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
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
CNN — At least six people were injured in an attack at Paris’s Gare du Nord train station early on Wednesday, restricting access to one of the French capital’s main rail hubs. An individual began attacking people at 6:42 a.m. local time and was neutralized a minute later, according to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. … Read more
