Crime

A Jerusalem court sentenced former prime minister Ehud Olmert to eight months in prison on May 25, after convicting him of corruption in a March retrial, Israeli media reported.

Families of 42 criminal suspects killed in a gunfight with federal forces in western Mexico angrily waited outside a morgue May 24 for their bodies and answers from the authorities.

Bulgarian authorities detained three migrant traffickers from Algeria, Iran and Iraq in Sofia on Friday.

They are suspected of organising the illegal transfer of immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East to Western Europe via the territories of Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia.

A gunfight between security forces and an armed group claimed the lives of at least 43 people in the state of Michoacan in southwestern Mexico on Friday.

The shoot-out, which lasted for about three hours and was probably drug-related, took place in Tanhuato near the Jalisco state border.

Beatings, torture with electricity, virtual executions: Ukrainian soldiers and pro-Russian rebels conduct them on captured citizens and enemies, according to Amnesty International.

Osama Bin Laden had a secret fancy: Porn movies.

According to German newspaper Bild, sourcing US National Security agencies, the Al Qaeda leader’s files seized during the raid on his compound a few years ago contained around a thousand porn movies.

A month before US SEALs killed Osama Bin laden in his Pakistan hideout in 2011, his cronies were trying to help him contact his beloved son Hamza who was under house arrest in Iraq, according to declassified documents.

It is a rule in Turkish politics. If a politician has nothing new to say, they start shooting the media with the ammunition left; they use their last bullet. 

I, personally, was ready. I was waiting for this dirty trick, this rush of slander? 

The Special Court in Belgrade has set Luka Bojovic and Vladimir Milisavljevic free, and convicted Sretko Kalinic and Milos Simovic to 35 and 30 years in prison.

Some 170 rival motorcycle gang members have been charged with engaging in organized crime linked to capital murder after a mass brawl at a Texas restaurant left nine people dead, police said on May 18.