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A Toronto jury on Jan. 25, 2016, found Constable James Forcillo guilty of attempted murder in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim on July 27, 2013. The teenager was shot by Const. Forcillo while aboard a Toronto streetcar. Forcillo vehemently denied the charges of second-degree murder and attempted murder during the two-year long trial, […]
Joseph Sepp Blatter, the out-going Fifa president, on Dec. 21, 2015, vowed to fight the eight-year ban imposed on him and UEFA president Michel Platini by the Fifa ethics committee. Speaking at a press conference in Zürich, the embattled Fifa president said he feels betrayed by the organization he has served for more than 40 […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told the world that Syrians must decide their destiny by choosing their own leaders rather than wait for the West to dictate for them. The Russian leader was speaking during his annual news conference in Moscow on Dec. 17, 2015, where he answered wide-ranging questions from Russian and foreign journalists. […]
Major League Baseball (MLB) announced on Dec. 14, 2015, that it will not overturn the lifetime ban imposed on Pete Rose in 1989. Rob Manfred, MLB’s commissioner made the announcement to diffuse speculative reports on Mr. Rose being reinstated. The lifetime ban on Mr. Rose, 74, in 1989 came after the MLB had concluded that […]
At least 16 people were killed and dozens seriously injured when a car bomb exploded on Dec, 12, 2015, near a hospital in the central Syrian city of Homs. According to state media, an army colonel, a policewoman, and a woman were among those killed in the government-held Zahra neighbourhood. No one has claimed responsibility […]
The radical British cleric Anjem Choudary on Dec. 11, 2015, pleaded not guilty in a London court to a charge of supporting the terror group ISIS. Choudary was then granted conditional bail by the London’s Southwark Crown Court judge. The controversial cleric is expected to be freed under undisclosed restrictive conditions on Dec. 14, 2015. […]
The Supreme Court of Appeals (SCA) on Dec. 3, 2015, convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder for shooting to death Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. This overturns an earlier conviction of culpable homicide which was handed by the North Gauteng High Court. The Paralympian now faces a prescribed minimum punishment of 15 years in prison after the […]
According to a U.N. atomic agency confidential report, Iran is believed to have worked in the past on a nuclear weapons program. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released the assessment report on Dec. 2, 2015, which stated that Tehran “coordinated” the development of nuclear weapons before 2003 and this continued up to 2009. However, […]