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Mother sentenced to life in prison for New Zealand's 'suitcase murders'
AFP, Published on 26/11/2025
» AUCKLAND - A mother who murdered her two children and stuffed them into suitcases stashed inside a storage locker was on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment in New Zealand.
Jailed Samsung chief released on parole
AFP, Published on 13/08/2021
» SEOUL: The jailed de facto leader of the giant Samsung group walked free on parole Friday, the latest instance of South Korea's long tradition of freeing business leaders imprisoned for corruption or tax evasion on economic grounds.
Lee Jae-yong: paroled leader of S. Korea's biggest business
AFP, Published on 10/08/2021
» SEOUL - The life of soon-to-be-released Samsung chief and South Korean billionaire Lee Jae-yong epitomises the privileges, power and perils of the super-rich in the world's 12th-largest economy, a country sometimes dubbed the "Republic of Samsung".
Netanyahu's 'unprecedented' corruption trial to open
AFP, Published on 24/05/2020
» JERUSALEM - A new page in Israeli history opens Sunday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu becomes the first sitting premier to face criminal charges, accused of a string of corruption allegations he denies.
Belgium okays pre-parole evaluation of child killer Dutroux
AFP, Published on 17/10/2019
» BRUSSELS - Brussels prosecutors on Thursday approved a request for a new psychiatric assessment of one of Europe's most notorious child-killers, Marc Dutroux, paving the way for his possible conditional release.