A California man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. It is one of the longest sentences given in connection with the violent incident. A statement on Friday by the US Capitol Police noted David Nicholas Dempsey had pleaded guilty in January […]
New Delhi, India — AFP Doctors in government hospitals across several states of India halted elective services “indefinitely” on Monday in protest against the rape and murder of a young medic. The 31-year-old woman’s brutalised body was found bearing multiple injuries last week in a state-run hospital in West BengalR...
London, United Kingdom — AFP A UK minister has slammed American tech billionaire Elon Musk for his “unacceptable” comments on social media about far-right riots gripping England and Northern Ireland. The owner of X drew criticism for writing on the site that a British “civil war” was inevitable. He sparked further...
LONDON (AA) – A man in his 30s was arrested in Manchester after allegedly chasing a Muslim couple with a hedge trimmer, police said on Wednesday. A video circulated on social media on Tuesday shows a man chasing a couple with a hedge trimmer. Documenting Oppression Against Muslims (DOAM) group shared the video, saying a […]
HAMILTON, Canada (AA)- A Pakistani national has been charged with murder-for-hire in an alleged plot to assassinate current and former government officials, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday. Asif Merchant, 46, arrived from Pakistan in April after spending time in Iran. He met an undercover FBI agent posing as a hitman and paid him $...
South Carolina’s Supreme Court has confirmed that the state can execute death row inmates using a firing squad, lethal injection, or the electric chair. This paves the way for executions to resume after a 13-year hiatus. The ruling, which was delivered Wednesday, supports the state’s revised death penalty protocols. These include the new...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Guinea’s former military ruler Captain Moussa Dadis Camara was found guilty of crimes against humanity at a court in the capital Conakry and sentenced to 20 years in prison in connection with massacres that occurred in 2009 in the West African country. The charges are in connection with the September 28, […]
A 43-year-old man was shot and killed execution-style outside a Philadelphia mosque on Tuesday. Raheem Jefferson was gunned down about 5 p.m. while walking to a prayer service. Witnesses say they saw Jefferson being targeted by the shooter, who fired 17 shots. He was rushed to the hospital but later died of his injuries. The […]
Three key suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges. The plea has been made in exchange for a life sentence, thereby allowing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Bin Attash, and Mustafa al-Hawasawi to avoid a death penalty trial. Chief Prosecutor Rear Admiral Aaron Rugh confirmed the agreement. It includes [&...
Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy charged with murdering Sonya Massey on July 6, was previously dismissed from the US Army for serious misconduct. Grayson, indicted on charges related to Massey’s death, was discharged from the Army in 2016 under circumstances that involved “serious offenses.” Despite this, he was employed by six...
