|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Science and technology
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arts and culture
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
|
|
- Disasters and accidents
- Health and medicine
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Sports
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
- Scientists report, in the AHA journal Stroke, that a small trial of stroke victims showed significant improvement following injection of stem cells directly into their brains. The study had been designed just to test whether the highly experimental therapy was safe. Such treatments were available in China for many years but treatment results were very inconclusive. (Tech Insider) (Stroke)
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- English/American comedian John Oliver buys and then forgives $15,000,000 (USD) in medical debt to about 9,000 people, making it the biggest ever giveaway in television history. (CNN)
- Disasters and accidents
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Sport
- Celebrations
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- Health and medicine
- Law and crime
- Politics and election
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economics
- Disasters and accidents
- Health and medicine
- Johns Hopkins University researchers report, in the journal Health Affairs, that media reports about people accused of committing violent crimes having mental illnesses rarely discuss successful treatment of patients, and thereby overstate the problem. Most people exhibiting the types of psychological conditions the media mention are not generally violent. The researchers suggest coverage reinforces fear of mental illness and the people who have it, and, because of the social stigma, discourages people from seeking treatment. (UPI) (Health Affairs)
- Politics and elections
- United States presidential election, 2016
- Voters go to the polls in six states, including California and New Jersey, with Hillary Clinton gaining enough delegates to become the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. She will be the first woman nominee by a major party to run for President of the United States. (Reuters), (Fox News)
- Hillary Clinton wins in California, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota. Bernie Sanders wins in Montana and North Dakota. (AP²) (NMPolitics.net)
- Donald Trump wins the Republican Party primaries in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota. (AP) (AP²)
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- A United Nations commission of inquiry says that Eritrea should be referred to the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity committed in the country, including the enslavement of between 300,000 and 400,000 people through military conscription. (AP)
- Law and crime
- Science and technology
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arts and culture
- Disasters and accidents
- Health
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Law and crime
- Sports
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arts and culture
- International relations
- Law and crime
- 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting
- In what is the deadliest mass shooting and the worst terror attack since 9/11 to occur in the United States, a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in the U.S. city of Orlando, Florida, kills at least 50 people, including the shooter, and injures 53. (BBC) (CNN) (Australian Broadcasting Co.)
- ISIL's Amaq News Agency claims that the assault, "... was carried out by an Islamic State fighter". (Reuters) (CBS New York)
- The FBI identifies the deceased gunman as Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, a 29-year-old American citizen born in New York to Afghani parents, and living in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Mateen called 9-1-1 during the attack and pledged allegiance to ISIL. (CBS New York)
- Mateen's father, Seddique Mir Mateen, says, "We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident. This had nothing to do with religion." Seddique says that during a recent outing in Miami, his son got very angry when he saw men kissing and touching each other. According to the elder Mateen, Omar said, 'Look at that. In front of my son they are doing that.' (NBC News)
- The City of Orlando requests, via Twitter, citizens, "... hold off on vigils — they represent a serious strain on our limited resources, which we need to dedicate to law enforcement and victims." (The New York Times)
- The scheduled L.A. Pride parade is held in West Hollywood Park in California. A 20-year-old man, whose car was filled with explosive materials and weapons, is arrested before he reached the parade area. He is misquoted as saying he wanted to harm people at the event. (Los Angeles Daily News)
- An explosion at Shanghai Pudong International Airport injures at least three people; the explosive appears to be homemade. (AP via The Guardian)
- Lawyers for former President of Chad Hissène Habré, who was recently found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison, appeal the verdict. However, a tribunal spokesman said the appeal process is not expected to be done before April 2017. (Al Jazeera)
- Sports
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economics
- International relations
- International relations
- Law and crime
