Federal judge sentences Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira to 15 years in prison
BOSTON (AP) — Federal judge sentences Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira to 15 years in prison.
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Malay MailPapagomo arrested in alleged fraud probe over company fund collection
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 13 — Former Umno Youth executive council member Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris, better known as Papagomo,...
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Police search for husband and consider ‘third party’ after woman found wrapped in plastic near Sydney airport
Investigation unfolding ‘on an hourly basis’ after Zhuojun ‘Sally’ Li’s body discovered on Monday in Botany
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14-year-old stabs a Thai-Australian schoolmate to death in a fight, Thai police say
A 14-year-old has been arrested on charges alleging that he stabbed a Thai-Australian schoolmate to death in a fight after having an ongoing feud, police in Thailand said Friday. The suspect told investigators he and the victim harbored a mutual dislike from school and they agreed via the Line messaging app to meet outside a grocery store near their homes on Tuesday in Sattahip in Chonburi province, said police Col. Tanapol Klinkesorn, director of the Sattahip police station. The boy was found lying at the entrance to the store with the knife in his back and its broken handle on the ground, according to Sawang Rojanatham Rescue Foundation, a charity organization whose EMS workers rushed to the scene.
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Victims ‘shocked’ after Biden grants clemency to ‘kids-for-cash’ judge and $54 million embezzler
Victims of major public corruption cases in Pennsylvania and Illinois are angry that President Joe Biden granted clemency this week to the two convicted officials.
- The Independent
Inside the Dubai jail where British teenager will be locked up for ‘holiday romance’
British teenager Marcus Fakana, 18, is facing a year in Al-Awir prison, where inmates have described horrifying conditions
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Missing US man found in Syria says he was kept in prison after entering country as a pilgrim
A man thought to be a missing US citizen has been found in Damascus, Syria, telling reporters he had recently been freed from jail.
- CNN
US serviceman sentenced to 5 years for kidnapping and raping Japanese schoolgirl, officials say
A US serviceman was sentenced to five years in prison for kidnapping and raping an underage girl last year, an official from Naha District Court on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa told CNN Friday.
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Buckingham Palace maid arrested after Christmas party
A Buckingham Palace maid was allegedly arrested after a work Christmas party turned violent.
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Body of Chinese tourist discovered under water in renowned Malaysian diving spot
Man’s body was recovered from depth of 17m near Mabul Island after search operation
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China jails former Premier League star Li Tie 20 years for corruption
China on Friday jailed former Premier League star and men's national coach Li Tie for 20 years for bribery, snaring one of the country's greatest football figures in a sweeping government crackdown on corruption in sport.The 47-year-old is one of China's biggest football names, serving as national team coach from January 2020 to December 2021, after racking up nearly 100 international caps and playing as a midfielder for English Premier League side Everton.
- Malay Mail
Semporna police find body of tourist from Guangdong, China off Mabul Island
KOTA KINABALU, Dec 14 — Marine police said they have found the body of a 31-year-old male Chinese tourist underwater nea...
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Hear what Mangione’s New York attorney told CNN before she was retained as his attorney
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports Luigi Mangione has retained a high-powered New York attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo to represent him as he faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Former federal prosecutor and CNN legal analyst Jennifer Rodgers explains what it means.
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Selfie with bloodstained chopper lands 19-year-old Sembawang slasher in reformative training
SINGAPORE, Dec 13 — A 19-year-old Singaporean, who slashed another man in Sembawang, and then asked a friend to photogra...
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NY police force strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DOJ says
The report on a pattern and practice of police misconduct at the department in Mount Vernon, just north of New York City, is one of 12 investigations opened by the DOJ into local policing agencies since 2021, including those sparked by the killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. No single incident prompted the investigation into Mount Vernon's approximately 160-officer force.
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US jury finds Vegas police fabricated evidence in 2001 killing, awards $34M to exonerated woman
A federal jury in Nevada has awarded more than $34 million to a woman who was arrested at age 18, wrongly convicted twice, and served nearly 16 years in a Nevada state prison for a 2001 killing she did not commit. Kristin Lobato, who is now 41 and uses the name Blaise, cried and hugged her attorneys after a judge read the trial verdict Thursday in U.S. District Court, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Lobato said she didn't know if becoming a millionaire would make up for years in prison, adding that she had “no idea what the rest of my life is going to look like.”
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He cut off some loved ones for months. Now, suspect Luigi Mangione faces mounting evidence in health care CEO’s killing
Marked shell casings from the assassination scene match the gun found on the suspect. His fingerprints match some key items investigators found nearby. And he was arrested this week – after going silent from his mom and friends for months – with a fake ID and a handwritten “claim of responsibility” referencing the crime site.
- The Telegraph
‘In my head I scream at her not to go in the park’: Natalie Shotter’s father says as murderer jailed
The father of a former child actress who was raped and killed after passing out on a bench has described how he wishes his late daughter had never entered the park where she died.
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Predator to be sentenced for rape and killing of vulnerable NHS worker in park
Mohamed Iidow attacked his victim while she was passed out on a park bench.
- The Independent
Mum hits out at police watchdog after son’s arrest over water pistol deemed ‘reasonable’
The boy was knocked to the ground, handcuffed and arrested on suspicion of having a firearm after a water fight with his younger sister near his home