Former Brazil international football player Robinho has been arrested to serve a nine-year prison sentence for rape. He was convicted two years ago in Italy for his part in the gang rape of an Albanian woman at a night club in Milan in 2013. Robinho, 40, was arrested at his flat in his home city […]
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Two former Mississippi police officers have been sentenced to a total of 37 years for their role in torturing two black men in their own home. Hunter Elward and Jeffrey Middleton are the first of six officers due to be sentenced this week. The victims were beaten, shocked with stun guns and sexually assaulted by
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The Supreme Court has allowed Texas to enforce one of the toughest immigration laws enacted by any US state in recent memory. The measure allows police to arrest and prosecute those suspected of illegally crossing the US-Mexican border. The Biden administration has challenged the law, calling it unconstitutional. Crossing the US border illegally is already
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The Jamaican musician Vybz Kartel’s conviction for the murder of an associate more than a decade ago has been quashed, with a London court ruling that attempts to bribe the trial jury meant the conviction was unsafe. The dancehall star, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, is one of Jamaica’s most popular artists and
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The US House of Representatives has passed a landmark bill that could see TikTok banned in America. It would give the social media giant’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, six months to sell its controlling stake or the app would be blocked in the US. While the bill passed overwhelmingly in a bipartisan vote, it still
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A former Boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firm’s production standards has been found dead in the US. John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017. In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company. Boeing said it
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Nigeria has paused a controversial annual levy that would require businesses employing expatriates to pay $15,000 (£12,000) for a director and $10,000 (£8,000) for other workers. President Bola Tinubu imposed the tax over a week ago, but it was met with widespread condemnation. The Ministry of Interior said on X the levy would be paused
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The National Peace Council (NPC) has urged Political Parties to resort to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to resolve their differences instead of opting for acrimonious litigation. Speaking at the opening ceremony of a two-day Consultation and Training Program on ADR for political parties in Accra, Chairman of the Greater Accra Regional Peace Council, Reverend Samuel
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DONALD J. TRUMP, PETITIONER v. NORMA ANDERSON, ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF COLORADO The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states cannot disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol. In an unsigned opinion, a majority
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Glynn Simmons was released last year after almost half a century behind bars. Now 70, he describes his torment and terror as he battled to overturn one of the worst miscarriages of justice in US history Glynn Simmons had been in Oklahoma for six days when he was arrested on suspicion of robbery. He was
