Africa's week in pictures: 26 April - 2 May 2024
A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
Images subject to copyright
Eduardo Sarabia will appear in court next month
Bui was a teenager at the time of the arson but was prosecuted as an adult
Omar Bin Omran was presumed dead after he went missing in Algeria when he was 17 years old
Three teenage girls are expected to plead guilty in the swarming death of Kenneth Lee near Union Station in December 2022, court heard Friday.The girls, aged 13, 13, and 14, appeared in provincial court in Toronto.Three other girls, aged 15, 16, and 16, are expected to plead not guilty, court heard. Eight teenage girls were initially charged with second-degree murder in connection with Lee's death. They range in age from 13 to 16 years old. Lee, 59, was pronounced dead in hospital on Dec. 18, af
ReutersA British coroner said this week that Georgia Brooke, a 26-year-old dance teacher said to have been fatally strangled by her boyfriend, had died from a “reckless sex game gone wrong.” British authorities said Brooke’s boyfriend, 31-year-old Luke Cannon, took his own life by hanging just after he learned his lover had died in a local hospital—unable to recover from cardiac arrest.The coroner, Martin Fleming, added Wednesday that drugs may have played a factor in the tragedy, with traces of
Nissim Louk, father of Shani Louk whose body was one of those recovered, told Israeli media his daughter’s body was very well preserved because it had been kept in a “deep and very cold tunnel”.
Ravi Pansuriya was sentenced to life in prison without parole
WARNING: This story contains details of violence and child abuse. The mother and stepfather of deceased Hesquiat boy Dontay Lucas were both sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for manslaughter in the disturbing killing of the six-year-old in 2018. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Michael Tammen delivered the decision to a packed and emotional courtroom filled with the Lucas family, friends and supporters wearing stickers reading "Dontay Patrick Lucas, 2012-2018, gone but not forgotten." Accused R
The Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk. A photo of 22-year-old Louk's twisted body in the back of a pickup truck ricocheted around the world and brought to light the scale of the militants’ attack on communities in southern Israel. The military identified the other two bodies as those of a 28-year-old woman, Amit Buskila, and a 56-year-old man, Itzhak Gelerenter.
Australian police are seeking two people for allegedly vandalizing a century-old Chinese parade dragon and other valuable artefacts at a museum in a small town known for its historic links to China.
A French court ruled to confiscate nine Bordeaux wine country chateaux acquired by a Chinese tycoon convicted of laundering Chinese government funds. The sentenced 63-year-old Naijie Qu is a wealthy businessman, Bordeaux wine enthusiasist and head of Haichang Group, a trading and shipping conglomerate with interests in property, tourism and agriculture based in the northeastern Chinese port city of Dalian. Haichang was one of the most ambitious investors in a Chinese buying spree of France's mos
Christopher Gregor, 31, is on trial for the murder of his six-year-old son Corey Micciolo and is accused of making youngster run on treadmill at high speed soon before his death
Donald Trump finally had a good day in court.
Dion Lamont Montgomery allegedly told police he was using PCP when he shot his baby boy, court records show
Jacob Mayhugh, 22, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder
A young man who defected from North Korea has now set his sights on becoming a K-pop idol. Kim Hak-sung joined the reality TV show "Make Mate 1" for a chance to earn a spot in a new K-pop group. Watching TV after his arrival in South Korea inspired him to become a K-pop idol.
Rebecca Joynes, 30, was found guilty of six child sex offences involving two teen boys.
US federal prosecutors on Thursday charged an Arizona woman with participating in an elaborate fraud scheme to help foreign IT workers pose as Americans, get hired by major US companies and earn $6.8 million in revenue that could benefit the nuclear-armed North Korean regime.
Advances in DNA testing allowed investigators to pinpoint a suspect in Rose Hnath’s death
Israel lashed out Friday at South Africa's case before the UN's top court, describing it as "totally divorced" from reality, as Pretoria urges judges to order a ceasefire in Gaza.A top lawyer for Israel painted the South Africa case as a "mockery" of the UN Genocide Convention it is accused of breaching.