63 h. ago US charges 26 people with rigging college, Chinese basketball games

US charges 26 people with rigging college, Chinese basketball games  Reuters

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67 h. ago US charges 20 people with rigging university, Chinese basketball games, NBC reports

US authorities have charged 20 people with rigging college basketball and Chinese Basketball Association games, according to a federal indictment released on Thursday, including some individuals previously charged in an NBA-related gambling investigation. The charges were unsealed by federal prosecutors in Philadelphia following a grand jury and accuse the defendants of conspiring on games from September 2022 until February 2025. During the 2022-2023 CBA season, the individuals sought to...

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7 d. ago 6 killed in Mississippi shootings, suspect charged with murder

Authorities have charged a 24-year-old man with murder after six people were killed in a series of related shootings on Friday night in northeast Mississippi. Clay County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Steven Woodruff confirms Daricka Moore has been charged in the killings. He was booked into the Clay County jail before dawn on Saturday, jail records show. Woodruff did not say whether Moore had a lawyer representing him. Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott said in a social media post that “multiple innocent...

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3 w. ago Indian doctor suspended, charged after viral video shows him assaulting patient

A senior resident doctor at a government hospital in Shimla, the capital of India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh, has been suspended and charged by police after a viral video appeared to show him repeatedly striking a patient inside a ward, triggering an investigation and widespread public backlash. The mobile phone footage, filmed by an attendant at the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital on Monday and widely shared on social media, shows a masked doctor punching a man lying on a...

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3 w. ago Malaysian rapper Namewee acquitted of drug use charge after negative test

A Malaysian court on Monday granted rapper Namewee a full acquittal from his drug use charge after the prosecution presented a negative urine test in court. Namewee’s lawyer, Joshua Tay, confirmed the acquittal with This Week in Asia. Tay told the Kuala Lumpur magistrates’ court that since the pathology report was negative, there was no prospect of recharging his client, whose real name is Wee Meng Chee. “The appropriate order should be a discharge and acquittal,” Tay said. Magistrate S...

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3 w. ago China praises joint effort with US after pair sentenced for drug

China is highlighting its success in joint law enforcement with the sentencing of two men in a drug-related money laundering case following a tip-off from the United States. Amid recent momentum in US-China cooperation to combat narcotics crimes, Chinese state media has outlined the prosecution of the pair who were charged with money laundering for drug dealers. The People’s Daily stated on Saturday that officers in Shenyang, in northeast China’s Liaoning province, had received information in...

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