4 d. ago Landmark ruling finds Russia shot down MH17 with 38 Australians on board

Europe’s top human rights court finds Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by Russia in July 2014Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEurope’s top human rights court delivered damning judgments Wednesday against Russia in four cases brought by Kyiv and the Netherlands, finding Moscow shot down flight MH17, killing all passengers, including 38 Australians.Judges at the European court of human rights ruled that Russia was responsible for widespread violations of international law, from shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 to the murder, torture, rape, destruction of civilian infrastructure and kidnapping of Ukrainian children after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of 2022.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Russia has committed flagrant human rights abuses in Ukraine since 2014, rules ECHR

Extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour among accusations upheld by court in judgmentRussia has committed flagrant and unprecedented abuses of human rights since it invaded Ukraine in 2014, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour, the European court of human rights has found.The court’s grand chamber unanimously held that between 11 May 2014 and 16 September 2022, when Russia ceased to be a party to the European convention on human rights it had committed “manifestly unlawful conduct on a massive scale”.Indiscriminate military attacks.Summary executions of civilians and Ukrainian military personnel.Torture, including the use of rape as a weapon of war.Unlawful and arbitrary detention of civilians.Unjustified displacement and transfer of civilians.Intimidation, harassment and persecution of all religious groups other than adherents of the historically Moscow-aligned Ukrainian Orthodox church.Intimidation and violence against journalists a...

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4 d. ago Burglar had 'no choice' but to drive through junction before crash killed teen, court told

Dean Barnes, 16, died after he came off the bike Adam Norman was riding - Dean, Adam Norman and another man, Alexander Riley, had thieved three bikes from Callum Duncan and were being pursued by him, a court heard

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6 d. ago First photos of Erin Patterson's murderous meal emerge as court releases trove of evidence revealing moment the mushroom killer clashed with hospital staff and table that hosted the deadly lunch

Images of the toxic beef Wellington and the table where Erin Patterson served her deadly lunch took place have been released by the Supreme Court of Victoria.

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6 d. ago Gangster bludgeoned with golf clubs after filming video outside Spanish bar where Scots mobsters shot dead

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Self-styled social influencer Sam Walker was violently battered by thugs after he posted a video from outside Monaghan's bar where Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr were murdered.

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9 d. ago Harvey Willgoose's best friend told police after schoolboy's death that his killer, 15, was 'always carrying a weapon'

Harvey Willgoose, 15, suffered fatal injuries when another pupil stabbed him on their lunch break at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on February 3.

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1 week ago Bangladesh tribunal sentences Hasina to jail for contempt over a claim she had a license to kill

A tribunal has sentenced Bangladesh’s former leader Sheikh Hasina to six months in jail after she was found in contempt of court for allegedly claiming she had a license to kill at least 227 people

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1 week ago Man charged with killing former Minnesota House speaker is due back in court after delay

The man accused of killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, is due back in court after a week's delay

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1 week ago Porn star killed man on camera during sex after battering his partner to death with a hammer and putting couple's dismembered heads in a chest freezer, court hears

Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, (far right) wheeled the dismembered heads of Albert Alfonso, 62 (centre) and Paul Longworth, 71, (left) in a suitcase before putting them into a chest freezer, jurors heard.

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1 week ago Boy, 16, 'died in stolen motorbike crash as burglary victim chased him'

Dean Barnes, 16, was riding as a pillion passenger on one of the stolen motorbikes when it crashed killing him as a court heard the burglars and bolt croppers used a drill to break into the shed

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1 week ago Horror injuries of boy, 3, killed by 'aggressive' guard dogs revealed in court

Three-year-old Daniel Twigg was mauled to death by two large Mastiff-type dogs who were being used to guard Carr Farm in Rochdale - he entered a pen 'unsupervised'

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1 week ago Pictured: Teenager, 18, shot dead near his home in Enfield as boy charged with murder

Youth, 17, appears in court accused of killing Keanu Harker in Great Cambridge Road on Thursday night

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2 w. ago ‘Appalling’ driver who killed pensioner on crossing was inhaling nitrous oxide, court told

Witnesses said Cain Byrne, who has never held a driving licence, made no attempt to stop at the crossing

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2 w. ago Cheryl Tweedy's killer stalker turns up at house to try to meet her AGAIN: Convict is back in court after breaching restraining order

Convicted killer Daniel Bannister, 50, is said to have visited the Buckinghamshire home Cheryl Tweedy shares with her son Bear, eight, again last week.

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2 w. ago Prisoner who stabbed child killer Roy Whiting told nurses he did it to get taken off the wing, court hears

Andrew Light, 45, complained he 'disliked being among nonces' on D-Wing of HMP Wakefield.

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2 w. ago Prisoner stabbed killer Roy Whiting saying 'that is for Sarah Payne', court told

Wakefield prison officer Alex Dyson was the first at the scene when Andrew Light attacked Sarah Payne killer Roy Whiting, hearing a faint cry for help coming from D wing

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2 w. ago Woman with ties to a cultlike group to appear in court after border agent's killing

A woman connected to a cultlike group who is charged in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont is due in federal court for a hearing

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2 w. ago Sarah Payne's killer in court after fellow prisoner 'tried to kill him'

Child killer Roy Whiting came face to face with the man accused of trying to murder him behind bars.

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2 w. ago Girlfriend of murder victim sent naked video to the man 'who tortured and killed her boyfriend just days later', court told

John Belfield, 31, said he responded by sending a screenshot of Demi-Lee Driver's clip to Thomas Campbell - but insisted he 'did not want any trouble'.

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2 w. ago Woman admits trying to smother elderly mother with pillow in hospital bed

A court heard Susan Hardwick carried out an ‘attempted mercy killing’ to stop her mother being transferred to another hospital for palliative care.

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