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Ecuador’s most-wanted fugitive Fito found hiding under kitchen counter after a year on the run

June 26, 2025 World Justice News 0

Ecuador’s most-wanted fugitive has been recaptured – more than a year after he escaped from a maximum-security prison. Jose Adolfo Macias, also known as “Fito”, led a gang called Los Choneros and was discovered in […]

Captured French gangster evaded police in burqa

October 4, 2018 World Justice News 0

France’s most-wanted fugitive Rédoine Faïd was tracked down by police through phone-taps and was discovered using a burqa as a disguise, prosecutors say. Faïd, 46, was detained on Wednesday in the town where he grew […]

Japanese fugitive on the run for 45 years is arrested

June 7, 2017 World Justice News 0

For one suspected murderer in Japan, it has been a case of being able to run but not being able to hide. Left-wing revolutionary Masaaki Osaka has been arrested and charged for murdering a police […]

Trump manifesto man arrested after 10-day manhunt

April 14, 2017 World Justice News 0

A fugitive accused of stealing more than a dozen guns and mailing a manifesto to the US president has been arrested after 10 days on the run. Joseph Jakubowski, 32, was found camping on a […]

Oklahoma Fugitive Michael Vance Killed During Shootout

October 31, 2016 WJN Administrator 0

Michael Vance was killed Sunday night near Butler, Oklahoma. Dewey County Sheriff Clay Sander was shot in the arm by Vance, but his injury is said to be non-life-threatening. Vance had been on the […]

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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 […]