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Federal agents arrest 362 previously deported migrants in California
Federal authorities launched Operation Guardian Angel, using real-time federal warrants to take custody of criminal foreign nationals from county…
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Lebanon parliament passes general amnesty law
Lebanon's parliament approved a broad amnesty law that reduces death and life sentences to 17 prison years (about 12 years and nine months served)…
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Supreme Court upholds ruling ordering Nippon Steel to pay damages
South Korea's Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a lower court order requiring Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel to pay a total of 80 million won to…
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Toronto jeweller consents to extradition to U.S.
Rolan Sokolovski, a Toronto jeweller accused by the U.S. Department of Justice of acting as a "de facto bank" for an alleged drug trafficking ring…
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Victims' families sue over parole board clemency policy
The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation and a coalition of victims' families filed a petition on July 15 in Sacramento Superior Court seeking to enjoin…
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Syrian court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death
A Syrian court has sentenced ousted president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after convicting him of war crimes and crimes against humanity…
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Violent crime falls in major US cities in first half 2026
An Axios analysis of the Major Cities Chiefs Association survey covering 66 large U.S. communities found violent crime categories down in the first…
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U.N. hears allegations Russia tortures Ukrainian prisoners
At an informal U.N. Security Council meeting, former Ukrainian detainees, Ukrainian officials and U.N. human rights monitors accused Russia of…
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London tube trials live facial recognition cameras
Transport for London and the British Transport Police will trial live facial recognition (LFR) cameras at selected London Underground stations…
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Canadian man pleads guilty in international data breach
Connor Moucka pleaded guilty in a U.S. case after authorities said he and co-conspirators used stolen login details to compromise cloud-hosted data…
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US offers over $100M for arrests in CJNG
The US State Department announced reward offers totaling up to $102 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of eight leaders and…
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Court convicts members of Last Defense Wave
A Hamburg court convicted and sentenced seven members and one supporter of the right-wing extremist group Last Defense Wave on charges including…
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South Korea arrests scam ring operating in Kazakhstan
South Korean investigators, working with Kazakh authorities, arrested 14 members of a South Korean scam ring in Almaty on July 23 and five others in…
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FBI forges law enforcement ties with China and Russia
FBI director Kash Patel said the bureau has created personnel exchanges and joint operations with Chinese and Russian law enforcement over the past…
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Nigeria arrests alleged leader of QNET/IGNITE trafficking syndicate
Nigeria Immigration Service says it dismantled a transnational organised crime syndicate linked to the QNET/IGNITE network after intelligence-led…
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Supreme Court orders coordinated response to digital arrest scams
The Supreme Court ordered a coordinated nationwide response to digital arrest scams, directing banks, financial intermediaries, regulators and law…
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Lagos police uncover suspected counterfeit drug distribution network
Lagos state police say operatives of the Violent Crime Response Unit arrested two men after intelligence led to raids on warehouses where suspected…
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ICE expands DNA collection, adds hundreds of thousands to FBI database
Internal documents, ICE training slides, FBI index counts, and a Georgetown Law analysis show a sharp expansion of DNA collection from people held…
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Hackers steal data from Liechtenstein beneficial owners register
Liechtenstein authorities say an unknown attacker gained unauthorized digital access to the register of beneficial owners during the night of July…
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Explosion injures daughter of Russian general in Moscow
An explosion at the Balzi Rossi restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square in central Moscow on the evening of 1 August left multiple dead and many injured…
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Soldier asks judge to dismiss Polymarket betting case
A US Army soldier, charged with making winning Polymarket predictions allegedly based on classified information about the raid to capture…
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Father sentenced to 15 years over school massacre negligence
Colin Gray, a 55-year-old Georgia father, was sentenced to 15 years after a judge and jury found his criminal negligence helped enable the Sept. 4…
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Federal government increases immigration arrests nationwide
Federal immigration arrests rose sharply in early July, with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement booking an average of 1,593 people per day…
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Suspects questioned over five killings in Chonburi
Investigators in Chonburi are questioning two suspects and seeking two alleged accomplices after five people were found dead in two burial sites…
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