South Carolina executes death row inmate Richard Moore as governor rejects plea to reduce his sentence to life
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina executes death row inmate Richard Moore as governor rejects plea to reduce his sentence to life.
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Malay MailNajib denies asking ‘The Edge’ owner Tong to leave his house after 1MDB alert, just Malay ‘adab’ of walking him to door
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak today denied in court that he had asked financial publication The Edge’s o...
- The Telegraph
‘Hero’ who exposed Assad horrors tortured to death by vindictive regime in its final hours
Few could bear to look long at his face, with its sunken, sorrowful eyes so full of pain – but when Mazen al-Hamada spoke, you could not help but listen.
- The Telegraph
Hannah Kobayashi found alive after father’s suicide
A missing Hawaiian woman whose father killed himself during an extensive search for her has been found safe.
- KameraOne
Devastating landslide swallows up homes amid torrential rains in Indonesia
Villagers in Pandeglang Regency in Indonesia's Banten province had a lucky escape after a landslide swept away a number of houses on December 9. Terrifying footage captured the buildings collapsing into raging floodwaters following recent torrential rains in the area. Fortunately, the home had been evacuated in time and there were no fatalities.
- Malay Mail
Papagomo 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,...
- Associated Press
2 Vietnamese police officials sexually attacked young women on visit to New Zealand, authorities say
New Zealand authorities have “no doubt” that two Vietnamese officials sexually attacked two young female servers at a restaurant during a visit to the country, but were unable to charge the men before they returned to Vietnam, police said Thursday. Vietnam and New Zealand do not have an extradition treaty so the alleged attackers cannot be forced to face charges. One of the women said they were attacked at a restaurant in Wellington in March days before Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính was due to visit New Zealand.
- CNN
‘My God there is light’: CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad’s forced detention
While searching a secretive prison in the belly of the Assad regime’s legacy of torture for American journalist Austin Tice, CNN’s Clarissa Ward made a startling discovery when a rebel fighter uncovered a hidden prisoner still unaware of Assad’s ouster.
- The Independent
Luigi Mangione latest: Shooting suspect’s motive in doubt as cops reveal key detail about healthcare history
Investigations into the motive behind the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s shooting death continue, as Mangione fights extradition to New York where he faces a murder charge
- The Wrap
Missing American Man Found in Syria Details 7 Months of Incarceration: ‘Christmas Miracle’ | Video
29-year-old Missouri native Travis Timmerman also tells the press his time in confinement "wasn't too bad" The post Missing American Man Found in Syria Details 7 Months of Incarceration: ‘Christmas Miracle’ | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
- The Independent
Sara Sharif’s mother says ‘monster’ Urfan Sharif should ‘die in jail’ for murdering schoolgirl
Olga Domin has said the abuse inflicted upon the schoolgirl by Urfan Sharif was ‘not human’
- Associated Press
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.
- The Telegraph
Buckingham Palace maid arrested after Christmas party
A Buckingham Palace maid was allegedly arrested after a work Christmas party turned violent.
- AFP News
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.
- 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.
- The Telegraph
Vegan couple starved son, 3, to death in ‘breathtaking’ case of neglect
A vegan couple who starved their three-year-old son to death oversaw the worst “case of neglect” a court had ever seen.
- Malay Mail
‘CEO Hunter’: Insurance executive killer Luigi Mangione was charged with murder — then donations started pouring in
NEW YORK, Dec 12 — In the days since Luigi Mangione was charged with murder for gunning down a top health insurance exec...
- Malay Mail
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...
- CNN
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.
- Malay Mail
Man charged with murder of woman in Hougang
SINGAPORE, Dec 12 — A 42-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a 34-year-old woman at a hardware store in Sin...
- CNN
Biden grants clemency for nearly 1,500 people, the biggest single-day act of clemency in modern history
President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he is commuting the sentences of some 1,500 individuals and pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes – marking a broad use of the presidential clemency power just weeks from the end of Biden’s administration.