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Italy mobsters get decades in jail in major mafia trial

Posted on November 7, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

Rome, Nov 6 (AFP/APP):Italy struck an early blow Saturday against the country’s powerful ‘Ndrangheta organised crime group, convicting 70 mobsters and others in a first, crucial test of the largest mafia trial in more than three decades. Judge Claudio Paris read out verdicts and sentences […]

Israel troops kill teen in West Bank: Palestinian ministry

Posted on November 6, 2021 by News Desk

Jerusalem, Nov 5 (AFP/APP):A 13-year-old Palestinian was shot and fatally wounded Friday by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. It said Mohammed Daadas died in hospital after being shot in the stomach during clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli […]

UK probe rejects submarine link to French trawler sinking

Posted on November 6, 2021 by News Desk

London, Nov 5 (AFP/APP):A British coroner on Friday concluded that the 2004 sinking of a French fishing trawler in UK waters, which killed five people, was an accident, rejecting claims it had been dragged down by a submarine. The inquest was held to re-examine the […]

One dead, offices torched in eastern DR Congo city

Posted on November 6, 2021 by News Desk

Goma, DR Congo, Nov 5 (AFP/APP):One person was killed and government and police service offices set on fire on Friday in a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by residents angry at kidnappings, an official said. “All the state service offices were set on […]

Air Canada boss in hot water over lack of French proficiency

Posted on November 5, 2021 by News Desk

Montreal, Nov 4 (AFP/APP):The chief executive of Canada’s flagship airline, Air Canada, apologized Thursday for his lack of French proficiency after the revelation landed him in hot water in Quebec — a staunch defender of the language of Moliere. Michael Rousseau pledged he would work […]

Source for dossier tying Trump 2016 to Russia arrested

Posted on November 5, 2021 by News Desk

Washington, Nov 4 (AFP/APP):A Russia expert who was a key source for the explosive dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele that purportedly documented ties between Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign and Moscow was arrested Thursday, the US Justice Department said. Igor Danchenko, a consultant […]

UK man admits 1987 murders, scores of necrophilia crimes

Posted on November 5, 2021 by News Desk

London, Nov 4 (AFP/APP):A hospital electrician in Britain pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering then sexually assaulting two women in 1987 before, decades later, carrying out scores of sex attacks on corpses in mortuaries. David Fuller admitted strangling 25-year-old Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce, 20, in […]

Death toll in Lagos high-rise collapse rises to 36: emergency services

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

Lagos, Nov 4 (AFP/APP):The death toll in a collapsed high-rise in an upscale area of Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos has risen to 36, the emergency services said Thursday. “So far, 36 people — 33 males and three females — have been confirmed dead, while there […]

One migrant dead, one missing as 400 plucked from Channel

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

Lille, France, Nov 4 (AFP/APP):One migrant died and one went missing as more than 400 were rescued after their vessels sank in the Channel en route to Britain, French authorities said on Thursday. “More than 400 people were saved. Unfortunately, despite efforts, one is missing […]

Bali ‘suitcase murder’ accomplice arrested in US after return

Posted on November 4, 2021 by News Desk

Washington, Nov 3 (AFP/APP):A Chicago woman who spent seven years jailed in Bali for helping kill her mother at a luxury hotel was arrested Wednesday upon her return from Indonesia, the Justice Department said. Heather Mack, 26, was taken into custody when she arrived at […]

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Italy mobsters get decades in jail in major mafia trial

Israel troops kill teen in West Bank: Palestinian ministry

UK probe rejects submarine link to French trawler sinking

One dead, offices torched in eastern DR Congo city

Air Canada boss in hot water over lack of French proficiency

Source for dossier tying Trump 2016 to Russia arrested

UK man admits 1987 murders, scores of necrophilia crimes

Death toll in Lagos high-rise collapse rises to 36: emergency services

One migrant dead, one missing as 400 plucked from Channel

Bali ‘suitcase murder’ accomplice arrested in US after return

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