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Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger, right, celebrates after scoring his side's third goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England, Sunday, Sep. 19, 2021

Chelsea thrash Spurs as Greaves death overshadows action
Gulf Daily News LONDON - Chelsea and Manchester United maintained their unbeaten starts to the Premier League season on Sunday as English football mourned the passing of goalscoring great Jimmy Greaves. Chelsea, the... (photo: AP / Matt Dunham)

Men entering the 7-eleven convenience store in Shibuya, Japan. Taken on July 2018.

Yakuza death sentence puts Japan’s mob on notice

Asiatimes TOKYO – In a court case that may set nail-biting precedents for Japan’s mob kingpins, the boss of the country’s most violent gang was sentenced to death for murder last week. The sentence, which made... (photo: WN / RTayco)

A sea turtle swimming through the ocean in Maui, Hawaii

Hundreds of sea turtles wash up dead in Mexico
BBC News At least 300 sea turtles have washed up dead on Mexico's Pacific coast. Preliminary exams suggests that the olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) drowned, an official with Mexico's... (photo: Creative Commons / Ashley Lee)

Thai Customs officials unload seized heroin for display during a press conference at the Customs headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, July 6, 2021.

Australian police seize biggest heroin shipment ever
RNZ Australian police said today they seized the largest heroin shipment ever detected in the country, worth an estimated $A140 million ($NZ147 million), and arrested a Malaysian national over the... (photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit)

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In this Monday, May 24, 2021 file photo, the flag of Iran waves in front of the the International Center building with the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, May 24, 2021.

US, allies step up pressure on Iran to return to nuclear talks
Indian Express The United States and its closest partners are stepping up pressure on Iran to return to stalled nuclear negotiations, warning that it will face greater international... (photo: AP / Florian Schroetter, FILE)

US Supreme Court weighs Boston Marathon bomber's sentence

The New Arab The US Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hear the federal government's bid to reinstate Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence for his role in the... (photo: Creative Commons / 1985-current )

Five ways this Supreme Court could change America
BBC News Ever since Donald Trump appointed three conservative justices to the Supreme court during his four-year presidential term, it seemed to many like it was just a matter of... (photo: Creative Commons / Free-Photos)

French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian attends a news conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, Friday, June 25, 2021

French MPs condemn ‘human rights violations’ in Bahrain
Al Jazeera Several French members of parliament urged France’s foreign minister to speak out over the deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain, a human rights organisation... (photo: AP / Andrew Harnik)

Conspiracy theorist and InfoWars founder Alexander (Alex) Emric (or Emerick) Jones livestreaming with smartphone the crowd shots

Alex Jones loses Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit
The Jerusalem Post Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, host of the right-wing website Infowars, lost two of several lawsuits after failing to produce documents related to his spreading of... (photo: Creative Commons / Mark Taylor)

John T. Earnest appears for a readiness hearing Thursday, May 30, 2019, in San Diego

California gunman gets life without parole for synagogue murder, mosque arson
Yahoo Daily News By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A man who admitted to killing one worshiper and wounding three others in a shooting spree inside a California synagogue about a... (photo: AP / Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune)

File - In this Feb. 6, 2002, file photo a detainee is led by military police to be interrogated by military officials at Camp X-Ray at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The legacy of America’s post-9/11 turn to torture
Denver Post NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Mohamedou Ould Slahi is almost clinical as he recalls details of the torture he endured in the summer of 2003 at Guantánamo Bay. There were... (photo: AP / Lynne Sladky, File)

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How Facebook undermines privacy protections for its 2bn WhatsApp users

Mail Guardian South Africa When Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new “privacy-focused vision” for Facebook in March 2019, he cited the company’s global messaging service, WhatsApp, as a model.... (photo: AP / Martin Meissner)