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The leader of the Green Party Zack Polanski issued a statement on Thursday condemning the use of antisemitism by other UK politicians as “political football” following the stabbing of two Jewish men in London on Wednesday.
A former singer for Spandau Ballet who believed he could have "sex on demand" has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after being convicted of eight charges, including rape and attempted rape.
The terror suspect accused of stabbing two Jewish men in London has been identified as a Somali-born thug who previously served time for knifing a police officer and his dog, and was wanted over another suspected attack hours earlier.
LAST year, I wrote about a word that briefly escaped the confines of legal language and entered everyday conversation: “forthwith.” It appeared in Article XI, Section 3(4) of the 1987 Constitution, where it provides that impeachment trial by the Senate shall “forthwith proceed.” At the time, I turned to dictionaries…
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s coup chief-turned-president cut all prisoners’ sentences by one-sixth on Thursday, a blanket measure that a source close to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi said would further shorten her detention.
North Korea executed considerably more people since the COVID-19 pandemic than before, a new study by the South Korean human-rights NGO Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), revealed in a new investigation earlier this month.
WASHINGTON — The lawyer for White House Correspondence Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen gave an absurd reason for why the CalTech grad should be allowed to walk free pending trial — despite charges that he attempted to assassinate President Trump.
Mali’s Defense Minister Sadio Camara enters a hall for a talk in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 28, 2024. (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Louisiana Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has stopped the May 16 congressional primaries from going ahead after the Supreme Court struck down the Pelican State’s House map Wednesday.
Cole Allen, 31, did not immediately contest prosecutors’ arguments that he was a danger to the community
Cole Allen, 31, did not immediately contest prosecutors’ arguments that he was a danger to the community
There is a palpable sense of shock and anger in the community in Golders Green, which has been targeted again just five weeks on from the attack on four Jewish charity ambulances - a short walk away from Wednesday morning's double stabbing.
Muhammad Azaam, a doctor at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, was charged with being a member of a terrorist organization in the Beersheba Magistrate's Court on Thursday, according to a statement from the Justice Ministry.
Sgt. Liem Ben-Hamo, 19, from Herzliya, was killed in southern Lebanon, the IDF announced on Thursday. An additional soldier was wounded in the same incident and subsequently evacuated for medical treatment.
The prime minister's sister-in-law was "scared" and "struggling to breathe" after an arson attack at her home, the Old Bailey has heard.
Three teenagers have been sentenced for killing a man they thought was a paedophile on a Kent beach.
A view of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
MANILA, Philippines — Former Philippine National Police chief Nicolas Torre III took to social media on Thursday, April 30, to echo former senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s claim that Apollo Quiboloy was propped up as former president Rodrigo Duterte’s alleged “natural money laundering machine.”
Shocking new video shows the moment a knife-wielding terrorist lunged at an elderly Jewish man at a London bus stop — as one of his two victims called it a “miracle” he survived.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends an event on health care affordability in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
State’s police minister says buyback ‘doesn’t focus on keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists and criminals’, leaving NSW only clear supporter of plan
Jessica Mann, right, arrives for Harvey Weinstein’s trial in criminal court, followed by Manhattan Assistant District Attorneys Candace White, left, and Nicole Blumberg, in New York, Monday, April 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
The Uganda-American man killed 4 children aged 15 months to two-and-a-half years in what he believed to be a ‘human sacrifice’
The Uganda-American man killed 4 children aged 15 months to two-and-a-half years in what he believed to be a ‘human sacrifice’
U.S. Secret Service agents respond on stage during the White House Correspondents Dinner, Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A former California Highway Police captain who allegedly had a hitman kill her husband behaved erratically and slimmed down before her partner’s murder.
A new European task force formed to crack down on “violence as a service” has made 280 arrests in its first year, the EU’s police agency, Europol, has said in a statement.
A mother who tried to blame another child for the death of her 19-day-old daughter has been convicted of murder.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and members of the Congressional Black Caucus speak to reporters in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling to strike down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
An IDF major was indicted in military court on Wednesday for allegedly using his position near the Gaza border to smuggle a truckload of unauthorized goods into the enclave, bypass military checks, and bring an Israeli citizen into Gaza to complete the transfer.
A resident doctor in the UK's National Health Service (NHS) appeared at the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London on Friday, facing accusations of recruiting for Hamas and publishing a variety of inflammatory and antisemitic posts.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has charged that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “stole a charity” and called himself a “fool” for funding the company, claiming that the ChatGPT maker had strayed from its original nonprofit mission.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has charged that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “stole a charity” and called himself a “fool” for funding the company, claiming that the ChatGPT maker had strayed from its original nonprofit mission.
The organizations that fought for majority-minority districts across the US south are organizing their next steps
A Mexican grandmother accused of murdering her beauty queen daughter-in-law in an execution-style shooting has been arrested after allegedly fleeing the country.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Thursday (April 30) announced full alert status deploying 106,633 police persoonel as part of heighting its security measures for the upcoming Labor Day protests on Friday (May 1).
The trial of four Indonesian soldiers accused of carrying out an acid attack on an activist who had campaigned against the expanding role of the armed forces in government has begun in a military court in Jakarta.
The United States Supreme Court has voided a key provision of a landmark civil rights law by ruling that the electoral map of Louisiana had been drawn up unconstitutionally to create two Black-majority districts.
THE National Police Commission (Napolcom) has taken decisive action to address the recent hazing incident at the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA), with Commissioner Rafael Vicente Calinisan calling for urgent accountability and the implementation of sweeping institutional reforms to uphold the integrity of …
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on April 30, 2026 arrest former broadcaster Jay Sonza after a Pasay court issued a warrant over the alleged spread of false information about the health of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Sonza’s lawyer, Mark Tolentino, confirmed the arrest, which took place in Quezon City. …
Israel has charged a military officer for smuggling goods and an Israeli citizen into Gaza. His arrest came as part of continuing investigations into a suspected widespread operation that brought items into the besieged strip throughout the course of the Gaza war, fuelling a boom in the black market.
HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Mourners carried the body of a teenager killed by Israel’s military through the hills of the West Bank ’s largest city on Thursday, the latest victim in a surge of violence this month.
Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has scheduled a first status conference on May 27, 2026, in the case of former president Rodrigo Duterte, issuing a detailed order on Thursday that seeks key submissions from parties and participants ahead of trial.
The 47-year-old was held on Thursday night, five days after the five-year-old girl disappeared from a camp near Alice Springs
Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 18, accused of mischief and public nuisance over alleged stunt in mall
A New York rabbi was found dismembered and stuffed inside a blood-stained wardrobe after he was attacked and murdered by Colombian gangbangers.
Decision from federal appeals court comes almost 18 months after Trump appealed following 2024 election win
The five-year-old girl was last seen at Old Timers town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs. (Supplied: NT Police Force)
MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Thursday arrested former broadcaster and commentator Jay Sonza after a Pasay court issued a warrant over the alleged spread of false information about the health of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr..