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Guatemala declares state of siege after gang violence

Guatemala is in a state of emergency following a weekend of gang-related violence. Gang-affiliated inmates rioted in three prisons. Seven police officers were killed as authorities took action....

3dDeutsche Wellecrime

How dangerous are Iranian secret services in Germany?

Iranians in exile are being targeted by the regime's secret services, which is believed to be responsible for thousands of deaths since the start of the mass protests in Iran....

4dDeutsche WellePoliticsImpact

Europol busts massive synthetic drug production network

Europol has reported the break-up of a major synthetic drug supply network. Authorities called it is the biggest such operation they have ever undertaken, and a "major blow" to organized crime....

18hDeutsche WellecrimeImpact

FBI searches a Washington Post reporter's home as part of investigation

Hannah Natanson had a phone, two laptops and a Garmin watch seized. The Justice Department says this is part of an investigation into a Pentagon contractor accused of taking home classified informatio...

Jan 15NPR NewsPolitics

4 years after his arrest in Russia, American David Barnes sent to remote penal colony

Four years after David Barnes was charged in Russia with abusing his children in Texas despite not being charged with a crime in the U.S., he is now in a penal colony....

Jan 13ABC Newsworld_newsImpact

Elizabeth Holmes asks Trump to commute her prison sentence

Elizabeth Holmes led people to believe that her now-defunct company, Theranos, had developed a medical device that could revolutionize blood tests. She is serving an 11-year sentence for fraud and con...

5hDeutsche WellecrimeImpact

Lumumba killing case back in Belgian courts, 65 years later

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...

15hDeutsche WellePolitics

Brazil's ex-President Bolsonaro moved to a bigger cell

Bolsonaro's family has repeatedly complained about the conditions in which he was being held. The former president is serving a 27-year prison sentence for attempting a coup following his 2022 electio...

6dDeutsche WellePolitics

Brazilian au pair testifies against former employer and lover in double homicide case

A Brazilian au pair is testifying against her former employer and lover in a double homicide case that she says was part of an elaborate scheme to get rid of the man’s wife...

Jan 14ABC Newscrime

Hong Kong: Life sentence looms for media tycoon Jimmy Lai

With the last stage of Jimmy Lai's national security trial drawing to a close, Hong Kong's High Court is set to decide on the sentence for the pro-democracy tycoon. Will Lai get life in prison?...

6dDeutsche WellePoliticsImpact

EU prosecutor: Third of VAT fraud cases linked to Slovakia

The EU's most senior prosecutor told Slovak MPs that a staggering one in three VAT fraud cases investigated by her office has links to Slovakia. How can such fraud flourish in Slovakia and is it a new...

1dDeutsche WellePoliticsImpact

Germany news: Trial to open over deadly Munich car attack

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...

6dDeutsche WellecrimeImpact

France's far-right Le Pen appeals graft conviction with 2027 presidential bid on the line

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to return to court on Tuesday to appeal a graft conviction, with her 2027 presidential ambitions hanging in the balance. Le Pen was banned from standing fo...

Jan 13France 24PoliticsImpact

Costa Rica builds new mega-prison modelled on El Salvador jail

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...

5dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Hearing in Marine Le Pen appeal trial expected summer 2026

Marine Le Pen's presidential ambitions hang in the balance as the French far-right leader goes to court to appeal against an embezzlement conviction, which barred her from running for office for five ...

Jan 13France 24PoliticsImpact

Marine Le Pen aiming to win appeal trial on "technicality rather than emotion"

French ‍far-right leader Marine Le ​Pen softened her tone while answering judges' questions during her appeal trial in ⁠Paris but denied wrongdoing, after being barred from public office over a convic...

23hFrance 24PoliticsImpact

‘No reliable evidence’ Taipan bakery chain can settle debts: Hong Kong judge

A Hong Kong judge has said his decision to order the winding-up of bakery chain Taipan’s parent company is due to there being “no reliable evidence” that the business can settle its outstanding rent o...

23hSouth China Morning Posteconomics

The Atlantic, Penske, and Vox Media have all sued Google for antitrust violations

Lawsuits seeking damages from Google's illegal ad tech monopoly are piling up following the Justice Department's successful antitrust case . Vox Media, The Verge's parent company, is the latest in a w...

Jan 14The VergeeconomicsImpact

X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK

Elon Musk's X is trying to stop people using its AI chatbot Grok to undress women amid intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny over the deluge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding the site. It's...

Jan 14The VergeTechnologyImpact

How ADX Florence actually works, according to a former supermax inmate

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...

6dBusiness InsidercrimeImpact
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