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Japan Court Sentences 25-Year-Old To 10 Years Imprisonment For Attempted Murder Of Former P.M.

Japan Court Sentences 25-Year-Old To 10 Years Imprisonment For Attempted Murder Of Former P.M.

25-year-old Ryuji Kimura on Wednesday has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the attempted murder of Japan’s former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in 2023. Kimura had hurled a pipe bomb at Kishida as approached a crowd for a speech during an election event in the city of Wakayama, causing the explosion of the homemade device...

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Australian P.M Describes Assaults On Two Muslims As ‘Reprehensible’ As Police Charges 31-Year-Old

Australian P.M Describes Assaults On Two Muslims As ‘Reprehensible’ As Police Charges 31-Year-Old

Australian police have charged a 31-year-old woman for assaulting two Muslim women at a shopping centre in Melbourne last week. According to local media, the woman from Pascoe Vale suburb is due in court on Wednesday, where it will be alleged that she targeted the two victims on 13 February because of their head coverings....

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Brazil’s Prosecutor-General Charges Former President Bolsonaro With Alleged Coup, Plan To Poison Current President

Brazil’s Prosecutor-General Charges Former President Bolsonaro With Alleged Coup, Plan To Poison Current President

Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge. Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and 33 others participated in...

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19-Year-Old Activists Accused Of Breaching A National Security Law Became An Enemy Of The Chinese State.

19-Year-Old Activists Accused Of Breaching A National Security Law Became An Enemy Of The Chinese State.

Just over a year ago, Chloe Cheung was sitting her A-levels. Now she’s on a Chinese government list of wanted dissidents. The choir girl-turned-democracy activist woke up to news in December that police in Hong Kong had issued a $HK1 million ($100,000; £105,000) reward for information leading to her capture abroad. “I actually just wanted...

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Activists, Campaigners Renew Calls To Criminalise Marital Rape In India As Judge Frees Man Accused Of Raping Wife

Activists, Campaigners Renew Calls To Criminalise Marital Rape In India As Judge Frees Man Accused Of Raping Wife

An Indian court’s ruling that a man’s forced “unnatural sex” with his wife is not an offence has led to huge outrage and sparked renewed calls for better protections for married women. The controversial order has also brought back into the spotlight the issue of marital rape in a country which has stubbornly refused to...

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Fiji Court Sentences Tennessee Man To Life In Prison For Murdering His Wife During Their Honeymoon

Fiji Court Sentences Tennessee Man To Life In Prison For Murdering His Wife During Their Honeymoon

A man from Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife during their honeymoon in Fiji in 2022, a court official said Friday. Bradley Robert Dawson, 40, will have to serve at least 18 years in prison before he can be considered for release, a Fiji High Court registry official in Lautoka said. Dawson was convicted...

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Hamas Releases Three Names Of Hostages Due For Saturday Release

Hamas Releases Three Names Of Hostages Due For Saturday Release

Hamas has released the names of three hostages due to be freed on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israel. They are 29-year-old Russian-Israeli Alexander Troufanov, 46-year-old Argentine-Israeli Yair Horn, and 36-year-old US-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, whom were all seized from Kibbutz Nir Oz on the edge of Gaza. Israel has threatened to resume bombing...