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Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday before a planned supporters’ vigil near his home, ending months of house arrest as …
Read More »Long-serving inmate with history of prison hostage-takings sentenced in Nova Scotia
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A 43-year-old convicted murderer incarcerated since a teen has been handed an additional 12 months behind bars for confining two correctional guards, with a Nova Scotia judge …
Read More »Niagara family, mayor call for hotelier Jimmy Lai’s release from Hong Kong prison as G7 ministers set to meet
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. As G7 foreign ministers prepare to meet in Ontario’s Niagara Region, family of hotel owner Jimmy Lai and Niagara-on-the-Lake’s lord mayor are calling for the pro-democracy activist’s …
Read More »Israeli military’s former top lawyer arrested days after resigning over leaked video of alleged prison abuse
Israeli police have arrested a former top military chief legal officer, days after she handed in her resignation over a criminal inquiry into a leaked video that shows soldiers allegedly abusing a Palestinian detainee. Maj.-Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was arrested Sunday night, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir confirmed Tuesday. Her …
Read More »Palestinian man says he wishes he could see family, Gaza after losing eyesight in prison
Mahmoud Abu Foul returned to Gaza after spending more than nine months in Israeli detention. But when he was back on home soil, amid hundreds of people who had gathered to greet the released detainees, he could not even look around to find his family because he lost his eyesight …
Read More »Man behind PowerSchool breach that exposed Canadian students’ data sentenced to 4 years in prison
A Massachusetts man who breached the network of education software provider PowerSchool to steal data belonging to millions of students and teachers and extort the company was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison. Matthew Lane, 20, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Margaret Guzman in Worcester, Mass., after he pleaded guilty in …
Read More »Yulia Navalnaya says lab tests show Alexei Navalny was poisoned in prison
Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said that foreign laboratory tests on biological samples obtained from her husband showed that he was poisoned. Navalny, 47, died suddenly on February 16, 2024, in a Russian prison in the Arctic Circle, depriving the opposition of its most …
Read More »Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for plotting coup
A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison Thursday after convicting him of attempting a coup to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat. The far-right politician who governed Brazil between 2019 and 2022 was found guilty …
Read More »On bail for ‘astonishing’ $48M crypto theft, Hamilton teen kept stealing. He’s now an adult in U.S. prison
A Hamilton man has been imprisoned for one year in the U.S. after pleading guilty to a 2022 cryptocurrency theft spree that targeted as many as 200 people and netted more than $1 million Cdn. His latest thefts occurred while he was on bail for a separate crime he committed …
Read More »Australian woman gets life in prison for fatal mushroom poisoning of in-laws
An Australian judge on Monday sentenced triple-murderer Erin Patterson to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms. Justice Christopher Beale told the Victoria state Supreme Court Patterson’s crimes involved an enormous betrayal of trust. Patterson was …
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