Courts in Fujian found Wei Huairen, his nephew Chen Dawei and Liao Jingfang responsible for cross-border fraud networks that handled more than 12.2 billion yuan and caused four Chinese deaths. Three other defendants received life sentences; 55 accomplices were jailed.
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi claims armed men seized him in Libya and handed him to FBI agents with a cloth hood over his head. He argues the transfer was an unlawful rendition that strips US courts of jurisdiction to try him.
A US tax filing shows Gianni Infantino was paid $1.72 million by FWC2026, the FIFA-owned company running the 2026 World Cup, on top of his declared salary. FIFA's own rules require the president's individual compensation to be made public, and a former governance chief says the omission is a clear breach.
Seven men were arrested after three vans were found near the Gloucestershire base, which the US had been using to fly bombers over the Middle East. Iran's ambassador denied any involvement.
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel had already decentralised operations away from its founder's direct control. His stepson took over without a significant violent struggle for power.
Recruited renters use real identities to take luxury trucks for five days, leave them with keys inside, then cartel operators collect them and drive to the border. California rules stop agencies activating GPS tracking until after the return deadline — enough time to reach Mexico.
The Pentagon says the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, will be broadcast on December 3. President Trump said the final call on livestreaming is his.
More than 1,500 consumers complained after their accounts were frozen or deactivated without meaningful help. The agency sent a demand for records in January; Block says it is cooperating in good faith.
Seven doctors, nurses and other staff have been on trial since April over the football legend's death in 2020. Prosecutors say warning signs were ignored and his recovery home lacked basic medical equipment.
The New York attorney general secured the lifetime ban alongside up to $35 million in conditional payments. Mashinsky is already serving a 12-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to securities and commodities fraud.
The former Philippines president had claimed cognitive decline affected his memory and daily functioning. His trial opens on 30 November, with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted.
A 19-year-old wounded nine people in Ostrołęka and a 15-year-old killed a caretaker in Leszczydół-Nowiny on consecutive days. Poland's defence minister said Russia tried to exploit the attacks with a disinformation campaign, though authorities found no foreign involvement in either.
Newly filed documents show internal researchers questioned algae biofuels and carbon capture while Exxon promoted them. The US Supreme Court heard arguments in October 2026 in a Boulder case that could shape the fate of nearly 60 similar climate lawsuits.
Serhii K., a former special forces officer, is accused of commanding the 2022 attack that ruptured three of the four pipeline strings beneath the Baltic Sea. He and Ukraine deny involvement.
Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun admitted to helping route restricted Nvidia A100 and H100 servers through Southeast Asian intermediaries to conceal Chinese end customers. A co-founder of Super Micro has denied the charge; a third defendant remains a fugitive.
Recruits were promised civilian jobs in security or construction, then forced into military service. Kenya says 84 of its nationals involved in the conflict are dead or missing.
The justices heard arguments in Suncor v. Boulder, a case brought after the 2021 Marshall Fire destroyed over 1,000 homes. The companies warn a ruling for Boulder could trigger 90,000 similar lawsuits across the country.
The publishers say OpenAI used reporting from 19 of their titles without permission to train its AI models. They want every GPT model built on their content destroyed, alongside damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work.
Teenagers recruited via Snapchat were stopped trying to plant a device near Bank of America offices in March. The FBI says the alleged organiser may have been behind 18 similar actions across Europe.
US prosecutors plan to add allegations that the pair played a role in the wrongful detention and torture of more than a dozen US citizens held in Venezuelan prisons. The new charges would widen an existing drug and weapons case against them.
His lawyers are challenging the legality of the warrants used to search his homes at Sandringham and Windsor before his arrest in February. If the court rules in his favour, evidence gathered in the searches could be barred from any future prosecution.
Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, had allegedly bought an AK-47 and 200 rounds of ammunition from an undercover FBI agent for $600. Prosecutors say he planned to kill 30 to 60 people at a Hmong Arts Celebration on 24 October.
