cities. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) documented these deaths, highlighting the dire situation for journalists working in the Middle East and other parts of the world. The
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At least 70 journalists lost their lives while on assignment around the world this year, with a significant majority of the deaths occurring in the Middle East, where the civil war in Syria and sectarian attacks in Iraq have taken a devastating toll. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports
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A 59-year-old hostage, Shankar Lal Swami, was abducted by three persons, including two India Reserve Battalion personnel, on Wednesday from Kangla Fort in Imphal. The body of the hostage was found the next day in a fish farm. The police have arrested five accused in connection with the case, including
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The trial in the gangrape and murder of software engineer Nayana Pujari, which was deferred multiple times, will finally resume at the district and sessions court in Pune on January 8, 2012. Pujari, 27, was found murdered in Rajgurunagar, about 50 km from Pune, on October 8, 2009. Her body
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The highly publicized capital murder trial of Lee E. Stephens is set to begin in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, marking the fifth time in 15 years that the county's prosecutors have sought the death penalty. Stephens, 32, is accused of murdering a prison guard in 2006 at
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Iraq's security forces are increasingly taking to the airwaves with dramatic demonstrations of how they are cracking down on terrorism, using detainees - mostly Sunni men - as backdrops for speeches and broadcasting confessions on state-run television. This practice has sparked concerns from Western diplomats and human rights
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A police chief has expressed regret that the father of an Indian student, Anuj Bidve, learned about his murder on Boxing Day through a Facebook post rather than being informed by official authorities. Anuj, 23, was shot in the head in Ordsall, Salford, on 26 December, and the murder is
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Indian student Anuj Bidve, 23, was shot and killed in an "unprovoked" attack on Boxing Day, December 26, in Manchester. The UK police have made a fifth arrest in connection with the murder, while treating the incident as a hate crime, despite no clear motive or evidence of
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The Bombay High Court has rejected the bail plea of Emile Jerome, convicted in the high-profile Neeraj Grover murder case, citing sufficient circumstantial evidence against him. The Division Bench of Justice VM Kanade and Justice ML Tahaliyani rejected Jerome's petition, stating that the prosecution had provided enough evidence
