US police have killed more people through the first seven months of the year than they have any other year on record, a study showed, pointing out Black people are three times as likely as white people to get killed by police.

A report last year from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention showed that, of 22 European countries with comparable data, only Croatia had more gun deaths per capita over the last four years, a stark contrast to two decades ago when Sweden was toward the bottom.

For the first time, crime tops the list of voters' most important concerns in the run-up to the elections.

A new book says Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers urged British police not to reveal CSIS's recruitment of a man who helped smuggle three British teenagers into Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Nearly a third of the victims, 247, were identified as racial minorities, and nearly a fifth, 19%, were South Asians

Four police operations, four deaths, one week. Germany is once again discussing police violence and racism. The latest victim was a 16-year-old refugee who was shot with a machine gun.

The London borough of Tower Hamlets has seen population growth at the same time that poverty rates have also increased.

Deputy of Judiciary chief for International Affairs, said, "Terrorist outfits have been hunted all over the world, and nowhere in the world will be safe for terrorists.

Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for her social media posts, a rights group says, marking the latest example of a major crackdown on Twitter users led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS).

Body camera footage from another incident of police violence in the US revealed that a mentally ill man died an hour after being confronted for at least five minutes by Salt Lake City police in the state of Utah.