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Chong Won-o, former three-term district chief of Seongdong-gu in Seoul, was confirmed Thursday as the ruling Democratic Party of Korea's candidate for the Seoul mayoral race in the upcoming June local election.
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More than half of immigrant households in the United States use welfare, costing taxpayers billions and making the programs less sustainable for Americans in need of help.
SEOUL, April 9 (Yonhap) -- The ruling Democratic Party announced Thursday it has selected Chong Won-o, a former chief of Seoul's Seongdong district, as its candidate for Seoul mayor in the upcoming June 3 local elections.
Judges are set to decide by late April whether to send Duterte’s case to trial, with any proceedings expected to move at a “glacial pace”
Judges are set to decide by late April whether to send Duterte’s case to trial, with any proceedings expected to move at a “glacial pace”
NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs ’ lawyers are poised to try to persuade federal appeals court judges that the hip-hop mogul was treated unfairly at the trial that sent him to prison on prostitution-related charges, and that the First Amendment should win his freedom.
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The High Court of Justice has been asked to compel the state to carry out its earlier decision in the Ras Ein al-Auja case and to impose sanctions over delays, after Israeli authorities missed a court-ordered deadline to report on enforcement steps in the Jordan Valley matter.
The directors of the failed Melbourne Rebels rugby union club must hand over nearly $2.2 million to continue their lawsuit against Rugby Australia amid claims the sports governing body was seeking “Rolls-Royce” treatment for its legal team.
Australia must acknowledge “wrongdoing” in Afghanistan while also respecting the rule of law following the arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith, says shadow defence minister and former SAS captain Andrew Hastie.
Justice Ministry provides victim with legal aid, explains available support programs
The Sydney Kings' successful NBL finals series drew a record crowd and interest in the sport. (AAP: Robbie Stephenson)
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Seoul police said Wednesday they will file a civil lawsuit seeking damages from a man who made more than 100 false emergency reports over nine months, apparently in an attempt to be sent to prison.
The project, located beside the Grüne Aue allotment gardens in Schöneweide, transforms a former grey noise barrier into a colourful public gallery featuring work by more than 20 artists. For Berlin, a city long shaped by graffiti culture, the site matters because it gives contemporary mural art a permanent, legal an…
An umbrella teachers’ union on Thursday called for stronger legal protections after a middle school student assaulted a teacher in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, leaving her with injuries requiring two weeks of treatment.
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Activists and legal experts have condemned an Indian court’s verdict that handed down three life sentences to prominent Kashmiri separatist Aasiya Andrabi, saying the harsh sentencing of a 64-year-old woman “fits a broader pattern” of India’s policy with dissenting voices in the disputed region.
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Irma Palasics died in a violent home invasion in 1999 in the Canberra suburb of McKellar. (Supplied)
The race to become the ruling Democratic Party's candidate in the Ansan A electoral district by-election is heating up, with key liberal figures from different factions appearing likely to face off against each other.
Maree Mavis Crabtree has pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder and attempted fraud. (AAP Image: Jason O’Brien)
Border Force has warned the fight against illegal tobacco and its links to organised crime will not be won without dealing with the high prices of legal products, despite the agency revealing it is seizing almost 6 million illicit cigarettes a day.
In court documents, shock jock also says the purported conduct was not persistent, lasting for 20 minutes on a single day
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Kevin Stanischewski appeared in the NT Supreme Court on Thursday. (ABC News: Che Chorley)
SEOUL, April 9 (Yonhap) -- A special counsel team has raided the home and office of a former senior presidential security aide over his alleged role in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law bid, legal sources said Thursday.
The high court has dismissed his bid to clear his name of findings that, on the balance of probabilities, he raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019
Disgraced former NSW minister Eddie Obeid has escaped prosecution for his alleged role in a water deal that the Independent Commission Against Corruption found to be corrupt, after criminal charges were withdrawn on the eve of his third trial.
Police say they told the 27-year-old man to ‘drop the knife’ before he was fatally shot. But the only non-police witness says they said nothing, a court heard
Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania, speaks during the National Action Network (NAN) Convention in New York, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
New York police officer Erik Duran, who is charged with hurling a plastic cooler at a man fleeing officers on a motorized scooter, causing a crash that killed the driver, arrives to his manslaughter trial at the Bronx Criminal Court in New York, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Kena Betancur, File)
Rex A. Heuermann, center, pleads guilty to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings, at a court hearing in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y., Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (James Carbone/Newsday via AP, Pool)
A rideshare driver accused of stalking, rape and coercive control started his own driving company just days before fronting court for the charges.
Bruce Lehrmann was found by Justice Michael Lee, on the balance of probabilities, to have raped Brittany Higgins. (AAP: Steve Markham)
In a significant development for the intersection of artificial intelligence policy and national security, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled on April 8 that the Department of War may designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk while a full judicial review plays out. The decision came after the AI company so…
HÓDMEZŐVÁSÁRHELY, Hungary — When opposition leader Péter Márki-Zay failed to topple Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the country’s 2022 election, many Hungarians said the result showed only an insider could win, using the hardball tactics of the ruling Fidesz party.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is seeking to have OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman fired as part of his lawsuit against the artificial intelligence giant, court documents filed on Tuesday show.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is seeking to have OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman fired as part of his lawsuit against the artificial intelligence giant, court documents filed on Tuesday show.
A Hawaii anesthesiologist has been found guilty of trying to kill his wife by bashing her head with a rock during a hike for her birthday last year.
Gerhardt Konig appears in court before closing arguments in his attempted murder trial, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin, Pool)
Bodies in bags sit on the side of the road after a deadly semi-trailer truck crash in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas state, Mexico, Dec. 9, 2021. (AP Photo, File)
Pages from the Anthropic website and the company’s logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)
Exclusive: Transdev undertook ‘coupling project’ after teen trapped between carriages in 2023. Trial restarted after second fatality, ex-employee claims, while Transdev denies ‘assessment’ ever shelved
A federal judge on Wednesday said rapper Pooh Shiesty will remain in custody until trial after he and eight others were accused of kidnapping three music industry professionals and robbing them at gunpoint in Texas. (AP Video by Kendria LaFleur)
A Brooklyn-based personal injury attorney allegedly ran a massive scheme that used staged car accidents to drive up insurance payouts, according to a new, bombshell lawsuit — that comes as Gov. Kathy Hochul ramps up her campaign to crack down on such scams.
Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann’s lawyer revealed the two key reasons why he suddenly flipped and fessed up to viciously killing eight sex workers after years of maintaining his innocence.
USC student Tucker Collins’s attorney accuses homeland security of ‘overt act of repression’ at Los Angeles protest