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Avraham Hadi, 44, was indicted by prosecutors on Wednesday for allegedly targeting the offices of several news outlets and the Justice Ministry in a series of vandalism and threat incidents.
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New laws that criminalise coercive control put vulnerable women at risk of being wrongly charged with family violence crimes, women’s safety advocates say.
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Supreme People’s Court says judgment was first to ‘explicitly establish the mandatory application’ of five-year-old law
Supreme People’s Court says judgment was first to ‘explicitly establish the mandatory application’ of five-year-old law
Senior Libyan National Army officials gathered in Benghazi on Tuesday for the funeral of military intelligence chief Fawzi al-Mansouri, killed in a car bombing a day earlier as he left a mosque. His assassination has raised fresh security concerns in Libya’s divided east.
Defence lawyers cross-examined witness Ross Tighe on Wednesday. (ABC News: Carole Howlett)
Coalition demands police investigate apparent leaking of diplomatic cable to newspaper but Labor calls it a ‘silly political stunt’
The IDF announced on Wednesday that after a lengthy investigation, the burial place of IDF soldier Shlomo Haimson, whose burial place had been unknown for almost 78 years, has been located.
Alleged Irish mob boss Daniel Kinahan was charged in Dublin, Ireland on August 9th with directing a criminal organization.
An overnight drone attack killed a child, damaged four enterprises and over two dozen residential buildings in the Russian Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk, Mayor Andrei Kravchenko said on Telegram on Wednesday.
A new dawn has arrived in Britain. Andy Burnham has replaced Keir Starmer as prime minister. The Labour Party has arrested its seemingly irreversible slump, having learned its lessons, and is ready to resume governing, while addressing the concerns of ordinary people. Faith in politics has been restored.
Russia and Ukraine have traded deadly overnight drone attacks, killing three people in Ukraine’s southern port city of Kherson and Russia’s Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk, according to regional officials.
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MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court upheld the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s discretion to keep its unfinished flood-control report confidential, ruling that the right to information does not cover preliminary legislative deliberations.
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Spanish police said Tuesday they have dismantled a criminal ring accused of recruiting unaccompanied migrant girls from care centres in Gran Canaria and moving them to mainland Spain and France, where some were sexually exploited.
CCTV footage shows people fleeing the building as debris fell, injuring one person who survived. The hospital said around 90 patients were transferred after parts of its facilities, including emergency areas, became unusable. The damage came as rescue teams searched across western Colombia for survivors after the ea…
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Jon Adgemis’ former chief financial officer has told a court about the severe financial stress of running businesses which the failed pub baron used to fund a lavish lifestyle in the lead-up to the $1.8 billion collapse of his hospitality empire.
Rather than hiding his criminal record, Ru Ping flaunts it as a badge of honour, proudly boasting to his followers that he ‘grew up in prison’
Rather than hiding his criminal record, Ru Ping flaunts it as a badge of honour, proudly boasting to his followers that he ‘grew up in prison’
Leung Kai-lok, 19, is potentially the first person to avoid a custodial sentence for violating the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance
Leung Kai-lok, 19, is potentially the first person to avoid a custodial sentence for violating the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance
Prosecutors successfully argued for date ranges of alleged indecent assault offences to be expanded. (ABC News: Greg Bigelow)
Former NSW police officer David Robert Blackbourne was charged in 2023 with multiple offences, including two counts of sexual intercourse without consent. (ABC News: Liam Patrick)
Guy Sebastian's former manager Titus Day (right) says he accepts his "failures ... had a serious and regrettable impact" on the pop singer. (AAP: Bianca De Marchi)
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Yonhap) -- Police said Wednesday they have busted a criminal ring suspected of creating and operating illegal pornography and gambling websites to rake in several tens of billions of won.
At least 15 people have been killed and 27 remain missing after an overloaded ferry capsized on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba, according to the country’s Civil Protection Unit.
A man carries schoolgirls outside the site of a school shooting in Thailand’s Nonthaburi province, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
Agriculture, Conservation and Fisheries Department issues court summons to suspect after conducting raid on Yuen Long shelter
Agriculture, Conservation and Fisheries Department issues court summons to suspect after conducting raid on Yuen Long shelter
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling ordering Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp. to pay compensation to the family of a late South Korean forced into labor during Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of Korea.
Syrians in the city of Deraa, where the 2011 uprising began, celebrated after a court sentenced Bashar Al Assad to death in absentia. Damascus also sentences his brother Maher, security official Atif Najib and other officials on charges of murder and torture.
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Officers were called to a property south of Brisbane at 12.27am on Wednesday, where a woman could not be revived
At least 14 artisanal miners died and eight were injured when the walls of an illicit mine caved in on them in South Africa, police said Tuesday.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels killed six people aboard a cargo ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday, the first reported fatalities from attacks targeting Red Sea shipping in more than a year.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said that missile and drone strikes targeting military sites in Marib and Mocha killed and injured dozens of people.
The chief inspector of probation for England and Wales has told the BBC the early release of thousands of prisoners could lead to "a serious sexual or violent offence or even murder" because of the demands on probation staff to monitor offenders.
What seemed like the horrific assault of a defenceless elderly lollipop man will now be the subject of a police internal affairs investigation after it was revealed the 87-year-old was allegedly making unwanted advances towards a 19-year-old woman.
US military operations in 2025 killed 153 civilians and wounded 243, a US official said on Tuesday, citing Pentagon assessments.
Hussein Chamas has been jailed for attempting to flee Australia. (Supplied: Australian Federal Police)
A court sketch depicts accused Bondi terrorist Naveed Akram appearing via video link at Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney, Feb. 16, 2026. (AAP Image/Rocco Fazzari)