CNN — The Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug and a racketeering co-defendant conducted a melee drug deal during a court hearing, prosecutors said in a motion filed in Atlanta. Fulton County prosecutors said the alleged exchange was captured on courtroom surveillance video Wednesday. The rapper, real name Jeffery Lamar Williams, and Kahlieff Adams are charged with … Read more
CNN — Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke in a California courtroom on Friday to testify in the trial over his controversial “funding secured” tweet in 2018. Tesla (TSLA), Musk and corporate leaders are facing a shareholder lawsuit over his infamous 2018 tweet, which said he was considering taking Tesla (TSLA) private at a price of … Read more
CNN — An Iranian man who beheaded his 17-year-old wife in February 2022 was sentenced to just eight years and two months in prison on Wednesday, according to the country’s semi-official website Khabar Online, drawing criticism over the leniency of the prison sentence. Following the teenager’s murder, a video began circulating online of her husband, … Read more
Jerusalem CNN — Israel’s top court ruled 10-1 on Wednesday that Aryeh Deri, leader of the Shas party and key ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, should not be allowed to serve as a minister due to a February 2022 conviction. for tax evasion. Netanyahu should remove Deri from his post, according to the court’s … Read more
CNN — After University of Alabama basketball player Darius Miles was charged with murder in the death of a 23-year-old mother and removed from the team, relatives of the victim say she was killed shot when she refused to let a man try to flirt with her. Miles, 21, and Michael Lynn Davis, 20, were … Read more
CNN — University of Alabama basketball player Darius Miles has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with a shooting near campus on Sunday that left a 23-year-old woman dead, U.S. forces said. Order of Tuscaloosa. “We have been made aware of the recent charge against student-athlete Darius Miles, and he is no longer … Read more
Roma/Milan CNN — Matteo Messina Denaro, one of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia bosses and Italy’s most wanted man, was arrested by police while being treated at a private clinic in Palermo, the prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia. He had been on the run since 1993 and was considered by Europol to be one of Europe’s most … Read more
London CNN — A serving officer with London’s Metropolitan Police has admitted 49 offences, including 24 counts of rape over an 18-year period, reigniting calls for urgent reform of the UK’s biggest police force. David Carrick appeared at Southwark Crown Court in the British capital on Monday to plead guilty to four counts of rape, … Read more
CNN — A dual British-Iranian citizen has been hanged by Iran for espionage and corruption, a state-affiliated media reported on Saturday, the latest in a string of executions by a regime grappling with unprecedented protests in across the country. Iranian official Alireza Akbari was executed for crimes including “corruption on earth”, according to Iranian justice-affiliated … Read more
President Joko Widodo on Wednesday expressed deep regret for gross human rights abuses during Indonesia’s tumultuous postcolonial past, dating back to the massacre of suspected communists and sympathizers in the mid-1960s. At least half a million people died, some historians and activists say, in the violence that began in late 1965 when the military launched … Read more
