In the conservative Indonesian province of Aceh, a young couple paid a steep price for their love. They were publicly flogged 100 times each for engaging in sex outside of marriage, a brutal punishment under the region’s strict Sharia law. According to reports, the couple received the lashings with a rattan stick in sets of…
Elon Musk on Tuesday hammered US President Donald Trump’s proposed spending bill as a “disgusting abomination” as tensions between the pair burst into the open following the tech billionaire’s White House exit. Musk left his role as an official government employee last week, lauded by Trump for spearheading a federal spending cuts program, but disagreements…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that popular American actor Jonathan Joss has been shot dead in San Antonio. The actor was killed on Sunday over an alleged dispute with his neighbor Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez. The San Antonio police Department reported that the culprit of Jonathan’s deaths has been arrested and charged with murder. Although the cause of…
A 10-year-old boy has died after being beaten to death in front of the entire school by his headteacher. Year 6 pupil Khyalmat Khan was struck repeatedly with a rod by headmaster Waqar Ahmed in a private school in northern Pakistan yesterday – and succumbed to his injuries in hospital only a few hours later….
The Nigerian Citizens Association South Africa has demanded justice after the killing of two members, Taiwo Raji and Yemi Akinwunmi, who were shot dead by a South African citizen in Pretoria. Raji and Akinwunmi were gunned down in front of their shops on Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria, on 20th April, 2025. This was disclosed in…
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….