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Man Faces Prison For Sharing Pirated Deadpool Movie on Facebook

June 14, 2017 World Justice News 0

A 21-year-old man from California has been arrested for allegedly sharing a pirated copy of the movie Deadpool on his Facebook page, shortly after it premiered last year. The man was indicted following an FBI […]

Criminals deportation system ‘unlawful’

June 14, 2017 World Justice News 0

The government’s system for deporting foreign criminals before they have had a chance to appeal breaches their human rights, the Supreme Court has ruled. In a landmark case concerning two foreign national criminals, the court […]

Republican Steve Scalise wounded in multiple shooting

June 14, 2017 World Justice News 0

A US Republican politician and aides have been shot during baseball practice in Virginia, US reports say. Police in the upmarket Washington DC suburb of Alexandria said they were investigating a “multiple shooting” and a […]

London fire: Twelve confirmed killed as Grenfell Tower in Kensington engulfed in flames

June 14, 2017 World Justice News 0

Twelve people have died and more than 50 are in hospital after a huge fire raged through the night at a west London tower block, police say. Eyewitnesses described people trapped in the burning Grenfell […]

Montana congressman sentenced for assaulting journalist

June 12, 2017 World Justice News 0

A Montana congressman who “body slammed” a reporter has been fined and sentenced to community service and anger management counselling. Greg Gianforte, 56, pleaded guilty to assaulting a journalist from the UK’s Guardian newspaper on […]

Mother who faked DNA paternity test jailed

June 12, 2017 World Justice News 0

A woman who faked a paternity test to fool an ex-partner into believing he was her baby’s father has been jailed. Danielle Morris, from Seaforth, Merseyside, initially told Jamie Somers in May 2014 that he […]

Trump travel ban suffers new court defeat

June 12, 2017 World Justice News 0

A US appeals court has upheld a decision blocking President Trump’s revised “travel ban” on people from six mainly Muslim nations. A lower court had issued the injunction on the grounds that the ban was […]

Maryland and Washington DC suing Trump over foreign payments

June 12, 2017 World Justice News 0

Officials in Maryland and Washington DC are suing Donald Trump for accepting payments from foreign governments via his business empire. The lawsuit cites the US constitution’s emoluments clause, which says no federal official should receive […]

Ex-BBC presenters guilty of sex offences

June 9, 2017 World Justice News 0

Two former BBC radio presenters have been found guilty of indecently assaulting under-age boys in the 1990s. Husband and wife Tony and Julie Wadsworth were found guilty by a majority verdict of encouraging boys to […]

Comey: Trump administration’s comments were “lies plain and simple”

June 8, 2017 World Justice News 0

Ex-FBI chief James Comey told Congress that the Trump administration’s comments about him and the FBI were “lies plain and simple”. Mr Comey told a Senate committee they were wrong to denigrate the agency and […]

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 […]

Australia

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier charged over alleged war crimes

April 7, 2026 0

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier has been charged over allegations he committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Ben Roberts-Smith – who left the defence force in 2013 – was arrested at Sydney airport on Tuesday and will […]

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Man Faces Prison For Sharing Pirated Deadpool Movie on Facebook

Criminals deportation system ‘unlawful’

Republican Steve Scalise wounded in multiple shooting

London fire: Twelve confirmed killed as Grenfell Tower in Kensington engulfed in flames

Montana congressman sentenced for assaulting journalist

Mother who faked DNA paternity test jailed

Trump travel ban suffers new court defeat

Maryland and Washington DC suing Trump over foreign payments

Ex-BBC presenters guilty of sex offences

Comey: Trump administration’s comments were “lies plain and simple”