Mexico kidnapping: A twisted moral code explains cartel's apology
Four Americans were kidnapped by a drug cartel, and two of them were murdered, when they visited the town of Matamoros, Mexico. So why would the cartel apologise for the incident and hand over its own gunmen to the police?
A letter left with the cartel gunmen, who had been trussed up and left on the roadside, accused them of acting "under their own decision-making and lack of discipline" as well as supposedly breaking cartel rules over "protecting the lives of the innocent".
It was signed by the "Scorpions Group", a splinter faction of the powerful Gulf Cartel.
Hong Kong court jails Tiananmen anniversary vigil organisers
Prosecutors said Chow Hang-Tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were under foreign influence but refused to say who it was
A Hong Kong court has jailed three former members of a group that organised annual vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in China.
Chow Hang-tung, 38, a prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and former vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, was among those convicted by a magistrate’s court. The two others were Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong.
Prosecutors accuse Barcelona of corruption in ref payments
Prosecutors have formally accused Spanish soccer club Barcelona of corruption because of its payments over several years to a company that belonged to the vice president of the country’s refereeing committee
Prosecutors have formally accused Spanish soccer club Barcelona of corruption because of its payments over several years to a company that belonged to the vice president of the country's refereeing committee.
The decision, made official on Friday, was reported earlier this week by Spanish newspaper El PaĆs. An investigating judge will now decide whether the accusations should lead to charges.
Barcelona has been under scrutiny since the club's payments involving millions of dollars became public. The payments were initially investigated as part of a tax probe into the company.
Anonymous tip-off failed to stop shooting in Hamburg
Police, prosecutors and state officials provided details on Friday about a rampage the night before at the Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall in the northern German city of Hamburg. Despite receiving a prior tip-off about the gunman's psychological state, authorities were unable to prevent the shooting.
The Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany said the religious community was "deeply saddened by the horrific attack on its members at the Kingdom Hall in Hamburg after a religious service."
What do we know about the victims?
Four men and two women aged between 33 and 60 were killed in the shooting. They were all German citizens.
An unborn baby was among those pronounced dead.
Japan marks 12 years since quake-tsunami disaster
Japan on Saturday marked 12 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country's northeast, claiming the lives of over 15,000 people and triggering a nuclear disaster that will take decades to clean up.
Recovery from the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resultant tsunami that devastated Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures has progressed in the ensuing years, but some 31,000 people remained displaced as of November 2022. Cleanup plans at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex are also stoking controversy.
At 2:46 p.m., the exact time the massive quake struck the region on March 11, 2011, people across the nation observed a moment of silence, with residents in the hardest-hit areas vowing to continue passing on the lessons learned from the disaster.
BBC’s flagship soccer show boycotted over Gary Lineker impartiality row
The BBC’s weekend soccer coverage has been plunged into chaos following its announcement that Gary Lineker would “step back” from presenting, after he became embroiled in an impartiality row when he criticized British government policy on Twitter.
The broadcaster now faces a boycott from pundits, presenters and even players of its flagship soccer show “Match of the Day,” while other soccer programs – Football Focus and Final Score – and some radio programming have been forced off air as a result of the furore.
Lineker criticized the government’s controversial new asylum seeker policy on Tuesday and was subsequently stepped down from his presenting duties this week since the BBC said his tweets breached their guidelines, specifically its commitment to “due impartiality.”
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