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Colombo court convicts 15 in Easter Sunday attack trial
Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar delivered a verdict in the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks case, finding 15 of 24 defendants guilty on charges from a…
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Swiss court reviews acquittal in Belarus disappearance appeal
A cantonal court in St. Gallen has begun an appeal against the 2023 acquittal of former Belarusian security official Yuri Harauski, who was accused…
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UN says US strikes on suspected drug boats violate law
United Nations special rapporteur Ben Saul concluded in a Human Rights Council briefing note that at least 68 US strikes on vessels suspected of drug…
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Author reacts after two women arrested in Ekurhuleni murder inquiry
Three suspects — one man and two women — were arrested over the weekend in a Gauteng murder investigation, the Gauteng Murder and Robbery Unit said…
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UNICEF report says 1.5 million Pakistani children faced online sexual abuse
A UNICEF report and survivor accounts in Pakistan detail extensive online sexual abuse affecting an estimated 1.5 million children in one year, with…
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Suspect says he was near resort on night McCann disappeared
Christian Brueckner, identified by German authorities as the prime suspect in Madeleine McCann's 2007 disappearance, told the Mail on Sunday he was…
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U.S. flies Haiti assassination suspect and Colombian commandos to United States
A U.S. military aircraft arrived in Port-au-Prince to carry Joseph Felix Badio, a former Haitian official indicted in the July 2021 assassination of…
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Irish mob boss Christy Kinahan expelled from Dubai
Christy Kinahan, alleged founder of the Kinahan organised crime group, has been ordered to leave Dubai after United Arab Emirates authorities…
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UN reports 1,004 sexual violence cases in Russia-Ukraine war
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights analyzed 1,004 cases of sexual violence occurring from 24 February 2022 through…
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Man arrested for allegedly scamming women using fake 49ers identity
Federal investigators arrested Daejon Love and alleged co-conspirator Taylor Jamie Chan on wire fraud and conspiracy charges after prosecutors say…
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Deji Adeyanju joins probe into Niger NSCDC custody deaths
Deji Adeyanju has accepted appointment to a federal 10-member independent committee set up after 37 suspected illegal miners died in Nigeria Security…
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South Africans rally after nine women killed near Johannesburg
Police in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, have found the bodies of nine women over the past two months, most aged in their 20s and 30s, and some…
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Judge adds 25 years after genetic genealogy links man to 2001 rape
A Bronx judge imposed 25 additional years on Jancys Santiago after prosecutors used investigative genetic genealogy to prove he committed a 2001…
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Brazilian police arrest suspected serial killer in Paraiba
Brazilian police said they captured a 33-year-old suspect, identified as Jorlan Lopes da Silva, after a 30-hour manhunt in a forested area of…
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UN says Russian forces committed sexual violence in Ukraine
The UN human rights office verified 1,004 cases of conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine between February 2022 and July 2026, attributing 89%…
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Four jailed for trafficking and exploiting 24 Thai women
Four people were jailed for a combined 23 years after a network trafficked and sexually exploited 24 Thai women in brothels across London and Kent…
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Victim's relative urges Canada not to end Air India probe
Sanjay Lazar, chairman of the Kanishka Foundation and a survivor of the June 23, 1985 Air India Flight 182 bombing, wrote to Canadian leaders…
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Officer alleged to help run illegal cannabis shops and massage parlours
Newly unsealed portions of investigation documents in Project South allege that Toronto police const. Timothy Barnhardt helped set up illegal…
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Former Syrian official faces U.S. sentencing for torture
Samir Ousman Alsheikh, a former Syrian military official, is scheduled for sentencing Thursday in Los Angeles after a jury in March convicted him of…
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Scam gang rented Bangkok mansion to defraud people in Japan
Thai immigration police arrested 15 people at a rented mansion in Bang Bon district used as a call centre to defraud people in Japan. The property on…
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Women sue Epstein estate over child pornography images
Two women identified in court papers as Jane Doe and Amy filed a federal class-action in the Southern District of New York alleging their sexualized…
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Malta protesters demand justice after acquittal in Caruana Galizia case
A jury acquitted business mogul Yorgen Fenech of complicity in the 2017 car-bomb killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia after a…
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Duterte appears at ICC hearing ahead of November trial
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte attended an International Criminal Court pretrial hearing in The Hague, his first public court appearance…
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Cities replace Flock with Axon alprs
Controversy over Flock Safety's automated license plate readers prompted some California cities to cancel contracts, yet several jurisdictions…
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