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A New York court has handed Hadi Matar a 25-year sentence for the 2022 attack on Salman Rushdie, closing one phase of a case that remains one of the most notorious assaults on a writer in recent years.
Read report »Police said a shooting at the Las Vegas Athletic Club on North Rainbow Boulevard on May 16, 2025, left the suspect dead and no threat to the public.
Read report »Authorities searched Russia’s biggest book publisher and detained staff members in a case tied to alleged LGBTQ+ “propaganda” and “extremism.”
Read report »The Queensland senator replaces Adam Bandt after the Greens lost three of their four lower house seats, while the party keeps the balance of power in the Senate.
Read report »Pakistan’s interior minister says the country has deported more than one million Afghan nationals since November 2023 amid an intensified crackdown.
Read report »Argentina’s president has tightened immigration rules, citizenship paths and access to public services in a decree that echoes Donald Trump’s hard-line messaging.
Read report »Mali's transitional president Assimi Goita signed a decree dissolving political parties nationwide and barring members of those groups from meeting, deepening the military government's crackdown on opposition activity.
Read report »Authorities said Thiago da Silva Folly and two other suspects died after officers found him in the Maré complex.
Read report »More than 71 million registered voters were set to choose the House, half the Senate and thousands of local posts in a referendum on the Marcos administration.
Read report »Bangladesh’s interim government has banned the Awami League’s activities while it prepares a tribunal trial tied to last year’s anti-government uprising.
Read report »A New York judge sentenced Omar Antonio Villalta to 55 years in prison on 2025-05-08 for his role in the 2017 killings of four young men and a teenager in a Long Island park.
Read report »Prosecutors say the father allowed his teenage daughter to access semiautomatic pistols after she killed a teacher and fellow student in a school shooting last year.
Read report »A West Australian jury convicted Jack Brearley and Brodie Palmer of murdering Cassius Turvey and found Mitchell Forth guilty of manslaughter.
Read report »Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was chosen on the conclave’s fourth ballot and became the first pope from the United States.
Read report »The 133 electors are sequestered in the Sistine Chapel for a vote that could shape the church’s direction after a divided pontificate.
Read report »BBC reported that a University of Warsaw staff member was killed and a security guard seriously injured after a 22-year-old Polish man attacked people on campus.
Read report »Dina Boluarte says the state will tighten control in gold-rich Pataz after miners were found dead following a kidnapping inside a mine.
Read report »Merz overcame a historic first-round setback and was sworn in after winning the German parliament’s second vote of the day.
Read report »Australia’s governing Labor party is projected to have enough Senate seats to pass legislation with Greens support alone.
Read report »Police said the May 5, 2025, violence started with a dispute at a restaurant concert and spread into the parking lot outside El Camaron Gigante.
Read report »The International Court of Justice says it has no jurisdiction over Sudan’s claim that the United Arab Emirates fueled atrocities in Darfur by supplying weapons to the Rapid Support Forces.
Read report »Lebanon began its first municipal elections in nearly 10 years on 2025-05-04, with Hezbollah and allied parties expected to dominate in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Read report »Authorities arrested two people and said the scheme used social media, hate speech and improvised explosives.
Read report »The nationalist candidate won the first round of Romania’s rerun presidential election, with a second-round vote now set for 18 May.
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