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Loik Le Priol, one of the main suspects in the 2022 murder of Argentine rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu, asked forgiveness from the victim's family in a Paris court on Friday. Verdicts in the trial of four suspects – including Le Priol and Romain Bouvier, who both have links to France’s extreme right – are expected later in the day.
Mito, Ibaraki Pref., Sept. 24 (Jiji Press)--Public prosecutors sought a 21-year prison term Thursday for a man accused of murdering his former girlfriend, a pregnant manicurist, in the city of Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, late last year. The defense argued that prison terms of around 17 years are common in many similar cases. The verdict is scheduled to be handed down to Takumi ...
Hong Kong prosecutors are set to open the murder trial of three former relatives of slain socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung later this week, three years after her killing shocked the city and drew international attention. The High Court will hold the first trial hearing on Monday for parties to sort out preliminary issues. Jury selection is expected to take place later in the week before the prosecution delivers its opening speech. The 28-year-old influencer’s death came to light in February 2023,...
DR Congo is rolling out vaccine trials for health workers at the centre of the country’s Ebola crisis.
An Australian accused of murdering a teenage girl in Thailand and abandoning her body in a suitcase pleaded not guilty in court on Friday, citing self-defence. Simon Peter Carman, 45, was arrested at a Bangkok airport in June as he prepared to take a flight back to Australia after the 17-year-old victim’s friend had reported her missing. The young woman’s body was found in a suitcase near a railway track in Pattaya, a seaside resort city south of the capital, Bangkok. Police said she died of...
Trial scheduled to commence on October 15, 2026. Accused also seek restrictions on entry of media personnel and the public to the court hall during trial as well as on taking their photographs
A British man on Monday admitted repeatedly drugging and raping his wife at their home over more than two decades, just before his trial was about to begin. The man - from northern England who is in his 60s but cannot be named as it would identify his wife who is entitled to lifelong anonymity – pleaded guilty at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court to 45 charges, having previously admitted 15 offences. The man has now admitted charges including 21 counts of rape, 15 counts of assault by...
The trial of Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, the driver involved in the December 2025 crash that injured boxer Anthony Joshua and killed two members of his team, was adjourned Thursday to November 17.
Venezuela’s former first lady wants to be let out of jail while she and her husband await trial on US drug-trafficking charges. Cilia Flores, the wife of ex-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, “deserves the opportunity to await her trial while on home confinement” while dealing with a heart condition that has only got worse since she’s been in jail, her lawyers wrote in court papers filed on Wednesday. The lawyers, Mark Donnelly and Andres Sanchez, asked a judge to allow her to leave a Brooklyn...
Key witnesses are expected to testify in Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies’ landmark criminal case on Thursday in Brooklyn, New York, as it enters its second day of testimony. It comes after a US government lawyer told federal jurors on the opening day that Huawei engaged in criminal activities to achieve “growth at any cost”, while a lawyer for the company said that Huawei employees deemed to have broken company policies were punished for their actions. Brian Heberlig, of US law firm...
Fourteen men are on trial over the 2021 deaths of 31 migrants while attempting to cross the English Channel.
Fourteen people are to go on trial in France on Tuesday over the loss of 31 people including a seven-year-old child in 2021, in the deadliest small-boat crossing accident recorded in the Channel.
The opposition politician faces five charges over protests that followed the disputed 2024 election.
The suspected murderers of two Australian surfers and an American at a Mexican surfing hotspot went on trial on Monday, two years after their killings in a suspected robbery. Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, aged 30 and 33, respectively, and 30-year-old American friend Jack Carter Rhoad were on a surfing trip to Mexico’s Pacific coast when they were shot dead in Baja California state. They had been camping in a remote beachside area when they were attacked in April 2024. Their...
Two-far activists go on trial in Paris on Monday over the shooting of Argentine rugby star Federico Martin Aramburu. Loik Le Priol and Romain Bouvier have been charged with murder and attempted murder respectively, and risk up to life in jail if they are found guilty.
The mistrial now puts the murder case - and Clancy's future - in limbo as to whether she will be held criminally liable in the deaths of her three kids.
An appeal court in Santo Domingo has upheld the freeze on assets worth about US$8.5 million in the Jet Set case, while the trial itself continues. The post Dominican Republic Court Upholds Asset Freeze in the Jet Set Case appeared first on The Rio Times.
A Tunisian court started hearing on Thursday the final appeal of scores of opposition figures accused of plotting against the state.
Syrian authorities undertake first such destruction in over a decade as former government officials face trial.
Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, is charged with offences including causing death by dangerous driving and reckless driving.
Tokyo, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)--Five Japanese oil distributors admitted forming a price cartel for gas oil sold to transport and other companies in Tokyo, at the first hearing of their trial at Tokyo District Court on Thursday. East Japan Usami Co. and Kyoei Sekiyu of Tokyo, Eneos Wing Corp. of the central city of Nagoya, Enex Fleet Co. of the western city of Osaka and Kitaseki Co. of the nort...
Madagascar's former Senate president Richard Ravalomanana was sentenced to 10 years of hard labour on Tuesday after being convicted of complicity in murder over his alleged role in a deadly crackdown on youth-led protests last year.
Duane "Keffe D" Davis, a former Los Angeles gang leader, was found guilty on Monday by a Las Vegas court of the 1996 murder of chart-topping rapper Tupac Shakur
The rapper's killing became one of popular culture's great mysteries, with countless theories but no arrests until 2023.