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16 September 2024 –

Two police officers are shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Alibori Department, Benin. The assailants also took the officers' weapons before fleeing the scene. (Reuters)

13 September 2024 – 2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup attempt

A court in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, sentences 37 people to death for their alleged roles in the attempted coup the prior May. (AP)

13 September 2024 – Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal

Seven men receive prison sentences ranging from six to 25 years for sexual offences against girls aged 11 to 16 that occurred in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Northern England from the late 1980s until 2013. (BBC News)

13 September 2024 –

Bedfordshire Police arrest an 18-year-old man on suspicion of murder after three people are found dead in flat in a tower block in Luton, England, United Kingdom. (BBC News)

10 September 2024 –

A Swiss appeals court convicts Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of rape and sexual coercion, sentencing Ramadan to three years in prison, with two years suspension. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)

6 September 2024 – 2024 United Kingdom riots

Sheffield Crown Court in South Yorkshire, UK, sentences Thomas Birley, a British man who set fire to a hotel that housed asylum seekers in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, to nine years in prison for arson with the intent to endanger life, the longest sentence related to the riots so far. (Al Jazeera)