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Quadrilhas na Alemanha exploram agora um ramo inusitado: o roubo de gordura vegetal e animal velha que, após ser usada por restaurantes e redes de fast-food, é descartada em contêineres mantidos por empresas de reciclagem que têm no reaproveitamento do recurso seu ganha-pão.
A Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR), em conjunto com o Gabinete Central de Combate à Corrupção e ao Crime Transnacional, realizou, na terça-feira, uma operação de busca, captura e apreensão na Direção Nacional do Tesouro e na Autoridade Tributária. A ação resultou na detenção de pelo menos quatro pessoas, após d…
Police have arrested six men from company responsible for fire alarm system at Wang Fuk Court for allegedly making false declarations
Property Management Services Authority vows to rigorously follow up on any suspected breaches in wake of deadly Wang Fuk Court fire
Head of Disaster Victim Identification Unit describes difficult conditions team faced in search for bodies at Wang Fuk Court after inferno
Office for Safeguarding National Security condemns ‘small clique of external hostile forces’ for ‘stirring up trouble and taking advantage of the chaos’
Tensions are running high in Hong Kong over last week's massive apartment fire in the city's Tai Po district. The blaze killed at least 156 people, with the death toll expected to grow as authorities continue to comb through the burned-out buildings.
Video clip purportedly from Wang Fuk Court shows man trying to sound alarm using glass-panel fire alarm call point but without success
Residents of Wang Fuk Court hold 7,600 active life and 1,100 property policies provided by some 30 insurers, Insurance Authority CEO says
Lab denies it issued safety report for Fung Wah Estate, which uses scaffolding nets from the same Shandong manufacturer as Tai Po’s Wang Fuk Court
Residents gather valuables, warm clothes, personal documents, home appliances and pets in brief, emotional return to Wang Fuk Court tower
Senior officials from the World Bank and the StAR Initiative under the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have agreed to provide technical and expert support to assist Sri Lanka in recovering assets believed to have been acquired through corruption in foreign countries.
The family of a Colombian fisherman killed in a US airstrike in the Caribbean has filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accusing the US administration of conducting an extrajudicial killing in breach of international law, according to US and British media outlets.
As Hong Kong reels from the deadly fire at Wang Fuk Court, here’s a visual guide to what we know
The 32-year-old man is accused of eating an ornate Faberge octopus pendant inspired by the James Bond film ‘Octopussy’
Green groups say plantations and mines have degraded Sumatra’s land, amplifying a disaster that killed more than 700 and displaced thousands
Homosexuals posed as ‘father and son’ in public before older of the two was killed in road accident, sparking bitter legal dispute
Families mourn their loved ones who died in the blaze at Wang Fuk Court, while residents lay tributes throughout Tai Po.
One of the world’s most successful liberalising projects of the late 20th century has fizzled to leave Europe’s economy in secular decline. This FT series examines what went wrong — and why it is so difficult to revive the single market as a growth engine.
Fort Magistrate Isuru Netthikumarage has issued a warrant for former Colombo District Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa, who is out on bail, after he failed to appear in court.
On the first anniversary of South Korea's shock declaration of martial law, President Lee Jae Myung vowed to address the fallout from last year's failed insurrection and to ensure those responsible are held accountable.
The Kaduwela–Battaramulla road, which had been temporarily closed due to flooding, was reopened to traffic this morning, police said.
Two cases of victims aged 100 and 102 killed by their children aged above 70 have highlighted the challenges faced by elderly carers
Patient questioning by woman police officer leads elderly man to reveal details of stock trading racket; victim finally gets his money back
Concerns are growing that the judiciary, dominated by Yoon-appointed judges, may acquit the former president of insurrection charges
The judge ordered Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, held in custody without bond, citing the ‘sheer terror’ of the fatal ambush in Washington
By the spring of 2020, the century-old industrial plant on Birmingham’s 35th Avenue was literally falling apart. Chunks of the metal doors fronting several of the 1,800-degree ovens — which heat coal to produce a fuel called coke — had broken off and tumbled to the ground.
Tracy Harpster, a deputy police chief from suburban Dayton, Ohio, was hunting for praise. He had a business to promote: a miracle method to determine when 911 callers are actually guilty of the crimes they are reporting. “I know what a guilty father, mother or boyfriend sounds like,” he once said.
Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Boderagama yesterday (2) ordered the remand until December 16 of former Minister C. B. Ratnayake, who was arrested by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) for committing an offence of corruption under the Money Laundering Act.
Over one billion people in the world today have some form of disability. They constitute the world’s largest minority, which is 15% of the total population of the world, and no one knows at what moment one may become a member of this minority.
National Movement for Social Justice Leader Karu Jayasuriya yesterday said that every section of society needs to come together without national, religious, or political divisions to recover from the national disaster. Issuing a release over the natural disaster following the cyclone, he said that the most urgent pr…
Havelock Sports Club will aim for their second win of the Maliban SLR Inter-Club A Division League when they meet Police Sports Club in their Week 4 clash at Police Park on Friday at 3 pm.
The All-Ceylon Coroners’ Association President Anura Herath said that the coroners in the country are facing great inconvenience due to the fact that the Justice Ministry has not yet issued a circular to release the bodies of people who died in natural disasters without conducting a post-mortem examination.
Former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, was released from a US prison, shortly after he received a US presidential pardon from Donald Trump. His wife confirmed the release on Tuesday.
Former EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini was one of three suspects detained on Tuesday in police searches of the European Union's diplomatic service in Brussels and an elite university in Bruges.
Marta* tinha 71 anos quando foi internada em um hospital de Osasco, na Grande São Paulo. O marido a acompanhou por alguns dias, até que deixou de visitar a esposa que não apresentava melhoras e continuava hospitalizada.
Death toll from Wang Fuk Court inferno rises to 156 after five more bodies found
Pillage, prédation, détournement et blanchiment présumé de fonds... ce sont des mots qui gravitent autour d'une enquête de la justice belge. L'affaire concerne le clan du président congolais, Félix Tshisekedi. Des ONG katangaises ont déposé plainte et depuis, les magistrats belges semblent avoir intensifié leurs enq…
This is not the first conviction for Jafar Panahi. For decades, the filmmaker has experienced censorship and imprisonment in his home country of Iran. He never set out to be a political filmmaker.
A funeral home opened for the public to those killed in Hong Kong’s deadliest residential fire.
Police initially tried to blame Liverpool fans after 97 died in UK’s worst stadium crush, with some officers amending statements
Federica Mogherini was arrested in Brussels amid raids over suspected fraud related to an EU-funded training programme for junior diplomats
While in prison, Hernandez wrote to Trump calling him ‘Your Excellency’ and referring to their ‘shared values’
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A South African radio presenter appeared in court on Monday accused of recruiting men to fight for Russia in Ukraine.
A court in Bangladesh convicted in absentia on Monday British lawmaker and former minister Tulip Siddiq in a corruption case alongside her aunt, the country's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Ng Teong Min, jailed for bigamy, shed tears in court and pleaded guilty to deceiving his first wife for 30 years, and fathering two more children
Court has already twice postponed ruling for inquest into collision between Lamma IV ferry and Sea Smooth catamaran
"I knew I might go to prison for trying to make change — but the cost was greater than I imagined," said Kelly Kwok Man-hei. She was 18 years old when she was arrested in 2021 for "conspiracy to incite subversion" and "conspiracy to manufacture explosives."
A landslide in the Amazon region in Peru has killed at least 12 people and injured another 20, the authorities said Monday.
