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54 storiesSouth Korean court acquits former president Yoon Suk Yeol in political funds appeal
The Seoul High Court acquitted former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol on October 7 in the appeal of a case under the Political Funds Act, overturning his first-instance conviction. Prosecutors had alleged he and his wife Kim Keon Hee r…
Christa Pike awake after failed execution; attorneys seek Tennessee records
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike has regained consciousness after the state's failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection on Sept. 30, and her attorneys were due in court Wednesday seeking more information about what went wrong…
Seoul appeals court to rule in ex-President Yoon's free opinion poll case
A Seoul appeals court is due to deliver its verdict on Oct 7 in the political funds case against former President Yoon Suk Yeol, accused of receiving 58 free opinion polls from political broker Myung Tae-kyun. The first trial sentenced Yoon…
Three friends of Nolan Wells sue Terrell Owens for defamation
Three friends of Nolan Wells, a Black college student who went missing from a Mississippi island on the Fourth of July and was later found dead, are suing NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens for defamation. The federal lawsuit, filed Monday by …
Four former Sanko Seika executives indicted over 2022 fire that killed six
Niigata District Public Prosecutors Office indicted four former executives of rice-cracker maker Sanko Seika, including former CEO Motoyasu Sato (56), on charges of professional negligence resulting in death over a February 2022 fire at its…
California couple charged with child abuse in surrogacy case involving 21 children
Guojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Zhang, 39, were arrested Tuesday at their Arcadia, California, home and charged with child abuse, conspiracy to commit child abuse, accessory after the fact and dissuading a witness, Los Angeles County District A…
Japan police rearrest man over murder of woman found dead with daughter in Nara
Mie prefectural police on Oct. 7 rearrested a 37-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of murdering his 44-year-old partner, whose body was found with her 20-year-old daughter's in Nara City in July. Investigators allege he strangled the wom…
US charges Washington state resident in Canada school shooting case
US authorities arrested and charged James Cody Bryant, 30, of Bellingham, Washington, with conspiring to murder people in a foreign country over the Feb. 10 school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. Officials say Bryant communicat…
Texas set to execute Jamaal Howard for 2000 killing of store clerk
Texas is set to execute Jamaal Howard, 46, by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2000 fatal shooting of convenience store clerk Vickie Swartout, 42, during a robbery in Silsbee. It would be the 30th execution in the U.S. this year and th…
Three arrested in Chiba over unauthorized embankment tied to Typhoon 25 landslide
Chiba Prefectural Police arrested three men on Oct. 7 on suspicion of violating the prefecture's residual soil ordinance over an unauthorized embankment on private land in Ichihara City. The site covered about 10,000 square meters and the e…
Tokyo court gives lawyer suspended sentence over Momuri referrals
The Tokyo District Court on Oct 7 sentenced Satō Hideki, 49, representative of the Tokyo law firm Miyabi, to two years in prison suspended for three years and fined the firm 2 million yen for accepting paid brokerage of legal affairs in vio…
Appeal rejected: 1 year 6 months for driver who dragged police officer 200m
A South Korean appeals court upheld a 1 year 6 month prison sentence for a 53-year-old driver who dragged a police officer on his car for more than 200m during a drunk-driving stop in Jeonju. The Gwangju High Court's Jeonju bench dismissed …
Osaka police re-arrest ex-Takenaka official over Expo Grand Ring billing
Osaka prefectural police on Oct 7 re-arrested Kawai Tatsumi, 61, a former general construction office manager at Takenaka Corporation, on suspicion of breach of trust over inflated billing on Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai work, this time on the Gr…
Georgia detains man accused of trying to sell uranium-238 for $700,000
Georgia's State Security Service said it detained a Georgian citizen who planned to sell uranium-238 to a foreign citizen for $700,000. The service said it is investigating under Article 230 of Georgia's Criminal Code, which carries up to 1…
Police raid Democratic Party Gyeonggi office in Suwon mayor election inquiry
Police raided the Democratic Party of Korea's Gyeonggi provincial party office in Suwon's Paldal-gu on October 7, seizing documents and computer hard disks. The raid is part of an investigation into alleged Public Official Election Act viol…
Prosecutors seek 12 years for man accused of slashing NHK party leader Tachibana
Tokyo prosecutors asked the Tokyo District Court on Oct. 7 to sentence 宮西詩音, 32, to 12 years for the attempted murder of NHKから国民を守る党 leader 立花孝志, who was slashed with a nata in Kasumigaseki in March last year. The defense argued for five ye…
Tokyo police rearrest influencer “Yamatorino” and partner over cocaine use
Tokyo police rearrested Tazawa Rino, 27, who performs as “Yamatorino,” and her live-in partner Fukumoto Kota, 28, on Oct. 7 on suspicion of using cocaine and ketamine, Sankei Shimbun and broadcasters reported. The two had already been arres…
Tokyo police arrest 80-year-old gang boss over unlicensed beach house in Chiba
Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department arrested Hirabayashi Yoshinori, 80, on suspicion of violating the Coast Act by running a beach house without permission at a beach in Ichinomiya, Chiba Prefecture. Yomiuri and Nippon TV reported that h…
US military in Okinawa pauses operations, imposes curfew after Marine's arrest
The U.S. military in Okinawa is pausing operations for 48 hours and restricting personnel from leaving base after a Marine was arrested on suspicion of killing a local woman. Bloomberg reported the pause begins at noon Wednesday and is pair…
Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan to be executed by firing squad Dec. 3
The U.S. Army has set Dec. 3, 2026, for the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle said the execution will take place at Fort Hood,…