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A landlord in Chicago, Illinois, has been arrested and charged with murder and hate crimes after he stabbed and killed a six-year-old Palestinian-American and seriously wounded his mother, allegedly over his tenants’ Muslim faith. Hanaan Shahin and her son Wadea Al-Fayoume had lived on the ground floor of the house for two years with no previous notable issues with the landlord.

Jordan sent a memo of protest to Israel, on Wednesday, over illegal settlers’ incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in Occupied East Jerusalem, Anadolu Agency reports.

Johnny & Associates Inc., a leading Japanese talent agency embattled over a sex abuse scandal involving its late founder, is considering launching a new firm to manage its performers in a bid to mitigate the reputational fallout from the revelations, sources close to the matter said Sunday.

Japan engaged in several informal contacts with North Korea this spring, sources close to the matter said Friday, apparently to seek a breakthrough in a longstanding impasse surrounding the abduction of Japanese nationals in the past.

Instead of being given legitimate jobs, 107 men from Bangladesh were enslaved in Vanuatu working under the threat of violence and even death.

The mosque's spokesperson said the Muslim place of worship had been the target of several acts of violence in the past year and his family threatened.

Scores of illegal Israeli settlers forced their way into the Al Aqsa mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on the occasion of the Yom Kippur holiday, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

The number of stalking suspects apprehended by police has already exceeded 7,000 this year, police data showed Tuesday, indicating that the dangers of such crimes remain, though nearly a year has passed since the murder of a subway station worker by a colleague who had stalked the victim for years.

Five former police officers in the United States have been charged with federal civil rights violations in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, as they continue to fight second-degree murder charges in state courts.

A new documentary by Ireland’s RTÉ Investigates programme, 'Milking It; Dairy's Dirty Secret' has exposed animal welfare breaches of male calves in Ireland, both on-farm and during live export to Europe.