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744 storiesCalifornia 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…
Samsung Biologics union seeks direct bargaining with Samsung Electronics
The Samsung Biologics Sangsaeng labor union said it sent Samsung Electronics a formal request for collective bargaining over personnel and compensation systems, arguing the larger company is a de facto employer. It asked Samsung Electronics…
Case opened in Russia’s Syzran over reported beating of children at camp
Russian authorities opened a criminal case after reports that children were beaten at a camp in Syzran, official outlets reported. Social media posts cited by TASS said a counselor beat two brothers with autism. A State Duma deputy from the…
Cornell protests grow; faculty push no-confidence vote over rape case handling
Students at Cornell University protested Monday and Tuesday over the school's handling of an alleged 2024 gang rape at the Chi Phi fraternity, after activists vandalized the Day Hall administration building with red-painted messages and a s…
Trump announces $6.6B Anduril-Navy shipyard in Baltimore for submarine components
President Trump announced a $6.6 billion project by Anduril Industries and the US government to build a shipyard at Sparrows Point near Baltimore for Virginia-class submarine components. Anduril is investing $3.7 billion and the Navy holds …
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…
Hyundai Mobis winter-testing documentary wins global content awards
Hyundai Mobis said its documentary “Why Fight Cold?”, filmed at a Swedish winter test site where temperatures fall to minus 40 degrees Celsius, has won at global content awards. The company said the roughly 20-minute film took three top awa…
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 …
Couple in their 60s found dead in Naju house; police seek suspect
A couple in their 60s were found dead at a house in Naju, in the Jeonnam-Gwangju region, according to police reports carried by several South Korean outlets on Oct 6. Local reports described the bodies as bound and said police believe the c…
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…
Pianist Kyohei Sorita indicted over 144 km/h speeding; admits charge, verdict 29 Oct
Pianist Kyohei Sorita, 32, has been indicted on-home for driving at 144 km/h on the Shuto Expressway in Tokyo on 20 December last year, 84 km/h over the 60 km/h limit. At a first hearing at the Tokyo District Court on 6 October, prosecutors…
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,…
Japan antitrust watchdog raids Asahi, Kirin, Suntory, Sapporo over beer price cartel
Japan's Fair Trade Commission began a forced investigation on Oct 7 into Asahi Beer, Kirin Beer, Suntory and Sapporo Beer on suspicion of an Antimonopoly Act violation over beer prices. The four are suspected of coordinating wholesale price…
Christa Pike conscious and speaking after failed Tennessee execution, lawyers say
Christa Pike, 50, is conscious and speaking and receiving critical medical care nearly a week after Tennessee's attempt to execute her with the drug pentobarbital failed, her attorneys said Tuesday. They said her prognosis remains unclear, …
Tennessee Republicans weigh new execution methods after botched lethal injection
Some of Tennessee's top Republicans said they want to explore alternative ways of executing condemned prisoners after the failed execution of Christa Pike on Sept. 30, in which a large dose of pentobarbital did not kill her. Gov. Bill Lee h…
Former German BND chief August Hanning arrested on espionage suspicion
August Hanning, the former president of Germany's foreign intelligence service (BND), was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of treasonous espionage, spying out state secrets, attempted treason and espionage, the federal prosecutor's office s…
US forces in Okinawa order 48-hour pause and night curfew after Marine arrest
The top US commander in Okinawa, Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson, ordered a 48-hour suspension of operations for US military personnel in the prefecture from noon on 7 October to noon on 9 October, with off-base outings and drinking on and off bas…
2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded for optogenetics
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, the Nobel Foundation announced on October 5. The technique l…
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…
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…