BERLIN (AP) — A high-profile politician in the far-right Alternative for Germany party was convicted for the second time Monday of knowingly using a Nazi slogan at a political event. Björn Höcke, who plans to run for governor in the eastern state of Thuringia in September, was fined for using the banned Nazi slogan “Everything […]
At a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand under barbed wire to hear an army recruiter offer them a shot at parole. In return, they must join the fight against Russia. “You can put an end to this and start a new life,” said the recruiter, a member of a volunteer assault […]
At a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand under barbed wire to hear an army recruiter offer them a shot at parole. In return, they must join the fight against Russia. “You can put an end to this and start a new life,” said the recruiter, a member of a volunteer assault […]
The International Criminal Court has convicted an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Mali, notably for abusing prisoners as the de facto chief of the Islamic police in Timbuktu. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud was found guilty of torture and cruel treatment between 2012 and 2013. […]
A jury convicted a Gary man Friday after two hours in a 23-year-old man’s death on Chase Street last year. Virgil King, 23, was convicted of murder and unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, a Lake County Prosecutor’s Office spokeswoman said. His sentencing date is July 18, according to court filings. […]
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A jury of 11 men and one woman convicted a former businessman on Thursday of two sexual assault charges involving a 19-year-old former employee. Retrial begins for former VB businessman accused of sexual assault Benjamin Young, 44, was found guilty of forcible sodomy and forcible object penetration. The case pivoted […]
Female convicts are joining Russia’s war efforts against Ukraine, per The New York Times. Inmates were promised pardons and a monthly salary of $2,000 during recruitment. But this is the first time they are being sent to the battlefield after signing on last year. Russia’s military is starting to tap into another source of manpower […]
This is a breaking news story. Check back to idahostatesman.com for updates. To sign up for breaking news alerts, click here. Investigators for years have believed that Chad and Lori Vallow Daybell conspired to kill two of her children, along with Chad Daybell’s first wife. The lengthy criminal case is one step closer to ending […]
Fourteen pro-democracy activists were convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case on Thursday by a court which said their plan to effect change through an unofficial primary election would have undermined the government’s authority and created a constitutional crisis. After a 2019 protest movement that filled the city’s streets with demonstrators, authorities have all […]
A Hong Kong court has convicted 14 pro-democracy activists under a law imposed by Beijing that has all but wiped out public dissent. Those who were found guilty included former politicians Leung Kwok-hung, Lam Cheuk-ting, Helena Wong and Raymond Chan, but the three judges approved by the government to oversee the case acquitted two former […]
(Bloomberg) — A Thai court sentenced a lawmaker from a reformist party to three years in jail under the country’s royal defamation law, adding to the legal challenges of the main opposition party that’s facing dissolution despite winning a general election a year ago. Most Read from Bloomberg Chonthicha Jangrew, 31, from Move Forward Party […]
BERLIN (AP) — A court in Germany convicted a man of murder and sentenced him to life in prison Wednesday for carrying out a fatal stabbing on a train last year. The state court in Itzehoe convicted the 34-year-old Palestinian, who has been identified only as Ibrahim A. in line with German privacy rules, of […]