- A 22-year-old Dutch woman held in Qatar for nearly three months after telling police she had been raped is released following the court ruling of a one-year suspended prison sentence. The Associated Press reports it isn't clear "[...] what sentence was given to the man she accused of rape." (AP)
- Trial of Oscar Pistorius
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- 2014–16 Venezuelan protests
- November 2015 Paris attacks
- The father of Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez, the only American killed in the November 13, 2015, Paris massacre, files suit in San Francisco, California, federal court against Twitter, Facebook, and Google, alleging the companies provided "material support" to the Islamic State and other extremist groups. While generally free of liability under U.S. law which provides a legal safe harbor for content posted, this case targets the behavior social media companies enable. The suit is very similar to a case brought against Twitter in January by the widow of a contractor killed in the November 9, 2015, attack in Jordan. (AP via San Francisco Chronicle) (Daily Mail) (The Guardian)
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- Flooding in southern Ghana caused by heavy rain leaves at least 10 people dead and the streets of Accra under water. (Al Jazeera)
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Causeway Bay Books disappearances, One country, two systems
- One of five Hong Kong booksellers who disappeared in 2015 says he was forced by Chinese agents into a confession of "illegal trading". (BBC)
- Thai police raid the Dhammakaya Buddhist temple, north of Bangkok, to arrest Abbot Phra Dhammachayo, who is accused of conspiring to launder money by accepting stolen cash from a credit union. His followers deny the allegations and claim the charges are politically motivated. (Reuters) (BBC)
- Labour Party MP Jo Cox dies at Leeds General Infirmary after being shot and stabbed as she prepared to hold a meeting with constituents in Birstall, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. A woman suffered serious injuries; a man was slightly wounded. West Yorkshire police have arrested a 52-year-old male suspect. (NBC News) (ABC News) (BBC) (Reuters) (The Guardian)
- European migrant crisis
- A Ugandan soldier kills at least seven people in a shooting spree at a military police barracks in the capital, Kampala. The soldier, Sgt Isaac Obua, was then shot dead himself. He is reported to have been drunk. (BBC)
- A Kenyan lower court judge upholds the use of anal examinations to attempt to determine a suspect’s sexual orientation. Homosexual acts are a crime in Kenya. (AP) (The Washington Post)
- Politics and elections
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- Law and crime
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- A week of heavy rains and flooding in south China results in at least 25 deaths, six people missing and 33,000 people displaced. (ABC News)
- Six people are killed and 10 injured when a van crashes in the U.S. state of Virginia. (Reuters)
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
|
|
- Arts and culture
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Clashes between the Mexican police and members of the radical Mexican teachers union National Coordinator of Education Workers in Oaxaca leaves at least six people dead. (AP via Fox News)
- Politics and elections
- Italian local elections, 2016
- Wukan protests, 2016's events :
- Thousands of people are reported to have spontaneously marched in southern China's village of Wukan in Guangdong province over the arrest of the village's democratically elected leader, 70-year-old Lin Zuluan, who had been planning meetings and protests about corruption, illegal land grabs, and the government's failure to return land to the people, per the 2011 agreement. (AP) (South China Morning Post)
- City of Lufeng prosecutors said in a statement that Lin was being held on suspicion of taking bribes. Renmin University's Zhang Mingin, a political science professor, says the bribery charge was "strange" since a village chief does not have the authority to approve projects that could result in kickbacks. (U.S. News & World Report)
- Plainclothes policemen and policemen in riot-control gear establish checkpoints, guard government buildings, and increase patrols on the streets of Wukan. The earlier operation to arrest Lin included hundreds of police. (South China Morning Post) (The Scotsman)
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
- Solar Impulse 2, a plane powered only by the sun, lands safely in Seville, Spain, shortly after 7.30 a.m. local time after a flight of just over 71 hours. The 15th leg of the round-the-world journey had been expected to take up to 90 hours. (Reuters) (Reuters²)
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Spanish general election, 2016
- Voters in Spain go to the polls for a general election six months after an inconclusive election. Polls indicate that no party will be in position to form a government. (AP)
- United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union
- Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, says that Scottish Parliament has the power to veto the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union. (BBC)
- Heidi Alexander, Gloria De Piero, Ian Murray, Lilian Greenwood, Lucy Powell, Kerry McCarthy, Seema Malhotra, Vernon Coaker, Charlie Falconer, Karl Turner and Chris Bryant resign en masse from the Labour Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership over the EU referendum, and the firing of Hilary Benn. (BBC)
