Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose film It Was Just an Accident received an Academy Award nomination this year, has been ordered to serve a one-year prison sentence after a Tehran court upheld his conviction for "propaganda against the Islamic Republic".
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, said on Monday that it would file a complaint against Israel’s spyware company, NSO Group, for failing to comply with a court order prohibiting the targeting of WhatsApp users.
Nearly nine years after the killing of two United Nations experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's High Military Court has delivered its final verdict. All 54 defendants charged in the murder of American investigator Michael Sharp and Swedish-Chilean expert Zaida Catalan have been sentenced to death.
The Supreme Court chief justice has accepted the resignation of the head of the country's election watchdog, sources said Monday, following an unprecedented shortage of ballot papers that disrupted voting in some areas of Seoul during last week's local elections.
US President Donald Trump has called on Iran and Israel to "stop shooting", as the countries trade tit-for-tat missile strikes, reigniting fears about the collapse of the fragile ceasefire.
SEOUL, June 8 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court chief justice has accepted the resignation of the head of the country's election watchdog, sources said Monday, following an unprecedented shortage of ballot papers that disrupted voting in some areas of Seoul during last week's local elections.
Valdo Calocane, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020, stabbed to death Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates, and tried to kill three others in Nottingham on 13 June 2023.
Welcome to Brisbane Times’ Queensland public sector column, Public Circus. This week: precarious police finances, a proposed department restructure, “Project Invisibility” and more.
A major class action has been launched over allegations of physical and sexual abuse of children detained at the Parkville Youth Justice Precinct over more than 50 years.
The Philippine National Police confirmed the arrest of contractor couple Curlee and Sarah Discaya over the alleged Bulacan ghost flood control project.
An 18-year-old resident of northern Israel was indicted Monday for allegedly joining Hamas, trying to purchase an M-16 rifle, and planning to carry out a terrorist attack against an Israeli town near his home, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Israel Police said in a joint statement.
A police officer in General Santos City said all the staff of a fast food restaurant that collapsed during an earthquake were accounted for and the three trapped victims have been rescued. The 7.8-magnitude quake hit early Monday, collapsing buildings and sparking tsunami warnings across the region.
The parents of a middle school student involved in a disturbance at an internet cafe in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, posted an apology online, saying they would take responsibility for their child’s actions.
A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least four people, injuring more than 200 and triggering a tsunami. Buildings were damaged, flights were cancelled and authorities warned coastal residents to move to higher ground.
SEOUL, June 8 (Yonhap) -- A special counsel team on Monday sought a two-year prison term for former President Yoon Suk Yeol for violating the election law in the lead-up to his presidential election in 2022.
EU calls on Spain to fix its child poverty problem, second fatal shooting in Barcelona neighbourhood in less than a month, Valencia to start fining some Uber drivers and more news on Monday June 8th.
Filipina tennis sensation Alex Eala put the disappointment of a first-round exit at the French Open behind her by securing her first grass court title at the Birmingham Open on Sunday.
People mourned the victims of a 2008 indiscriminate stabbing incident in Tokyo’s Akihabara district on Monday, the 18th anniversary of the rampage that led to the deaths of seven people and injuries for 10 others.
A Bat Yam man in his 30s was arrested on suspicion of maintaining contact with Iranian intelligence officials and carrying out security-related missions for them, Israel Police and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said in a joint statement on Monday.
Hanwha Aerospace CEO Son Jae-il has been booked over a June 1 explosion at the defense firm’s Daejeon plant that killed five people and injured two, labor authorities said Monday.
A man accused of murdering his American girlfriend gave different reasons for why she stopped going to gym classes, claiming she fled creditors or immigration enforcement, a jury has heard.