Topic: Crime & Justice — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-21 13:25 UTC+10:00] [Sport / AFL] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Swans AFLW captain Lucy McEvoy and coach Colin O’Riordan are speaking for the first time since five of the club’s men’s players were stood down for breaching club standards, and a police investigation into an alleged sexual assault continues.
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[2026-08-21 13:14 UTC+10:00] [Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Man, 32, charged with six counts of rape, stalking and assault after woman was allegedly attacked in Brookfield
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[2026-08-21 13:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — US President Donald Trump appeared Thursday on his former fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen's radio show, holding a stunning public reunion with the man who once called him a "Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain” and testified against him both in court and before Congress.
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[2026-08-21 13:06 UTC+10:00] [Mindanao] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-08-21 12:48 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The leader of an overseas hacking ring that stole more than 38 billion won ($27.4 million) by targeting wealthy figures was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday.
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[2026-08-21 12:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Police say a five-year-old girl died in a house fire in Lake Macquarie. (ABC News)
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[2026-08-21 12:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: HONG KONG — Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were convicted Friday in a national security case brought under a China-imposed law that has effectively crushed the city’s previously thriving pro-democracy movement.
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[2026-08-21 12:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Sunao Takami doused the Osaka venue with petrol and set it on fire in 2009, killing four customers and one employee
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[2026-08-21 12:38 UTC+10:00] [justice ministry] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Sunao Takami doused the Osaka venue with petrol and set it on fire in 2009, killing four customers and one employee
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[2026-08-21 12:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: BUSAN, Aug. 21 (Yonhap) -- A former pilot was sentenced to life in prison Friday for murdering an airline captain and plotting to kill five other former colleagues.
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[2026-08-21 12:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Court says defendant poses high risk of reoffending and must be isolated from society
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[2026-08-21 12:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Court rules alliance’s push to end ‘one-party dictatorship’ violated national security law and amounted to incitement against Beijing’s leadership
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[2026-08-21 12:28 UTC+10:00] [inciting subversion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Court rules alliance’s push to end ‘one-party dictatorship’ violated national security law and amounted to incitement against Beijing’s leadership
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[2026-08-21 12:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A prison van arrives outside West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts ahead of the verdict
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[2026-08-21 12:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: McKINNEY, Texas — The attorney for a Texas teenager convicted of fatally stabbing a track athlete during a high school meet told a judge Thursday that he deserves a new trial because the court wrongly limited access to earlier proceedings.
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[2026-08-21 12:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The Brisbane man was arrested at the airport. (Supplied: Australian Federal Police)
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[2026-08-21 12:09 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Housing and crime are the greatest risks for the Crisafulli LNP government as it approaches the halfway point of its first term, with voter sentiment over its efforts in the past year plunging.
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[2026-08-21 11:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Yonhap) -- The National Police Agency (NPA) has begun making system upgrades to require the approval of a supervisor in order to close a missing person case, officials said Friday, following allegations an officer mishandled such a case on the southern island of Jeju.
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[2026-08-21 11:53 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A District Court judge embroiled in an ongoing dispute with the state’s top prosecutor has been ordered to step aside from hearing a series of criminal cases.
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[2026-08-21 11:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-21 11:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: DOUGLAS, Isle of Man (AP) — Two motorcycle riders have been killed on consecutive days during qualifying for the Manx Grand Prix on the Isle of Man.
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[2026-08-21 11:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SAN ISIDRO, Argentina — The latest trial over the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona was suspended Thursday following claims that kidney test results presented to the court came from his father.
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[2026-08-21 11:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-21 11:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ISLAMABAD — Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, Pakistan's most popular politician, was moved to a hospital for medical tests on the orders of the Supreme Court, his political party said early Friday.
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[2026-08-21 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-21 11:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama jury on Thursday awarded $9.25 million in damages after finding that The New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa.
