A jury on Thursday found that rapper Soulja Boy was liable for sexually assaulting and physically and emotionally abusing a former assistant, awarding the woman more than $4 million in damages. The decision from the Los Angeles County jurors came after a three-week trial in Santa Monica, California. The 34-year-old Soulja Boy, whose legal name...
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Israel Releases Palestinian Teen After Serving Nine Years In Prison
Ahmed Manasra who was jailed by Israel for an attack when he was 13 has been released after nearly a decade in prison. Surveillance footage showed the Palestinian him and his 15-year-old cousin, Hassan, brandishing large kitchen knives in a Jewish settlement in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem. Hassan wounded a 13-year-old Israeli boy and an Israeli man...
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Taliban Morality Enforcers Arrest Men For Having The Wrong Hairstyle Or Skipping Mosque, UN Says
The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others for missing prayers at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan, a U.N. report said Thursday, six months after laws regulating people’s conduct came into effect. The Vice and Virtue Ministry published laws last August covering many aspects everyday life in Afghanistan, including...
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How Supreme Court seems to have laboured in vain – Dr.Muiz Banire
How Supreme Court seems to have laboured in vain – Dr.Muiz Banire https://thesun.ng/how-supreme-court-seems-to-have-laboured-in-vain/Published: 10th April 2025 I am compelled to revisit the problem of local government administration and funding in Nigeria once again. It is a challenge that we cannot afford to gloss over or backtrack upon being a long-term struggle that has taken so...
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U.S. Deports Former Mexican Governor After Corruption Conviction
The United States has deported Tomás Yarrington, the former governor of Mexico’s Tamaulipas state, after he served a prison sentence for money laundering. Yarrington, who governed from 1999 to 2004, was convicted of accepting $3.5 million in bribes and using these funds to purchase luxury properties in the U.S. Yarrington had been sentenced to nine...
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Navy Raids Criminal Haven, Arrests 27 Drug Peddlers
Operatives from the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Beecroft executed a coordinated raid on a known criminal hideout called Gidan Drama, located along Malu Road in the Apapa area of Lagos. The operation resulted in the arrest of 27 suspects including 3 young women and 24 men found with hard drugs and illicit substances. According to...
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American Scholar In Thailand Faces Up To 15 Years Jail Time For Insulting The Monarchy
A U.S. political science scholar accused by the Thai military of insulting the Southeast Asian nation’s monarchy — an offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison — was jailed on Tuesday pending trial. Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University in the northern province of Phitsanulok, was first summoned by police last week to hear...
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Lagos State Court Sentence Danfo Drivers To Jail Over Mob Attack On LASTMA Officials
A Lagos Mobile Court has sentenced two individuals to three months’ custodial imprisonment for orchestrating a violent and coordinated mob attack on the operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authorit (LASTMA) while they were carrying out their lawful duties. According to the General Manager of LASTMA, Mr Olalekan Bakare-Oki, who revealed in a statement...
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Israeli Strikes Kill 25 People In Gaza, Blames Hamas For Civilians Death
Palestinian medics report that Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight and into Tuesday killed at least 25 people, including eight children and five women. A strike on a home in the central town of Deir al-Balah killed 11 people, including five children as young as two, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received...