British police were undertaking two more searches Wednesday, following the news that two prisoners had been mistakenly released from prison over the past week, just days after the government had brought in more stringent checks. Police said the two were wrongly freed from Wandsworth Prison in southwest London, which was built in the middle of...
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Ogun State Authority Arrests Woman Over N8.5m Canadian Visa Scam
Ogun State Police Command said to have arrested a woman, Elizabeth Thamson, for allegedly defrauding three people of N8.5m under the pretext of helping them secure Canadian work visas. Her arrest came shortly after the command warned residents about the rising cases of online fraud, including fake dating sites, travel and visa scams, and other...
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Lagos Court Jails Banker For N8.6bn Cyber Fraud
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday sentenced one Samuel Asiegbu to three years in prison for his involvement in a ₦8.56 billion cyber fraud targeting Wema Bank Nigeria Plc. Asiegbu was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Asiegbu was arraigned alongside Hamza Zakaria, Nurudeen Ibrahim,...
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Federal Agents Drive Off With 1-Year-Old Girl After Arresting Her Father In Los Angeles
Federal immigration officers in Los Angeles arrested a U.S. citizen during a raid outside a Home Depot store, then two of them got into his car and drove off with the man’s toddler strapped into a car seat in the back, advocates and family said Wednesday, decrying the action. A video shot by a member...
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Jury Deliberates In $40M Lawsuit Filed Against Administrator By Teacher Who Was Shot By 6-Year-Old
A jury in Virginia began deliberating Wednesday in a $40 million lawsuit filed against a former school administrator accused of ignoring repeated warnings that a 6-year-old had a gun hours before a teacher was shot. Closing arguments were held earlier Wednesday following a weeklong trial in the lawsuit filed by former teacher Abby Zwerner against Ebony Parker, a former...
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Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Deportation Of Brown Medicine Doctor
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the deportation of a doctor from Lebanon who was deported from Boston’s Logan Airport earlier this year despite having a visa after immigration officials said she supported a Hezbollah leader and attended his funeral. In March, Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist at Brown Medicine, was detained for at...
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Israeli Freed Hostage Rom Braslavski Emotionally Recounts Horrible Experience While In Islamic Jihad Terrorists’ Captivity
President of Israel Isaac Herzog: “Former hostage Rom Braslavski showed extraordinary courage in sharing the horrors of his captivity, including a horrific sexual assault he endured while held by Islamic Jihad terrorists. “His trembling voice, heard tonight in Israel and around the world, breaks through the walls of silence and denial, reminding the world that...
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Malaysian Rapper Namewee Detained In Murder Investigation Of Taiwanese Influencer
A popular ethnic Chinese Malaysian rapper and filmmaker was detained Wednesday to assist police in their investigation into the murder of a Taiwanese social media influencer, the rapper’s lawyer said. Wee Meng Chee, popularly known as Namewee, surrendered to police early Wednesday and will be placed under remand for six days, said his lawyer Joshua...
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China Sentences Infamous Myanmar Scam Mafia Members To Death
A Chinese court has sentenced five top members of an infamous Myanmar mafia to death as Beijing continues its crackdown on scam operations in South East Asia. In all 21 Bai family members and associates were convicted of fraud, homicide, injury and other crimes, said a state media report published on the court website. The...