The Hague found that Merck infringed Halozyme's drug-delivery patent and ordered MSD BV to halt manufacturing, marketing and imports of Keytruda SC in Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The intravenous version of Keytruda is not affected.
A US district judge found sufficient evidence that Saudi government employees knowingly helped the al-Qaeda hijackers, denying the kingdom's motion to dismiss. Saudi Arabia has appealed the ruling, and no trial date has been set.
Abdullah Albadri, 34, tried to climb the embassy fence in Kensington carrying two knives before armed officers stopped him. He had arrived in the UK by small boat just 16 days earlier and told police he wanted to 'do something to stop the war'.
August Hanning, 80, who ran the BND from 1998 to 2005, is alleged to have used classified documents to prepare an analysis for an Azerbaijani intelligence operative. His former office manager was arrested the same morning on suspicion of supplying around 2,000 secret documents for money.
Boulder, Colorado, filed suit against Suncor and ExxonMobil in 2018, accusing them of driving climate change and misleading the public on fossil-fuel risks. A ruling against the city could end dozens of similar cases brought by nearly 60 local governments across the country.
Prison staff used at least seven needles trying to find a vein before injecting Pike with pentobarbital, which entered body tissue rather than her bloodstream. Tennessee's correction commissioner has since resigned and the governor has suspended all executions in the state for the rest of the year.
Maduro's lawyers argue he was a head of state and is shielded from prosecution abroad. But US prosecutors say Washington stopped recognising him as president in 2019 — and Venezuela's recognised government has not sought immunity on his behalf.
Syndicates based largely in Cambodia and Myanmar have expanded from Chinese-speaking targets to victims worldwide. More than 80 nationalities have been found among people trapped in scam-centre operations.
Mexican and Colombian operatives have entered the legion on forged documents to train as FPV drone operators. Ukraine opened a formal inquiry in July 2025, and the skills they bring home are already changing how cartels fight.
ZachXBT posed as a paying client inside a Chinese crime syndicate after the $1.5 billion Bybit hack. His undercover operation traced more than $12 million in stolen funds, and Tether froze $442,000 linked to the cluster he identified.
British prosecutors say Andrew and Tristan Tate used fake relationships to recruit vulnerable women to their Romanian webcam business, then took their passports and used violence to keep control. The brothers, arrested in Miami and denied bail, face charges including rape, assault and sex trafficking.
A proposed nationwide class action filed in Chicago alleges the company used machine-learning algorithms trained on nonpublic data to coordinate prices among franchisees who may compete with one another. McDonald's says AI does not set its prices and that store owners make their own pricing decisions.
The court accuses Habibullah Agha and Neda Mohammad Nadeem of crimes against humanity for policies that have kept girls over 12 out of school and barred women from universities since 2021. All four suspects remain in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, which rejects the court's authority.
The court finds reasonable grounds to believe the Taliban's supreme leader, its chief judge and two education ministers persecuted women, girls and others who did not conform with Taliban gender policies. Enforcement will be difficult: all four remain inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
The men and boys, some as young as 12, spent years in Kurdish-run prisons before being moved to Iraqi custody. Human Rights Watch warns of overcrowding, allegations of torture, and trials that could end in the death penalty.
Jane Doe, 20, says seven men assaulted her after she was pressured to take ketamine and arrived severely intoxicated. New York's governor has appointed the state attorney general to take over the investigation, saying she had lost faith in the county prosecutor.
Wanying "Heather" Zhang, 34, was stopped at the airport before a flight to Shanghai. The FBI says she photographed the target's home and told a handler on WeChat: "Saw him. I am videorecording."
New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading the coalition, which argues that scrapping requirements for coal- and gas-fired plants to cut greenhouse gas emissions will set climate protections back decades.
Amir Barati was detained in Kotor after Interpol and Montenegrin police acted on a US request. Prosecutors say he helped steal 31 terabytes of data from universities and companies, causing an estimated $3.4 billion in damage.
