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The former head of China's famous Shaolin Temple - known as the birthplace of kung fu - has been sentenced to 24 years in jail for crimes including embezzlement and bribery.
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — A car crashed into a passenger terminal Friday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, and the driver was immediately arrested.
Zambian President Edgar Lungu attends the Southern African Development Community’s leaders’ conference in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, file)
Exclusive: Sofie is devoted to the baby who was removed from her family, but she and advocates say the situation speaks to a desperate crisis in Victoria’s child protection system
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SAO PAULO (AP) — A court in the northern Brazilian state of Pará has ruled that both federal and local officials must act to restore and preserve Fordlandia, a city established nearly a century ago by U.S. industrialist Henry Ford deep in the Amazon rainforest.
Lebanon is again facing deadly Israeli airstrikes despite an officially declared ceasefire, RT correspondent Ali Rida Sbeity has reported from the south of the country. The strikes on Thursday came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated plans to expand military operations in southern Lebanon and enl…
BEIJING — A Chinese court on Friday sentenced a former abbot of China’s famousShaolin Templeto 24 years in prison after he was found guilty of offences including misappropriation of funds and bribery, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Hungarian police said they will not prevent anyone from taking part in next month’s Budapest Pride parade, signaling a shift in LGBTQ+ policy in the country since Prime Minister Péter Magyar took office earlier this month.
A Kenyan court temporarily halted the opening of an Ebola quarantine centre for US nationals on Friday following a petition filed by a rights group.
STAFFORD, Virginia — A bus struck six vehicles on Interstate 95 in Virginia as traffic slowed for a work zone, killing five people and sending 34 to hospitals, state police said Friday.
At least eight students have been arrested on suspicion of arson after fire at a boarding school for girls in Kenya killed 16 students and injured 79, police said.
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Students at a Kenyan girls’ boarding school sustain fractures and suspected spinal injuries after jumping from a height to escape a dormitory fire that killed at least 16, a hospital official said on May 28, 2026.
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PARIS (AP) — Turkish tennis player Zeynep Sönmez had to retire from a women’s doubles match at the French Open on Friday after tripping heavily over a small advertising board near the back of the court as she chased down a ball during a point.
In the beginning of this week’s Torah portion, Beha’alotcha, we read that Aaron the High Priest is charged with the daily lighting of the Menorah.
Trump’s amnesty stems from a settlement agreement on May 18 of a civil lawsuit between President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization vs the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) at the Southern District Court of Florida.
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday defended the Department of Justice's handling of the release of files about notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in her opening statement to a House panel.
A force affiliated with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed at least 27 people, including elderly residents, in an attack on villages west of Bara in Sudan’s North Kordofan state, according to the Sudan Doctors Network.
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A Greek national has been charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service, believed to be Iran's, over the targeting of a journalist working for the London-based television station Iran International, British police said on Friday.
Burkina Faso’s military junta has closed the capital’s main Sunni mosque after nearly 100 supporters of a detained preacher were arrested following protests, deepening concerns over growing repression under the country’s military rulers.
An American flag flies outside the Department of Justice in Washington, March 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
LONDON (AP) — A Greek national was set to appear in court Friday on charges that he helped the intelligence service of a foreign country, believed to be Iran, target a journalist working in London.
A federal judge in Virginia on Friday temporarily blocked the Department of Justice from taking any further action to create, fund, or spend money from its so-called Anti-Weaponization Fund as a lawsuit challenging it proceeds.
This photo, provided by the Virginia State Police, shows the scene of a fatal accident involving a passenger bus on Interstate 95 in near Quantico, Va., on Friday, May 29, 2026. (Virginia State Police via AP)
Ex-Hong Kong Under-23 player Brian Fok, Luciano Silva da Silva and betting agent Waheed Mohammad undermined integrity of the sport, judge says
Ex-Hong Kong Under-23 player Brian Fok, Luciano Silva da Silva and betting agent Waheed Mohammad undermined integrity of the sport, judge says
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Shi Yongxin, third from right in yellow and red robes, abbot of the Shaolin Temple, attends the opening ceremony of an urban zen center named Shaolin Chan Hall in Xi’an in northwest China’s Shaanxi province on Sunday June 28, 2015. (Chinatopix via AP, file)
A man accused of murdering an innocent bystander shot dead outside a bar has failed to appear in court due to his mental health.
Dentro da Terra Indígena (TI) Kayapó, no estado do Pará, faixas extensas de terra revirada e lagos artificiais de tom esverdeado indicam que um crime está em andamento. O cenário é típico do garimpo ilegal de ouro, uma atividade que deixa pouca chance para a Floresta Amazônica se regenerar.
An Indian man has been honoured by police in Dubai after handing over Dh100,000 ($27,229) he found in a car park, enabling officers to track down the rightful owner.
Eight students have been arrested over a suspected arson attack at a Kenyan girls’ boarding school that killed 16 students and injured 79 others, as investigators probe allegations of negligence, overcrowding and ignored warnings at the institution.
Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson attends an interview in a cafe in Rome Friday, May 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A South Korean appeals court on Friday reduced the prison sentences of a parent and a contract teacher convicted of repeatedly stealing high school exam papers in a scheme that allowed the child to maintain the top academic ranking at her school.
France’s public prosecutor is to investigate Israel’s treatment of French nationals arrested during a military raid on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza.
A letter written by Sir Jeffrey Donaldson to a woman who has accused him of sex abuse had nothing to do with her allegations against him, Newry Crown Court has heard.
Three people, including a child, have died after falling from a high-rise block of flats in south London, the Metropolitan Police has said.
Policy U-turn comes after rightwing nationalist government was swept from power in April after 16-year rule
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have killed two Kurdish activists in the west of the country who went into hiding following anti-government protests in January, two rights groups said on Friday.
Two men accused of assaulting a police officer in a brawl at Manchester Airport will not face a second retrial.
A Seoul court on Friday granted an arrest warrant for a man charged with stabbing two other men at an office in western Seoul earlier this week.
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A Kenyan court has temporarily blocked the U.S. government from opening a new Ebola quarantine facility in the country for American citizens.
SEOUL, May 29 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Friday granted an arrest warrant for a man charged with stabbing two other men at an office in western Seoul earlier this week.
Red Cross members recover the bodies of students who died in the fire at the Utumishi Girls School in the Gilgil area, central Kenya, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Ex-attorney general was subpoenaed in March but had refused to show after her removal from justice department
An Austrian court has sentenced a 21-year-old man to 15 years in prison for planning a jihadist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024.