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After nearly three decades on death row, Louisiana inmate Jimmie Duncan is free on $150,000 bail after his conviction for murdering a child was overturned.

The Senate accepted Alejandro Gertz Manero’s early resignation despite opposition claims that a diplomatic posting doesn’t meet the legal threshold, as his exit follows a controversial ambassadorship offer and leaves several high-profile investigations unresolved.

Poland scrambled fighter jets early today as Russia subjected Kyiv to one of the most intense attacks of the entire war.

In a statement Thursday, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the measures mark the country’s first independent sanctions regarding transnational crime and the “largest single sanction measure in history”.

A search is underway for a British tourist who reportedly fell from a TUI-operated cruise ship north of the Canary Islands. Today, Spanish authorities confirmed the man who went overboard was a 76-year-old from the ‘British Isles’.

A British father-of-one died after a jet ski crashed into him while his partner and baby watched, an inquest has heard.

The fire, which began just before 3pm and quickly swept through the bamboo-scaffolded Wang Fuk Court complex, plunged Hong Kong into mourning. In response, leader John Lee has cancelled or postponed all major citywide events.

Four luxury cars were completely destroyed in a fire at a private parking lot, with damages estimated at around €1 million. Investigators are treating the incident as arson.

Khabib Nurmagomedov’s sudden purge of all Telegram-related posts has ignited a scandal, exposing his joint NFT “papakha” project with Pavel Durov as one of 2025’s most blatant rug pulls.

Donald Trump has declared that every Afghan national who entered the US in the last five years will be investigated after two National Guard soldiers were shot near the White House by ’a man who worked with the CIA’.

In August 2025, media reported on its Telegram channel that Sergei Chemezov — a longtime associate of Vladimir Putin and head of the state corporation Rostec — privately assured members of his inner circle that the war would end by November 18, 2025.

At least 10 people have died after torrential rain unleashed flash floods and triggered landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island.

Media are reporting the mysterious death of Tatyana Davydova — the personal assistant of political technologist Vartan Sarkisov, CEO and co-owner of the consulting and PR firm IMA-Consulting, which services Kremlin structures, the Moscow mayor’s office, and others.

Yanis Varoufakis, the firebrand economist who rose to fame at the height of Greece’s debt drama, was not only egotistical but ultimately more interested in testing out his game theories on the nation than winning its battle to keep afloat.

Balluku and two subordinates are accused of directing multimillion-euro tenders to predetermined winners.

Australia’s Senate was suspended for more than an hour on Monday after a far-right senator entered the chamber wearing a burqa, sparking widespread outrage.

Spain’s chief prosecutor has announced his resignation after the supreme court found him guilty last week of leaking confidential information in a case involving a businessman who is the boyfriend of a prominent right-wing politician.

Two men planned to invade a Caribbean island to take sex slaves and live out their violent ’rape fantasies’, prosecutors have said.

"Everything is fine with the security forces in Russia, believe me."

Companies owned by fintech entrepreneur Ozan Özerk are under investigation in Turkey for alleged money laundering.

Alexander Smbatyan, an advisor and friend of the Deputy Mayor of Moscow, has acquired a company in the UK. The firm was previously owned by two entrepreneurs from Russia and Belarus, the founders of the international tech conference Emerge.

Secondary school teachers in Greece are preparing to undergo an intensive course on using artificial intelligence tools as the country takes a leading role in integrating AI into its education system.