Topic: Crime & Justice — Neutral reports only
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[2025-12-11 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: At least 22 people were killed late on Tuesday after two buildings collapsed in Fez, one of Morocco’s oldest cities and a key tourist destination, with the state broadcaster saying the blocks had shown signs of cracking.
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[2025-12-11 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Colombo High Court was informed yesterday by the prosecution that Yoshitha Rajapaksa’s grandmother Daisy Forrest will be examined today (11) by the Colombo Judicial Medical Officer to determine whether she is mentally fit to stand trial.
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[2025-12-11 06:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Colombo High Court yesterday ordered the release of former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal and the unconditional acquittal and release of the other three accused in the Greek bond case, following the withdrawal of the charge sheet by the CIABOC (Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption).
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[2025-12-11 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Steps have already been taken to recruit 50 officers on a contract basis to the Government Analyst’s Department to fill the existing vacancies to provide analyst reports on drugs using a rapid technical methodology due to the increase in the number of people being imprisoned, Justice and National Integration Minister Harshana Nanayakkara said.
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[2025-12-11 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Misdirected police and a lack of control room screens let robbers flee the Paris museum with a US$102 million haul moments before help arrived
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[2025-12-11 02:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Senior inspector, 31, underwent emergency brain surgery and remained in a critical condition until his death
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[2025-12-11 02:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Court of Appeal Judge K.M. Gihan Himanshu Kulatunga was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court before President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (10).
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[2025-12-11 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Third strategy paper of its kind released as Beijing seeks to expand its influence in a region Washington actively courts
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[2025-12-11 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: د آلمان په راينلنډ فالز ایالت کې د پولیسو يوې ګزمې پر لويه لاره په يوه موټر کې د يوې ښځې تر ليدو وروسته چې پخپل لاسي تليفون کې پر ټايپ کولو مصروفه وه، داسې څه کشف کړي چې دوی یې شوک کړي دي.
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[2025-12-11 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Germany's BKA federal investigative police force published its data on migrant crime statistics for 2024.
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[2025-12-11 00:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: A police patrol in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate made a shocking discovery after they came across a driver who appeared to be typing on her mobile phone, according to a Wednesday report.
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[2025-12-10 23:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: As European justice ministers and other officials from the 46-member Council of Europe descended on Strasbourg to negotiate the modernization of the current European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen delivered a public plea for major reforms.
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[2025-12-10 22:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: State media reports the residential blocks in Fez had visible structural damage and neglect long before the fatal disaster occurred
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[2025-12-10 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Despite the ceasefire, the border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand has erupted once more. The Cambodian Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday that nine civilians had been killed and 20 others seriously injured since Monday. According to official figures, three soldiers died on the Thai side and 29 people were injured.
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[2025-12-10 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Suspect, 36, allegedly used stolen ID details to get a certificate and cheat welfare organisations out of aid for victims of Tai Po inferno
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[2025-12-10 21:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Attorney General informed the Colombo High Court today (10) that Daisy Forrest, grandmother of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s son Yoshitha Rajapaksa, is scheduled to undergo a mental fitness examination tomorrow (11) to determine her ability to appear in a murder case.
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[2025-12-10 21:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The skirt-wearing women were barred from entering a police station to report a car accident, which lawyers say is a ‘violation’ of constitutional rights
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[2025-12-10 21:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Brazil's lower house of Congress voted Wednesday to approve a bill that could significantly reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro's prison sentence.
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[2025-12-10 20:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Wong Yiu-chung, 34, convicted of forgery and misconduct after using fake statements, hiding facts from victims and misleading his superiors
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[2025-12-10 20:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Twelve people have been killed in a residential fire in the southern Chinese city of Shantou, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday. The blaze broke out on Tuesday at 9:20 p.m. (1320 GMT) in a four-storey building and was extinguished about 40 minutes later, Xinhua said.
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[2025-12-10 20:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Wildlife officers at the Hikkaduwa National Park arrested a man on December 7 for damaging corals during a routine patrol.
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[2025-12-10 18:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Rambukkana Police arrested a 31-year-old local resident yesterday (09) in connection with the theft of a cable installed at a telephone transmission tower in the Talhenkanda area, Rambukkana Police Division. Authorities also recovered over 13 kilograms of copper wire from the suspect.
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[2025-12-10 18:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tuesday night's accident was the first of its kind since the fire in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district killed 160 people last month
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[2025-12-10 17:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Siti Khotimah was working to fund her children’s education when she died in the Tai Po fire. Her husband wants to see that wish fulfilled
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[2025-12-10 17:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Marking the proud occasion of the Sri Lanka Navy’s 75th anniversary, the ceremonial occupation of the Navy Headquarters (Block No. 3) at the Defence Headquarters Complex (DHQC) in Akuregoda was held yesterday (9). Deputy Defence Minister Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd) was present at the invitation of Navy Commander Vice Admiral Kanchana Banagoda.
