2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (759+ words) The three former leaders of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China were sentenced on Friday. They were convicted of inciting subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law. Lee and Chow pleaded not guilty,…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (881+ words) Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho were convicted of inciting subversion earlier this year under a Beijing-imposed national security law. Lee received a seven-year prison term and Chow was sentenced to seven years and three months. Both pleaded not…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (374+ words) A 48-year-old man was arrested near a power plant in Weisweiler, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The man, whose name and nationality were not given in line with German privacy rules but has been widely identified by local…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (303+ words) Chron The closely watched case of the Massachusetts mother who killed her three young children was on the verge of being declared a mistrial Friday — but there was still one more dramatic moment to come After weeks of grueling…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (719+ words) A federal indictment accuses Christian Castro of falsely telling investigators that he was attacked with a broom and shovel before he opened fire, injuring Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in January. Castro was shackled at his wrists, waist and feet during a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (529+ words) The lawsuit says that hours after she drafted a memo conveying her concerns, a colleague pulled her out of a meeting and Justice Department security officers handed her a termination letter, instructed her to pack her belongings and escorted her…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (620+ words) After being lured there for an office job from his village in southern China by a relative, Wind said he immediately realized the job wasn’t as advertised. Instead of doing administrative work in Manila for 10,000 yuan ($1,500) a month as promised,…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (678+ words) The United Nations children's agency said late Friday that among those released are three children under the age of 2, a 7-year-old and two teenage girls. “This release offers a rare moment of hope amid the violence threatening children in Haiti,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (631+ words) Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho, former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, were charged in 2021 under the law that has effectively stifled the city’s previously thriving pro-democracy movement. Lee and…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (580+ words) Police spokesperson Garry Desrosiers took only a handful of questions from journalists at a news conference Thursday, just days after gangs attacked Kenscoff, a once-peaceful farming community nestled in the hills near Port-au-Prince. Asked what police are planning to do…...