Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong, a House spokesperson MANILA, Philippines — Identifying the person whom Vice President Sara Duterte said she talked to kill the president, if she herself will be killed, will be taken up in a later criminal investigation — not as a condition needed to complete the presentation of evidence for the fourth article of impeachment. Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong, a House prosecution spokesperson, explained this on Wednesday in an interview on ANC’s “Headstart” He said the continuing NBI probe should not be confused with the constitutional case being heard by the Senate impeachment court. Article continues after this advertisement “Whether or…

German prosecutors searched offices at Deutsche Bank's headquarters in Frankfurt on Wednesday as part of an investigation into alleged fraudulent tax transactions linked to the lender's Postbank unit years earlier. The bank confirmed that Duesseldorf prosecutors were at its office in the city, and that the probe related to transactions at its Postbank division between 2008 and 2010. "Deutsche Bank is being searched as a third party in this matter and we are cooperating fully," Deutsche Bank said, declining to comment further. Duesseldorf ⁠prosecutors ⁠did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Probe relates to 'cum-cum' trades A person…

Brit IT expert 'who murdered wife and two children' may not stand trial in UK for years if extradition from South Africa is delayed by gun charge By VIVEK CHAUDHARY, SENIOR REPORTER Published: 05:39 EDT, 22 July 2026 \| Updated: 06:57 EDT, 22 July 2026 A British businessman may not stand trial for allegedly butchering his wife and two children at their sprawling £1.3million home in the UK for years, it emerged today. Mark Tshuma, 45, a British citizen of Zimbabwean heritage, is accused of the brutal murder of his wife and their children at the family's mansion in Bedfordshire earlier this month. Nothabo Tshuma, 42, and daughters Natalie, 15, and Nala,…

Inquirer image MANILA, Philippines — The House prosecution panel on Wednesday concluded its presentation of Article IV, which accuses Vice President Sara Duterte of making grave threats against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos and former Speaker Martin Romualdez. The prosecution’s presentation was completed in 9 days, despite being given a total of 11 days to present their evidence. Though it should be noted that, technically, it only took six days for the court to tackle Article IV as three days were spent on other matters. READ: LIVE UPDATES: Impeachment trial of VP Sara Duterte \| July 21, 2026 Article continues after…

Venezuela’s ⁠ousted president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are due back in a US court on Wednesday for a hearing over the upcoming schedule in their drug trafficking case, including a possible June 2027 trial start date. The hearing before US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, scheduled to start at noon local time in Manhattan federal court, could shed light on the next steps in one of the ‌most high-profile and consequential criminal cases in recent US history. US Special Forces captured Maduro and Flores at their heavily guarded home in Caracas during a January 3 nighttime raid ordered by President Donald Trump. They were brought to New…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (July 22, 2026), dismissed two separate pleas of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Chhattisgarh government challenging the bail granted to Chaitanya Baghel, son of former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel, in alleged liquor scam cases. While dismissing the pleas of probe agencies against grant of bail to Mr. Chaitanya Baghel, the Supreme Court flagged the growing practice of routinely challenging bail orders and said it has led to a “significant expansion of bail jurisprudence, prompting the court to examine whether a legally flawed bail order, by itself, is sufficient to justify…

The police have arrested a woman over the sudden death of her 60-year-old male companion at a hotel in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital. The state command’s spokesperson, Lawan Adam, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. He said the incident occurred in the Yalwawa area of the city. Mr Adam stated that police preliminary investigation indicated that the deceased checked into the facility with the 20-year-old woman. However, shortly after ordering a meal, he experienced a severe medical emergency characterised by sudden breathing difficulties. “Officers attached to the Yalwawa Police Division responded immediately to a distress call from the hotel…

High Court Judge Herbert Au-yeung Ho-wing said on Wednesday that the proceedings had ceased after the plaintiffs informed the court two days ago that they would not continue the legal challenge. The four plaintiffs – Alice Leung Shuk-ling, Leung Ka-yan, Philip Chiu Ping-chuen and Tsui-keung – lodged the application in April after the Coroner’s Court reached its verdict on the city’s deadliest maritime accident in recent decades, which claimed the lives of 39 people on October 1, 2012. The Lamma IV, which was carrying 124 HK Electric employees and their relatives to watch the National Day fireworks over Victoria Harbour, sank after it was hit by the…

A modelling scout linked to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead at his home. Daniel Siad, 69, was discovered on Monday in Colombes, a north-west suburb of Paris, the Nanterre prosecutor's office confirmed to the BBC. "An investigation to determine the cause of death was opened on Monday evening following the discovery," the office said, adding that an autopsy will be carried out. Siad's name appeared thousands of times in the Epstein files released by the US government. He had previously denied any knowledge of the threat that Epstein posed. Epstein victim Anya - not her real name - previously told the BBC Siad had…

NEW DELHI: Former Indian Premier League ( IPL ) chairman Lalit Modi on Wednesday said he plans to return to India by the end of this year or early next year after securing major legal relief from the Appellate Tribunal under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act (SAFEMA) in the 2009 IPL South Africa FEMA case. Speaking a day after the tribunal's verdict, Lalit said he felt vindicated after fighting the case for 16 years and claimed the ruling had established the truth behind his actions during the 2009 IPL season. "I'm really happy with the verdict yesterday. It's really been a great day. Sixteen years I have…

