A Brazilian court sentenced former priest Bernardino Batista dos Santos to 24 years and nine months in prison for the rape of an underage person, a document obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday showed. The ruling was issued earlier this week, though the case remains sealed. In a 22-page document, the court in the...
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ICE Officer Who Shot Renee Good In Minneapolis Has Served Decades In Military And Law Enforcement
The federal agent who shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis is an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Renee Good on Wednesday, has served as...
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Syria Announces Ceasefire After Days Of Clashes With Kurdish Fighters In Aleppo
Syria’s Defense Ministry announced a ceasefire on Friday after three days of clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Aleppo that displaced tens of thousands of people. The statement said the ceasefire was effective at 3 a.m. in the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Achrafieh and Bani Zaid and gave armed...
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Mound Of Garbage Collapses At Philippine Landfill, Burying And Trapping 38 People And Killing 1
An avalanche of garbage and debris buried or trapped workers in low-slung buildings at a landfill in the Philippines, killing one person, injuring a dozen and leaving 38 others missing, officials said Friday. Dozens of rescuers retrieved 13 people alive overnight and were searching for the missing still trapped after the mountain of garbage, earth...
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Luigi Mangione Heads To Court As He Fights To Block Death Penalty, Murder Charge And Key Evidence
Luigi Mangione is due in federal court Friday for a pivotal hearing in his fight to bar the government from seeking the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione’s lawyers contend that authorities prejudiced his case by turning his December 2024 arrest into a “Marvel movie” spectacle and by...
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Businessman Extradited From Cambodia To China Suspected Of Running Vast Online Criminal Empire
Chen Zhi boasted of pulling in $30 million a day, prosecutors in the United States said — a suspected criminal mastermind and onetime internet cafe manager who authorities say presented himself as a legitimate businessman. But in reality, they say, he ran online gambling sites, scams and other illegal businesses from a sprawling headquarters along...
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An Argentine Court Offers Hope For Venezuelans Seeking Justice For Abuses Under Maduro
Venezuela’s release of detainees Thursday briefly brought relief and guarded optimism to a country consumed by uncertainty. But it was another, less covered news event far afield that some Venezuelan advocates said offered their only real shot at justice as long as the government of former President Nicolás Maduro remained intact. A federal court in...
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Gunmen Kill Crime Reporter In Eastern Mexico
A journalist Carlos Castro, who covered crime for local news outlet Codigo Norte Veracruz has been shot dead by gunmen in eastern Mexico. According to Mexican media and the State Commission for the Attention and Protection of Journalists, an autonomous body under the regional government, the victim, Castro, was a crime reporter with local news...
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Nigerian Man In Malaysia Handed Death Sentence Over Tragic Death Of Step-Grandson.
KUALA LUMPUR High Court in Malaysia sentenced a Nigerian man to death today for murdering his four-year-old step-grandson six years ago. According to Malaysian news outlet Berita Harian, Justice K. Muniandy handed down the sentence to Ibekwe Emeka Augustine, 48, after evaluating the totality of evidence presented before the court. Augustine was charged with causing...
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U.S. President Challenges Mexican Sovereignty, Pledging To Target Cartels After Successful Venezuela Raid.
United States President Donald Trump has indicated that his administration is preparing to expand military operations against drug cartels to include land-based strikes, following recent maritime attacks in the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The POTUS threatened to carry out military strikes on Mexican soil to target drug cartels, said the elections in Venezuela will...