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A high school basketball coach praised as being a “great role model for young people” has been arrested for having “deviant sexual intercourse with a student” — with her husband, a fellow basketball coach at the same school, also filing for divorce and demanding full custody of their child.
Christopher Trybus, of Swindon, also found not guilty of coercive and controlling behaviour towards Tarryn Baird
MANILA, Philippines — Seven cadets and two police officers are facing charges for violation of Republic Act 11053 or the Anti-hazing law in connection with the April 3 hazing incident within the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA), the PNP said on Thursday.
An Israeli strike on a car in southern Lebanon has killed two people, according to medics cited by Lebanese state media.
MANILA, Philippines — Filipino groups calling for accountability over the victims of the drug war of former president Rodrigo Duterte welcomed the ruling of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber rejecting all four appeals filed by the defense team.
The High Court of Justice ordered the state on Monday to explain why, three decades after Israel enacted its civil burial law, Jerusalem-area residents still do not have a state-funded civil cemetery.
South China Morning Post learns Security Bureau plans to propose legal amendments to improve oversight following deadly Tai Po last November
South China Morning Post learns Security Bureau plans to propose legal amendments to improve oversight following deadly Tai Po last November
MANILA, Philippines — Barely a month after the hazing at the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) where over 20 senior cadets were injured, two more were victimized in another incident where fraternity members subjected their neophytes to physical abuse.
Akbayan Rep. Jose Manuel Diokno says that Vice President Sara Duterte must answer the allegation that she did not declare millions of inflows from her bank accounts as revealed by the Anti-Money Laundering Council at the House of Representatives justice committee hearing on April 22, 2026. Meanwhile, Diokno shrugged…
The deputy head of Russia’s military theme park was arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe from a private contractor, making him the latest park official to face criminal prosecution amid a wider shakeup in the country’s defense establishment.
The US military has introduced Ukrainian counter-drone technology in recent weeks at a key US air base in Saudi Arabia, according to five people with knowledge of the matter, as it seeks to stem attacks that have destroyed aircraft and buildings, and killed at least one service member.
A woman has lost an attempt to undo her adoption of two sisters after Supreme Court judges said to do so would go against the long held principle that adoption is "final and permanent".
A beauty influencer accused of running down a rival creator in her Mercedes made a heart gesture as she appeared in a British court on charges of attempted murder.
A young PBS employee who was also a military veteran has died days after she was shot outside her home, allegedly by her estranged husband, according to police and family members.
The International Criminal Court has confirmed that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte can be tried under its jurisdiction for killings he allegedly mandated before the Philippines withdrew in 2019 from the court's founding Rome Statute. © Reuters
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An appeals court on Wednesday dismissed an injunction request by a six-term lawmaker challenging his exclusion from the main opposition People Power Party's (PPP) nomination for Daegu mayor, upholding a lower court's decision.
An Estonian Holocaust memorial was discovered to have been destroyed on Friday, according to the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board and Estonian Jewish Community.
The High Court clarified on Monday that the state’s next update in the Ras Ein al-Auja case is due by May 14, after petitioners returned to court arguing that the deadline had already passed and that the state had still not reported on steps ordered months ago.
The International Criminal Court or ICC has ruled it has jurisdiction over the case of former President Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte’s lawyers had argued that the court no longer has authority after the Philippines withdrew from the Rome Statute in 2019. However, the ICC ruled that there was no legal error in the Pre-Tr…
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Rodrigo Duterte was not present for the court hearing, with his defence saying he was not mentally fit. (AP: Bullit Marquez)
(ATTN: UPDATES with reason for court decision in paras 4-5)
A baby girl was found abandoned in Times Square Tuesday night, according to police.
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For progressives, every institutional norm is sacred until it stands in the way of their political goals.
The gripping court appearance of Offspring star Alicia Gardiner over allegations that she twisted the nipple of a tour guide during a protest at Victoria’s Parliament House delivered a twist of another kind on Wednesday.
The Atlanta Braves turned in one of their former minor league prospects, who allegedly fled the scene of a deadly crash that killed a father of four on a Florida interstate, after the team spotted his car at their facility.
MANILA, Philippines — The International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber has rejected a key argument raised by former president Rodrigo Duterte’s defense, ruling that there was no legal error in the interpretation of provisions governing a state’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute.
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SEOUL, April 22 (Yonhap) -- An appeals court on Wednesday dismissed an injunction request by a six-term lawmaker challenging his exclusion from the main opposition People Power Party's (PPP) nomination for Daegu mayor, upholding a lower court's decision.
The Supreme Court has directed Malacañang to comment on a petition seeking to compel President Marcos to undergo physical and mental examinations. The examinations include a hair follicle drug test. President Marcos and Executive Secretary Ralph Recto were ordered to submit their comment within ten days from receipt…
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The crazed Nazi-sympathizing gunman who killed a Canadian tourist and injured 13 others after opening fire from atop a pyramid at Mexico’s Teotihuacán ruins plotted the attack for two months – and studied an image of the tourist hotspot that was in his hotel room.
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Western Australia’s coroner could not determine the reason why a mentally ill ambulance volunteer shot a co-worker dead before turning the gun on himself hours later in front of police tactical negotiators.
The parents of the New York teen viciously murdered near her Chicago university last month blasted the failed policies that released the illegal migrant suspected in the brutal slaying into the US.
A man in his 50s has been arrested for allegedly staging dozens of minor traffic accidents to extort settlement money from drivers, police said Wednesday.
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Aricell Chief Executive Park Soon-kwan was sentenced to four years in prison on appeal over the 2024 battery plant fire in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, that killed 23 workers, sharply reducing the 15-year term handed down by a lower court.
A Brisbane childcare worker accused of sexually abusing children took to the stand to deny the allegations, telling a jury he paid to have corrupted camera footage fixed because he believed it would exonerate him.
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MANILA, Philippines – On April 22, the International Criminal Court (ICC) renders its judgment on the jurisdiction challenge of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
(ATTN: ADDS more details, reactions from victims' families in paras 5, 7-8)