BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — A young couple in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned on Thursday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream.
SEOUL, July 2 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict next week on charges that former President Yoon Suk Yeol obstructed justice by blocking investigators from detaining him in the wake of his failed martial law bid in 2024, legal sources said Thursday.
DAEJEON, July 2 (Yonhap) -- Last month's deadly explosion at a Hanwha Aerospace facility in Daejeon appears to have occurred while cleaning a washing machine that may have contained explosive waste residue, police officials said Thursday.
South African police have arrested more than 900 people during nationwide antimigrant protests that were mostly peaceful but at times turned violent with shops looted and one person shot dead.
A Sydney childcare worker led a “dual life” while he secretly filmed the abuse of nine children at several centres, a judge has said, as one victim’s mother shared her agonising pain, sleepless nights and ongoing mistrust in people.
All sex abuse claims against the Christian Brothers in Australia have been suspended after a court found they could face financial ruin within months, despite scrutiny over “disturbing” $1 property transfers.
Anti-corruption body examining allegations Liberal figures accepted donations to recruit members and also received money from fugitive Toplace developer Jean Nassif
The International Criminal Court has voiced concern over the withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, saying it undermines the global pursuit of justice.
Japan’s National Police Agency said Thursday it plans to add social media posts facilitating romance scams, other fraud and what are known as “dark part-time jobs” to the category of illegal information.
Former Olympic rider Heath Ryan is taking Equestrian Australia to court after being suspended for more than a year over a confronting video which showed him whipping a horse 42 times.
A Victorian construction sector consultancy founded by a former CFMEU delegate and ex-bikie boss has been raided by the police taskforce targeting corruption and crime in Victoria’s construction sector.
For eight years Andrew Upton shared the artistic directorship of the Sydney Theatre Company with his wife, Cate Blanchett. Philip Seymour Hoffman directed Upton’s play Riflemind and, during this period, the Upton/Blanchett company looked like a national theatre company, with legendary productions such as The War of …
ILOILO CITY — A tense police operation unfolded at Iloilo City Police Station 4 in Molo on Wednesday afternoon, July 1, after heavily armed personnel from the Philippine National Police Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (PNP-IMEG) stormed the station in search of a dismissed policeman wanted for murder, tri…
The US State Department has designated the Ecuadorean gang Chone Killers as a foreign “terrorist organisation”, imposing sanctions on a crime group that Washington has accused of carrying out attacks on civilians and public officials.
A man was sentenced to one year in prison over the late 2023 death of a Jewish man during an altercation in California between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
Chubu Electric Power Co. overwrote data following a regulatory investigation into its fraudulent earthquake risk data involving its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, the secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority said Wednesday.
The chief executive of Catholic Schools NSW Dallas McInerney has stood aside from his position after the corruption watchdog revealed it was investigating whether he signed off on illegal political donations to recruit Liberal Party members.
Former NSW police minister David Elliott says federal Opposition Leader Angus Taylor should resign, saying his close links to besieged Catholic Schools NSW boss Dallas McInerney has left the Liberal Party exposed as it faces a damaging corruption inquiry.
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Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling watches a march to the Democratic National Convention Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon,File)
A man has been charged with kidnapping and killing a U.S. Postal Service worker while she was delivering mail in North Carolina last week, according to the authorities.
‘Obviously disturbing’ if Catholic order’s historical sales of millions in property for $1 results in lack of money for victims, NSW supreme court hears
PARIS — France’s far-right National Rally was hoping it could put its legal woes behind it next week — with the conclusion of a long-running embezzlement case against its leader Marine Le Pen — and finally concentrate all its energy on the 2027 election.
A 75-year-old New Orleans man who legally changed his name to Santa Claus has been arrested after allegedly trying to meet someone he believed was a 15-year-old boy to engage in sexual acts, police have announced.