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Man Jailed For Five Years+ For Selling Streaming Piracy Devices

July 16, 2018 World Justice News 0

A UK man who sold 8,000 set-top boxes that provided illegal access to Hollywood movies and live sports has been jailed for five years and three months. John Haggerty founded Evolution Trading, a company that […]

Chicago shooting: Police release bodycam footage after protests

July 16, 2018 World Justice News 0

Chicago police have released bodycam footage, which appears to show a man who was fatally shot by officers reaching for his gun beforehand. Harith Augustus was shot multiple times as he tried to run away […]

YouTube Launches “Copyright Match” Tool to Protect Initial Uploaders

July 13, 2018 World Justice News 0

YouTube will release a new tool to help initial uploaders to take action against those who duplicate and re-upload their content without permission. Copyright Match, which will be available to high-traffic users initially, will alert […]

Jordan Burling: Women jailed after teen ‘rotted to death’

July 13, 2018 World Justice News 0

The mother and grandmother of an emaciated teenager who was likened to a World War Two concentration camp victim have been jailed for manslaughter. Jordan Burling, 18, went into cardiac arrest in Leeds in 2016 […]

Johnson & Johnson to pay $4.7bn damages in talc cancer case

July 13, 2018 World Justice News 0

Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $4.7bn (£3.6bn) in damages to 22 women who alleged that its talc products caused them to develop ovarian cancer. A jury in the US state of Missouri […]

Ava-May death: Two arrested over inflatable death

July 12, 2018 World Justice News 0

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter over the death of a three-year-old girl who was thrown from an inflatable trampoline. The inflatable “exploded” on Gorleston beach in Norfolk on July […]

Stormy Daniels arrested in Ohio

July 12, 2018 World Justice News 0

US porn star Stormy Daniels has been arrested in a strip club in Columbus, Ohio, according to her lawyer. Ms Daniels was arrested for allegedly letting a customer touch her on stage “in a non […]

Iranian man flogged 80 times for drinking alcohol as a child

July 12, 2018 World Justice News 0

Amnesty International has condemned the Iranian authorities for publicly flogging a man who was convicted of consuming alcohol when he was 14 or 15. Local media published photographs of the man – identified only as […]

Beate Zschäpe given life after five year German neo-Nazi murder trial

July 11, 2018 World Justice News 0

After a five-year trial, a member of a neo-Nazi gang has been found guilty of 10 racially-motivated murders. Beate Zschäpe was the main defendant on trial over the murder of eight ethnic Turks, a Greek […]

Facebook faces maximum fine from UK data watchdog

July 11, 2018 World Justice News 0

The UK’s data protection watchdog intends to fine Facebook £500,000 for data breaches – the maximum allowed. The Information Commissioner’s Office said Facebook had failed to ensure another company – Cambridge Analytica – had deleted […]

Australia

Australian murderer loses bid to eat Vegemite in prison

October 26, 2026 0

A convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Australia has lost his bid to overturn a ban on prisoners consuming Vegemite – the salty yeast-based spread that has become a national symbol. Andre McKechnie argued […]

Human Rights

Patients in chains rescued from suspected illegal rehab centre in South Africa

October 16, 2026 0

A pastor and his wife have been arrested in South Africa after 200 people, some in chains, were found held at a suspected illegal rehabilitation centre in the north-eastern part of the country. The facility, […]

Human Rights

UK threatens to ban Eritreans over migrant return policy

October 15, 2026 0

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has threatened to ban all Eritreans from entering the UK if the east African country’s government does not accept more returns of small boat migrants and foreign national offenders. From Thursday, […]

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Articles by World Justice News

Man Jailed For Five Years+ For Selling Streaming Piracy Devices

Chicago shooting: Police release bodycam footage after protests

YouTube Launches “Copyright Match” Tool to Protect Initial Uploaders

Jordan Burling: Women jailed after teen ‘rotted to death’

Johnson & Johnson to pay $4.7bn damages in talc cancer case

Ava-May death: Two arrested over inflatable death

Stormy Daniels arrested in Ohio

Iranian man flogged 80 times for drinking alcohol as a child

Beate Zschäpe given life after five year German neo-Nazi murder trial

Facebook faces maximum fine from UK data watchdog