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Details emerge about suspect charged with murder in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors were beginning to take steps Tuesday to bring the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO back to New York to face a murder charge while new details emerged about his life and how he was captured. Luigi Nicholas Mangione, a 26-year-old...
Two Romanian men charged in the stabbing of an Iranian journalist in London
LONDON (AP) — Two Romanian men have been arrested in their home country and charged in connection with the stabbing of an Iranian journalist outside his London home this spring, prosecutors said Thursday. Nandito Badea, 19, and George Stana, 23, face extradition to the U.K....
Man accused of alleged war crimes in separatist region of Ukraine stands trial in Finland
HELSINKI (AP) — A man has gone on trial in Finland on charges of war crimes allegedly committed against Ukrainian forces in a Russia-backed separatist region of Ukraine in 2014. Prosecutors are seeking life imprisonment for the defendant at the trial which opened Thursday at the...
Austrian court rules that Ukrainian businessman Firtash can't be extradited to the US
VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian court has ruled that Ukrainian businessman Dymitro Firtash can't be extradited to the U.S. in a long-running legal saga that centers on a corruption case related to an alleged plan to pay bribes in India. The Vienna State Court said Tuesday evening it...
Bolivia's top court says its former anti-drug chief can be extradited to the US on drug charges
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's highest court on Wednesday approved the extradition to the United States of a former anti-narcotics chief on charges of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the U.S., a rare ruling against a top security official in the Andean nation whose relations with Washington...
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has suffered a serious stroke, a post on his X account says
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Kim Dotcom, the internet entrepreneur fighting deportation from New Zealand to the United States on charges relating to his file-sharing website Megaupload, has suffered a “serious stroke,” a post on his X account said Monday. “I have the best...
Belarus opposition figure extradited from Vietnam faces terrorism charges, possible death penalty
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian opposition figure was detained in Vietnam and extradited to Belarus, where he is facing charges of terrorism and possibly a death penalty, the opposition said Thursday. The arrest of Vasil Verameichyk, 34, is the latest in an unrelenting...
Fugitive arrested after a standoff in Chicago is being returned to Mississippi
HERNANDO, Miss. (AP) — A man arrested in August after a 15-hour police standoff at a restaurant a few blocks from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago is being returned to Mississippi, where he had escaped from a county jail. Joshua Zimmerman is being extradited,...
Bangladesh will seek extradition of ex-premier Sheikh Hasina from India
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s interim leader and Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Sunday that his administration will seek the extradition of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India, where has been in exile since fleeing a mass uprising in August. In a...
Anti-whaling activist Watson stays in detention in Greenland while Danes consider Japanese request
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A court in Greenland again decided Wednesday to extend the custody of anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson, until Dec. 4, while Denmark considers a Japanese extradition request. Japan does not have an extradition treaty with the Scandinavian country....
