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Georgia grand jury report: Witnesses may have lied in Trump 2020 election probe

February 16, 2023 World Justice News 0

A Georgia judge has released parts of a highly anticipated report on whether former President Donald Trump and allies broke the law in their attempts to overturn his election loss. The report summarises a two-year […]

Payton Gendron: Buffalo white supremacist mass killer jailed for life in hearing disrupted by audience member rushing towards him

February 15, 2023 World Justice News 0

A white supremacist mass murderer, whose sentencing hearing was disrupted by an audience member rushing towards him, has been jailed for life without parole. Payton Gendron, 19, admitted killing 10 black people in a racially motivated attack […]

Italy ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi acquitted in ‘bunga-bunga’ party case

February 15, 2023 World Justice News 0

Italian former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been acquitted of bribing witnesses to lie about his notorious “bunga-bunga” parties. The billionaire media tycoon, 86, was accused of paying young showgirls and others to give false […]

ACE Shuts Down Major Pirate Site Extreme-Down After 15 Years of Resilience

February 15, 2023 World Justice News 0

After being targeted in French courts by movie companies, blocked by French ISPs, and then deindexed by Google, illegal streaming/DDL site Extreme-Down burned domain after domain in an effort to stay in the game. Ending […]

Ukraine war: The Russian student under arrest for an Instagram story

February 15, 2023 World Justice News 0

University student Olesya Krivtsova has been missing a lot of classes. That’s because 20-year-old Olesya is under house arrest. She has an electronic tag on her leg. Police can monitor her every move. Her alleged […]

Lamar Johnson freed 28 years after wrongful murder conviction

February 15, 2023 World Justice News 0

A US man who spent nearly 28 years behind bars for a murder he has always denied committing has had the conviction overturned in Missouri. Lamar Johnson, 50, walked out of the St Louis’ courtroom […]

Chagos Islands: UK should pay reparations, says Human Rights Watch

February 15, 2023 World Justice News 0

Britain should pay reparations to people removed from the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, a human rights group has said. Human Rights Watch also called on Britain to allow Chagossians to […]

Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko jailed for highlighting Mariupol killings

February 15, 2023 World Justice News 0

Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko has been jailed for six years for posting on social media about a deadly attack by Russian warplanes on a theatre in Ukraine. The court in Barnaul in Siberia found her […]

Michigan State University shooting: Three killed and 5 others in life-threatening condition – shooter dead

February 14, 2023 World Justice News 0

At least three people have been killed after a shooting at a US university – with the gunman apparently dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A manhunt was launched for the attacker who was described […]

‘Six arrested, seven to go’: National Crime Agency’s new warning about the UK’s most wanted

February 13, 2023 World Justice News 0

Seven of the UK’s most wanted fugitives are still on the run, the public have been warned. The National Crime Agency (NCA) – dubbed the “UK’s FBI” – says it is still hunting for seven […]

Human Rights

Judge dismisses criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

May 23, 2026 0

A US judge has dismissed the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported to a megaprison in El Salvador last year. Abrego Garcia, whose deportation became a major flashpoint in the debate […]

Australia

Australia court doubles payout for trans woman in landmark discrimination case

May 17, 2026 0

A Sydney court has doubled the discrimination payout for an Australian trans woman who was kicked off a female-only app. It comes almost two years after Roxanne Tickle successfully sued Sall Grover, founder of the […]

Human Rights

War criminal Mladic close to death, say lawyers asking judge for jail release

May 3, 2026 0

Lawyers acting for convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic are awaiting a decision by a UN court on their bid to release him from jail in The Hague on the grounds he is near […]

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Georgia grand jury report: Witnesses may have lied in Trump 2020 election probe

Payton Gendron: Buffalo white supremacist mass killer jailed for life in hearing disrupted by audience member rushing towards him

Italy ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi acquitted in ‘bunga-bunga’ party case

ACE Shuts Down Major Pirate Site Extreme-Down After 15 Years of Resilience

Lamar Johnson freed 28 years after wrongful murder conviction

Chagos Islands: UK should pay reparations, says Human Rights Watch

Michigan State University shooting: Three killed and 5 others in life-threatening condition – shooter dead

‘Six arrested, seven to go’: National Crime Agency’s new warning about the UK’s most wanted