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In the early hours of Thursday, a loud explosion ripped through a quiet residential street of new-build family homes just north of the Swedish city of Uppsala. Soha Saad, 24, was killed in the blast. She lived with her parents, and had recently qualified as a teacher. In footage of the aftermath, her mother can be heard screaming for her daughter, cursing the nation to which they once fled. Saad was one of three victims of gangland violence in a violent 12-hour spell last week, and one of 12 people to be killed in September - Sweden's deadliest month since...

Sunday, October 8, 2023 6:52PM CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 40 people have been shot, two fatally, in gun violence across Chicago this weekend, police said. Eight people were shot downtown early Sunday, Chicago police said. EMS responded to the scene at 2:40 a.m., near West Erie Street and North Orleans Street in River North, and discovered three people who had been shot, Chicago fire officials said. Just under an hour earlier, two people were critically wounded after an argument turned physical inside an Auburn Gresham home on the South Side. At about 1:50 a.m., a man and woman, 33...

The U.N. Security Council voted on Monday to authorize a multinational military intervention against the gang lords of Haiti, led by Kenya, which volunteered to take point in July. The resolution, drafted by the United States and Ecuador at the request of Haiti’s government, passed with 13 votes in favor, zero against, and two unsurprising abstentions: Russia and China. “Russia and China’s abstentions suggested that neither country endorsed the resolution but they were not going to block it. Diplomats said that negotiations had been tense with the two countries for several weeks, with the text being rewritten multiple times, but...

Sweden can’t control Kurdish gangsters. They now have the highest homicide rate in Europe. How is that? The Swedish police can stifle political dissent, big and small, quite effectively. But they claim they don’t have the ability to stop Mexican style cartel bombings and shootouts in city centers, much less firearms trafficking and drugs from pouring in. The nation once admired by the whole world is now a racially incoherent failed state. A good fit for NATO. news.sky.com/story/amp/sweden-military-could-help-tackle-unprecedented-surge-in-violence-12972089 Sweden’s Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, addressed the nation (www.regeringen.se/tal/2023/09/statsminister-ulf-kristerssons-tal-till-nationen/) on September 28th as violence in the country continues to spiral out of...

The gang situation in Sweden has been bad for a while but this summer it has gotten significant worse. The gangs are mostly made up of foreigners and earlier this month the country was shocked when a 13-year-old boy was found murdered in a forest area. Two fourteen-year-olds were murdered near Stockholm earlier in the summer. But the situation keeps getting worse with 12 people dead from gang violence this month alone. Remember, Sweden has roughly the same population as the state of Georgia and historically has had a very low murder rate. Last year, more than 60 people died...

Police say the number of runaways and missing kids is unusually high this year Last year, 1,600 kids were reported missing in the state of 11million In Georgia and North Carolina, which have similar populations, the number was less than 700 Police say they are concerned the youths are being trafficked or becoming involved in gang activity The number of missing and runaway children in Ohio for 2023 is nearly double that of states with similar populations, sparking panic among parents and police who in some towns can't keep up with the number of teenagers running away. In this month...

Cars with foreign plates have been showing up in Africa in staggering numbers, with the majority hailing from Canada and the United States. A whopping 80 percent of stolen vehicles in Canada are said to leave the country's ports and most end up in countries like Ghana. Authorities have also noticed an increase in the number of stolen cars departing the United States for West Africa. An ongoing investigation has seized cars at major shipping ports like New Jersey and Baltimore. In August, Homeland Security said it had already seized about 300 stolen vehicles at the Port of Newark this...

A crime tale straight out of Charles Dickens is unfolding in the Big Apple — with adults “directing” children who appear no older than 10 to steal from unsuspecting businesses, witnesses told The Post. The chubby-cheeked crooks have terrorized bars on the east and west side of Manhattan and Brooklyn for months, graduating from snatching money in unattended bags to stealing cash from open safes in at least two bars in the last few weeks, according to workers and owners.

UPDATED: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 5:27AM CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago shootings this Labor Day Weekend have left at least 38 people shot, four fatally, police said.

UPDATED: Monday, September 4, 2023 8:07AM CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago shootings this Labor Day Weekend have left three people dead and another 29 wounded, police said. A teen boy was critically injured in a South Side shooting on Sunday evening, Chicago police said. Police said the shooting happened in the Englewood neighborhood's 6000-block of South Elizabeth Street just after 7 p.m. The teen was near the sidewalk when someone shot him in the head, police said. Over an hour earlier, a 6-year-old boy was shot inside a South Side home, Chicago police said. Police said the shooting happened in the...

