6 h. ago Bosnian Serb lawmakers bar joint institutions after a court convicted president and tensions soar

Bosnian Serb lawmakers on Thursday passed a set of laws barring central Bosnian judiciary and police from the Serb-run entity in Bosnia, sending tensions soaring in the troubled Balkan country after a court convicted its pro-Russia president and banned him from politics

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18 h. ago British woman allegedly gang raped in Cyprus was ‘failed’ by authorities, ECHR rules

Then-19-year-old found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Ayia Napa before conviction overturned at Cyprus’s supreme court

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21 h. ago 2 college students were publicly caned for having gay sex in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh

Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them for having gay sex

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39 h. ago Urgent manhunt for paedophile who may be trying to flee the country after he went on the run from court hours before being convicted of abusing three girls

Paul Ashworth, 71,- who may be using the alias of Edward John Oliver - slipped away while on bail during his trial at Ipswich Crown Court for sexual offences against three girls.

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57 h. ago He's had three 'last meals' on Oklahoma's death row. The Supreme Court has now tossed his conviction

A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has won a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court tossed his murder conviction

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61 h. ago Supreme Court throws out Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip's murder conviction and death sentence

The Supreme Court has thrown out the murder conviction and death penalty for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who has steadfastly maintained his innocence and averted multiple attempts by the state to execute him

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3 d. ago Macron shuts down Donald Trump over 'misleading' Ukraine claims in tense meeting

The rare diplomatic rebuke at the White House highlighted the underlying tensions in discussions between Trump and the French President, despite their outwardly cordial tone.

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3 d. ago US court upholds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s conviction

Holmes, who is serving nine years, attempted to overturn conviction over multimillion-dollar investor fraud scandalA US court upheld the conviction of the Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars while operating her failed blood-testing startup, once valued at $9bn, rejecting her multi-year appeal. The court also upheld the conviction of Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, once Holmes’s romantic partner and president of Theranos.A three-judge panel for the 9th US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco rejected claims of legal errors at their separate trials held in 2022. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Haiti orphanage founder convicted in US court of abusing minors faces lengthy prison term

A jury in Miami has convicted the founder of an orphanage in Haiti of sexually abusing boys at the facility in Port-au-Prince

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8 d. ago Zelenskyy says Trump is living in a Russian ‘disinformation bubble’

Remarks follow US claims that Ukraine is to blame for Russian invasionEurope live – latest updatesVolodymyr Zelenskyy has said Donald Trump is “trapped” in a Russian “disinformation bubble”, escalating tensions between Kyiv and Washington after the US president suggested Ukraine was to blame for Moscow’s invasion of the country.“Unfortunately, President Trump, with all due respect for him as the leader of a nation that we respect greatly is trapped in this disinformation bubble,” Zelenskyy said in a combative press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Streeting says ‘waging a campaign’ on Lucy Letby’s innocence is ‘not right’

Letby lost two bids last year to challenge her convictions at the Court of Appeal.

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