Police smash triad-linked drug ring using foreign women to target pubgoers
Officers seize 7.2kg of cocaine and 500 grams of ketamine, methamphetamine and other drugs worth more than HK$5.2 million
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· Daniel Farr
After ‘testing ground’ in Kashmir, pellet guns used on student protesters in India's capital
Indian forces on 20 July attacked student protesters and journalists in the capital, New Delhi, with pump-action “pellet guns” that fire hundreds of metal sharpnels, hospital reports show.
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What's a 'teen takeover'? Cities around the US are finding out
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· Safiyah Riddle
Israel kills head of northern Gaza police force
The head of the northern Gaza police force has been killed in an Israeli air strike, the enclave's health ministry is reporting.
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Postpartum psychosis or murder? Trial of mother who killed her kids spotlights mental health
Lindsay Clancy’s mental wellbeing will be a central question during her trial for strangling her three children to death
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PH, Thailand deepen economic ties as foreign policy shifts to trade
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· The Manila Times
The ICC looks ahead after the ouster of its chief prosecutor
Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan talks before convening the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)
· Molly Quell
Dubai Police call on parents to stay vigilant to keep children safe while travelling | The National
Dubai Police have called on parents to keep a watchful eye on their children while travelling for the summer holidays, as part of a campaign to promote child safety.
· The National
Revealed: history of Spain’s fearless 1970s trans-rights political collective
Pioneering activists risked arrest and imprisonment amid lingering persecution after Franco dictatorship
· Ashifa Kassam
NATO intern arrested over espionage suspicions
Belgian police on Friday arrested an intern at NATO's strategic headquarters of the Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE,) suspecting her of "spying on behalf of a third country and of being a member of a criminal organization," the Belgian Federal Prosecutor Office wrote in a statement on Saturday.
· Giorgio Leali
German police probe antisemitic motive in attack over Israeli flag pin
A 65-year-old man was seriously injured this week after being brutally attacked for wearing an Israeli flag pin in the town of Hochberg, near the city of Würzburg in the German state of Bavaria.
· YOAV ETIEL
Woman allegedly hits 170km/h in police chase across Sydney's west
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ICC member states fire chief prosecutor over sexual misconduct claims
Member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) fired the body’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan on Friday following sexual misconduct allegations.
· Ferdinand Knapp
Conservative activist Robby Starbuck notches major legal win against Google, defamation suit to proceed
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· Fox News
Man, 20, arrested over bomb hoax in comments posted on SCMP’s social media
Police arrest suspect on Friday after he claims bomb will be planted somewhere in Hong Kong and muses about smuggling rifle into Disneyland
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Man, 20, arrested over bomb hoax in comments posted on SCMP’s social media
Police arrest suspect on Friday after he claims bomb will be planted somewhere in Hong Kong and muses about smuggling rifle into Disneyland
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Report: Israeli forces raid 70 homes, arrest dozens in Nablus
Israeli forces have raided some 70 homes and arrested around 50 Palestinians in the town of Tal, southwest of Nablus, Al Jazeera reported.
· Middleeasteye
Police officer trapped in speeding car during arrest
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UWS stabbing suspect’s mom cries out in court, prosecutors reveal son yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ 3 times during alleged hate-filled rampage
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· Marie Pohl, Ella Morrison
Officer shot, man found dead after 11 police sent to DV callout
Women and children managed to flee a Queensland property where a police officer was shot and a man was found dead after he allegedly opened fire at 11 officers and a dog.
· Matt Dennien
Inside the impeachment court, students watch the testing of democracy
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Here's what you need to know about Woodside's Federal Court case
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· Alistair Bates
Black teen's mysterious death ignites racial division in US Deep South
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Clay wants you to know why he was in a maximum security prison
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· Jackson Worthington
Over 200 kilograms of drugs seized during police raid on Hod Hasharon plant nursery
Over 200 kilograms of drugs were discovered hidden in a plant nursery in Hod Hasharon on Tuesday after an undercover operation carried out by the Kfar Saba Police’s Special Crime Unit exposed a large-scale drug trafficking network.
