A court in South Korea confirms that an independent counsel has demanded a death sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion charges in connection with his martial law imposition in Decem...
A South Korean court has delivered a lengthy prison sentence to a former prime minister over his role in the political turmoil triggered by ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol declaring martial law over a year...
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to five years in the first criminal case linked to his shock declaration of martial law. Many Koreans seem eager to put the crisis behind...
An international sports governing body is investigating after a Canadian coach was accused of manipulating an event — depriving racers of qualifying points ahead of February's Winter Olympics....
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said there was an "avalanche of reports detailing the non-consensual, sexually explicit material that xAI has produced." Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty I...
Eric King served almost two years at the federal super-maximum security prison ADX Florence in Colorado. ADX is often described as the US's most restrictive prison, and it houses some of the most noto...
A police complaint against one of Indonesia’s best-known comedians has reignited debate over satire, blasphemy and free expression in the world’s third-largest democracy. The case involves 46-year-old...
Ashley St. Clair sues xAI over Grok chatbot allegedly generating explicit deepfake images of her, using images from when she was 14 years old. Maja Smiejkowska/REUTERS Ashley St. Clair sued xAI, alleg...
Belgian ex-diplomat Etienne Davignon is defending himself in Brussels over his alleged role in the 1961 killing of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba — a landmark case in Belgium's reckoning with its co...
Elon Musk (L) and Sam Altman Getty/BI composite A trial date has been set in Elon Musk's fraud case against Sam Altman. The case is set to go before an Oakland federal jury in April and is expected to...
Scammers are selling fake VIP passes to the USA House. INA FASSBENDER / AFP via Getty Images Scammers are duping attendees of the World Economic Forum with fake VIP passes for the USA House. "Our ...
Advocates for the incarcerated Samourai Wallet developers have argued that the DOJ liquidated the Bitcoin funds against the president’s wishes....
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A Pokémon card store in Manhatten has become the latest target for thieves looking to steal merchandise featuring the lucrative pocket monsters — and this time, customers were held at gunpoint. Speaki...
El Salvador's gang-busting President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a prison in Costa Rica modeled on his own CECOT mega-jail that rights groups say is the setting for serious...
The hacker used a flash loan to inflate prices on Makina’s USD-USDC liquidity pool, and then traded to make over $4 million....
PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, January 13: A Corsican separatist leader is gunned down while attending his mother's funeral. Also, a famous Italian anti-mafia writer pens an opinion piece, questioning the Co...
A Munich court is set to open the trial over a car attack on a trade union rally that killed a woman and her child. Meanwhile, Germany says inflation has stabilized, easing from post-pandemic highs. D...
The EU's most senior prosecutor told Slovak MPs that one in three VAT fraud cases — involving the bloc's sales-tax system — has links to Slovakia. Why is the criminality concentrated there and is it a...
FTX exec Caroline Ellison has been released from prison. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Caroline Ellison, the exec involved in the FTX scandal, has been released from federal custody. The former Ala...