Jury discharged in Ian Watkins prison murder trial
The jury in the trial of two inmates accused of killing paedophile Ian Watkins in prison has been discharged.
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· Associated Press
What to know about the death of Congolese man in Ireland
LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of people in Ireland are calling for justice after the death of a Congolese man who was restrained by security guards outside a Dublin department store.
Florida high school senior, 18, killed in car crash on morning of his graduation
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· Chris Bradford
Tribute to woman hit and killed by police vehicle in Cairns
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· 9News Staff
Underworld rival to Kinahans could shock Irish politics by winning Dublin by-election | The National
The alleged kingpin of a crime family is standing in an election to the Irish parliament.
· Tariq Tahir
Greece protesters marched in Athens outside Israeli embassy
More than 1,000 demonstrators marched towards the Israeli embassy, waving Palestinian flags and chanting slogans in support of Gaza. Some protesters lit flares from rooftops opposite the embassy while police buses lined nearby streets. The rally remained peaceful but reflected growing anger in Greece over Israel’s h…
· AfricaNews
Myanmar’s Wei family put on trial in latest phase of China’s crackdown on scam compounds
The clan, one of Kokang’s ‘four families’, is accused of a range of crimes including murder, fraud and extortion
· Xinlu Liang
Myanmar’s Wei family put on trial in latest phase of China’s crackdown on scam compounds
The clan, one of Kokang’s ‘four families’, is accused of a range of crimes including murder, fraud and extortion
· Xinlu Liang
Police investigating fake news mocking May 18 democracy uprising
Police said Friday they were investigating fake news posted online mocking the 1980 democracy uprising in the southwestern city of Gwangju by claiming the movement was orchestrated by North Korea.
· Yonhap
Bangladesh protestors clash with police over alleged child rape
Protesters tried to seize a man accused of raping a four-year-old girl who is now undergoing treatment in hospital
· Agence France-Presse
Bangladesh protestors clash with police over alleged child rape
Protesters tried to seize a man accused of raping a four-year-old girl who is now undergoing treatment in hospital
· Agence France-Presse
Israel Prison Service says treatment of flotilla activists was 'according to procedure'
The Israel Prison Service said its personnel acted "according to procedure" in a video shared by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir showing security personnel abusing activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla, Haaretz reported on Friday.
· Middleeasteye
Experts question Trump immunity from IRS audits
President Donald Trump arrives at Leesburg Executive Airport on Marine One in Leesburg, Va., Thursday, April 24, 2025, en route to Trump National Golf Club Washington DC in Sterling, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
· Bernard Condon
Why Islamophobic, Antisemitic and Racist Crimes Are Rising in the UK
On a cold October night in Walsall, England, last year, John Ashby followed a British Indian woman off a bus, broke into her house and then brutally raped and beat her.
· Lizzie Dearden
French commission advises against deporting Egyptian-Palestinian activist
Egyptian-Palestinian activist and academic Ramy Shaath has won a provisional victory against the French government after a commission ruled against his deportation from the country for comments made at pro-Palestine demonstrations and involvement in Palestine solidarity groups.
· Middleeasteye
Lebanon says Israeli strike kills six, including two rescuers and child
We earlier reported that a double strike in Tyre in southern Lebanon killed a paramedic and injured others.
· Middleeasteye
College students accused of turning popular beach town into booze-soaked free-for-all in takeover chaos
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· Fox News
Explosion at Hungary petrochemical plant kills 1, injures several
TISZAÚJVÁROS, Hungary (AP) — An explosion at a petrochemical plant in Hungary on Friday killed one person and injured several others, according to a statement by Hungarian energy company Mol Group, which owns the plant.
Cubans grapple with fuel shortages and blackouts as US steps up pressure
The incident at the centre of a murder charge against Cuba's former president, Raúl Castro, is burned into the collective memory of both Havana and Miami.
· Will Grant
Israeli strike kills Palestinian shepherd in southern Gaza
An Israeli strike on Friday killed a Palestinian near the so-called yellow line, northwest of Rafah City in the Gaza Strip, Wafa news agency reported.
· Middleeasteye
Louisiana’s Tough-on-Crime Policies Stand to Cost Taxpayers Millions More for Years to Come
The day after a shooting last month killed a teenager and injured five people at the Mall of Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry blasted what he referred to as “hug-a-thug” policies — reforms put in place prior to his tenure when the state was trying to shed its reputation as the nation’s incarceration capital. He also dema…
· Richard A. Webster, Charles Maldonado, and Chris Alcantara
Carolyn was on the brink of death. Her recovery has doctors ‘shooting for a cure’
Carolyn McGrath was certain that she would be dead by now.
· Melissa Cunningham
Elon Musk Offers To Fund Lawsuit Against UK Police In Henry Nowak Stabbing Tragedy
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
· Tyler Durden
Hong Kong producer Raymond Wong found guilty of HK$1 million insider trading
Court hears film industry veteran knowingly tipped his younger sister to buy shares in company that he held controlling stake in 2017
· Fiona Chow
Hong Kong producer Raymond Wong found guilty of HK$1 million insider trading
Court hears film industry veteran knowingly tipped his younger sister to buy shares in company that he held controlling stake in 2017
· Fiona Chow
Ebola: Calm returns after mob burns treatment centre in DR Congo
People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and a senior police officer said, as fear and anger grow over a health crisis that doctors are scrambling to contain.
