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  • A 10-year-old Japanese boy stabbed near his school in China has died

    Officials in Tokyo said Thursday that a 10-year-old Japanese student who was stabbed near his school in southern China has died, asking Beijing to provide details of the stabbing and take preventive measures. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa expressed condolences and said noted that the attack occurred despite Tokyo's requests for caution and enhanced safety as China marks a key anniversary of its war with Japan. The student was stabbed on Wednesday about 200 meters (220 yards) from the gate of the Shenzhen Japanese School, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian said in a daily briefing.

  • Woman rescued from 13ft python after being trapped for two hours in its coils

    Snake bit Arom Arunroj, 64, multiple times and wrapped itself around her

  • "Police brutality" allegation after shocking video of arrest emerges

    Police officers have been accused of "brutality" after a shocking video emerged of a man in his underwear being tackled to the ground and "punched in the face." An onlooker and her family were waiting for a table outside a restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday, September 14, when she witnesses the troubling encounter. A video shows the man in his underwear and sunglasses standing on the sidewalk - before he is tackled from behind by a cop. Two more officers join in "repeatedly punching" the man "in the face and kneeing" him.

  • Inmate caught on camera sneaking past guard to assault woman on opposite side of facility

    Justin Avery was in jail after being accused of assaulting women near a college campus in April

  • French mass rape survivor says 'humiliated' by lawyers' claims of complicity in her abuse

    Gisele Pelicot expressed feeling humiliated during the trial of her ex-husband, after defense lawyers accused her of complicity in the abuse. She described the experience in court as degrading. Dominique Pelicot has admitted to drugging Gisele with sedatives, rendering her unconscious so that he and dozens of strangers could rape her over nearly a decade. The former wife of a Frenchman accused of enlisting strangers to rape her while she was drugged said Wednesday she felt humiliated during his

  • How Sean Combs’ ‘right hand’ woman will be central to sex case

    With Sean “Diddy” Combs facing a possible life sentence after being charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, one woman is expected to be at the centre of the music mogul’s case.

  • Veteran CIA officer who drugged and sexually assaulted dozens of women gets 30 years in prison

    A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday after an emotional hearing in which victims described being deceived by a man who appeared kind, educated and part of an agency “that is supposed to protect the world from evil.” Brian Jeffrey Raymond, with a graying beard and orange prison jumpsuit, sat dejectedly as he heard his punishment for one of the most egregious misconduct cases in the CIA’s history.

  • New sketches out for Asian victim found dead near Gilgo Beach serial killings

    The Gilgo Beach Task Force in New York’s Long Island on Monday released updated forensic sketches of “Asian Doe,” a victim whose remains were discovered near Gilgo Beach in 2011. About “Asian Doe”: “Asian Doe,” described as a “biological male” of likely Southern Chinese descent, was found dead in 2011 near another victim killed in a string of murders known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings. The new sketches depict “Asian Doe” with both short and long hair.

  • Inside the ‘Freak Off’ orgies at the centre of the sex charges against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

    In 2014, Sean “Diddy” Combs beamed in a black gown and mortar board as he was awarded an honorary degree by Howard University.

  • 50 Cent mocks P Diddy after 1000 lube bottles seized in FBI arrest

    The rapper has been a longtime critic of the embattled music mogul

  • Former Olympian arranged teen sex, trial told

    Antony James denies 20 charges relating to sexual offences including rape and sexual assault.

  • Brian Jeffrey Raymond: CIA spy used Tinder to lure women around the world before drugging and sexually assaulting them

    Brian Jeffrey Raymond drugged and sexually assaulted nearly 30 women around the world

  • Why hundreds of Samsung workers are protesting in India

    About 1500 workers in Tamil Nadu state have been striking work for the past 11 days.

  • Families of Americans detained in China share their pain and urge US to get them home

    The families of four Americans detained in China said Wednesday that their loved ones are suffering both physically and mentally, urging the U.S. government to take action to bring them home. Appearing before the Congressional-Executive Commission of China, the families of Kai Li, Mark Swidan, Dawn Michelle Hunt and Nelson Wells Jr. — all of whom have been detained in China for at least eight years — cast a spotlight on the longstanding issue that has gained new attention with the release this week of American pastor David Lin, who was behind bars for almost 20 years. More Americans are detained in China than in any other foreign country, according to the commission created by Congress to monitor human rights in the communist country.

  • Titan submersible sent its final message 6 seconds before contact was lost, investigators say at US Coast Guard hearing

    The Titan submersible sent its final message just six seconds before it lost contact with the surface during its ill-fated dive to the Titanic, according to a US Coast Guard body probing the vessel’s implosion in June 2023, which killed all five people on board.

  • 2 Sets of Twin Boys Died Alone in House Fire While Their Mother Went Shopping: Prosecutors

    The boys' mom, 29-year-old Deveca Rose, denies four counts of manslaughter

  • Malaysian police detain CEO and other leaders of Islamic group as probe into child sex abuse widens

    Malaysian police on Thursday detained the CEO and other top leaders of an Islamic business group that is under investigation after hundreds of children believed to be sexually abused were rescued this month from welfare homes linked to the group. National police chief Razarudin Husain said 12 men and seven women were detained following a police raid on a condominium in Kuala Lumpur. Nasiruddin Mohamad Ali, CEO of Global Ikhwan Services and Business, and several members of GISB's advisory board were among those detained, Razarudin told The Associated Press.

  • Thailand will indict ex-security personnel over the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters in 2004

    Eight former state security personnel accused of responsibility for the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters who were arrested in southern Thailand in 2004 will be indicted on murder charges, the prosecutor’s office announced Wednesday. The long-delayed legal action in connection with what is known as the Tak Bai massacre came just over a month before the statute of limitations expires on the case. The deaths occurred shortly after a Muslim separatist insurgency erupted in Thailand’s southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, the only ones with Muslim majorities in the Buddhist-dominated nation.

  • Black family's funeral interrupted and branded "gang meeting" by neighbour

    This is the moment an African-American family coming together for a funeral was harassed and told they looked like a "gang meeting". DeSean Robinson, 38, was spending the day with her extended family on August 3 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA, after the funeral of her grandfather. And while the group were gathering outside her uncle's home, a disgruntled neighbour came out to complain that their cars were blocking his driveway. Shocking video shows the neighbour becoming irritable with the family. He can be heard branding the gathering as a "gang meeting" and threatening to call the police.

  • John Grisham on death row prisoner: ‘Texas is about to execute innocent man’

    ‘There was no crime,’ says author about Robert Roberson who was convicted of murder based on discredited science