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Police seize 1,100kg in Australia’s ‘largest cocaine bust’

December 30, 2016 zoshinuk 0

Fifteen men have been charged after police said they made the biggest cocaine bust in Australia’s history. The drugs, with an estimated street value of A$360m (£212m; $258m), were uncovered after a police investigation over […]

Calls for Mandatory Virginity Tests of Women for University Admittance

December 30, 2016 zoshinuk 0

EGYPT – Egyptian member of parliament Elhamy Agina has called for women to undergo mandatory ‘virginity tests’ to ensure their virginity prior to being admitted to universities in Egypt. He had previously been disciplined for stating […]

GOP Rep Uses False Numbers to Claim Campus Rape ‘Overstated,’ Unfair to ‘Often-Innocent Accused’

December 30, 2016 zoshinuk 0

Incoming Freedom Caucus chairman and NC Rep. Mark Meadows asked the Trump administration to rescind 2011 campus sexual assault guidelines, USA Today reports. Meadows said the guidelines, “deny the often-innocent accused basic due process rights.” […]

Ex-Chicago top cop, who ran mobbed-up jewelry theft ring, dies

December 30, 2016 zoshinuk 0

William Hanhardt, a former high-ranking Chicago Police official who spent years in prison for running a mob-connected jewel-theft ring, has died at age 88. Hanhardt, a former deputy police superintendent and chief of detectives, died […]

Brazil – police detain wife of murdered Greek ambassador Amiridis

December 30, 2016 zoshinuk 0

BRAZIL – Police in Rio de Janeiro have detained the Greek ambassador’s wife and three other people on suspicion of involvement in his murder. The envoy, Kyriakos Amiridis, had been missing since Monday. His body […]

Last defendant in fatal Indianapolis house explosion gets 3 years

December 29, 2016 zoshinuk 0

INDIANAPOLIS — A judge sentenced the final Richmond Hill defendant to three years for his role in the fatal 2012 explosion, ending the long and costly prosecution. Glenn Hults, 50, will serve 1 1/2 years in either prison or […]

Child asylum seekers from Jungle camp launch legal bid

December 29, 2016 zoshinuk 0

UK – Dozens of child asylum seekers formerly from the Jungle camp in Calais have launched a legal challenge to Home Secretary Amber Rudd. Lawyers say 28 of them want written reasons for the determination […]

French woman who killed husband freed after Hollande pardon

December 29, 2016 zoshinuk 0

FRANCE – A French woman in her sixties who murdered her husband in 2012 has been released after a second intervention by President Francois Hollande. Jacqueline Sauvage suffered decades of abuse and became a cause […]

Bronx man admits killing his teacher sex pal, 4-year-old love child

December 29, 2016 zoshinuk 0

A former Bronx student who got his teacher pregnant in 2011 confessed Tuesday to killing her and the 4-year-old he fathered with her because he resented having to pay child support, authorities said.Isaac Infante, 23, […]

Russian military report mass graves of civilians in Syria’s Aleppo

December 27, 2016 zoshinuk 0

Russia’s military reported finding the tortured bodies of civilians in mass graves in Syria’s Aleppo on Monday, allegedly left there by rebel groups. Troops found dozens of bodies, many shot in the head and showing signs […]

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Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners

February 8, 2026 0

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by the colonial administration in the south-east of the country. The […]

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Rape trial puts Norway’s royal family in unwelcome glare of public

February 1, 2026 0

When Marius Borg Høiby stands up in room 250 at Oslo district court on Tuesday, at the start of Norway’s biggest trial in years, he will have no moral support from his closest relatives. His […]

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France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

February 1, 2026 0

France is to enshrine in law the end of so-called “conjugal rights” – the notion that marriage means a duty to have sex. A bill approved on Wednesday in the National Assembly adds a clause […]

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Police seize 1,100kg in Australia’s ‘largest cocaine bust’

Calls for Mandatory Virginity Tests of Women for University Admittance

GOP Rep Uses False Numbers to Claim Campus Rape ‘Overstated,’ Unfair to ‘Often-Innocent Accused’

Ex-Chicago top cop, who ran mobbed-up jewelry theft ring, dies

Brazil – police detain wife of murdered Greek ambassador Amiridis

Last defendant in fatal Indianapolis house explosion gets 3 years

Child asylum seekers from Jungle camp launch legal bid

French woman who killed husband freed after Hollande pardon

Bronx man admits killing his teacher sex pal, 4-year-old love child

Russian military report mass graves of civilians in Syria’s Aleppo