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Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., listens to testimony as the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight holds a field hearing on violent crime in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)
Sanctioned Chinese company takes on Swiss firm in ‘landmark’ action against foreign ‘bullying’ and ‘long-arm jurisdiction’
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has lost a High Court bid to challenge the acquittal of a man who burned a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London.
The National Assembly, led by the ruling Democratic Party (DP), passed a bill Friday allowing the Constitutional Court to review lower court rulings, including those finalized by the Supreme Court.
A court in Nigeria has added terrorism charges to the allegations facing former justice minister Abubakar Malami.
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Overnight Israeli attacks in central and southern Gaza targeting two police stations have killed at least five, including one officer, in the latest escalation amid efforts to reach calm in the battered enclave.
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Met arrests man on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage after slogans including ‘Zionist war criminal’ sprayed
Dubai Police have seized motorcycles from teenage riders after complaints about reckless and dangerous driving on public roads.
Two men and one woman suffer leg injuries, but it is unclear whether boar wounded them
The latest tranche of documents released by the United States Department of Justice on the convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein has caused an uproar and a slew of resignations by senior officials and businesspeople across the US and Europe.
Australian F1 driver was replaced after 2025 Miami GP
Law enforcement authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region on Friday arrested the mayor of a small town where residents have gone weeks without heating and water.
The Gampaha High Court has served indictments against a group of individuals, including former Ministers Mervyn Silva and Prasanna Ranaweera, over the alleged sale of government-owned land using forged deeds.
A revision of the Constitutional Court Act passed the National Assembly on Friday, after liberal parties ended the opposition's filibuster against the contentious bill that has been criticized for potentially upending the current three-tier court system.
The Colombo Magistrate’s Court has ordered that alleged underworld figure “Commando Salintha”, currently in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), be remanded until March 12.
Lam Ming-chung, 68, admits to posting seditious comments, including calling on voters to boycott last year’s Legislative Council election
Lawyers representing pro-Palestine campaigners charged with breaking protest laws in the UK described the case against them as “unlawful” as the government presented its case against them on Thursday.
The Sri Lankan security landscape saw a major breakthrough this morning as Janith Madhusanka, the notorious drug trafficker and multi-count murder suspect widely known as ‘Podi Lassie,’ was successfully extradited from India and brought back to the island.
Soham double murderer Ian Huntley remains in hospital after being attacked by another inmate in a prison workshop.
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Jack Green was among the claimants who took the NT government to court for compensation over operations at the McArthur River Mine site outside Borroloola. (ABC News: Michael Franchi)
Pakistan said on Friday that it had killed 228 Taliban fighters in a series of air strikes on Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
As Ramadan enters its second week, many families observe the holy month displaced from their homes, while others still search for relatives believed to remain beneath the rubble. Palestinian families gathered at Al-Shifa Hospital after overnight Israeli drone strikes on February 26 killed several people, including p…
India’s Supreme Court has banned a school textbook after a chapter in it made a reference to corruption in the judiciary.
MANILA, Philippines – Rappler senior investigative reporter Lian Buan discusses what to expect during the last day of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s confirmation of charges hearing at the International Criminal Court on Friday, February 27.
Prime minister says reports 20-year-old was allegedly going to target mosques, WA police and parliament are ‘distressing’
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MANILA, Philippines — The Quezon City Hall of Justice received a bomb threat on Friday although explosives experts found "no hazardous materials, explosive, incendiary or similar devices" during an inspection, police said.
A 20-year-old man from WA has been arrested and charged after police uncovered his alleged plans to commit “an ideologically motivated attack of violent extremism involving mass casualties.”
A 20-year-old man from WA has been arrested and charged after police uncovered his alleged plans to commit “an ideologically motivated attack of violent extremism involving mass casualties.”
When Opposition Leader Jess Wilson toppled crime-focused Brad Battin as Liberal leader late last year, she sought to make housing affordability a key plank of the party’s re-election pitch.
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Former state Liberal MP begins his evidence after pleading not guilty to 10 charges for various sexual acts
Alternative for Germany (AfD) party co-leader Alice Weidel hailed as “major victory” for the party and the nation a Thursday court decision that suspended its designation as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organization.
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The death of Mitchell Thomas, 3, in a house fire in Alice Springs is being investigated by the coroner. (Supplied: NT Courts)
An Oscar-nominated documentary that goes into the bedrooms of children killed in US school shootings hopes to drive home the reality of such tragedies. ‘I’ve never been so frightened,’ says its director
Police and firefighters’ unions have joined calls to urgently review mandatory sentences for assaulting emergency service workers, after a paramedic was hospitalised but fell through gaps in the law because she was not treating a patient at the time she was attacked.
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MANILA, Philippines – In Rodrigo Duterte’s dreams, the fake news about him is real: he has been released from detention by the International Criminal Court, world leaders love him, and his critics can’t do anything about it.
MANILA, Philippines – In Rodrigo Duterte’s dreams, the fake news about him is real: he has been released from detention by the International Criminal Court, world leaders love him, and his critics can’t do anything about it.
Key elements of NSW’s firearms reform rushed through parliament on Christmas Eve may not be in place until September, the police minister has revealed.
Both Penang’s youngest executive councillor and his wife claimed they acted in self-defence after a squabble turned physical
House of Darwin founder Shaun Edwards is facing domestic violence charges after an incident in May last year. (ABC News: Pete Garnish)
Stephen Woldenberg was in a meeting with his father last Friday, refreshing the United States Supreme Court’s website, when the news finally came through: Their company had prevailed in its legal challenge to the Trump administration’s tariffs.
A dispersal zone is to be introduced by police in the centre of Scotland's biggest city as part of a crackdown on crime and anti-social behaviour.