· AfricaNews
US confirms it helped Spanish police in ex-PM Zapatero's corruption probe
The US Department of Homeland Security's intervention comes amid political tensions between Madrid and Washington and ongoing corruption investigations surrounding ruling Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's inner circle.
· The Local
Former MSO chief denies leading push to cancel pianist’s concert
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s former managing director, Dr Sophie Galaise, has told a court that she did not lead the decision to cancel pianist Jayson Gillham’s concert after he made comments on stage referencing Gaza, contradicting earlier evidence of a former colleague.
· Kerrie O'Brien
Police investigating fake news mocking May 18 democracy uprising
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- Police said Friday they were investigating fake news posted online mocking the 1980 democracy uprising in the southwestern city of Gwangju by claiming the movement was orchestrated by North Korea.
· Kang Yoon-seung
Chadian former PM Succès Masra to remain in prison after court rejects appeal
Chadian opposition leader Succes Masra will remain in jail after the supreme court rejected his appeal on Thursday, one of his lawyers told AFP.
· AfricaNews
Police on high alert following overseas gangland execution
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Sexual harassment complaints see a rise within the IDF
The IDF's Gender Affairs Advisory Unit received 2,420 reports of sexual assault and harassment in 2025, 350 more complaints than in 2024, the military reported to the Knesset on Tuesday.
· JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Russia Requests UN Security Council Meeting After Deadly Ukrainian Attack on Luhansk Vocational School
Russia has called a Ukrainian drone attack on a vocational school in the occupied Luhansk region that left at least four people dead and dozens more wounded a “monstrous crime” and requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over the incident.
· The Moscow Times
Senate sergeant-at-arms' 26 shots when there was no attack on Senate 'overkill,' says probers
MANILA, Philippines — The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) on Friday said the 26 shots fired by then Sergeant-At-Arms Mao Aplasca during the May 13 Senate shooting was an “overkill.”
· Izel Abanilla
A woman has died after being hit by a police car. What happens now?
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· Rosanne Maloney
Landmark Supreme Court ruling says tattooing by nondoctors is legal
A landmark ruling by the Supreme Court on Thursday stated that tattoo procedures performed by nonmedical practitioners do not constitute illegal medical practice, overturning a 34-year-old legal precedent that had effectively criminalized tattooing by nondoctors.
· Choi Jeong-yoon
(LEAD) Civil servant unions join Starbucks boycott over 'Tank Day' event
(ATTN: UPDATES with justice ministry's measures in last 3 paras)
· Chae Yun-hwan
WATCH: Torre says police cannot choose whether to arrest or not Bato del Rosa over ICC warrant
Former Philippine National Police chief Nicholas Torre III says the duty of police officers to implement lawful warrants amid the possible arrest of Sen. Ronald dela Rosa should not be treated as a personal conflict between officials or politicians, but as part of the legal process that law enforcers are sworn to ca…
· The Manila Times
Double tap strike in southern Lebanon kills, injures paramedics
A series of drone strikes at a junction point in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district has killed a paramedic and injured four others, according to the National News Agency.
· Middleeasteye
Teen suspect tied to 12 attacks in chaotic Austin shooting spree identified as illegal alien
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· Fox News
Ex-senior presidential official appears for arrest warrant hearing
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- A former chief of staff to now-jailed President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared at a court Friday for a hearing on his potential arrest over alleged irregularities in the 2022 relocation of the presidential residence.
· Chae Yun-hwan
Air France 2009 crash verdict sparks mixed emotions among victims’ families
Seventeen years after the Atlantic disaster, an appeals court delivers a corporate blow that some relatives say stops short of true justice
· Associated Press
Air France 2009 crash verdict sparks mixed emotions among victims’ families
Seventeen years after the Atlantic disaster, an appeals court delivers a corporate blow that some relatives say stops short of true justice
· Associated Press
Spain rules that public holidays falling on Saturdays must be compensated
A ruling by a Spain's National High Court court means workers in the country will no longer miss out on 'festivos' that fall one Saturdays.
· The Local
The Sydney protest that led to a record number of complaints against police
A record 800-plus complaints were received over the way NSW Police handled Sydney’s anti-Herzog protest, as the watchdog described the organisation as obstructive and overly defensive.
· Jessica McSweeney
Ex-Prince Andrew probed over potential sex crimes as police seek witnesses
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· Chris Bradford
US sanctions Tanzania police chief over rights violations
FILE -Police patrol the streets on election day in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo, File)
Appellate court grants leniency to teens who harassed classmate for years
Teens convicted of years of violence and sexual harassment against a classmate were ordered to be tried under the Juvenile Act, after an appellate court on Friday overturned an earlier ruling that sentenced them to prison.
· Yoon Min-sik
Woman narrowly misses freight train after allegedly driving around Midvale boom gates
Police have issued a timely reminder to drivers after a woman was arrested overnight and charged with drink-driving after she rolled her car while trying to dodge an oncoming freight train.
· Rebecca Peppiatt