Jihadist police chief of Timbuktu jailed for war crimes

World - Yahoo News - 3 hours ago

Extremist Timbuktu Islamic police chief sentenced to 10 years in jail by ICC

Al-Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud had been convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The international criminal court has sentenced an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader to 10 ...

World - The Guardian - 1 hour ago

ICC sentences al-Qaida-linked former police chief to 10 years for war crimes in Mali

The International Criminal Court has sentenced an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader to 10 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out when he headed the Islamic police in ...

World - ABC News - 3 hours ago

Marielle Franco murder: ex-police jailed for decades over crime that shook Brazil

Ronnie Lessa and Élcio de Queiroz sentenced to 78 and 59 years over 2018 murder of prominent Rio city councillor. Two former police officers who confessed to the murder of the Rio city councillor ...

World - The Guardian - October 31

Police officer jailed for breaking wife's back

Huw Orphan is jailed for two-and-a-half years after kicking his wife down the stairs.

Police officer jailed for sexually abusing girl

John Stringer is sentenced to 10 years after being found guilty of five counts of sexual abuse.

D.C. police investigate assault of gay model as a hate crime

A 22-year-old gay man was assaulted by multiple people in Washington, D.C., after not saying "excuse me" to one of the assailants, according to police.

West Ridge a hotbed of anti-Jewish hate crimes, police data show

Chicago recorded about 70 anti-Jewish hate crimes this year, including vandalism and bomb threats, with West Ridge hit more than any neighborhood in the city.

Russians accused of crimes offered choice - go to war instead of court

World - Yahoo News - October 22

Russians accused of crimes offered choice - go to war instead of court

A former Olympic athlete has been told if he fights in Ukraine a criminal case against him will be frozen.

Lebanese PM denounces Israeli 'war crimes' as media workers killed

World - Yahoo News - October 25

The Middle East Drug Fueling War, Crime and All-Night Parties

Captagon is bringing in billions for Syria’s Assad regime and Iran-backed militias including Hezbollah—and it’s triggering a health crisis.

World - The Wall Street Journal - October 27

Finland charges a combatant with war crimes allegedly committed in 2014 in Ukraine

Prosecutors in Finland have filed charges over alleged war crimes in 2014 by a combatant who fought against Ukrainian forces in a Russian-backed separatist region of Ukraine

World - ABC News - October 31

Russian naval officer accused of ‘war crimes’ killed in Crimea car bombing

Valery Trankovsky had ordered missile strikes from Black Sea on civilian targets, a Ukrainian official said. A senior Russian naval officer was killed in a car bombing in Crimea on Wednesday, the ...

World - The Guardian - November 13

HRW accuses Israel of war crime of forced displacement in Gaza

The rights group says the forced evacuation of 1.9m people amounts to a crime against humanity.

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza Strip

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel of war crimes in a sprawling new report that argues the Israeli military has forcibly displaced the Palestinian people in Gaza during the 13-month war ...

Politics - The Hill - 5 days ago

Oklahoma small town police chief and entire police department resign

The police chief and three officers that make up the entire four-person police department of the town of Geary, Oklahoma resigned on Thursday with little explanation.

Burglar who tried to swim away from police jailed

Chad Lambert was followed by police after stealing a bottle of wine and the contents of a shop's till.

Anti-terror boss thought Skripal poisoning could be 'act of war'

Neil Basu says the "true horror" of the deadly poison was not knowing what to look for.

Doctor accused of criticizing Russia's war in front of patient is jailed

Dr. Nadezhda Buyanova was arrested after the mother of one of her patients reported the pediatrician to authorities.

Moscow doctor accused by patient of criticising war is jailed for five years

Ukraine-born Nadezhda Buyanova was accused of referring to young patient’s late soldier father as ‘legitimate target’. A Russian court has sentenced an elderly Moscow paediatrician to five and a ...

World - The Guardian - November 12

Russian doctor jailed for five years over alleged Ukraine war remarks

Nadezhda Buyanova denied making the remarks and called the case absurd.

California man jailed for life over hate-crime murder of teenage ex-classmate

Samuel Woodward, 27, sentenced to life without parole over stabbing of Blaze Bernstein, who was gay and Jewish. A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania ...

World - The Guardian - 4 days ago

Israel says Hezbollah commander and jihadist killed

World - Yahoo News - November 4

Pittsburgh's police chief puts down his badge for a referee's whistle

Pittsburgh’s police chief has retired just a week after making the controversial announcement that he would add refereeing college basketball games to his calendar

Sports - ABC News - October 25

Police chief: Kaba shooting claims fuelled 'dangerous narrative'

Britain’s most senior police officer accuses “those in positions of authority” of creating “rumour and innuendo”.

Police chief says public not warned about discarded novichok container

Counter-terrorism commander says risk of contamination in Salisbury was not discussed with public health leaders. People were not warned against picking up discarded objects after the 2018 novichok ...

World - The Guardian - 2 days ago

Greek police seize large cache of explosives and arrest 5 in organized crime crackdown

Police in Greece have seized large quantities of explosives and firearms following multiple raids in Athens to dismantle an criminal weapons distribution network

World - ABC News - November 5

Brazil police eye top crime faction after brazen murder at São Paulo airport

Killing of Antônio Vinicius Lopes Gritzbach, 38, former First Capital Command member, spawns number of theories. Police investigating a brazen murder at the arrivals area of Brazil’s main airport ...

World - The Guardian - November 12

IDF soldiers should refuse orders that may be war crimes, Israeli ex-security adviser tells BBC

A former senior security official tells Fergal Keane that Israel might be committing war crimes in northern Gaza.

Middle East crisis live: Israeli military says it is carrying out strikes on military targets in Iran

IDF spokesman says strikes are a response to ‘months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran’, as blasts reported in Tehran and nearby city of Karaj. Lebanon’s health minister, Firass Abiad ...

World - The Guardian - October 26

Lebanese minister accuses Israel of war crime after journalists reportedly killed in IDF strike

Israel is being accused of committing a war crime by Lebanon's information minister after an Israeli strike reportedly killed three journalists in southeast Lebanon. Meanwhile, Israel says five of ...

Middle East latest: Workers search through rubble in eastern Lebanon where Israeli strike killed 13

Rescue teams are searching through rubble in a town near the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon where an Israeli strike hit a civil defense center the night before, killing at least 13

World - ABC News - 5 days ago

Advocacy group accuses Israel of war crimes; Trump's picks' impact on Middle East

The U.S.-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch released a 154-page report accusing Israel of atrocities against Palestinians. CBS News' Elizabeth Palmer reports on that and Merissa Khurma, the ...

Defence chief calls for more spending on military

Treasury minister Darren Jones says defence spending should rise to 2.5% of GDP, but avoids saying by when.

Mastermind of foiled Hong Kong bomb plot to target police is jailed for nearly 24 years

A Hong Kong court on Thursday sentenced the mastermind of a failed bomb plot during anti-government protests in December 2019 to nearly 24 years in jail

World - ABC News - 6 days ago

Ukraine war briefing: ‘Pentagon leaker’ Jack Teixeira deserves 17 years in jail, argue prosecutors

Serviceman put classified information about Ukraine war on Discord; US and South Korea call for Kim Jong-un to withdraw troops. What we know on day 981. See all our Ukraine war coverage ...

World - The Guardian - October 31

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