Category: Crime and Judiciary

Three people have been shot dead in an attack in the Australian state of New South Wales, police said, with local media reporting the gunman remained at large and the shooting was a suspected incident of domestic violence. Police said an operation was underway in the town of Lake Cargelligo, about 611 kilometres west of...

The former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district is expected to plead guilty in federal court Thursday to two charges, including falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen, which could result in a lengthy prison sentence and increase the risk of deportation. Ian Roberts, a native of Guyana in South America and a former Olympic...

Dozens of South Koreans detained in Cambodia for alleged involvement in online scam compounds will be sent home this week to face investigations, officials said Thursday, in what would be the largest group reparation of Korean criminal suspects from abroad. The 73 South Korean suspects allegedly scammed fellow Koreans out of 48.6 billion won ($33...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....