A grand jury in New York has indicted former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein on new sex crime charges, as announced by prosecutors during a court session on Thursday. The details of the indictment remain sealed until Weinstein can be formally arraigned. According to his defense attorney, Arthur Aidala, the new charges may include up to … Read more
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks, at an event on how to tackle small boat crossings, in Deal, Britain, May 10, 2024. — Reuters LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer convened a coalition to stop young people from falling into knife crime on Monday, joined by actor and anti-knife crime campaigner Idris Elba. Starmer launched … Read more
There is a quease factor to the popular fascination with serial killers that goes well beyond morbid curiosity about the crimes themselves — specifically, those who can’t get enough of such subject matter. How many dramatic depictions do we need of, say, Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy? Surely no new insights can truly be gleaned. … Read more
In “Old Henry,” director Potsy Ponciroli spilled an inordinate amount of blood on and around the porch of a frontier homestead. “And for what? For a little bit of money,” as Fargo police chief Marge Gunderson put it after solving a no-less-senseless crime a century later. Reuniting with Coen brothers collaborator Tim Blake Nelson for … Read more
CHIANG MAI: China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand discussed cross-border crime on Friday at the Informal Discussion Between the Foreign Ministers of China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that security is the prerequisite and foundation for the development of all countries. At present, he said, the security … Read more
Several alternate realities, none of them remotely acquainted with ours, exist side-by-side in “Sew Torn,” a high-concept crime farce that pits guns against haberdashery, innocence against culpability, and genre grit against fruit-loop fantasy. Even as it nakedly steals its structural conceit from Tom Tykwer’s Nineties trendsetter “Run Lola Run” — a film made before 24-year-old … Read more
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ANKARA: Israel has committed a “new crime against humanity” by killing over 100 civilians who had taken refuge in a school in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. “This attack demonstrated once again that the Netanyahu government intends to sabotage the negotiations for a permanent ceasefire,” a ministry … Read more
Amnesty International documents harrowing torture, ill-treatment of Palestinian detainees at Israel’s Sde Teiman military camp Israel’s inhumane treatment of Palestinian detainees at Sde Teiman Prison in southern Israel, including torture and sexual violence, are “war crimes,” according to an official of Amnesty International, a global human rights watchdog. “In its recent research, Amnesty International documented … Read more