Category: Legal Matters

Japanese prosecutors are expected to formally charge the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder on Friday, his lawyer said.Tetsuya Yamagami was arrested immediately after allegedly shooting Abe with a handmade gun …

JAKARTA, Jan 10 (NNN-ANTARA) – Several houses and buildings were destroyed, after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia’s eastern province of Maluku earlier today, officials and weather agency said.The country’s meteorology, climatology and geoph…

A U.S. military plane involved in a confrontation with Chinese aircraft in disputed southern waters last week had violated international law and put the safety of Chinese pilots at risk, a defense ministry spokesperson said.   The U.S. military said Thursday that a Chinese Navy J-11 fighter jet had come within 3 meters of a […]

The death toll from Christmas Day rains in southern Philippines has risen to 13, authorities said on Tuesday, with the search still on for 23 people as floods started to recede.   Most of the deaths were caused by drowning from flash floods after two days of heavy rains disrupted Christmas celebrations and forced more […]

PARIS — French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, arrived in France on Saturday after almost 20 years in prison in Nepal.   Nepal’s top court ruled on Wednesday that he should be freed on health grounds and deported to France within 15 days.   On Friday, he […]

A former judge of the Supreme People’s Court, the highest court in China, is calling for the suspension or revocation of cases against some 80 people found guilty of violating “zero-COVID” policy regulations since the advent of omicron, a less deadly variant that began spreading in December 2021. China implemented the zero-COVID policy in January […]

JAKARTA, A coal mine exploded in Indonesia’s western province of West Sumatra yesterday, leaving nine workers dead, two others injured and one missing, an official said.   The explosion in the mine, located in Sawahlunto town, occurred at about 8: 30 a.m. local time, press officer of the provincial search and rescue office, Arief Pratama […]