Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is standing trial on Monday with more than 400 other defendants accused of widespread corruption in a case critics see as a politically motivated move against Turkey’s opposition. Imamoglu, who has been behind bars for nearly a year, is the main challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 23-year rule. He was...
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FBI Arrest 28-Year-Old Bangladesh National Wanted Since 2022 On Charges Including Running An International Child Sexual Exploitation Enterprise.
Kash Patel: “The FBI and our great partners have arrested Zobaidul Amin, 28, a Bangladeshi national who has been wanted since 2022 on charges including running an international child sexual exploitation enterprise. “As of last night, Amin was transferred by FBI Anchorage from Malaysia back to the U.S. in Alaska where he will face charges...
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Father Who Gave Gun To Georgia School Shooting Suspect For Christmas Is Guilty Of 2nd-Degree Murder
A Georgia man who gave his teenage son the gun he’s accused of using to kill two students and two teachers at a high school was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. Jurors took less than two hours to find Colin Gray guilty of all charges in the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee...
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Alexander Brothers Used Wealth To Lure, Drug And Rape Women And Girls, Prosecutor Says
The wealthy Alexander brothers used the same tactics of luring, drugging and humiliation to sexually assault numerous women and girls, bragging about their exploits in blog posts with titles that included “It’s not rape if,” a federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday. In a closing argument after four weeks of testimony in the siblings’ federal sex...
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US Court Sentences 40-Year-Old Nigerian Citizen To 228 Months Over Romance Scam Worth Of $4 Million And Attempt To Unlawfully Obtain Residency Through Fraudulent Marriages .
A 40-year-old man who illegally resided in Houston has been ordered to federal prison for his role in a romance scam and business email compromise scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. Leslie Chinedu Mba pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit false statements in immigration documents Dec. 4, 2025....
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Alabama Man, On Death Row Since 1990, To Get New Trial
One of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates could soon receive a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the state’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that prosecutors violated his rights by intentionally rejecting potential Black jurors. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the summer ruling from the 11th U.S. Circuit...
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Guinea Releases 16 Soldiers And Police Officers From Sierra Leone After Border Dispute
Guinea on Friday released 16 soldiers and police officers from neighboring Sierra Leone who were arrested earlier this week in a border dispute, Sierra Leonean authorities said. “All security officers arrested by the Guinean authorities have been safely handed over to Sierra Leone,” Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Information said in a Facebook post. The release...
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Former MLB Pitcher Sentenced To Life In Prison Without Parole For Shooting His In-Laws
Former MLB pitcher Daniel Serafini was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 2021 shooting of his wife’s parents during a burglary at their home by Lake Tahoe, authorities said. Serafini, 51, was convicted in July 2025 of first-degree murder of his father-in-law, Gary Spohr, attempted murder of his...
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2 Journalists In Belarus Imprisoned As Part Of A Crackdown On Free Speech, Media Groups Say
A court in Belarus has convicted two independent journalists on charges of high treason and handed them long prison sentences, the latest move in the government’s crackdown on dissent and free speech, a media rights group said Friday. Uladzimir Yanukevich, 65, who founded and edited the Intex-Press and BAR24 media outlets, was given a 14-year...
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Edo police arrest 113 suspects in Agbede, Iruekpen crackdown
The Edo State Police Command has arrested 113 suspected kidnappers during a coordinated early-morning security operation in Agbede and Iruekpen, Edo Central. The intelligence-led raid, carried out around 3:00 a.m. on February 26, 2026, targeted identified settlements where ransom payments from kidnapping activities were allegedly received and coordinated. The operation was led by the Commissioner...