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Professor Wole Soyinka has said that he may reapply for the restoration of his permanent residency in the United States following the conviction of former US President, Donald Trump.   Trump was on Thursday, May 30, convicted on all 34 charges of falsifying business records in hush money trial.   …

Jamaican dancehall star, Vybz Kartel will reportedly remain behind bars despite his murder conviction recently being overturned. Jamaica Supreme Court Justice Andrea Thomas on Thursday, May 30, handed down the ruling, stating that without a verdict or acquittal by the Privy Council, the murder charge against them remains in effect. “In view …

“Given how the Trump administration failed to pay enough attention to building partnerships with like-minded states in Asia,” said Aries A. Arugay, the chair of the political science department at the University of the Philippines Diliman, “a second Trump presidency will endanger the momentum achieved by the revitalized United States-Philippine …

  Atlético Madrid and Dutch football star, Memphis Depay allegedly paid €1 million in bail to get Barcelona legend Dani Alves out of prison after his rape conviction.      Alves, the former Barcelona and Brazil star, was recently sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for ‘forcing himself into’ a woman …

Dani Alves is reportedly set to be released from prison this afternoon by depositing a €1million (£850,000) bail bond over his rape conviction.     According to Mail Online, the footballer is also understood to have complied with the other orders of the three judges who said he could leave …

Spanish club Barcelona has officially removed Brazilian defender Dani Alves from its list of club legends in the aftermath of his recent conviction for rape. The former Barcelona defender was sentenced to four and a half years in prison last week after being found guilty of the crime in a …

When a French police officer was found guilty on Friday of assaulting Théo Luhaka, a 22-year-old Black man, during a 2017 identity check that led to his arrest, lawyers on both sides left the courthouse claiming victory in one of France’s most publicized cases of police abuse. Mr. Luhaka, now …

A court of appeal on Thursday overturned the conviction of a woman once labeled Australia’s worst female serial killer by the tabloids for the deaths of her four young children. The woman, Kathleen Folbigg, 56, was found guilty in 2003 of killing the children and sentenced to 30 years in …

An Illinois appeals court has upheld the conviction of former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett for orchestrating a hate crime against himself nearly five years ago.   Smollett was convicted in December 2021 on five felony charges of disorderly conduct and was later sentenced to 150 days in the Cook County …

Opinion Source: ABC News YouTube The disgraced former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett is likely heading back to prison after his conviction for staging a hate crime against himself was upheld by an Illinois appeals court on Friday. 🔥🚨BREAKING: Jussie Smollett’s conviction for lying to police about hate crime hoax UPHELD …