Crime & Justice
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South Korea Seize Two Tons of Cocaine in Largest-Ever Drug Bust
The drugs were packed in 56 sacks, each holding some 30 to 40 kilograms (about 66 to 88 pounds) of the drug, authorities said, bringing the total haul to around two tons.
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Hungary Announces ICC Withdrawal as Israel’s Netanyahu Visits
Hungary’s announcement that it will start the year-long withdrawal process came as Orban welcomed Netanyahu in Budapest on the Israeli leader’s first trip to Europe since 2023.
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Kenyan officer in Haiti UN-backed mission missing after gang ambush
The incident comes after a Kenyan police officer died from gunshot wounds suffered during an operation in February.
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Japan court orders ‘Moonies’ Church to be stripped of legal recognition
The Church is accused of pressuring followers into making life-ruining donations, and blamed for child neglect among its members — although it has denied any wrongdoing.
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South Korea Court Reinstates Impeached PM Han as Acting President
The court ruled five-to-one against Han’s impeachment, with two judges arguing the case should not have made it to court as lawmakers did not have a super majority to impeach him in the first place.
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China Says Ex-Engineer To Be Executed for Spying
The man, surnamed Liu, “secretly copied, duplicated, and sold a large volume of state secrets to a foreign espionage and intelligence agency”, China’s Ministry of State Security said in a post to its official WeChat…
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13 Reportedly Killed in Israeli Strikes Overnight in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned late Tuesday that the strikes were “only the beginning” and that future negotiations with Hamas “will take place only under fire”.
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Texas Arrests Assistant of Midwife Accused of Illegal Abortions
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday that a 48-year-old midwife, Maria Margarita Rojas, was arrested for providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Houston area.
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Georgia’s Ex-Leader Saakashvili to Spend 12.5 Years in Prison
Saakashvili, 57, was sentenced in absentia in 2018 to six years in prison for abuse of office and, last week, he received a nine-year sentence for misspending public funds from the Caucasus country.
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HRW Orders Kenya To Investigate Mutilated Bodies Dumped In Quarry
There was shock and disgust last July in the east African country when 10 butchered female corpses, and other unidentified body parts, were recovered, mostly by volunteers, from an abandoned quarry in the Mukuru slum…
