A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced the man who assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life in prison, describing the shots fired with a homemade gun as “vile and extremely vicious.” Prosecutors had sought a life sentence for Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, who admitted to murdering Abe in 2022 with a handmade firearm during a...
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ICE Says An Immigrant Who Died In A Sprawling Texas Detention Facility Killed Himself
An immigrant from Nicaragua was found dead at a Texas immigration detention facility last week, federal officials said. Victor Manuel Diaz appears to have killed himself Wednesday at the sprawling tent complex at the U.S. Army’s Fort Bill base in El Paso, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement. The federal investigation into his...
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Colombian Warlord Sentenced To 40 Years In Prison After Serving Time For Drug Trafficking In The US
A Colombian court on Monday sentenced former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso to 40 years in prison for crimes committed against Indigenous communities in the province of La Guajira, including homicides, forced disappearances and the displacement of people from 2002 to 2006. The special tribunal that hears cases from the country’s armed conflict said in its...
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Ghana Arrests 53 Nigerians In Major Cybercrime Bust, Seizes Laptops, Phones, Pump-Action GunsJanuary 19, 2026
The arrests were confirmed in a statement issued on Sunday by Ghana’s Minister for Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George, who said the coordinated operation was carried out to protect Ghana’s cyber space and international digital reputation. Fifty-three (53) Nigerian nationals have been arrested in Ghana following a major intelligence-led operation targeting suspected...
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Taiwan Detains Journalist For Allegedly Bribing Military Officers To Provide Information To China
A journalist in Taiwan was detained on allegations of bribing army officers to provide military information to people from mainland China, as the self-ruled island cracks down on potential infiltration from Beijing. Taiwan’s Qiaotou District Prosecutors Office said in a statement that a district court ordered the detention of a television reporter and five current...
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Father Of A Five-Year-Old Disable Boy Infuriated At Police Refusal To Speed Up The Arrest Of NYC Nurse Who Abuses Patient.
New York nurse caught on camera beating a crying, disabled 5-year-old boy, was not arrested until the footage was shared on local media. 31-year-old Bruno Valenzuela was arrested, but only after the footage was aired on News 12 Long Island. “It took news reports for the Suffolk police to go and make an arrest for...
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14 Months For UK Teen Who Obsessed Over Southport Massacre And Held Terror Manual.
A teenager inspired by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana planned a copycat attack on a children’s dance school and planned to bomb the first Oasis reunion gig in Cardiff. McKenzie Morgan, 18, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, has been sentenced to 14 months in a young offenders institute, after pleading guilty to possession of an al-Qaeda training manual....
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Venezuela’s Machado Says She Presented Her Nobel Peace Prize To Trump During Their Meeting
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the U.S. ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro. The Nobel Institute has said Machado could not give her prize to...
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Venezuela’s Acting President Vows To Continue Releasing Prisoners Detained Under Maduro
Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Wednesday her government would continue releasing prisoners detained under former President Nicolás Maduro’s rule in what she described as “a new political moment” since his ouster by the United States earlier this month. It appeared to be an understatement for the Maduro loyalist now tasked with placating an unpredictable...
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Defendant In Charlie Kirk’s Killing Asks Judge To Disqualify Prosecutors
The 22-year-old Utah man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk is due back in court Friday as his attorneys seek to disqualify prosecutors in the case over an alleged conflict of interest. Tyler Robinson is charged with aggravated murder in Kirk’s Sept. 10 shooting on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, just a...