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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North Korea Holds State Funeral For Longtime Ceremonial Head Of State
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un led a state funeral for the country’s longtime ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong Nam, who died this week at age 97. Kim Jong Un and other senior officials from a 100-member funeral committee joined family members as Kim Yong Nam — unrelated to the ruling Kim family — was buried...
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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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Indians Who Fled A Myanmar Cyberscam Center Are Being Flown Home From Thailand
India is repatriating on Thursday the first batch of hundreds of its nationals who last month fled to Thailand from Myanmar, where most had been working at a notorious center for online scams. The center, known as KK Park on the outskirts of the border city of Myawaddy and said to house a major cybercrime operation, was raided...
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Mexico President Sheinbaum Presses Charges After Street Groping Incident
What should have been a five-minute time-saving walk from Mexico’s National Palace to the Education Ministry for President Claudia Sheinbaum has become a symbol of what Mexican women face every day after a video captured a drunk man groping the country’s first woman president. On Wednesday, gender violence catapulted to the highest-profile platform, and Sheinbaum used her...
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Congratulates U.S Trump On His First Anniversary As The President, For His Second Term Tenure
Prime miniister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Congratulations @realDonaldTrump on the first anniversary of your election victory for your historic second term in the White House! “Your leadership continues to fortify the unbreakable bond between Israel and the United States. “I am confident that our partnership of peace through strength will continue to grow.”
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IDF Eliminates Hamas Terrorist Zaid Zaki Abd Al-Hadi Aql For Holding Six Israeli Hostages Captive.
Israel Defense Forces—IDF—in a statement on Wednesday disclosed it eliminated Hamas terrorist Zaid Zaki Abd Al-Hadi Aql, who was responsible for holding six Israeli hostages’ captive. The statement read: “Aql was responsible for the captivity of Bar Kuperstein, Ohad Ben Ami, Maxim Herkin, Elkana Bohbot, Segev Kalfon, and Yosef-Haim Ohana, who were abducted into Gaza...