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S. Africa's Pistorius in fresh parole bid decade after murder
AFP, Published on 24/11/2023
» PRETORIA: South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius was Friday seeking an early release from prison, a decade after he killed his girlfriend in a crime that gripped the world.
French 'getaway king' on trial for helicopter jailbreak
AFP, Published on 05/09/2023
» PARIS - A convicted burglar who escaped prison in 2018 aboard a hijacked helicopter in a jailbreak that astonished France went on trial in Paris on Tuesday, facing life in prison over his brazen getaway.
Russian strike stirs symbolism at Kyiv Holocaust site
AFP, Published on 02/03/2022
» KYIV: Eighty years after the ravine at Babi Yar served as the mass grave of 30,000 Jews murdered by Ukraine's Nazi occupiers, five more corpses lay on the ground Wednesday covered in dust and fine layer of snow.
Three Georgia men found guilty of Ahmaud Arbery murder
AFP, Published on 25/11/2021
» WASHINGTON - Three white men were found guilty of murder Wednesday for shooting dead an African American man after chasing him in their pickup trucks, following a racially-charged trial in the southern US state of Georgia that gripped the nation.
Black man slain in Georgia was 'under attack': prosecutor
AFP, Published on 23/11/2021
» WASHINGTON - Prosecutors and defense attorneys presented their closing arguments on Monday in the racially charged trial of three white men accused of murder in the southern US state of Georgia for shooting dead a Black man after chasing him in their pickup trucks.
Hong Kong burglar climbs 17 storeys to steal B1.9m
South China Morning Post, Published on 21/10/2021
» HONG KONG: A burglar who climbed up the drainpipe of a 20-storey Hong Kong building stole HK$450,000 (1.9 million baht) in cash and valuables from the home of a senior executive at an American investment bank before shimmying back down the way he came, a police source said on Thursday.
Trial over killing of HIV activist begins in Greece
AFP, Published on 20/10/2021
» ATHENS - Three years after a prominent Greek-American HIV activist was beaten to death in Athens, six people will appear in court on Wednesday in what Greece's LGBTQ community sees as an important trial for gay rights in the country.
Three white Americans go on trial in death of black jogger
AFP, Published on 18/10/2021
» WASHINGTON - Three white men in the US state of Georgia will go on trial Monday in the high-profile shooting death of a Black jogger that sparked a national outcry and helped fuel last summer's social justice protests.
Amanda Knox accuses new movie of cashing in on her case
AFP, Published on 31/07/2021
» LOS ANGELES - Amanda Knox is complaining angrily that the new Matt Damon movie "Stillwater" -- a drama about a young American jailed in Europe for a killing she insists she did not commit -- cashes in on her own ordeal.
S.Africa's looters leave stripped shelves and the question: 'Why?'
AFP, Published on 14/07/2021
» SOWETO (SOUTH AFRICA) - The burglar alarm shrieked endlessly inside the Soweto clothing store.