Three people have been shot in broad daylight in the Catalan capital over the past weeks, the latest happening just outside a police station and during Pope Leo's visit to Barcelona. Is there a reason for this spike in point-blank executions?
Minneapolis: A Minnesota man, who pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing a top Democratic politician and her husband, admitted he spent months identifying elected officials to target, and stalking them before driving to their homes in the middle of the night dressed as a police officer, intending to kill them.
We had hit rock bottom. After the sin of the spies, we were sentenced to wander the desert for 40 years. Every adult over 20 was condemned to die before entering the Land of Israel.
Authorities in Afghanistan's western city of Herat arrested at least 30 women, accusing them of violating dress rules imposed by the Taliban government, the UN agency for women's rights said, but added that some were later released.
SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) -- Former South Korean baseball All-Star and Olympic gold medalist Lee Yong-kyu announced his retirement Friday after being charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.
Flags of China and Myanmar are displayed at the entrance of Myanmar Pavilion prior to Myanmar’s top junta leader Gen. Than Shwe to arrive at the Shanghai Expo site in Shanghai Friday, Sept.10, 2010. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, file)
Two men have been sentenced over the brutal death of a 68-year-old Greenbushes man, with a court hearing how three men conspired to steal from him before brutally murdering him and disposing of his body in bushland.
THE National Police Commission (Napolcom) formally commended members of the Philippine National Police Highway Patrol Group-Special Operations Division (HPG-SOD) and composite operating units for their commendable performance during a police operation along Mabini Street, Maypajo, Caloocan City on May 6, 2026.
A Seoul court ordered election authorities to provide details on the disposal of a ballot storage container from a polling station in Songpa-gu, after finding that the container had been discarded despite an earlier request to preserve it as evidence.
Ahmedabad, India — Sita Patni sits in a small room in her first-floor home in Meghani Nagar, a residential neighbourhood in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
Three people have been killed in the border region between Russia and Ukraine, according to officials, as the two sides launched attacks on each other in the latest exchange of fire.
Three Indian sailors have been killed in strikes on at least three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz this week, as the United States doubles down on its naval blockade of Iranian ports.
A man accused of murdering his missing American girlfriend was not guilty because she could still be alive and continuing her “below the radar” lifestyle, a jury has heard.
Mexico opened the 2026 FIFA World Cup on 11 June in Mexico City under tight security after students and activists clashed with police near the stadium hosting the opening match between Mexico and South Africa. Demonstrators from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and other groups marched towards the…
Popular tourist spots like Benidorm and Magaluf are preparing for an influx of British football fans, with police deploying extra manpower and local business trying to position Spain as a cheaper alternative to watching the World Cup stateside.
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An online trading house that ripped off thousands of customers has been hit with $300 million in fines by the Federal Court – a record for any case brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
The 32-year-old man who killed a high school student from Nahariya after he accidentally stumbled upon the scene of an attempted assassination in January 2020 was sentenced on Wednesday in the Haifa District Court.
A prominent Palestinian doctor captured by the Israeli military in Gaza in late 2024 and held in detention ever since appeared by video link at a High Court of Justice hearing in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
British Jewish groups say they are alarmed about revelations that a fraternal society for Muslim police officers published a policy paper that described Zionism as a form of anti-Muslim hatred and called the Israeli army a “Zionist terrorist group.”
Hundreds of Queensland children affected by the government’s gender therapies ban will be eligible to join a recently launched class action, a court has ruled, with the government potentially liable to pay millions in compensation if the claim is successful.
The mother of a convicted gun for hire used artificial intelligence to help craft a letter to the court asking for her son to be shown leniency in his sentencing over the killing of Gavin “Capable” Preston.
An 88-year-old paedophile who volunteered at former prime minister Scott Morrison’s church has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for sexually abusing a child he met through the parish.
SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) -- The unification ministry vowed Friday to firmly establish peace on the Korean Peninsula after a Seoul court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison for ordering drone flights into North Korea to provoke it and lay the groundwork for his martial law bid in 2024.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and his former defense minister were sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday in a case alleging Yoon ordered drone flights over Pyongyang in 2024 to heighten tensions with North Korea and justify declaring martial law at home.