Boulder, Colorado, is one of dozens of local governments trying to hold fossil-fuel producers financially responsible for climate damages. The city hopes its case becomes an environmental counterpart to the litigation that brought billions in settlements from Big Tobacco and opioid makers.
Two young mothers and five children, all aged seven and under, have been living in tents in Gaza after the Home Office wrongly blocked them from travelling to the UK. A tribunal judge ruled their children's best interests must come first.
Simultaneous raids on two sites in Mindanao seized computers, phones and SIM cards. Investigators are now looking into possible human trafficking offences, and all those arrested face deportation proceedings.
The case alleges Google used its grip on Android app distribution to exclude rivals and overcharge developers and consumers for more than a decade. A £260 million settlement for developers was approved just two weeks before trial, but the main claim presses on.
Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, was detained in Naha's entertainment district on Saturday after security footage showed a man leaving the hotel with Anna Yagi's belongings. Japan's prime minister has lodged a formal protest, and the case has renewed Okinawan anger over decades of crimes involving US military personnel.
The class action alleges the government knew the fires were coming and failed to act. It seeks a national disaster declaration to unlock emergency funds as the haze spreads to Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.
A US federal court rejected calls to split up Google or sell Chrome, settling instead for limits on its search deals and data-sharing rules. Two appeals are pending, and a ruling on Google's ad technology empire is still to come.
The blaze broke out Saturday afternoon in the Angeles National Forest and spread quickly through brush, threatening homes. Some mandatory evacuation orders were downgraded to warnings by 5:30pm.
Roger Mariaca was detained on drug trafficking and money laundering charges after the US imposed visa restrictions over bribery allegations. His own office called the arrest illegal.
A Florida woman charged with voting illegally in 2020 had her case dismissed after the judge found Congress has no constitutional authority to set voter qualifications — only states do. The ruling could complicate the Trump administration's push to prosecute noncitizens for voting, with about 45 similar cases pending across the country.
A filing has been made against the London Good Delivery system, which sets the standards that determine which refineries can supply gold to the world's largest bullion market. The claimant, the allegations and the stage of proceedings have not been identified.
Greg Lui, owner of Earthmade Computer Inc., allegedly used false documents and routed shipments through Malaysia and Singapore to conceal China as the true destination. Prosecutors say the scheme ran between 2023 and 2024 and are seeking to keep him in custody pending trial.
A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled the warrantless Flock query gave police a month's worth of a driver's movements and amounted to mass surveillance. She suppressed the camera records and everything found in the subsequent vehicle search.
American and Lithuanian security services told Garry Kasparov his life was in danger over the summer. The US Justice Department has charged five people linked to a network accused of plotting killings in multiple countries at the Kremlin's behest.
The 18-year-old former students also wounded three people, including a student who lost a hand. The motive has not been established.
The Omani co-pilot attacked the pilot on a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight carrying 174 people, sending the Boeing 737 plunging from 33,000 feet to 17,000 feet in under a minute. Investigators are now asking whether he used a crash axe stored in the cockpit — equipment that every commercial airliner is required to carry.
Rahman Salehi and Salam Ahmadyan were arrested on 20 September, the eve of Yom Kippur, and are accused of sourcing explosive components and carrying out reconnaissance on possible targets. Police say they see no ongoing threat to the public.
The Independent Community Bankers of America is asking a federal court to revoke an OCC rule that lets crypto firms obtain national bank charters. The group says it gives digital asset companies the legitimacy of a federal charter without the capital, insurance and oversight requirements traditional banks must meet.
Joshua Kerry, 28, already faces a murder charge over the death of the former Conservative minister in July. He now faces a separate terrorism charge over alleged plans that included Reform UK's leader, Nigel Farage.
Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order removing the Tompkins County district attorney after Cornell police left the victim's rape allegation out of material sent to prosecutors. Attorney General Letitia James will now lead the investigation and may bring the case to a grand jury.
The designation bars US banks from making transfers involving A7's foreign shell companies. Iran's Revolutionary Guard and central bank were also found to have used the network's services.
