1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (622+ words) FARSTA, Sept 13 — “Good job!” Outside Stockholm’s Farsta subway station where a 2023 shooting killed two innocent bystanders, locals thank Max Akerwall and his police team for turning the tide on gang violence. An otherwise tranquil country, Sweden has endured over a…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (405+ words) MACAU, Sept 12 — Macau will hold its first national security trial behind closed doors next week, a court said on Friday, in a case against a former pro-democracy lawmaker charged with “subversion”. The Chinese casino hub expanded the scope of national…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (574+ words) BANGKOK, Sept 11 — Nawee Changpirom has spent years working to rescue trafficked wildlife in Thailand, but even he can sometimes hardly believe the creatures he has found: leopards, hornbills, and once an anteater. “We even found living corals hidden in a…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (220+ words) NEW YORK, Sept 11 — The wife of Venezuela’s deposed leader Nicolas Maduro, both of whom face drug trafficking charges in the United States, has requested to be released from New York detention and placed under house arrest, citing heart problems. Before…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (191+ words) SEOUL, Sept 9 — A Seoul court today ordered South Korean video game tycoon Kwon Hyuk-bin to pay more than 2 trillion won (RM6.09 billion) in a divorce settlement, the largest asset division ever awarded in the country. The amount surpasses the 944 billion won…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (477+ words) ENSENADA (Mexico), Sept 8 — The suspected murderers of two Australian surfers and an American at a Mexican surfing hotspot went on trial yesterday, two years after their killings in a suspected robbery. Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, aged 30 and 33, respectively,…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (292+ words) MANILA, Sept 7 — Philippine prosecutors filed a criminal charge today against a lawmaker and cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos over his alleged involvement in a massive corruption scandal involving bogus flood control projects. The case came more than a year after…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (235+ words) CAIRO, Sept 6 — An Egyptian court sentenced a well-known television presenter and 11 others to death for manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in a sprawling drugs case, official media reported yesterday. The presenter, Sarah Khalifa, 39, is best known for her programme Mission Impossible,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (587+ words) PLYMOUTH, Sept 5 — A judge declared a mistrial Friday after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the high-profile case of an American woman who killed her three young children. Lindsay Clancy, 36, acknowledged strangling Cora, five, Dawson, three,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (549+ words) SAO PAULO, Sept 5 — Brazil’s Supreme Court has been drawn into another scandal following revelations about its judges’ relations with a notorious banker charged with financial crimes. That businessman, Daniel Vorcaro, forged contacts with a sprawling network of politicians of every…...