Germany: ‘Fake’ doctor arrested for anesthesia deaths

Sifon Essien engages security expert on the significance of using technology in fighting crime and criminality.

Namola, a free downloadable app, provides 24-hour emergency assistance in an attempt to lower the country's alarming crime statistics.

Four deaths under anesthesia have led to the arrest of a suspected fake doctor in central Germany. The 48-year-old woman had joined clinic staff in 2015 but her lack of medical licensing only emerged in January.

Dubai Police have arrested and seized over $40.9m (Dh150 million) in cash and over a dozen luxury cars in the arrest of Dubai based Nigerian Instagram celebrity Raymond Olounwa Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi. He is accused of online fraud and money laundering.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on India's economy. Due to an alarming increase in unemployment, many people are resorting to criminal activities to make ends meet. Murali Krishnan reports from New Delhi.

Bomb explosions, shootings and even kidnapping of children: drug trafficking around Antwerp in northern Belgium is generating increasingly violent crime, which the authorities are struggling to tackle.

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The success of the "Lupin" series on Netflix is reviving public interest in Maurice Leblanc's novels about the gentleman burglar. "The book that we see very regularly in the hands of Omar Sy and his son in the series is already out of print," says the manager of a bookshop on the outskirts of Paris.

Thirty years after a fatal arson attack on a hostel for asylum-seekers, German prosecutors have said fresh clues pointing to a far-right crime had prompted searches of a suspect's home.

Police have shot and arrested a young man after he attacked several people in southern Sweden with an ax.

The US president has targeted gun dealers and urged cities to use COVID relief funds to pay for more policing amid a rise in violent crime.