Coronial inquest recommends SA Police improve suicide training
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Wed 15 Jul 2026 at 2:25pm
· Bridget Herrmann
Defector charged over remittances to families in North Korea is acquitted
A North Korean defector accused of helping others send money to their families in North Korea through unauthorized channels has been acquitted by a South Korean appeals court, a nongovernmental research group specializing in unification policy said Wednesday.
· Yoon Min-sik
Kamala Harris slams ICE agents for fatally shooting ‘illegal alien’ who allegedly tried to run them over in Maine
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· Victor Nava
Woman with alleged links to Islamic State needs medical help, court told
Wed 15 Jul 2026 at 1:59pm
· Jamie Mckinnell
Court commits Marcoleta to QC jail
MANILA, Philippines - The Sandiganbayan Third Division on Wednesday committed Sen. Rodante Marcoleta to the Quezon City Jail Male Dormitory after the Philippine General Hospital and Philippine National Police General Hospital diagnosed him as being fit to travel.
· Reina C. Tolentino
Sara Duterte’s lawyer flexes client’s Bar score among topnotchers in court
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Republican senator backs Trump’s push to limit birthright citizenship
US Senator Jim Banks of Indiana introduced legislation on Monday aimed at limiting birthright citizenship by declaring illegal migrants “invaders,” reviving President Donald Trump’s effort weeks after a US Supreme Court ruling struck it down.
· RT
Republican senator backs Trump’s push to limit birthright citizenship
US Senator Jim Banks of Indiana introduced legislation on Monday aimed at limiting birthright citizenship by declaring illegal migrants “invaders,” reviving President Donald Trump’s effort weeks after a US Supreme Court ruling struck it down.
· RT
Supreme Court postpones final ruling on ex-first lady's corruption charges to next week
SEOUL, July 15 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court said Wednesday it has postponed the sentencin...
· Chae Yun-hwan
Crows defender to face court over car accident involving pedestrian
Adelaide defender Josh Worrell is set to face court over a car accident last Friday.
· Andrew Wu
Melbourne home sprayed with bullets for second time in a week
Wed 15 Jul 2026 at 12:26pm
· Olivia Jenkins
Prosecutors raid Gwangju police agency over alleged mishandling of murder case
GWANGJU, July 15 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors on Wednesday raided the Gwangju Metropolitan Police Agency as part of a probe into allegations that police officers destroyed evidence and leaked investigative information of a high-profile murder case.
· Chae Yun-hwan
Police raid Cheongju city councilor's offices over alleged sexual abuse of minor
CHEONGJU, South Korea, July 15 (Yonhap) -- Police said Wednesday they have raided the offices of a Cheongju city councilor suspected of sexually abusing a minor.
· KIM, SEONGHUN
Singapore court orders Bloomberg to pay ministers $356,000 in defamation case
Bloomberg’s editor-in-chief, John Micklethwait, stands by reporting, saying ministers who sued ‘imposed an extremely strained meaning on what was a solid story’
· Reuters
Police issue image of would-be assaulter chased away by dogs
Police are hunting a man after he allegedly tried to sexually assault a 67-year-old woman and a 39-year-old woman while they were walking their dogs in Kooyong on Tuesday.
· Alexander Darling, Eleanor Campbell
Police minister says Qld schools 'overwhelmingly safe' after two stabbings
Wed 15 Jul 2026 at 11:36am
· Ned Hammond
Brisbane teen was sent 'racist messages' before school stabbing, court hears
Wed 15 Jul 2026 at 11:36am
· Joshua Mcintosh
Young Australian men falling victim to online sexual extortion, regulator says
SYDNEY – Young men and boys are being targeted for sexual extortion on social media platforms, Australia’s online watchdog said Tuesday, finding “significant gaps” in how tech companies deal with the problem.
· No Author
She thought her past was buried. Then she saw the headlines
Sisters in Yellow, Mieko Kawakami’s sixth novel and her fifth to appear in English, begins with the kind of opening crime writers kill for: our narrator, Hana, discovers a newspaper article concerning a woman she knew 20 years earlier, Kimiko Yoshikawa. Kimiko has been charged with “blackmail, abduction, and battery”.
