Palestine Action activists jailed over factory raid BBC Pro-Palestine activists sentenced as terrorists over damage at Israeli arms factory in UK The Guardian Four UK pro-Palestinian activists jailed over raid at Israeli firm Elbit CNN UK court jails Palestine Action activists on ‘terrorism’ charges Al Jazeera Palestine Action latest: Protesters block prison van and more than 100 arrested as … Read more
Jailed Vietnamese tycoon’s Birkin bags sell for more than $550K BBC Vietnam sells disgraced tycoon’s Hermes bags to recoup US$27 billion in damages South China Morning Post Jailed Vietnamese tycoon’s handbags auctioned for €460k RTE.ie Two Hermes handbags seized from death row tycoon Truong My Lan auctioned for $536K VnExpress International Two Hermes bags of convicted tycoon Truong My … Read more
LONDON (AP) — A Chinese woman who was found with 5 billion pounds ($6.6 billion) in Bitcoin after defrauding more than 128,000 people in China in a Ponzi scheme was sentenced by a U.K. court on Tuesday to over 11 years in prison. Police said the investigation into Zhimin Qian, 47, led to officers recovering … Read more
The new pontiff talks of witnesses ‘who report on war even at the cost of their lives’. Pope Leo XIV has called for the release of journalists imprisoned for doing their work while affirming free speech. Leo, who was elected pontiff on Thursday after the death of Pope Francis, gave his first news conference at … Read more
The embattled mayor of Istanbul is the opposition party’s candidate for the next presidential election, scheduled to take place in 2028. The embattled mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, has been chosen as the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate for the next presidential election, scheduled to take place in 2028. Imamoglu, who was detained on Wednesday, … Read more
Eugene Spector, a US citizen born in Russia, has been sentenced to 15 years in a maximum security Russian penal colony. Russia’s FSB security service has said a US citizen sentenced to a 15-year jail term this week was found guilty of leaking biotechnology secrets to the United States. In a statement on Friday, FSB … Read more