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[2025-12-10 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Flight Lieutenant Eranga Chamara Ekanayake, the co-pilot of the Sri Lanka Air Force Bell 212 helicopter that crashed into the Gin Oya in Lunuwila, Wennappuwa on November 30, told the Marawila Magistrate’s Court yesterday (09) that both he and the main pilot detected a technical fault in the aircraft before the crash.
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[2025-12-10 16:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A cabinet official has pledged to reform the Department of Public Works and Highways by ‘injecting new blood, removing the bad eggs’
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[2025-12-10 14:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Fifty thousand foreign cigarettes worth approximately Rs. 8 million that were smuggled into the country were seized by the Excise Special Operations Unit, on Monday (08). At the same time, two individuals involved in the smuggling attempt were taken into custody by the Unit, which conducted a raid based on a tip-off that an individual had arrived in Raddoluwa town, Seeduwa, to sell foreign cigarettes.
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[2025-12-10 14:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Our Court Correspondent
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[2025-12-10 13:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A minister has urged a review of guidelines on attire following the incident, saying ‘people don’t dress up in anticipation of crime’
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[2025-12-10 11:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: The streets of the largest city in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, were largely deserted on Tuesday after police and soldiers were deployed to prevent anti-government protests on the country's Independence Day.
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[2025-12-10 11:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Investigation into blaze that killed at least 160 people focuses on complex web of liability involving project’s key stakeholders
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[2025-12-10 06:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The only yellow anaconda at the Dehiwala National Zoological Gardens has been stolen, according to a complaint filed with the Dehiwala Police. The National Zoological Gardens administration complained on October 7. The stolen yellow anaconda was one of six snakes, belonging to four different species, that were handed over to the zoo on September 5.
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[2025-12-10 06:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: It marked the first time a member of the UK military had been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s 2022 invasion
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[2025-12-10 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Quase 9% – ou um em cada onze – de todos os suspeitos em casos de crimes genéricos no ano passado na Alemanha eram imigrantes, conforme os dados mais recentes divulgados pelo Departamento Federal de Investigações (BKA, na sigla em alemão). Com 8,8%, a participação de imigrantes permaneceu praticamente no mesmo nível do ano anterior, conforme mostra o relatório do BKA, intitulado Crime no Contexto da Imigração e publicado nesta segunda-feira (08/12).
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[2025-12-10 03:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, on Tuesday received a joint sentence of 20 years in prison by the International Criminal Court, following his conviction on 27 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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[2025-12-10 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The ruling follows Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, requiring the Justice Department make records public by December 19
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[2025-12-10 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2025-12-10 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) blamed Israeli forces in Gaza for 29 of the 67 journalists killed worldwide in 2025.
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[2025-12-10 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Island’s legislature moves to deter rise in intentional sabotage, which now carries a prison sentence of up to seven years
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[2025-12-09 23:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Complications over rebuilding efforts surface as new sites for redevelopment are proposed
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[2025-12-09 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tributes to the ‘distinguished architectural educator, scholar and curator’ from Syracuse University say he was killed on Monday
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[2025-12-09 22:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Li Yaodong, 50, found guilty of careless driving when tram struck the girl, her sister, grandfather and family helper as they crossed street
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[2025-12-09 21:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: State media reported seven people were on board at the time of the crash
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[2025-12-09 21:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A baby yellow anaconda has gone missing from the National Zoological Gardens in Dehiwala. Zoo officials have filed a complaint with the Dehiwala Police.
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[2025-12-09 21:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: The United States Supreme Court on Monday appeared poised to hand President Donald Trump a significant boost in executive power after conservative justices signaled that they would uphold the dismissal of a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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[2025-12-09 21:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Colombo Magistrate’s Court has ordered the further remand of a former Assistant Analyst arrested by the Bribery Commission on charges of corruption, extending it until 22 December.
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[2025-12-09 21:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A bomb blast in eastern Congo killed more than 30 people and injured about 20 others after a confrontation between the Congolese army and a pro-government militia, despite a recently signed Washington peace deal that was hailed as a breakthrough.
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[2025-12-09 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Argumentative couple stage ‘accident’ in remote location but their ill-conceived criminal scheme unravels when police step in
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[2025-12-09 20:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Police chief Joe Chow also reveals that a piece of bone has been found on the ground after scaffolding removed
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