A 26-year-old British woman has been sentenced to six years in a Hong Kong prison after reporting rape by a UK banker, who then accused her of blackmail. Isabel Rose from Hackney, east London, travelled to Hong Kong in early 2024 to visit a man she had previously met while travelling in Thailand. After reporting to the police she had been sexually assaulted, the man was arrested and later released without charge. She was then accused of blackmail and perverting the course of public justice, and spent the next two years effectively trapped in Hong Kong while on bail. In a trial on March 3 this year, the judge said the prosecution had proved beyond…

A special investigation team (SIT) comprising officers from the Ayarkkunnam police station has been formed to probe the suspected suicide of four members of a family at Kooroppada near Kottayam. The deceased were identified as Thomas Abraham (Joby), 50, his wife Josna Thomas, their 17-year-old daughter Maria Theresa Thomas and 12-year-old son Allen Thomas. The family had been undergoing treatment at the Government Medical College Hospital, Kottayam, after allegedly consuming poison, but all four succumbed over the past few days. Josna and Maria Theresa died on Saturday, Thomas Abraham on Sunday, and Allen on Tuesday evening. Dying declarations The…

Philippine National Police chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. — Photo from Office of the Chief PNP/Facebook MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) has started investigating an incident in which two photojournalists were reportedly harassed by police officers while they were covering a rally in Pasay City on Wednesday. “We assure the public that the investigation will be guided by evidence, due process, and fairness,” PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. said in a statement. “Should it be established that any personnel acted contrary to existing laws, PNP policies, or prescribed operational procedures, appropriate…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Delhi government on petitions alleging police brutality against students during CJP's march to Parliament on Monday. The court directed the government to preserve all CCTV footage, body camera recordings and other digital records related to the incident, in accordance with the established standard operating procedure. The court has listed the matter for the next hearing on September 11. (This is a developing story.)

The city of Fresnillo, in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas, has been the hardest hit by the weekend massacre of 10 men. At least six of the victims worked there. The discovery of half of the bodies hanging from a bridge, partially naked and showing signs of torture after all had been kidnapped, has sparked fear among the city’s roughly 240,000 residents and shocked the entire country. It is still unknown what ties the victims had to one another beyond their brutal killings. The state prosecutor’s office is working on the hypothesis of “possible acts of collusion and extortion by public servants.” So far five people have been detained, three of…

West Kelowna Mounties have issued an Amber Alert for a four-year-old boy. They say Ryan Atlas Andrews was last seen on Ridge Boulevard in West Kelowna at 11:20 a.m. Tuesday. He is described as 3 feet tall, 51 pounds, with short brown hair and hazel eyes. RCMP say the boy, who goes by Atlas, is believed to be with the 40-year-old suspect, Alisse Andrews. She is described as 5 feet, 4 inches tall, 121 pounds, with dark brown hair and brown eyes. They may be travelling in a Black 2021 Nissan Qashqai, with the plate number RV003L. Police are asking the public not to approach the suspect and to call 911 if they spot them.

‘Getting rid of a headache’: Secret tape exposes land-swap deal for ‘toxic’ waste Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA A secret recording that triggered a seven-year defamation battle embroiling politicians including federal Liberal MP Andrew Hastie has finally been played in court, revealing a businessman coached a contact on how to engineer a land swap with the government that would see “toxic soil” dumped and buried. In the 2019 recording, prominent West Australian businessman Greg Poland coached landowner Aaron Grainger, on how to “solve a political headache” for the state…

National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin Matibag takes the witness stand during the continuation of the cross-examination on Day 9 at the Senate Impeachment Court in Pasay City, July 22, 2026. —Photo by Niño Jesus Orbeta \| INQUIRER MANILA, Philippines — Director Melvin Matibag of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and two of his agents have given enough evidence to prove the grave threat allegation against Vice President Sara Duterte, Rep. Rodge Gutierrez said in a media briefing on Wednesday. “We do believe that the evidence has already established all the points that the prosecution needed to establish,” Gutierrez said,…

Ramesh Chennithala, Kerala Home Minister Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala on Wednesday said the government has taken serious note of the Kerala High Court’s observations regarding the arrest of Dr. M.K. Ram in connection with the death of BDS student Nithin Raj at the Kannur Medical College, Anjarakandy. The State Police Chief has been ordered to examine any procedural lapses in handling the case. Appropriate action would be taken if the inquiry finds that any officer failed in their duties, the Minister told the media. Reiterating the government’s stand, Mr. Chennithala said the police have stood with the victim from the very beginning of the…

VIDEO MANILA, Philippines – Senator-judge Panfilo “Ping” Lacson denies filing a perjury case against self-confessed Davao Death Squad member and former police officer Arturo Lascañas during Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial on Wednesday. The issue was raised after defense counsel Mark Vinluan presented a news report claiming Lacson intended to sue Lascañas for perjury following the latter’s retraction of parts of his testimony in the extrajudicial killings investigation. Lacson said that while Lascañas did retract some of his statements, the senator added that he never filed such a complaint./ dp READ: NBI search for Duterte’s alleged…

