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Russia protests: Opposition couple face losing custody of son

August 6, 2019 World Justice News 0

Prosecutors in Russia are seeking to strip a couple of parental rights after they took their one-year-old son to an unsanctioned opposition protest. They said in a statement that the couple had put the baby’s […]

Birkby house fire: Shahid Mohammed guilty of murdering eight people

August 6, 2019 World Justice News 0

A man has been found guilty of murdering eight members of the same family, whose home was set alight with petrol bombs while they slept. Shahid Mohammed, 37, carried out the attack on the house […]

Texas police apologise for horseback officers leading black man by rope

August 6, 2019 World Justice News 0

Texas police have apologised after an image of two white officers on horseback leading a handcuffed black man by a rope caused an outcry online. Galveston Police Chief Vernon Hale said on Monday the technique […]

Tate Modern: Teenager in court after six-year-old boy thrown from 10th floor

August 6, 2019 World Justice News 0

A teenager has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after a six-year-old boy was allegedly thrown from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern. The child, who was found on a fifth-floor roof after […]

Brazil drug dealer dresses up as daughter in bungled jail escape

August 6, 2019 World Justice News 0

UPDATE: Prison authorities in Brazil have found convicted drug dealer Clauvino da Silva dead in his cell, three days after an elaborate escape was foiled. Prison officials said it appeared that Silva had hanged himself. […]

Cesar Sayoc: Man who sent pipe bombs to Trump critics jailed for 20 years

August 6, 2019 World Justice News 0

A Trump supporter who admitted sending mail bombs to critics of the US president has been jailed for 20 years. Cesar Sayoc, a 57-year-old ex-pizza delivery man from Florida, posted 16 pipe bombs to 13 […]

Pilots arrested at Glasgow Airport before boarding US flight

August 4, 2019 World Justice News 0

Two United Airlines pilots have been arrested at Glasgow Airport for allegedly failing a breath test before boarding a flight to New York. The men, aged 45 and 61, have not been charged but remain […]

Dayton shooting: Nine confirmed killed, shooter also dead

August 4, 2019 World Justice News 0

Nine people have been killed and at least 16 injured in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, police have confirmed. First reports came in at about 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT) of a shooting outside […]

Texas Walmart shooting: El Paso gun attack leaves 20 dead

August 4, 2019 World Justice News 0

Twenty people have been killed and 26 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart store in the Texas city of El Paso. Governor Greg Abbott described it as “one of the most deadly days […]

French drug smuggler’s death sentence in Indonesia ‘commuted to 19 years’

August 2, 2019 World Justice News 0

A Frenchman sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia has had his sentence commuted to 19 years in jail, his lawyer and media have said. Félix Dorfin, 35, had been convicted of trafficking about […]

Human Rights

Ethiopian police arrest alleged leader of multi-million-dollar trafficking ring

July 22, 2026 0

Police in Ethiopia say they have arrested 17 suspects including the alleged leader of what they say is a multi-million-dollar international human trafficking network. The gang is accused of “the deaths of 60 migrants”, sexually […]

Human Rights

US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump

July 1, 2026 0

The US Supreme Court has ruled that babies born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship, rejecting Donald Trump’s bid to end the 150-year-old policy. In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that […]

Human Rights

Four men held over child marriage in Sierra Leone appear in landmark court case

June 28, 2026 0

For the first time since child marriage was banned in Sierra Leone two years ago, people accused of committing the crime have been brought to trial. Four men appeared at a High Court on Friday […]

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Russia protests: Opposition couple face losing custody of son

Birkby house fire: Shahid Mohammed guilty of murdering eight people

Texas police apologise for horseback officers leading black man by rope

Tate Modern: Teenager in court after six-year-old boy thrown from 10th floor

Brazil drug dealer dresses up as daughter in bungled jail escape

Cesar Sayoc: Man who sent pipe bombs to Trump critics jailed for 20 years

Pilots arrested at Glasgow Airport before boarding US flight

Dayton shooting: Nine confirmed killed, shooter also dead

Texas Walmart shooting: El Paso gun attack leaves 20 dead

French drug smuggler’s death sentence in Indonesia ‘commuted to 19 years’