· Declan Fry
Crows defender Josh Worrell to face court over crash
Wed 15 Jul 2026 at 10:33am
Trump pays E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million in sexual abuse case
New York writer E. Jean Carroll received the $5 million plus interest that she won from U.S. President Donald Trump in her sexual abuse lawsuit three years ago, days after Trump failed to sway a judge to block the transfer during a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Mexican migrant, 28, struck and killed by semi-truck while fleeing ICE in Florida
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· David DeTurris
Gavin Newsom accused of sidelining California’s tough-on-crime measure after voters’ landslide passing
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· Titus Wu
Federal court ends a decades-old school desegregation order in Louisiana
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill speaks with attendees during an election night watch party for U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., May 16, 2026, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)
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· Victor Barreiro Jr.
Callous dog-napper with over 40 prior arrests steals beloved senior Shih Tzu, gets cut loose in court
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· Amanda Woods
Head of US Central Command says Iran attacked seven commercial ships over past week
The head of US Central Command said that Iran had "intentionally targeted" seven commercial ships over the past week, resulting in "nearly a dozen" civilian crew members being killed, injured or going missing.
· Middleeasteye
E. Jean Carroll gets $5.6 million from Trump
NEW YORK (AP) — The writer E. Jean Carroll has collected over $5.6 million that a jury awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said.
· Yonhap
Seven Britons among those killed in Spain wildfires
The aftermath of wildfires in the Almería province, in Bedar.
· Bbcnews
Louisiana man charged with murder in marshal's fatal shooting
A Louisiana man has been accused of murder in the fatal shooting of a deputy U.S. marshal who joined other officers in trying to arrest him at his home after he failed to show up for trial on rape and sexual battery charges.
· John Hanna
Writer E Jean Carroll wins $8m in Trump sex abuse and defamation case
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Breaking: Man dies in public place shooting in Sydney's north-west
Wed 15 Jul 2026 at 9:06am
Iran calls US attack on Hormozgan ‘latest war crime’
Iran’s Foreign Minister spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said that the US military’s attack on a ranger post in Hormozgan is the latest example in a list of American war crimes against Iran which “grows longer every day”.
· Middleeasteye
IMO condemns attacks on shipping in Hormuz that killed two sailors
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the latest attacks on shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz which led to the deaths of at least two seafarers and the injuries of several others.
· Middleeasteye
Boston software engineer, 28, killed in freak skydiving accident
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· David DeTurris
Global prosecutor’s downfall clears Netanyahu — but damns the International Criminal Court
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· Post Editorial Board
Woman charged with child abuse offences in NSW
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Jack Smith's Team Spied On 44 Lawmakers' Texts, Built A Case On Them, And Misled Congress: Grassley
Former special counsel Jack Smith's investigators blew past the Justice Department's own privilege safeguards to directly access text messages between Trump White House officials and 44 members of Congress - then had the FBI match the phone numbers to lawmakers' names, according to DOJ records released Tuesday.
· Tyler Durden
ICE halts most traffic stops in wake of Maine fatal shooting, sources say
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told officers on Tuesday to suspend most vehicle stops around the country, two sources briefed on the matter said, after agents fatally shot two men six days apart during stops in Texas and Maine.
· REUTERS
Three killed as small plane crashes in upstate NY shortly after takeoff
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· Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Illegal immigrant, 21, trucker gets slap-on-the-wrist sentence after horror SoCal crash killed 3
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· Ben Chapman
Grand jury issues 50 indictments for inmate murders and assaults in Tennessee
District Attorney General Danny Goodman speaks in court on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Tiptonville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, Pool, File)
· The Associated Press
Outspoken Moroccan rapper Mehdi El Youbi arrested in Casablanca
Politically outspoken Moroccan artist, rapper, and filmmaker Mehdi El Youbi has been arrested in Casablanca, days after being barred from returning to France, where he has been based since 2017.
· Alex Milan Durie
At least 6 killed in Brussels building fire
BRUSSELS — At least six people were killed and two injured in a fire on Tuesday at a building being renovated in downtown Brussels. Authorities in the Belgian capital said that their bodies had been found in an elevator at the site.
· Associated Press
Family of teen tourist killed in NYC horse carriage horror calls on City Council to ‘do the right thing’ ahead of landmark hearing
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· Nicole Rosenthal
Mahmoud Khalil sues feds again — using KKK Act of 1871 to claim they illegally colluded with pro-Israel groups to jail him
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· Ben Kochman
Man killed by semi after fleeing from immigration officials in Florida
Death of unidentified 28-year-old man marks third immigration enforcement-related death in one week
· Jose Olivares