- The petition calling for a second referendum passes three million signatures. (Parliament UK)
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union:
- Peter Altmaier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff, warns Britain of dire consequences of exit from the European Union, saying in a newspaper interview that UK leaders should not rule out the possibility of another referendum on the same issue. (Daily Mail) (Bloomberg)
- Joining their 12 colleagues from the day before, Luciana Berger, Angela Eagle, Maria Eagle, Kate Green, Nia Griffith, John Healey, Lisa Nandy and Owen Smith resign from the Labour Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn, alongside 18 junior shadow ministers and 9 additional frontbenchers, while Angela Smith and Steve Bassam of the House of Lords leadership will boycott attending Shadow Cabinet meetings, all in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership over the EU referendum, and the firing of Hilary Benn. (The Guardian)
- The European Union refuses informal talks with the United Kingdom until they trigger Article 50 to leave. (BBC)
- Sport
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economics
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economics
- Toyota, which on Tuesday announced a recall of 1.43 million hybrids because of an airbag problem, today announces the recall of 2.87 million vehicles worldwide, produced between April 2006 and August 2015, because of a possible problem with their evaporative fuel emissions control unit. (Reuters)
- The Lesedi La Rona diamond, the largest uncut diamond in the world, went on sale at an auction in Mayfair with it expected to sell at £52 million, or US$70 million. However, the diamond only managed to draw a high bid of US$61 million, falling short of the reserve price to sell it. (BBC) (CBC News)
- The London FTSE index recovers from its losses after the result of the European Union membership referendum, closing at its highest level since April. (Reuters)
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- A prosecutor in Michigan, United States, is considering whether the words of an African grey parrot could be used to try the woman accused of killing the pet parrot's owner. (The Guardian)
- Luxembourg Leaks
- Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet, two whistleblowers who revealed the Luxembourg Leaks financial scandal, are found guilty of leaking the documents and are given a 12 and nine month suspended sentence and fined €1,500 and €1,000 respectively, while Edouard Perrin, the journalist who was given the leaks, is acquitted of all charges. (BBC)
- Anthony Sawina faces five counts of second degree assault after he allegedly taunts and then shoots into a car at 5 Muslim men, injuring 2 in Dinkytown near the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. US representative Keith Ellison has called for a Department of Justice investigation into the incident. (Independent)
- Politics and elections
|
|
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economics
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Colombian, Italian, and U.S. police seize 11 tonnes of cocaine smuggled to various countries and arrest 33 people across Colombia and Italy after the discovery of seven laboratories in the Colombian jungle run by local organized criminal groups and 'Ndrangheta. (Reuters)
- Politics and elections
|
|
Trials |
Recently concluded[edit]
- Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes, Roger Rogerson, Glen McNamara
- Brazil: Mensalão scandal
- Canada: Luka Magnotta
- China: Ji Jianye, Li Chuncheng, Jiang Jiemin, Liao Shaohua, Ni Fake, Chen Baihuai, Zhou Yongkang, Gu Junshan
- Croatia: Ivo Sanader
- Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste, Mohamed Morsi
- Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff
- Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
- Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh
- Jordan: Abu Qatada
- Philippines: Janet Lim-Napoles, Joseph Scott Pemberton
- Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Dan Diaconescu
- Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Eston Kohver, Vladimir Kvachkov
- South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius
- Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya
- United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot, Adam Johnson
- United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Jesse Jackson Jr., Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Jodi Arias, Anas al-Libi, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Sheldon Silver
- International
Ongoing[edit]
- China: Yao Mugen, Guo Youming, Zhu Zuoli
- Germany: Beate Zschäpe
- Iran: Babak Zanjani
- Netherlands: Geert Wilders
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr., Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Jovito Palparan
- Romania: Darius Vâlcov, Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita, Marian Vanghelie, Cătălin Voicu, Relu Fenechiu, Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
- Russia: Alexei Navalny
- South Korea: MV Sewol crew members
- Spain: Lionel Messi
- United States: Dean Skelos
- International
Upcoming[edit]
- China: Wu Changshun, Ling Jihua
- Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
- Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
- United Kingdom: Max Clifford, Rolf Harris, Ched Evans
- United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry, Bill Cosby
- International
edit sidebar
|
|