Flight FZ1073, carrying more than 170 people from Dubai to Tel Aviv, plunged 17,000ft before making an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. Netanyahu said the attacker had been radically indoctrinated and that it was looking 'very likely' he intended to crash the plane.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said there are strong indications Iran played a part in the incident near the American bomber base in southwest England. Iran's embassy in London called the allegation unfounded. Five British men arrested near the base on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack have been released on bail.
A new report documents unlawful killings, torture and drone strikes across the Ségou, Mopti and Timbuktu regions between 2023 and 2025. Two FAMa airstrikes alone killed at least 23 people, including five children.
The Spanish airline was fined €225,000 — the maximum penalty — after a Paris court found its training failures contributed to the loss of Air Algérie flight AH5017 over Mali. Spanish prosecutors had previously closed their own investigation without charges.
Three attackers opened fire on a gathering in KwaMakhutha township, killing a pregnant woman among the dead. The shooting comes as police separately investigate nine unsolved murders of women in Ekurhuleni.
The Abu Dhabi Declaration, agreed by acclamation at the UN's largest crime congress, sets out 67 initiatives covering cybercrime, trafficking, corruption and criminal asset recovery. It calls for AI to be used in justice systems, but only with human oversight and data protections in place.
A Santa Fe jury found over 43 million violations of New Mexico's consumer protection law, ruling that Facebook misled users about how it protected their personal data. The judge will set penalties at a hearing on Oct. 1; the state is seeking the maximum $5,000 per violation.
The ICRC has been denied access to Palestinians held in Israeli facilities for more than a year, with talks on restoring visits still ongoing and no timetable given. Palestinian women at Damon Prison described being denied water, showers and medical care, while Israel's national security minister said reduced conditions were intentional.
At least 70 Indian nationals were allegedly brought to the Netherlands and five other countries as chefs, then made to work up to 80 hours a week in non-chef roles for well below legal wages. Restaurant owners are suspected of making over €4 million in unlawful profits.
Prosecutors in Dortmund are looking at his alleged role at Stalag 326 in Senne, one of the largest Nazi PoW camps, where up to 70,000 prisoners are thought to have died. No charges have been filed and prosecutors have not set out his alleged individual role.
The hacking group claims it exploited a vulnerability in FBI recruitment systems and released a sample covering roughly 5,000 agents and job applicants, partially verified by Reuters and 404 Media. The FBI says it is investigating unauthorised activity on its jobs site but has not confirmed a wider breach.
Mahamat Said Abdel Kani was found guilty on four counts, including torture and persecution of prisoners in Bangui. He is the first Seleka member to be convicted by the court; sentencing will be set at a separate hearing.
The children were toddlers in Crimean orphanages when Russia seized the peninsula in 2014. They were granted Russian citizenship and placed with adoptive families — and Ukrainian authorities have had no information about them since.
A High Court found the men guilty on all charges, including murder and conspiracy to commit terrorism, after a five-year trial. Sentencing was due later on Tuesday.
Fourteen defendants were found guilty on all counts, including murder and terrorism charges, after a five-year trial. Each of the 15 received a 220-year prison term.
Three British World Central Kitchen workers were killed when Israeli drones hit their convoy in Gaza on 1 April 2024. The coroner is considering giving the Israeli military and the commanding officer formal standing in the proceedings, which may also examine a RAF surveillance flight over Gaza that day and alleged UK-made components in the drone used.
Prison officials rejected Lasha Bugadze's The Observer for a jailed activist, claiming the title was ambiguous. PEN Georgia said the decision was political, not literary.
Dr Vincent Brown, 65, formerly known as Dr Vincent Bajinya, faces one count of conduct ancillary to genocide and six counts of conduct ancillary to murder as a crime against humanity. Prosecutors allege he directed and incited killings carried out by others in Kigali in April 1994.
They will face trial in Florida, where four men were convicted in May. The case has produced 30 indictments, and prosecutors say they are not finished pursuing those who financed or supported the 2021 killing of Jovenel Moïse.
