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One of the principal figures convicted in an infamous 2009 stadium massacre in Guinea died in custody Wednesday in the capital Conakry, the west African country's prison service said. Aboubakar Sidiki Diakité, known as Toumba Diakité, was serving a 10-year sentence for his role in the September 2009 killing of 156 people and the rape of at least 109 women by pro-junta forces under then-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara. He is at least the second person convicted in connection with

A former holding company of United States-sanctioned Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler is paying $30 billion to settle a Dutch corruption investigation over mining deals in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Netherlands-registered firm, Fleurette, has been under investigation since 2018. Investigations have been looking at whether Fleurette, which served as the holding company for the Gertler group, and commodities group Glencore paid bribes for copper and cobalt mining righ

Although it is an oil producing country, Nigeria is highly vulnerable to price fluctuations linked to the U.S.-Israel war on Iran. But in order to avoid shortages, the nation can rely upon billionaire Aliko Dangote’s refinery in Lagos, which is capable of processing some 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day. On Tuesday, the refinery slashed the price of gasoline and diesel in line with the overall price of crude oil. Prices are now 1,075 naira per liter of gasoline and 1,430

A Sydney-based author could face possible jail time after a court ruled her self-published erotic novel amounted to child abuse material. Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, 34, who wrote under the pen name Tori Woods, was found guilty of possessing, producing and disseminating child abuse material over her book Daddy’s Little Toy on Tuesday. The ruling came at Blacktown Local Court after magistrate Bree Chisholm read the entire 210-page novel, The Guardian reported. The book centres on

Warsaw’s special services helped Ukraine recruit the man suspected of targeting Vladimir Alekseyev, the FSB has claimed Polish special services helped Ukraine orchestrate the attempted assassination of Russian General Vladimir Alekseyev, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday. Lyubomir Korba, the main suspect in Friday’s shooting attack in western Moscow, was arrested in the United Arab Emirates and transferred to the Russian capital over the weekend. The F

Prosecutors on Thursday sought a life sentence for Toshiya Fujita, a senior member of a crime ring behind a series of robbery and fraud cases across the country. The lay-judge trial for 41-year-old Fujita at the Tokyo District Court, presided over by Judge Sakon Togari, concluded with the defense’s final arguments. The verdict is set to be handed down on Feb. 16. On Thursday, the prosecution stated in their closing arguments that Fujita was aware of the use of a crowbar in th

The High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Monday sentenced Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison. Jimmy Lai Chee-ying trial at a glance Jimmy Lai was convicted on December 15, 2025, on two counts of conspiring to collude with external forces and one count of conspiracy to publish seditious materials. The court found that Lai had systematically endangered national security through his actions, which included organizing campaigns urging foreign sanction

Tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes in northern Morocco due to heavy rains and flooding. It was through a call from her local mosque's loudspeakers that Kasia El Selami learnt it was time to flee as floodwaters rose in her Moroccan village of Ouled Ameur. Selami is among more than 150,000 people to have been evacuated over the past week as heavy rainfall battered provinces in Morocco's north. "We felt immense fear... especially for our children", sai

Tokyo police arrested a 40-year-old nursery school teacher on Wednesday on suspicion of indecent assault on an elementary school boy during an overnight field trip hosted by an after-school child care center. The suspect, Masaaki Kimura, who works at a nursery school in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, has denied the allegations, people familiar with the investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department said. Kimura is suspected of entering the room where the school boy was sleeping

The organizers say more than 200 companies from Russia, China, Iran, and Belarus are showcasing their products A major civil aviation and drone technology exhibition opened at the Crocus Expo Center near Moscow on Wednesday. The organizers say more than 200 companies from Russia, Belarus, Iran, and China are taking part. The two-day National Aviation Infrastructure Show (NAIS) features state-of-the-art technologies for airports and airlines. Leading Russian defense contracto