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US on edge over video of fatal police beating
AFP, Published on 27/01/2023
» WASHINGTON: The southern US city of Memphis braced itself for unrest on Friday as authorities prepared to release a video depicting the fatal assault of a Black man by five police officers who, the victim's mother said, "beat him to a pulp".
Five US police officers charged with beating Black man to death
AFP, Published on 27/01/2023
» WASHINGTON - US authorities on Thursday charged five former police officers with murder over the fatal beating of a Black man in Memphis, as the southern city braced for possible civil unrest and President Joe Biden urged demonstrators to protest peacefully.
Bad news piles up for candidate Trump in US
AFP, Published on 11/12/2022
» WASHINGTON: Having launched a new bid for the White House, Donald Trump has not been met with the energy he had been hoping for.
Kosovo veterans jailed for war crimes witness intimidation
AFP, Published on 18/05/2022
» THE HAGUE: A war crimes court in The Hague jailed two Kosovo former separatist fighters to four-and-a-half years on Wednesday for intimidating witnesses, in its first verdict over Kosovo's 1990s independence war from Serbia.
'Nation's psychiatrist' takes stock
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/03/2022
» A new book by Dr Thomas P Insel, who for 13 years ran the United States' foremost mental health research institution, begins with a sort of confession.
Israel says Iran 'spy network' recruited women online
AFP, Published on 13/01/2022
» JERUSALEM: An Iranian "espionage network" used Facebook to recruit Israeli women who were manipulated into photographing the US embassy and other activities, the Shin Bet domestic security agency said Wednesday.
Myanmar court delays verdict in Suu Kyi incitement trial
AFP, Published on 30/11/2021
» NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: A Myanmar junta court on Tuesday postponed giving a verdict in the incitement trial of deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the first judgement from her many cases that could see her jailed for decades.
Myanmar's Suu Kyi due to hear first verdict in junta trial
AFP, Published on 28/11/2021
» NAY PYI TAW: Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to hear the verdict in her incitement trial on Tuesday, the first in a catalogue of judgements to be handed down in a junta court that could jail her for decades.
US court convicts Chinese intelligence agent of economic espionage
AFP, Published on 06/11/2021
» WASHINGTON - A Chinese intelligence officer was convicted in US federal court Friday of economic espionage in an alleged state-backed effort to steal technology from US and French aerospace firms, the Justice Department said.
R. Kelly sex crimes trial begins in New York
AFP, Published on 18/08/2021
» NEW YORK - R. Kelly's highly anticipated sex abuse trial got underway Wednesday in New York where the disgraced R&B superstar faces a slew of charges, including racketeering and sexual exploitation of a child.