A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country. Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her home in Saldanha Bay, a fishing town 135 kilometres (85 miles) north of Cape Town, and has never…
A criminal court judge in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz in Fars province was assassinated Tuesday morning on his way to work, the judiciary said. “This morning, two individuals attacked and assassinated Judge Ehsan Bagheri, head of Branch 102 of the Criminal Court 2 in Shiraz, while he was on his way to work,”…
A 28-year-old man was arrested on Sunday at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after authorities discovered his alleged plot to firebomb a U.S. Embassy branch office, the Justice Department revealed. Joseph Neumayer, a dual American-German citizen, was also reportedly detained on May 19 following a heated confrontation with a security guard outside the embassy…
Senior Conservative officials are perfecting a plan to replace Kemi Badenoch with Boris Johnson, former prime minister of the United Kingdom (UK), as the party leader. The UK’s Sun reported the details on Sunday. The plot follows the Tories’ loss of 674 council seats in the May 1 local elections – two-thirds of what the…
A bomb struck a bus carrying children to an army-run school in south-western Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five people, including three children, and injuring dozens more, officials said. The blast targeted the vehicle in the city of Khuzdar, in the restive province of Balochistan, as it took students to class, said local official Yasir Dashti….
US President Donald Trump signed a bill on Monday making it a federal crime to post “revenge porn” — whether it is real or generated by artificial intelligence. The “Take It Down Act,” passed with overwhelming bipartisan congressional support, criminalises non-consensual publication of intimate images, while also mandating their removal from online platforms. “With the…
Tanzanian authorities have blocked citizens’ access to the microblogging platform X after the hackers compromised the country’s police X account. Netblocks, a platform tracking cybersecurity and digital governance, confirmed on Tuesday that the government of the East African country blocked access to X after hackers compromised and deployed Tanzanian police X handle to falsely announce…
Princess Opeyemi Bright has been inaugurated as the youngest Mayor in the United Kingdom, in a historic moment for Nigerians in the diaspora and youth leadership. At 29 years old, she now holds the esteemed position of First Citizen of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. The inauguration, which took place on Friday, May…
Ten men, on Friday, escaped from a New Orleans jail after passing through a wall behind a toilet, but authorities believe the inmates may have had help from inside the facility. According to the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, the escapees are armed and dangerous. Following their escape, New Orleans police have been able to capture…
Finnish prosecutors on Friday said they had charged a man with inciting terrorism online who a media report identified as Nigerian separatist leader Simon Ekpa. Finland’s National Prosecution Authority said in a statement that it had charged “a Finnish individual in a case involving suspected public incitement to commit crimes with terrorist intent and participation…