PRESIDING Senator-Judge Francis Escudero is right to insist that fairness, balance and restraint must guide the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. Without these, the court risks losing both credibility and constitutional legitimacy. Yet prosecution counsel Lorna Kapunan offered an equally important re…
This combo image shows Al Roker, left, and Craig Melvin attending the 31st Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards gala at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on May 3, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/CJ Rivera, File)
THE Department of Justice (DOJ) has confirmed, through its own leadership, what practitioners have assailed for some time: the bar for filing a criminal case has been deliberately raised. In a recent interview, Justice Secretary Fredderick Vida said prosecutors must now establish “prima facie evidence with reasonabl…
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, his ex-wife tells AP. (AP video by Mike Householder, Amanda Swinhart and Rodrique Ngowi)
Police in Poland have recorded a sharp rise in hate crime complaints from Ukrainians, according to national newspaper Rzeczpospolita. Ukrainians have increasingly reported physical assaults, verbal abuse, and online harassment, the outlet said.
Twenty schoolchildren have been killed after the bus carrying them crashed on the way back from an educational field trip in eastern Uganda, authorities said.
The Israeli government has stripped Nile crocodiles of their protected status, paving the way for a proposal to build a detention facility for Palestinians surrounded by the reptiles, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
On September 24, 2025, the New York Times published a front-page story that attempted something highly uncharacteristic of the Gray Lady: A 5,000-plus-word report, four months in the making, that aimed to discredit a woman’s rape account. Behind the scenes, a former “Temptation Island” contestant also figured into t…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish police officer and 2 other people were shot, including the suspected perpetrator, on Friday, according to media reports.
Malacañang assures the public on July 17, 2026 that justice will be served to the family of a motorcycle taxi rider, who was stabbed by a passenger in a robbery in Caloocan City. Cabinet Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. made the assurance during his visit to the wake of Move It rider Fabio Norberte Jr. to convey the co…
Italy’s mafia clans have kept the family business alive for generations, passing criminal empires from fathers to sons in a cycle that has endured for centuries. But with organised crime networks still exerting influence across parts of the country, the Italian government now wants to make the next generation an off…
MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Friday assured the public that justice will be served to the family of a motorcycle taxi rider, who was stabbed by a passenger in a robbery in Caloocan City.
Big man Justin Arana overpowered Macau’s front court as he led the Converge FiberXers to a 149-124 annihilation of the Giant Pandas for their third straight win in the PBA Season 50 Governors’ Cup on Friday at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium.
Russian politician Boris Nadezhdin, accused of displaying “extremist symbols,” attends a court session in the town of Dolgoprudny outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Israeli forces killed one person and injured several others during a strike on barracks housing displaced people near Nuseirat, Wafa news agency reported.
The Military Prosecution for the West Bank filed an indictment on Thursday against Shadi Juma, the terrorist who killed Ido Zoldan in 2007, the IDF spokesperson said in a statement.
A Moscow region judge has fined anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin 1,000 rubles ($12.76) after finding him guilty of displaying “extremist” symbols, the exiled Mediazona outlet reported Friday.
British police said on Friday they had charged a 39-year-old man on suspicion of assisting Iran's intelligence service, the latest in a series of incidents involving Tehran and offenses covered under UK National Security laws.
Argentine President Javier Milei on Thursday declared that his government is “getting closer every day” to recovering sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, escalating a diplomatic row stemming from Argentina’s politically charged World Cup victory over England earlier in the week.
The upstate New York city of Syracuse seems at odds with itself when it comes to a notorious miscarriage of justice. Nearly five years ago, the district attorney of Onondaga County, William Fitzpatrick, stood up in court and excoriated his county’s decision decades earlier to prosecute Anthony Broadwater for the rap…
Sovereign Media, a far-left media outlet funded by the Babochki Collective, a nonprofit run by Jim "Fergie" Chambers, the communist centi-millionaire and heir to the Cox Media fortune, reports that Fergie, who was arrested in Ibiza last week at the request of the US Justice Department, "has been transferred to a max…
A Perth lawyer will spend at least the next two years in prison after he was caught exchanging thousands of messages with bikies including former Comanchero boss Ray Cilli, giving the gang member information about police investigations to help him dodge jail.
Dubai Police have caught a reckless motorist who put lives at risk after removing the number plates from his car to evade detection while driving at more than 230kph.
A man shields himself from the sun with a scarf as he walks in the garden of the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris, during a heat wave with temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), Monday, June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Spain’s Supreme Court has made significant changes to immigration and residency rules in the country just two weeks after the mass migrant amnesty, covering family reunification, residency of relatives of Spanish citizens, criminal records and more.