Every year there are thousands of shooting incidents on Brazil's streets in which innocent bystanders are injured or killed. In some cities, apps now give real-time warnings to residents about areas to avoid.

In Nigeria, coming from a wealthy elite family means that your life path has almost certainly already been charted for you so you don’t have to stray too far but if you venture out on your own to “do your own thing” and eventually make it big and become a global sensation, you would only be the guy or girl that did it after Davido.

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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.

Top American athletes are boycotting games and tournaments because of the constant shootings of African Americans by police. NBA teams - Lakers, Clippers, Bucks, Blazers, Rockets, Thunders - all boycotted Game 5 of the playoff series.

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson says on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, there were 27 shootings in the city, including 12 of which were fatal.

Since the beginning of the year, the Baltimore Police Department has been using a small Cessna airplane to investigate all sorts of crimes, from property thefts to shootings.

Florida authorities are investigating the police shooting of an unarmed black man as he lay on the ground with his hands in air. Charles Kinsey had been trying to calm an autistic patient in his care, when he was shot in the leg on Monday.