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Cinema OnlineStrength in silence as Ady An faces single motherhood after husband's prison sentence
Celebrity friends praise the actress' strength amid husband's high-profile legal battle
- The Guardian
Joe Biden issues ‘full and unconditional’ pardon to son Hunter
Decision marks reversal after US president said he would not use executive authority, but now says Hunter Biden was only prosecuted for political reasons
- The Independent
A woman was found murdered and left nude along the riverbed in 1988. Police just named her killer
Tracy Whitney was 18 years old when she was killed in August 1988
- Evening Standard
Granddad fights off Rolex watch muggers in central London by swinging takeaway bags
Christopher Harris was attacked by muggers in Paddington after he bought takeaway food
- The Independent
A teenage boy was seen hanging out of a car window before being found shot. TikTok led cops to the suspects
Police harnessed the power of social media to help find Key’mydre Anderson’s alleged killers. Last week, Johnathan Pyle’s capital murder trial began, James Liddell writes
- The Guardian
Man charged with murdering his parents after bodies found at Sydney shop
Allan Chiem, 31, will remain in custody after allegedly murdering his father, 69, and mother, 68
- People
Killed for His Kindness: Inside the Case of 17-Year-Old Who Was Slain After Offering Teens a Ride in the Cold
Jack Snyder, 17, was fatally shot during a carjacking in February 2023
- The Independent
A quadriplegic woman was raped during a home invasion in 2000. 24 years on, DNA led cops to a suspect
Michael Lamonte Evans, 50, was charged with forcible rape over the December 2000 attack on the unnamed woman, who has since died
- Associated Press
Impeachment complaint filed against Philippine Vice President Duterte after she threatened president
An impeachment complaint was filed Monday against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, who is facing a legal storm over a death threat she made against the president and her alleged role in extra-judicial killings of drug suspects, corruption and failure to stand up to Chinese aggression in the disputed South China Sea. The impeachment bid filed by several prominent civil society activists in the House of Representatives accuses Duterte of violating the country’s Constitution, betrayal of public trust and other “high crimes,” including the death threats she made against the president, his wife and the speaker of the House of Representatives. “We're hoping that with this complaint, we can end the nightmare that our vice president has brought to the people,” said Rep. Percival Cendana, who gave the required endorsement of the complaint.
- AFP News
Malaysia's jailed ex-PM Najib to argue appeal for house arrest
Malaysia's jailed ex-leader Najib Razak will begin his defence this week against graft charges tied to more than $500 million in alleged bribes, and argue to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest.At the High Court on Monday, the 71-year-old will start his defence against four counts of abuse of power linked to 2.27 billion ringgit ($510 million) in alleged bribes and 21 counts of money laundering.
- CNN
Stowaway who flew from New York to Paris causes disturbance on return flight, remains in France
A woman who flew as a stowaway on a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Paris earlier this week remains in France after causing a disturbance on a flight scheduled to take her back to the United States Saturday, according to two law enforcement sources.
- The Telegraph
What did Hunter Biden do?
Over and over, Joe Biden said he would not use his powers as president to pardon his son Hunter on charges he bought a gun while using drugs and avoided tax.
- The Telegraph
Trump asks if Biden will now pardon the ‘January 6 hostages’
Donald Trump has said Joe Biden should now pardon those imprisoned for the Jan 6 Capital riots after he released his son from likely jail time.
- Associated Press
Ex-Kansas detective accused of sexually assaulting Black women is dead, prosecutors say
A white Kansas police detective accused of sexually assaulting Black women and girls — and terrorizing those who tried to fight back — is dead, prosecutors said as his trial was set to begin Monday. Prosecutors say female residents of poor neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas, feared that if they crossed paths with Roger Golubski, he’d demand sexual favors and threaten to harm or jail their relatives. Golubski, 71, was facing six felony counts of violating women’s civil rights.
- CBC
Regina chiropractor found guilty of 1 count of sexual assault against a patient
The jury in the trial of a Regina chiropractor accused of sexual assault has returned a verdict of guilty on one count of the seven Ruben Manz was charged with.The jury found the 49-year-old not guilty on five other counts, and determined one count to be a mistrial.The verdict was announced just before midnight on Dec. 1, 2024, after a four-week trial at the Court of King's Bench.All of the allegations, which spanned the course of a decade, were made by former patients of Manz's who testified th
- The Independent
Teenager who shot innocent mother dead as she tried to protect her children wrote rap ‘glorifying’ her murder
‘Remorseless’ Joshua Alexander jailed for minimum of 29 years for shooting Lianne Gordon during a turf war
- AFP News
Najib says bribery, power abuse charges 'politically motivated'
Malaysia's jailed ex-leader Najib Razak began his defence Monday against graft charges tied to more than $500 million in alleged bribes and several counts of money laundering, saying they were "politically motivated".The case involves 2.27 billion ringgit ($510 million) in alleged bribes and 21 counts of money laundering.
- Associated Press
Australian police arrest 13 people and seize a record 2.3 tons of cocaine from a fishing boat
Australian police seized a record 2.3 tons of cocaine and arrested 13 people in raids after the suspects' boat broke down off the coast of Queensland, authorities said Monday. The drugs had a sale value of 760 million Australian dollars ($494 million) and equaled as many as 11.7 million street deals if they had reached the country of 28 million people, federal police said in a statement. The arrests on Saturday and Sunday followed a monthlong investigation after a tipoff that the Comancheros motorcycle gang was planning a multi-ton smuggling operation, Australian Federal Police Commander Stephen Jay said.
- BBC
Man jailed after 'brazen' street assault on woman
An off-duty police officer witnessed Nehemiah Brown repeatedly punching the woman in the street.
- Reuters
ICC president says war crimes tribunal is in jeopardy
The president of the International Criminal Court on Monday said threats facing the institution, including possible U.S. sanctions and Russian warrants for staff members, "jeopardise its very existence". Speaking at an annual conference of the court's 124 members, President Judge Tomoko Akane did not name Russia or the United States but referred to them as permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. "It's clear by any metric, by any benchmark, this assembly is at a pivotal time," ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan said in his speech at the opening of the conference.