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Kenyan police say they have arrested a suspect after the gruesome discovery of mutilated bodies in a Nairobi rubbish dump, and say he has confessed to killing 42 women. SOUNDBITE
Images of a court in Quito after the main suspect in the assassination of Ecuadoran presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, who was shot dead just before the country's 2023 election, has been sentenced to more than 34 years in prison. IMAGES
Court proceedings resume in the murder case of Ecuadoran presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, who died in a shooting shortly before the country's 2023 election. Five suspects are on trial, some with ties to "Los Lobos," one of the main gangs in Ecuador fighting for control of the drug trade that has led to a spike in violence in recent years within the small South American country. IMAGES
Starvation cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and his suspected accomplices arrive in court to file a plea after a Kenyan court charged them with murder over the deaths of more than 400 followers. Mackenzie is alleged to have incited his acolytes to starve to death in order to "meet Jesus" in a case that provoked horror across the world. IMAGES
Trial opens for six teenagers for their role in the 2020 beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty, the first of two trials in a case that horrified France. The suspects, who were between the ages of 13 and 15 at the time of the murder, are accused of having been on the lookout for Paty, identifying him to the killer in exchange for money, or for making false accusations. Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography teacher, was stabbed and then beheaded near his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. His attacker was shot dead at the scene by police. IMAGES
Brazilian former firefighter Maxwell Simoes Correa, suspected of involvement in the 2018 assassination of Rio de Janeiro city councilor Marielle Franco, is escorted by federal police agents upon his arrival in Brasilia, where he will remain under arrest. IMAGES