The Muslim side in the disputed Bhojshala-Kamal Maula mosque complex case on Wednesday alleged before the Supreme Court that the site identified by the Madhya Pradesh government for Friday namaz was nearly two kilometres from the complex instead of being adjacent to it, Bar and Bench reported. It said that this was in violation of the court’s July 14 order. A bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant then directed the Union and Madhya Pradesh governments to implement its earlier order “in letter and spirit”, The Hindu reported. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Union and Madhya Pradesh governments, claimed that the site was about 900…

BAHAWALPUR: A young shepherd who was gang-raped by 12 men in Cholistan desert in jurisdictions of the Marot Police Station of Bahawalnagar succumbed to his injuries at the Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) on Tuesday. A police spokesperson told Dawn, the shepherd was abducted by a suspect on his motorcycle on July 1 from Toba Jinnawala near Chak 289/HR where he had his over 40 sheep for grazing. After eight days on July 9, the youth’s brother, Mohsin, went to meet him at Toba Jinnawala and found him in a serious condition. The victim informed his brother that 12 men, seven of them identified in the FIR, administered him some intoxicant drink, raped him…

The violent death of the US boxer Hannah Rapp, whom authorities say was killed recently by a motorist while she cycled, has left her sport, her communities outside the ring and her loved ones grieving deeply just weeks after she took her first world title shot. A statement from the Bryan Boxing gym where Rapp trained in Texas commemorated her as “an amazing lady and soul” while the Aggieland Cycling club to which she belonged recalled how her “kindness and excitement for life [buoyed] all who knew her”. “A beautiful person and a brilliant boxer is how she will be remembered by all of us,” read a social media post from Most Valuable Promotions, which…

Officials released the dramatic 911 call from Conor Hanlon, husband of therapist Brooke Hanlon, in the New Jersey stabbing death case. Hanlon found his wife unresponsive and bleeding on their second floor. The graphic audio captures his frantic calls for help. No suspects have been named, and a $1,000 reward is offered for information. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! CHESTER, N.J. – Nearly seven weeks after Brooke Hanlon, 35, was fatally stabbed inside her Chester, New Jersey home, people living just feet away from the Hanlon home are constantly looking over their shoulders. "Things that never would've bothered me before catch my…

A Manitoba man is relieved the province changed its tune and partially reimbursed him for an out-of-country surgery after previously refusing to pick up the tab. Tom Molinski, 69, recently got a cheque in the mail for $23,908.99 from Manitoba Health — about a third of what he spent on a spinal fusion surgery in Germany in 2024 — after a meeting with Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara in May. Though he isn't being reimbursed the full $77,000 he paid out of his retirement savings, Molinski said he is glad to finally get some of the costs covered. "If they said, 'Well, here's $2,000 or $3,000,' that would have been an insult to me, so this would be a fair…

When friendly residents in the picturesque Kent village of Nonington hear the name Cherry Garden Lane, their faces immediately change – a stern, knowing look follows, and then there’s a deep pause as they weigh up their response. Everyone knows the quiet country track, but most locals avoid it altogether. This month marks 30 years since Lin Russell and her daughter, Megan, six, were bludgeoned to death there with a hammer in broad daylight. Lin’s elder daughter, nine-year-old Josie, suffered catastrophic head injuries, but miraculously survived after an officer investigating the murder scene hours later noticed her moving. The horror of what happened…

Daniel Siad, 69, was found dead in his Paris suburban home. He was under investigation in France over accusations that he had helped sex offender Jeffrey Epstein find women to abuse, as well as rape allegations.

On the latest episode of The Crime Desk's On The Case podcast, host Alex Matthews sits down with reporter Matt Young following his exclusive interview with Barbara Stone, the sister of the man jailed for life over the infamous Chillenden murders. Lin Russell, 45, and her six-year-old daughter Megan were battered to death with a hammer in a country lane not far from their home in rural Chillenden, Kent, in 1996. Megan's older sister Josie, who was nine years old at the time, miraculously survived the bloodbath in a crime that horrified the nation. A year later, a BBC Crimewatch reconstruction led to 38-year-old Michael Stone – a violent heroin addict –…

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Dumanjug Mayor Efren Guntrano “Gungun” Gica said he will comply with the directives of the Land Transportation Office in Central Visayas (LTO-7) as he faces administrative proceedings over a road crash in Minglanilla, Cebu, earlier this week. Gica said he has cooperated with authorities since the July 19 collision and has also […]...Keep on reading: ‘No special treatment’ for Dumanjug mayor after road crash, LTO probe

Here in France, authorities are waging an increasingly intense battle against rising drug crime. That fight took a new turn this week – as the mayor of the southern town of Alès was spirited from his home by police in the middle of the night over fears for his safety. He'd received multiple threats from the drug gang known as the “DZ Mafia”. Once a local player on the Marseille drug market, the gang has expanded to become one of France's top security threats. Details by Bryan Quinn and our colleagues at France Televisions.