Every Crown Court will set aside at least one courtroom for rape and serious sexual offence cases. Fixed trial dates, private victim entrances and trauma-informed staff training are all part of the plan, with specialist police teams across all forces due by December 2027.
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was shot once in the torso and is in serious but stable condition. Whether he was armed or posed an imminent threat remains unknown, and Austin police were not part of the operation.
The company is contesting Ofcom's decision to place WhatsApp and Instagram in a higher-duty category, its use of global revenue to calculate charges, and its demands for internal data. TikTok, X, Roblox and Quora are also challenging parts of the Act's rollout, which begins in April.
An arbitrator ruled that Uber, as a common carrier, could not escape responsibility for the actions of its driver by hiding behind Proposition 22. Emily Normandin-Parker, 23, was struck and killed after being abandoned at a roadside on State Route 73 in Orange County in 2023.
The lawsuit claims that public statements by the companies' chief executives amounted to an illegal agreement to hold back product improvements. The defendants together account for roughly 80% of paid consumer AI subscriptions, though the allegations have yet to be tested in court.
Isaac Herzog erased Elor Azaria's manslaughter conviction on the eve of Yom Kippur, citing the passage of time and regret expressed by the former soldier. Azaria had served two-thirds of an 18-month sentence for the 2016 shooting in Hebron.
Mohammed Sharifullah scouted a road to Kabul airport hours before the 2021 attack, reporting it clear. Jurors convicted him of supporting ISIS-K but deadlocked on whether his actions directly caused the deaths — ruling out a life sentence.
A US federal judge rejected calls to force Google to sell its AdX advertising exchange, ordering conduct changes and six years of antitrust oversight instead. The Justice Department had also sought a 15-year compliance period.
Tierra Walker, 37 and 20 weeks pregnant, requested an abortion and was turned away at a San Antonio hospital. She died two days later. Her family's lawsuit is the first to directly name the Texas attorney general over a death linked to the state's abortion ban.
Newly unredacted filings in The New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal warnings about paywall circumvention, copyright removal and the effect of AI on publishers. Microsoft's own data showed Copilot sent 93% fewer readers to the Times than traditional search.
The men were arrested in Niger State earlier this week on suspicion of illegal mining. Officials suspect disease, but an intelligence report points to overcrowding and poor ventilation — and the true cause remains undetermined.
NewsChopper4 crashed in Chatsworth on Tuesday night, killing journalists Eliana Moreno and George Marciniw along with a third person whose identity has not been released. The cause of the crash is not yet known.
Adjoining shafts gave way in sequence at the informal al-Zaraa mine near al-Nuhud, burying dozens of workers in loose, sandy soil. No specialised rescue teams have reached the site, and the death toll may rise.
The bodies were discovered across Ekurhuleni, east of the city, with most victims found partly clothed or naked. Police have not confirmed a serial killer but say the similarities are concerning enough to issue a public warning and form a specialist investigation team.
The group, which calls itself iamnotavillain, obtained data on around 680 customers by sending fraudulent requests through a compromised Italian government email system. It has threatened to sell identity documents and financial records unless Revolut pays in cryptocurrency within 24 hours.
Five of the nine bodies turned up within four days this week, all in the Ekurhuleni municipality. Police have not confirmed the deaths are linked, but say the similarities were concerning enough to warn the public.
The Justice Department says the network recruited operatives to assassinate Russian dissidents in the US and Lithuania, and to attack infrastructure in countries supporting Ukraine. All five defendants remain at large.
The 81-year-old former Philippine president sat silent at the ICC in The Hague as his defence team argued severe memory loss makes him unfit to stand trial. Prosecutors say he is fit to face crimes against humanity charges over killings linked to his anti-drug campaign.
The international tribunal in The Hague found him guilty of murdering 96 political opponents, illegally detaining 385 people and torturing more than 300 during the 1998-1999 war for independence from Serbia. Thaci later became a central figure in Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence.
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