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[2026-08-21 11:16 UTC+10:00] [Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Court finds ‘defects’ in investigation of two senior constables charged over 2024 incident at Mareeba watch house in far north Queensland
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[2026-08-21 11:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Balinese police say they're investigating an alleged criminal assault at the One Tribe One Life Lounge and Cafe in Kuta. (Facebook: One Tribe One Life)
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[2026-08-21 10:57 UTC+10:00] [Australian foreign policy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Two years after a deadly strike on the Australian aid worker and her colleagues, IDF officers have been cleared of criminal wrongdoing. Frankcom’s brother says it’s ‘an insult’
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[2026-08-21 10:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Police said the crime scene will remain in place for the coming days. (ABC News: Lucy Loram)
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[2026-08-21 10:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-21 10:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-21 10:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Police conduct an operation searching for weapons and or drugs as part of an effort to combat criminal groups, in the Nueva Guayaquil neighborhood of Guayaquil, Ecuador, April 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Cesar Munoz, File)
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[2026-08-21 10:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Cambodia has cracked down heavily on scam centers. © Reuters
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[2026-08-21 10:23 UTC+10:00] [Tupac Shakur] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The former gang leader was charged with planning the drive-by shooting that killed Tupac Shakur in 1996
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[2026-08-21 10:21 UTC+10:00] [Sport / AFL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Swans coach Dean Cox and captain Callum Mills are fronting the media for the first time since five players were stood down for the rest of the 2026 AFL season for breaching club standards amid a police investigation into an alleged sexual assault.
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[2026-08-21 10:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Dogs chased the alleged assailant following the incident in July. (Supplied)
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[2026-08-21 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Discover Hong Kong’s freshest F&B openings: shared plates of Korean delicacies at Yusang, Canto Jade’s rolling out of dim sum trolleys, grab-and-go food at bottle shop-cum-wine bar General Provisions by Alfred’s and Harbour City’s Food Atlas food court
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[2026-08-21 10:00 UTC+10:00] [Yusang] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Discover Hong Kong’s freshest F&B openings: shared plates of Korean delicacies at Yusang, Canto Jade’s rolling out of dim sum trolleys, grab-and-go food at bottle shop-cum-wine bar General Provisions by Alfred’s and Harbour City’s Food Atlas food court
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[2026-08-21 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Japan's historic effort to prop up the yen may have had an unintended consequence: giving some investors a better opportunity to double down on carry trade.
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[2026-08-21 09:58 UTC+10:00] [New South Wales] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: After eight days missing in the rugged NSW bush, word came through that the 18-year-old had been located. Her family were waiting with presents
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[2026-08-21 09:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Duane Davis appears in court during his murder trial, related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, in Clark County District Court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026. (Steve Marcus/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-08-21 09:29 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Israeli ambassador has claimed ‘a court came to a decision that there’s no criminal liability’ but there is no evidence that any court has been involved
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[2026-08-21 09:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Pilot killed in violent collision with Pennsylvania police helicopter
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[2026-08-21 09:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was transferred to a hospital in Islamabad early on Friday for medical examination, his party said, fulfilling a long-standing demand by supporters who say his health has deteriorated during more than three years in prison.
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[2026-08-21 09:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters gathered at the Maccabim checkpoint near Modi'in on Thursday night, after rumors spread that police were arresting a draft evader at the scene, N12 News reported.
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[2026-08-21 09:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-21 09:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE -A woman holds up a candle and an image of a man facing off tanks to mark the anniversary of the military crackdown on a pro-democracy student movement in Beijing, during a light candle vigil outside Victoria Park in Hong Kong, Friday, June 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File, File)
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[2026-08-21 08:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Drone footage released by the UK’s Border Security Command on Thursday shows French police intercepting migrants attempting to cross the English Channel illegally.
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[2026-08-21 08:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: McKINNEY, Texas — The Texas prosecutor who oversaw Karmelo Anthony 's conviction in a deadly stabbing at a high school track meet said Thursday that both sides had agreed to hold back evidence that risked further inflaming a case already boiling with racial tensions and death threats.
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