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Texas woman suspected of stabbing man dead with stiletto heel

A 44-year-old woman faces murder charges for allegedly stabbing a man to death with a stiletto-heel shoe inside his home at a high-rise condominium complex in Houston, Texas. KHOU-TV reported on Sunday that police arrested Ana Lilia Trujillo after she answered the door at the unidentified 59-year-old man’s home. Another…

German police charge alleged Auschwitz Nazi guard with murder

German authorities arrested a 93-year-old alleged former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz on murder charges Monday over the death of prisoners on his watch. Prosecutors in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said the man was believed to have worked at the camp between autumn 1941 and its liberation…

South Africa to start releasing arrested miners

A South African court was due to start releasing 270 miners Monday who were arrested after police gunned down 34 of their colleagues, following a decision by prosecutors to withdraw murder charges against them. Prosecutors provisionally dropped the charges Sunday amid a public furor after officers opened fire on strikers…