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Turkey blocks Wikipedia, alleging smear campaign
Saturday morning, at 8:00 a.m. local time (0500 UTC), residents of Turkey who tried to view Wikipedia in any language r...

28-year-old suspect charged for attacking Borussia D...
Saturday, April 22, 2017 Crime and law Related articles 22 April 2017: 28-year-old suspect charged for attacking B...

Canada to legalise marijuana to 'make it more diffic...
Sunday, April 16, 2017 Crime and law Related articles 16 April 2017: Canada to legalise marijuana to 'make it more difficult for kids to access' 12 April 2017: Borussia Dortmund's team bus hit with explosives before Champions League match, Marc Bartra injured 31 March 2017: Impeached South Korean president Park Geun-hye arrested 30 March 2017: James Jacks...

Malysian police chief publicly confirms murdered man...
On Friday, Malaysia's Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar spoke to reporters and confirmed the man murdered in Kuala Lumpur International Airport was indeed Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "We have fulfilled the requirement of the laws on his identification," he said. Malaysian authorities had been very cautious about...

Break-in attempted at mortuary housing remains of Ki...
Malaysian police yesterday reported an attempted break-in at the morgue where the body of Kim Jong Nam was being held. Kim, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was killed on February 13 in Kuala Lumpur International Airport in what authorities are treating as a murder case. The police have increased security at the morgue. We know who [the ...

Malaysian authorities arrest fourth suspect in killi...
Malaysian authorities on Friday arrested North Korean man Ri Jong Chol, 46, on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother to Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korean leader. He died in Malaysia on Monday morning. According to South Korean officials, he was killed by a fast-acting poison administered by two women who approached him in K...

File photo of a train station in Hannover. (Image: Bobanaut (Panaramio).)

German teenager sentenced to six years for stabbing ...
A court in Celle, Germany sentenced sixteen-year-old German-Moroccan girl Safia S. to six years in prison on Thursday for an attempted murder. Safia stabbed a 34-year-old police officer in February last year using a vegetable knife in a train station in Hannover. Phone chats revealed Safia acted on the behalf of ISIL, the judge said, though the militant gro...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, from file (Image: FNDE.)

Germany to drop 'lese majeste' law
German justice minister Heiko Maas called this law redundant and said, "the idea of lese majesty arose in an era long gone by. It no longer belongs in our criminal law". A year ago, German satirist Jan Böhmermann presented a poem on the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In the poem he said Erdoğan "kicks the Kurds, smacks the Christians, all while watch...

File photo of rubble in a Homs street. (Image: Adam Warda (Panaramio).)

Czech diplomats secure release of Polish 'terrorist'...
The Czech government on Monday announced its diplomats had secured the release of a Polish citizen imprisoned for terrorism in Syria. The Polish foreign ministry on Tuesday confirmed the release of Leszek Panek, 54, from Wrocław. File photo of rubble in a Homs street. Image: Adam Warda (Panaramio). Polish media reports Panek, who vanished in late 2015 a...

Germany legalises medical use of cannabis
ss="published">Friday, January 20, 2017 Germany Related articles 20 January 2017: Germany legalises medical use of cannabis 17 January 2017: Robben signs contract extension with Bayern 13 January 2017: Putin calls US troops in Poland 'a threat' 11 January 2017: Roman Herzog, former German president, dies aged 82 23 December 2016: Borussia M'Gladbach sacks...

Artist's rendition of Manning as she views herself. (Image: Alicia Neal.)

Obama commutes whistleblower's sentence: Chelsea Man...
The information Manning released to the public through WikiLeaks and The Guardian in 2010 included diplomatic accounts, videos, military incident logs, and battle plans, including footage of an American Apache helicopter firing on suspected Iraqi insurgents, reports of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay without trial, and records of detainees abused by the Iraqi...

At least 26 killed in another Brazil prison riot
Prison authorities said that some victims were decapitated. Prison coordinator Zemilton Silva witnessed this happen to three men, and forensic report that there have been more. The Ministry of Justice and state-run news outlet Agência Brasil said the latest riot started at around 5:00 p.m., local time, on Saturday. It continued until the security forces quell...

Esteban Santiago mug shot, January 7, 2017. (Image: Broward County Sheriff's Office, Florida.)

Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting suspect appears in ...
Police drove Santiago from the Broward County main jail to the court building in the morning. At the hearing, Santiago attended handcuffed and also cuffed at the ankles, guarded by at least eight police officers. The Magistrate, Judge Alicia Valle, questioned Santiago on his finances. The prosecutor also sought a detention order for public safety and flight ri...

The Hollywood sign as it normally appears. (Image: Oreos.)

Artist who changed Hollywood sign to 'Hollyweed' sur...
According to LAPD, Fernandez went to the police station accompanied by his lawyer, where he confessed to have changed the sign and was bailed out shortly thereafter for $1,000. LAPD charged Fernandez with trespassing; earlier reports indicated vandalism charges were ruled out as he used black and white tarps to alter the letter "O" to read lowercase "e". The s...

At least 56 killed in Brazil prison riot
According to Amazonas state Public Security Secretary Sergio Fontes, members of two criminal organisations, the Família do Norte (FDN) and the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), were involved. The conflict started on Sunday. It lasted at least seventeen hours until the authorities quelled the riot on Monday at 7 a.m. local time, according to Fontes. Accordin...

A courtroom at the Helsinki District Court, from file. (Image: MakeF.)

Helsinki court jails anti-drug chief Jari Aarnio for...
Aarnio, who maintains his innocence, was among thirteen defendants prosecuted over the import and distribution of Dutch hashish totaling about 800 kg in 2011–12. Ordered into immediate custody, Aarnio was convicted of all 22 charges he faced. Five were of aggravated drug offence, with other offences including official misconduct, threatening a suspect, and agg...

Modern-day Montevideo, from file. (Image: Maryam Laura Moazedi.)

Uruguay ex-ruler Gregorio Alvarez dies at age 91
Military health authorities on Wednesday announced the death of Gregorio Alvarez, military ruler of Uruguay from 1981–85. He was 91 years old. Alvarez was serving a 25-year term imposed in 2009 for 37 homicides, and other human rights violations. He was initially detained in 2007 suspected of kidnapping dissidents living in exile in Argentina. Hundreds vanish...

South African killer, rapist, serial escapee Ananias...
Ananias Mathe, an infamous South African criminal, died on Tuesday in hospital. His offences included rape and murder, and he escaped custody several times. Mathe, from Mozambique, had been suffering digestive problems for weeks according to the prison service. He died on Tuesday in the King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban. He was resident in a high-security p...

The Melbourne Federal Court building, from file. (Image: Adz.)

Australian Federal Court orders ISPs to block copyri...
In the first case of site blocking under new Australian legislation, the court asked the companies to block access to these websites within fifteen business days. The ISPs are free to choose the method of blocking; options include DNS blocking, blocking IP addresses and URL blocking. The court has asked the copyright holders to pay up to A$50 to the ISPs for ...

The city of Algiers, from file. (Image: Damien Boilley.)

Detained journalist Mohamed Tamalt dies in Algeria
Mohamed Tamalt, a journalist imprisoned in Algeria for insulting President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, died in hospital while serving his sentence. His lawyer on Sunday announced his death. The city of Algiers, from file. Image: Damien Boilley. Tamalt, 42, lived in England, basing himself in London, and had UK-Algerian dual citizenship. He was arrested on Jun...

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