The court proceedings against a British organized crime operation known as OCG Square, whose members are accused of stealing over $5 million worth of goods over two years and 22 separate heists has begun in Northampton, the Northhamptonshire Telegraph reported Tuesday. The gang’s alleged crime spree ran from April 2019 through September 2021 and, though the majority of the thefts were in Corby, North Northamptonshire, OCG Square is accused of stealing “high value” goods, including works of art, Range Rovers, luxury clothes, solar panels, and hundreds of thousands of face masks and antiseptic wipes businesses across the UK. British Museum...

Haitian police, government officials and some members of the foreign diplomatic corps have been hoping that an offer by Kenya to lead an international intervention into a troubled Haiti would mean thousands of additional cops helping to dismantle and fight heavily armed kidnapping gangs. Instead, however, the proposal is shaping up as an offer to protect key government infrastructures like the airport, seaports and main roads, which critics say will not curb the violence and only end in failure. “Most of the critical infrastructures they were quoting are in the hands of the gangs. Before protecting this critical infrastructure, you...

An increase in shootings due to a supposed gang war in Chicago has led community leaders to propose a radical new solution to violent crime. In a proposal called “The People’s Ordinance,” community group Native Sons asks that city gangsters refrain from firing guns at one another between daylight hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. “We have to start somewhere,” co-founder of Native Sons Tatiana Atkins told CWB Chicago. “Our goal is to approach our city’s gun violence problem strategically and not all at once. Things didn’t become this way overnight, and change won’t happen overnight." The ordinance was...

CHICAGO -- At least 38 people have been shot, seven fatally, across Chicago so far this weekend, police said. A man was shot to death in his car early Sunday at a red light in River North. The 24-year-old was stopped at the light about 3:30 a.m. in the 800-block of North Orleans Street when someone in a white SUV pulled up next to him and began shooting at him, Chicago police said. Two Chicago Public Schools students were gunned down this weekend. Hours before that shooting, police said, two other teenagers were shot at a North Austin park. Ashuntice...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Nine female victims were shot, one fatally, early Sunday morning on Chicago's West Side, Chicago police said. The victims were at a gathering in the 1500-block of South Keeler Avenue just after 12:50 a.m. in the city's North Lawndale neighborhood when a black Jeep drove up, and multiple unknown suspects were seen getting out of the vehicle with guns, police said. They began shooting toward the group, hitting the female victims, at least one of which died. A 21-year-old woman was shot in the face, and taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in critical condition, where she died...

UPDATED: Monday, July 24, 2023 4:54AM CHICAGO -- At least 33 people have been shot, including six fatal shootings, across Chicago so far this weekend, police say. A 29-year-old man found in a rolled over vehicle in the city's Little Village neighborhood early Sunday morning had been shot in the head, Chicago police said. Officers responding to a person shot in the 3000-block of West 21st Street about 1:25 a.m. found a man in a rolled over vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head, CPD said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, where he died...

UPDATED: Sunday, July 2, 2023 6:26PM CHICAGO -- At least 31 people have been shot, three fatally, in Fourth of July weekend gun violence across Chicago, police said. A man was killed and three others wounded in a shooting Friday night in Chicago Lawn. The four were standing on a sidewalk about 8:15 p.m. in the 6300 block of South Artesian Avenue when someone in a black Dodge Charger pulled up and an occupant opened fire, Chicago police said. A 16-year-old boy was struck by gunfire early Saturday in West Englewood. He was walking on a sidewalk about 1:30 a.m....

CHICAGO -- At least 29 people have been shot, eight fatally, in shootings across Chicago this weekend, police said. A 19-year-old man was shot and killed inside a rideshare car in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood. A 15-year-old boy was shot to death Sunday afternoon in the Little Village neighborhood. A woman was fatally shot during an argument early Sunday inside a home in Albany Park on the Northwest Side. A man was also killed, and another was wounded, in a shooting Friday night in Back of the Yards. Last weekend, at least 75 people were shot, 14 fatally, in gun...

UPDATED: Sunday, June 25, 2023 9:57AM CHICAGO -- At least 21 people have been shot, three fatally, in shootings across Chicago this weekend, police said. A woman was fatally shot during an argument early Sunday inside a home in Albany Park on the Northwest Side. Two men were fighting just after midnight inside the residence in the 4500 block of North Albany Avenue when one of them fired a gun, striking the woman in the head, Chicago police said. She was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, police said. Her age wasn't immediately known. No...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago shootings over the holiday weekend have left more than 75 shot, 13 fatally, police said. The latest shootings attacked groups of teenagers. Gunfire erupted in the West Garfield Park as three teens were standing on a front porch in the 3800-block of Gladys Avenue when someone in a dark-colored car opened fire, police said. Just a few hours earlier and less than two-miles away, police said a 14-year-old boy walking down the block in the 100-block of North Francisco Avenue when an unknown gunman opened fire on him. He was struck in the right arm and...