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The FBI had managed to get eyes on Ryan James Wedding, a Canadian they suspected of running a violent cocaine-smuggling operation across South and North America. The episode at the coffee shop described by U.S. prosecutors in court documents summarizing their case against Wedding amounts to the only sighting that authorities have confirmed publicly, since Wedding first fled criminal charges in 2015.

Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to 21 years in prison in separate corruption cases related to allocations of land in a government project, dealing another legal blow to the country's former exiled leader. In a decision issued on Thursday, a court found Hasina guilty of illegally securing plots of land in a suburb of capital Dhaka for herself and her family despite their ineligibility.

Sean McGovern, who was extradited from the United Arab Emirates last summer to face charges of murder and directing a criminal organisation, has been granted legal aid to cover a team of four barristers by the Special Criminal Court.

Freddy Arias Zapata, 31, of Daniels Street, was ordered held without bail at his arraignment in Queens Supreme Court on Wednesday, Nov. 19, on a grand jury indictment charging him with four counts of bail jumping in the fourth degree. Zapata is accused of stealing luxury items, cash and other valuables from victims' vehicles in Ridgewood, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Kew Gardens.

The Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian embassy in Thailand also did not respond to requests for comment, but Russia's consul general in Phuket, Yegor Ivanov, told Russian state news agency Tass that the consulate had "received notification of the arrest of a Russian citizen on charges of committing an information technology crime." "He was arrested on November 6 and transferred to Bangkok that same day," Ivanov said, without providing further details.

Judge James Omotosho said prosecutors had shown that Kanu, who also holds British citizenship, had used his Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to incite attacks on security officials and civilians in south-east Nigeria. His intention was quite clear as he believed in violence. These threats of violence were nothing but terrorist acts, judge Omotosho said. Kanu, 58, who had dismissed his legal team and represented himself during the trial, was earlier ejected from court for unruly behaviour.

The search for 20-year-old Isaiah Jamon Andrews, of Kent, Wash. began sometime after Oct. 22, when authorities released him from the Martinez Detention Facility, sheriff's office spokesperson Jimmy Lee said in a statement. The office did not announce Andrews had been released until Monday afternoon, hours after this and other news organizations learned of the incident and reached out to Lee for comment.

The trip will be Ahmed al-Sharaa's first official visit to Russia, a longtime ally of the former Bashar al-Assad regime. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit Russia on Wednesday to meet with President Vladimir Putin, Syria's state news agency reports, as part of a broader diplomatic push to bolster the Damascus transitional government's international legitimacy. It will be al-Sharaa's first official visit to Moscow, a longtime ally of the former Bashar al-Assad regime that al-Sharaa's forces ousted in December.

Khan, 21, was arrested by heavily armed Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers near a gas station in Ormstown, Que., last year, after authorities said he paid a human smuggler to help him cross the U.S. border. Khan faces two terrorism-related charges over an alleged ISIS-inspired plot to open fire at an unnamed Jewish centre in Brooklyn, which was set to be carried out around the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel.

The problem with North Stream 2 is not that it was blown up. The problem is that it was built,

Maja T. entered the courtroom in Budapest's District 5 on October 8, 2025 in a prisoner transport belt and handcuffs, accompanied by helmeted police officers. One of the officers closed the window to block out the chants of "Free Maja!" that rose from a cluster of demonstrators. Just another day in the trial of the suspected left-wing extremist, who is accused of having attacked and seriously injured several suspected right-wing extremists in Budapest in February 2023.

Prosecutors said Wellesley and Burton, posing as executives at London- and Hong Kong-registered Bordeaux Cellars, raised $99.4 million by promising loan investors they would receive regular interest payments from "high net worth" wine collectors. The defendants allegedly claimed the loans were backed by an inventory of more than 25,000 bottles of wine, including from Domaine de la Romanee-Conti in Burgundy and Chateau Lafleur in Bordeaux.

As Laoranda Murati of Great Kills grieved the loss of her 19-year-old son, Albion Hysenaj, in a fatal crash on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey, authorities allege the driver's mother was desperately trying to sneak him out of the United States. Vilma Vneshta, 42, allegedly helped her son, Alvi Limani, 20, both of Commodore Drive in Prince's Bay, flee from authorities after the crash in Woodbridge claimed the life of Hysenaj, and seriously injured another passenger, Joseph Donzella, 21, of Bay Terrace.

Moldova's most notorious fugitive businessman, Vladimir Plahotniuc, has been extradited from Greece to face trial over the country's biggest financial scandal, AFP and local media reported. The 59-year-old oligarch, accused of orchestrating the disappearance of $1bn from Moldovan banks in 2014, arrived in Chisinau on Thursday under tight security. The fraud, known locally as the theft of the century, amounted to about 12 percent of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) at the time.

Marianne Smyth, an American, claimed to be Jennifer Aniston, a psychic, an heiress and a Satanic priestess - all part of a long career on both sides of the Atlantic as a swindler and a conwoman. Smyth has now been convicted at Downpatrick Crown Court of swindling more than £115,000 from four victims, including Derry GAA player Dermot McNicholl.

Fraudster who was extradited from America to face trial will be sentenced next month and then deported after serving her time