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A French anti-terror court convicted three people on Friday over a plan to attack President Emmanuel Macron after a trial that threw the spotlight on a radical far-right online group. The three men, part of a Facebook group known as the…
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A 20-year-old Hong Kong independence activist was facing life in prison Wednesday after becoming the youngest person convicted under the city’s national security law, but told the court he had “nothing to be ashamed of.” Tony Chung had…
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Six Iraqis sentenced to death, three for “terrorism,” were hanged on Monday in a prison in southern Iraq, a medical source said. The source said the hangings took place in Nasiriyah Prison, where death row prisoners are held. Those not…
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Three Ethiopian soldiers have been convicted of rape and one of killing a civilian in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the government said on Friday, the first public statement that soldiers had been found guilty of crimes against civilians in the…
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French court on Monday convicted former president Nicolas Sarkozy on charges of corruption and influence peddling, handing him a three-year prison sentence of which two years are suspended. Sarkozy was accused of offering to help a judge…
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