8+ hour, 31+ min ago   (339+ words) This is the latest incident amid a spate of tragic road collisions with vehicles driving the wrong way down the road A man has been seriously injured after two cars were involved in a wrong-way crash on the M1. West Yorkshire…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (313+ words) A Hong Kong court sentenced ​two pro-democracy activists to seven years in prison on Friday, after they were convicted for inciting subversion, with judges highlighting their use of the phrase "end one-party dictatorship" in their political activities. "By severely punishing…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (800+ words) A Hong Kong court sentenced ​two pro-democracy activists to seven years in prison on Friday, after they were convicted for inciting subversion, with judges highlighting their use of the phrase "end one-party dictatorship" in their political activities. Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (603+ words) Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived. A judge…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (991+ words) Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has been accused of “trivialising” rape after comparing other airlines to rapists. Mr O’Leary made the remarks ahead of his airline’s annual general meeting in Dublin on Thursday. He said it is “absolutely” appropriate to compare…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (763+ words) Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho are three prominent Hong Kong activists who led the group behind the city’s massive annual vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The three former leaders of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support…...

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2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (314+ words) A son of Gerry “The Monk” Hutch has appeared at Dublin District Court following extradition from Lanzarote. Jason Murphy, also known as Jason Hutch, 37, of The Paddocks, Clontarf, Dublin, was extradited on an Irish Government plane on Thursday. He faces…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1233+ words) The Trump administration has designated 21 Latin American and Caribbean criminal groups as “foreign terrorist organizations,” with the latest an Ecuadorian group added to the list on Wednesday. The announcement came during the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (441+ words) Venezuela’s former first lady wants to be let out of jail while she and her husband await trial on U.S. drug trafficking charges. Cilia Flores, the wife of ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, “deserves the opportunity to await her trial while…...