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The Maltese investigative journalist was killed by a car bomb in 2017, leading to convictions, a public inquiry and continuing disputes over who commissioned the attack.
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The Maltese investigative journalist was killed by a car bomb in 2017, leading to convictions, a public inquiry and continuing disputes over who commissioned the attack.

The rapper was fatally shot in Las Vegas in 1996; thirty years later, a jury convicted Duane Davis of orchestrating the attack.

Three children died after an attack at their Duxbury home; their mother pleaded not guilty to murder charges on lack-of-criminal-responsibility grounds.

A three-year-old child disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal.
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Nineteen people were killed and twenty-six others were injured, thirteen severely, at a care home for disabled people.

The July 2016 Dhaka attack or Holey Artisan terrorist attack took place on the night of 1 July 2016, at 21:20 Bangladesh Standard Time (UTC+06:00), five Islamic State (IS) terrorists took hostages and opened fire on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan Thana jurisdiction in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 a.m. in Paris, France, the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo were targeted in a terrorist shooting attack by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers, Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi.

A series of coordinated Islamic terrorist attacks took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France, and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis.

Lucy Letby (born 4 January 1990) is a British former NHS neonatal nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester between June 2015 and June 2016.
A homicide case documented in Vosloorus, Gauteng, South Africa, during 26 Oct 2014.

A homicide case documented in Olongapo, Philippines, during 11 Oct 2014.

On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 mostly Christian, with some Muslim, schoolgirls aged from 16 to 18 were kidnapped by the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram from the Government Girls Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.

The Lindt Café siege (also known as the Sydney siege) was a terrorist attack that occurred on 15–16 December 2014 when a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt Chocolate Café hostage in the APA Building in Martin Place, Sydney, Australia.

Forty-three students disappeared after attacks in and around Iguala, Mexico.

Two bombs exploded near the Boston Marathon finish line, killing three people and injuring hundreds.

Al-Shabaab gunmen attacked a Nairobi shopping centre during a four-day siege.
Reeva Steenkamp was shot and killed by Oscar Pistorius at his Pretoria home.

In December 2014, after eight days of deliberations, a jury convicted Magnotta of first-degree murder.
The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people.

A young woman was assaulted on a bus, prompting nationwide protests and legal reform.

On 22 July 2011, 32-year-old far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik committed two domestic terrorist attacks in Norway against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp, in which a total of 77 people were killed.

In the early morning of 22 March 2010, Paulette Gebara Farah, a four-year-old Mexican girl with disabilities, disappeared from her bedroom in her family's apartment, located in a private building in the upscale residential area of Interlomas, in Huixquilucan, State of Mexico.

Brazilian model Eliza Silva Samudio was murdered in June 2010 by association football goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes das Dores de Souza, known simply as Bruno.

Although it began in 2009 in Malaysia, the scandal's global scope implicated institutions and individuals in politics, banking, and entertainment, and led to criminal investigations in a number of nations.
Fifty-eight people were killed while travelling to file an election candidacy.
On 8 June 2008, a man drove a truck into pedestrians in Tokyo's Akihabara district and then attacked people with a knife, killing seven and injuring ten.

The two were killed on the night of 15–16 May 2008 at Aarushi's home in Noida, India.

The 2008 Mumbai attacks, colloquially known as 26/11, were a coordinated series of twelve Islamic terrorist attacks carried out in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, from 26 to 29 November 2008, by ten members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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