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Coroner to consider if large hoard of gold coins found in OLD PIANO can be classed as treasure

April 20, 2017 zoshinuk 0

ByRichard VernallsJayne Thomson A coroner is to consider whether a large hoard of gold coins found hidden in an old piano can be classed as treasure. The stash of sovereigns, some dating to Queen Victoria’s […]

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif survives corruption ruling

April 20, 2017 World Justice News 0

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled there is insufficient evidence of corruption to remove Nawaz Sharif from the role of prime minister. It instead ordered a further investigation into money transfers. Questions arose over the business […]

Halal meat turkey fraud pair jailed

April 20, 2017 World Justice News 0

Two men have each been jailed for five years after passing off turkey mince as halal lamb to butchers and restaurants they supplied. Mahmudur Rohman, 46, and Kamal Rahman, 54, both from Peterborough, were convicted […]

TV presenter cleared of assault

April 20, 2017 World Justice News 0

TV presenter Chris Packham has said he has been cleared of assault as he filmed a documentary on illegal bird trapping on the island of Gozo. Packham, 55, appeared in a Maltese court on Thursday […]

Russia preparing to increase its war on blocked sites

April 20, 2017 World Justice News 0

Russia is planning to ban VPNs and Proxies that unblock blocked sites in its war on blocked sites. The Russian government is preparing to scale-up its war on blocked sites by hitting services that provide […]

Epic Drug Lab Scandal Results in More Than 20,000 Convictions Dropped

April 19, 2017 zoshinuk 0

by Jon Schuppe A mass dismissal of wrongful convictions ─ perhaps the biggest ever ─ unfolded in a Boston courthouse on Tuesday, as prosecutors in seven Massachusetts counties dropped more than 21,000 low-level drug cases […]

Aaron Hernandez kills himself in prison

April 19, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

Aaron Hernandez committed suicide in prison Wednesday morning, the Department of Correction said. According to a statement from the department, the former New England Patriots star was discovered hanging in his cell at the Souza […]

N.Y. man sentenced to at least 25 years in 1979 case of missing boy Etan Patz

April 19, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

NEW YORK — Almost four decades after first-grader Etan Patz set out for school and ended up at the heart of one of America’s most influential missing-child cases, a former store clerk convicted of killing him […]

‘Facebook killer’ Steve Stephens found dead after car chase

April 18, 2017 World Justice News 0

Police say a man suspected of randomly shooting a grandfather on an Ohio street and posting video of the killing to Facebook has taken his own life. Pennsylvania State Police tweeted that Steve Stephens was […]

North Korea denies human-rights abuses inside crackpot Kim’s brutal prison camp network

April 18, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

By SIMON OSBORNE NORTH Korea has denied detaining political dissidents and insisted its notorious prison camps and brutal human-rights abuses were nothing more than fabrications by the West. A recent Amnesty International report found crackpot […]

Human Rights

Britain’s assisted dying bill fails to become law as it runs out of time but supporters vow to continue fighting

April 25, 2026 0

Assisted dying will not become a law in England and Wales after the bill ran out of time for debate. The landmark legislation, which has been making its way through parliament for the past year-and-a-half, had […]

Human Rights

Facial recognition to be ‘rolled out’ across UK after human rights challenge fails

April 22, 2026 0

Facial recognition systems will be introduced across the country, the government has said as it welcomed the failure of a legal challenge to the technology. The case against the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial […]

Canada

Canadian ‘online poison seller’ Kenneth Law to have ‘murder charges dropped in plea deal’

April 19, 2026 0

A Canadian chef accused of supplying deadly substances to people around the world who have taken their own lives will have murder charges dropped as part of a plea deal, his lawyer has said. Kenneth […]

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Year: 2017

Coroner to consider if large hoard of gold coins found in OLD PIANO can be classed as treasure

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif survives corruption ruling

Halal meat turkey fraud pair jailed

TV presenter cleared of assault

Russia preparing to increase its war on blocked sites

Epic Drug Lab Scandal Results in More Than 20,000 Convictions Dropped

Aaron Hernandez kills himself in prison

N.Y. man sentenced to at least 25 years in 1979 case of missing boy Etan Patz

‘Facebook killer’ Steve Stephens found dead after car chase

North Korea denies human-rights abuses inside crackpot Kim’s brutal prison camp network