· HODAYA RAN
Former HRW chief says ICC Israel cases will proceed despite Khan row
Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, has said that the International Criminal Court's cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant should proceed despite sexual misconduct allegations against ICC prosecutor Karim Khan.
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Padilla: Justice, not 'trophy of conviction,' should be prosecution's goal
MANILA, Philippines — After telling the prosecutors in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte not to be "one-sided," Sen. Robin Padilla on Saturday reminded them of their duty to ensure that justice was served, and not merely to secure a conviction.
· Catherine S. Valente
Teenage boy dies after stabbing in Luton as police launch murder investigation
Police have launched a murder investigation after a teenage boy died following a stabbing in Luton.
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Tasmania Police say stabbing, fatal crash linked
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Barack Obama holds court at WNBA All-Star practice — and plays defense on Liberty’s Jonquel Jones
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· Madeline Kenney
Advocates warn of escalating adolescent home violence after Perth alleged murder
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Ex-Supreme Court litigator gets prison time following double-life as a poker player: ‘Unrelenting greed’
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Washington says Khan’s removal won’t impact plans to dismantle ICC
The United States has said the removal of Karim Khan as the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will have no impact on Washington’s plans to dismantle the institution.
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Appeals court denies Trump’s bid to allow $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas
Three-judge panel of Democratic appointees let stand lower court’s ruling that fee constitutes an unlawful tax
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Father of 16 ‘almost feral’ kids rescued from Ohio house of horrors may not be fit to stand trial, his lawyer claims
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· Ella Morrison
Biden drops lawsuit seeking to block release of ghostwriter recordings
President Joe Biden waits to speak about foreign policy at the State Department in Washington, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
· Michael Kunzelman
Venezuela will withdraw from International Criminal Court, foreign minister says
Venezuela will withdraw from the International Criminal Court over the tribunal's perceived bias, the nation's foreign minister, Felix Plasencia, has said.
· Middleeasteye
Marcellus Wiley, estranged wife spar over gun during contentious morning in court
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· Edward Lewis
NYC stabbings suspect arrested on hate crime charge
Raul Morales, a 51-year-old man who is accused of stabbing two people on the Upper West Side in Manhattan on Thursday afternoon is escorted out of the NYPD 20th Precinct by police officers in New York, Friday, July 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)
Tony Romo’s arrest came after rough golf round — that earned him $60
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· Andrew Crane
Brazil's government says it is working with Peru to protect border Indigenous lands
Ashaninka’s territory sits along the winding Amonia River in Acre state, Brazil, June 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)
· Gabriela Sa Pessoa
Israeli UN envoy tells Mamdani to 'take note' after ICC prosecutor's removal
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, told New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday to "take note" after members of the International Criminal Court voted to dismiss the chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, over misconduct claims.
· Middleeasteye
Trump sued hours after new tariffs take effect, as experts say they may not hold up
President Donald Trump's global "liberation day" tariffs were struck down in the courts, shattering the cornerstone of his trade agenda. Some trade experts say his newest duties could meet the same fate — and they've already caught their first legal challenge.
· Kevin Breuninger
Man dead, police officer shot in domestic violence callout
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Teen pleads guilty to murder in a 2024 shooting that left 4 dead at Georgia's Apalachee High School
WINDER — A teenager has pleaded guilty to all 55 counts, including murder, in a shooting nearly two years ago at Apalachee High School in Georgia that killed two students and two teachers.
· Agence France-Presse
Trump administration admits canceling clean energy grants to Democratic states
Court fillings show grants denied to states if they didn’t back Trump’s re-election, but administration claims it’s a ‘misrepresentation’
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D4vd defense team’s Hail Mary claim about Celeste Rivas’ cause of death
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· Jeremy Louwerse
Prosecution says burden shifts to VP Sara defense
MANILA, Philippines — The House prosecution panel on Friday said the burden of rebutting the impeachment article accusing Vice President Sara Duterte of making grave threats has shifted to the defense after it concluded presenting its evidence before the Senate impeachment court.
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