NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A former South Carolina police officer accused of killing his wife before disappearing for more than two decades has been returned to the United States from China to face murder and child sex charges, the U.S. Marshals Service announced Thursday. Dan Hiers Jr., 53, was taken into…
TBILISI, July 10 (Reuters) – A Georgian opposition politician was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Friday after being convicted on a terrorism charge for attempting to set fire to a court building in the capital last year, the Interpress news agency reported. The court said Aleko Elisashvili, a founder of the Citizens party,…
MOSCOW, July 9 (Reuters) – Former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman, who is serving a long prison sentence in Russia, has been admitted to hospital, Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday. The business daily quoted Gilman’s lawyer as saying he was receiving treatment but that it was too early to talk about a diagnosis. Reuters requested a…
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — New suspected cases of Ebola have been reported in parts of Congo that were previously unaffected, the government said, as the death toll in the country’s latest Ebola outbreak reached 600. The Congolese government’s latest report, published late Wednesday, said two new cases were suspected in Kisangani in the Tshopo province,…
July 7 (Reuters) – The leader of a pro-Russian Armenian opposition party was placed in pre-trial detention for two months on Tuesday after being detained on suspicion of large-scale fraud and money laundering, the Armenpress news agency reported, citing a court ruling. Gagik Tsarukyan, a billionaire businessman, was arrested on Monday along with an associate…
“I’ve never seen so many police” Police scene on Waddicar Lane in Melling this afternoon(Image: Liverpool Echo) Armed officers, helicopters and a swarm of police vehicles descended on Melling this morning after a man was shot in the neck. The shooting happened outside a Go Local store on Waddicar Lane around 11.15am on Wednesday, July…
NEW YORK (AP) — A self-exiled billionaire Chinese business tycoon once believed to be among China’s wealthiest men was sentenced Monday to 30 years in a U.S. prison for a massive financial fraud that a federal judge said cost over 1,000 people worldwide hundreds of millions of dollars. Guo Wengui, who fled China a decade…
A Hong Kong physiotherapist has been scammed out of HK$5 million (US$637,570) after falling victim to an online investment trap that involved helping a virtual “beautiful assistant” hit sales targets, police have said. The case, revealed by police on Monday via their Facebook page, was among more than 80 reports of online investment scams received…
A third man in the scheme was found dead in a park in Maidenhead after being granted bail Chi Leung (Peter) Wai, 41, of Staines-upon-Thames (left) and Chung Biu Yuen, 66, of Hackney (right) have been jailed for spying on behalf of Hong Kong and China(Image: Met Police) Two men from London have been jailed…
A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a “brutal” knife attack in Belfast. Police declared a critical incident after a man in his 40s was attacked in the Kinnaird Avenue area of the city at around 10.30pm, local time, on Monday night. The victim was taken to hospital with wounds to…