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ICC convicts al-Qaida-linked leader of abusing prisoners in Mali 06/26/2024 10:18am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� The International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader of the religious persecution and torture of prisoners in Mali in 2012-13 when he headed the Islamic police in the historic desert city of Timbuktu. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Activists pour red paint down Rome's famed Spanish Steps in outrage over femicides in Italy 06/26/2024 10:08am • ROME (AP) ��� Police detained several activists who poured red paint down Rome's famed Spanish Steps on Wednesday to raise awareness about femicides in Italy. The protesters, from an organization called ���Bruciamo Tutto,'' or ���Let's Burn Everything,'' spilled paint down the 135-step monument, th Montgomery Co. officer who lost both legs plans return to police department and football field 06/26/2024 09:00am • The Montgomery County police sergeant who was struck by a reckless driver last year, leading to the amputation of both his legs, is eyeing a return to the police force in the next couple of months. On the morning of Oct. 18, 2023, Patrick Kepp was trying to stop 19-year-old Raphael Mayorga, of Fr Saipan, placid island setting for Assange's last battle, is briefly mobbed ��� and bemused by the fuss 06/26/2024 07:31am • SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) ��� It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has now spanned the globe: a rural Western Pacific island, where visitors are usually tourists ��� attracted by laid-back resorts, snorkeling, diving and golf ��� and the furthermost reach of t Rep. Lauren Boebert wins GOP primary after switching Colorado districts; Hurd, Crank also notch wins 06/26/2024 06:23am • DENVER (AP) ��� U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert won Tuesday's Republican primary in a U.S. House race that she jumped into last year, surviving a scandal over a video of her at a Denver theater and accusations of carpetbagging after fleeing what could have been a tough reelection bid in her current distric As Iran's presidential vote looms, tensions boil over renewed headscarf crackdown 06/26/2024 12:59am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Seemingly every afternoon in Iran's capital, police vans rush to major Tehran squares and intersections to search for women with loose headscarves and those who dare not to wear them at all. The renewed crackdown comes not quite two years since mass protests ove Hong Kong court edges closer to sentencing democracy activists involved in unofficial primary 06/26/2024 12:12am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� A Hong Kong court on Tuesday began mitigation hearings for prominent pro-democracy activists who were convicted under a national security law and now face up to life in prison. The activists were among 47 democracy advocates who were charged with conspiracy to commit subversion i Long-vacant storefront that once housed part of the Stonewall Inn reclaims place in LGBTQ+ history 06/26/2024 12:08am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� It was half of the Stonewall Inn, the gay dive bar where a 1969 police raid became a landmark moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement. Yet for much of the 55 years since, there has been little outward indication that 51 Christopher St. was part of that history. It had housed the Ston WikiLeaks��� Assange pleads guilty to publishing US military secrets in deal that secures his freedom 06/25/2024 11:38pm • SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) ��� WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets Wednesday in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that secures his liberty and concludes a drawn-out legal saga that raised divisive questions about press Judge considering if ex-gang leader held in Tupac Shakur killing gets house arrest on $750K bail 06/25/2024 11:15pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A Nevada judge said Tuesday she wasn't immediately convinced of the legality of an effort by a hip-hop music figure to underwrite a $750,000 bond to free a former Los Angeles-area gang leader from jail ahead of his murder trial in the 1996 killing of hip-hop music legend Tupac Sha Brazil���s Supreme Court decriminalizes possession of marijuana for personal use 06/25/2024 10:22pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Brazil���s Supreme Court on Tuesday voted to decriminalize possession of marijuana for personal use, making the nation one of Latin America���s last to do so, in a move that could reduce its massive prison population. With final votes cast on Tuesday, a majority of the justic Who is Julian Assange, the polarizing founder of the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks? 06/25/2024 09:54pm • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� He emerged on the information security scene in the 1990s as a ���famous teenage hacker" following what he called an ��� itinerant minstrel childhood��� beginning in Townsville, Australia. But the story of Julian Assange, eccentric founder of secret-spilling website Belarus human rights group denounces detention of priest who posted Ukrainian flag on social media 06/25/2024 09:04pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� The prominent Belarusian human rights group Viasna on Tuesday denounced an extension to the detention of a Roman Catholic priest who was jailed after displaying the Ukrainian flag in a social media post. Andrzej Jukhniewicz was arrested in early May and charged with conduc UK's gambling watchdog alleges 5 more police officers placed bets on election date 06/25/2024 08:51pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain's gambling regulator has alleged that five more police officers bet on the timing of the July 4 national election, the Metropolitan Police said Tuesday, as claims widen that people close to the government used inside information for their own profit. The Metropolitan Police s Woman pleads guilty to murder of Hollywood consultant and social justice advocate 06/25/2024 08:36pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A woman has pleaded guilty to killing Michael Latt, a high-profile entertainment industry consultant and social justice advocate. Jameelah Elena Michl, 36, admitted to committing first-degree murder and first-degree burglary in a Los Angeles court on Monday, court records showe