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Washington (AFP) - La condamnation à 20 ans de prison pour pédopornographie du chanteur américain R. Kelly, star déchue du R&B déjà condamné à 30 ans de prison pour crimes sexuels, a été confirmée en appel. Une cour fédérale à Chicago a rejeté vendredi les arguments de la défense de Robert Sylvester Kelly, 57 ans, qui invoquait le dépassement du délai de prescription pour les poursuites. L'artiste, mondialement connu pour son tube "I Believe I Can Fly" et ses 75 millions de disques vendus, avait longtemps régné sur le R&B malgré des soupçons d'agressions sexuelles. Il avait été reconnu coupabl...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - One of two paramedics who injected a young Black man with ketamine as he was put in a chokehold by US police was sentenced Friday to 14 months in jail with work release and probation, in the final chapter of a case that became a clarion call in the Black Lives Matter movement. Jeremy Cooper had been convicted in December of criminally negligent homicide over the death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old who died several days after a struggle with police in Colorado. He had suffered a cardiac arrest in the ambulance in the moments after his forceful arrest. At a court ...
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Authorities in Florida released body-worn camera footage of the Thursday, April 25 capture of a suspect who has allegedly confessed to the murders of a woman and child who were found dead on Wednesday. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office responded to a call Wednesday evening from a neighbor who found 36-year-old Amalia Coc Choc de Pec dead outside a mobile home on the 3700 block of Sumner Road in Dover. Officers arrived to a "gruesome" scene, according to ABC Action News. They found the woman deceased with "severe blunt-force trauma," and iside the mobile home they found 4-year-old Estrel...
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Authorities in Florida released body-worn camera footage of the Thursday, April 25 capture of a suspect who has allegedly confessed to the murders of a woman and child who were found dead on Wednesday. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office responded to a call Wednesday evening from a neighbor who found 36-year-old Amalia Coc Choc de Pec dead outside a mobile home on the 3700 block of Sumner Road in Dover. Officers arrived to a "gruesome" scene, according to ABC Action News. They found the woman deceased with "severe blunt-force trauma," and iside the mobile home they found 4-year-old Estrel...
Knewz (CA)
Authorities in Florida released body-worn camera footage of the Thursday, April 25 capture of a suspect who has allegedly confessed to the murders of a woman and child who were found dead on Wednesday. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office responded to a call Wednesday evening from a neighbor who found 36-year-old Amalia Coc Choc de Pec dead outside a mobile home on the 3700 block of Sumner Road in Dover. Officers arrived to a "gruesome" scene, according to ABC Action News. They found the woman deceased with "severe blunt-force trauma," and iside the mobile home they found 4-year-old Estrel...
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European authorities say they have rounded up a criminal gang who stole rare antique books worth €2.5 million from libraries across Europe. In a press release, Europol announced they had arrested four Georgian nationals in Georgia and Lithuania who are thought to have collaborated in the plot, in which at least 170 books were stolen. "In 2022 and 2023, the criminal group managed to steal rare books from national and historical libraries in Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Switzerland," Europol explained in its account of the arrests. "The thieves would ...
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The European Parliament voted in Strasbourg on Thursday to set up a new body for ethical standards to combat corruption in European Union institutions and monitor rules on lobbying and corruption. The agreement was reached between the eight main EU institutions, each of which has still to sign it. To date they have monitored their own affairs internally Parliament was prompted to act by the December 2022 Qatar corruption scandal that saw Belgian prosecutors investigating Greek politician Eva Kaili, who had served as one of the parliament's 14 vice presidents since the start of that year, along...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Arizona has charged 18 people over a scheme to subvert the 2020 election in favor of Donald Trump, the state's attorney general said Wednesday, with US media identifying the ex-president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani among those indicted. The felony indictments, which allege a conspiracy to award Arizona's slate of electors to the defeated real estate magnate, are the latest effort by a state to hold accountable those who backed Trump's false claim that he won the presidential vote. Arizona's Attorney General Kris Mayes said a grand jury had returned indictments on 11 local Republ...
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Three local radio journalists in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost have been detained for allegedly broadcasting music and taking phone calls from female listeners, a media watchdog reported on Wednesday. In a statement, the Afghanistan Journalist Centre (AFJC) expressed concern and demanded their immediate and unconditional release. The detained journalists are Ismail Sadat of Naz Radio, Wahidullah Masoum of Iqra Radio, and Ihsanullah Tasal of Walus Ghag Radio, all apparently held since Monday. Taliban officials have not confirmed the detentions. Typically the detention of journalists b...
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In the midst of Russia's war against Ukraine, a court in Moscow has remanded Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov in custody on suspicion of corruption. Ivanov, 48, must initially remain in custody until June 23, the press service of the court in the Basmanny district of Moscow announced on Wednesday. He has denied the charges. The high-ranking official is accused of accepting bribes on a particularly large scale. Ivanov was primarily responsible for construction projects - including in the occupied south-eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which Russia's army completely destroyed during its s...
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