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A sign displayed on a beach in the Western Cape Province reads "White Area" during the apartheid in South Africa on June 23, 1976. (AP Photo, File)

South Africa opens a new inquiry into apartheid-era killings known as Cradock Four

South Africa has opened a new inquiry into the killings of four anti-apartheid activists 40 years ago. It’s part of a wider push for justice for those who were killed by security forces during the years of enforced racial segregation.
 
Vehicles are parked outside the Fulton County Jail, April 11, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Kate Brumback, File)

Former Georgia jail guard abused inmates with Taser and lied about it, authorities say

 
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Iran executed at least 975 people last year, the highest number since 2015, UN report says

 
In this photo released by the Nigeria State House, Nigeria President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, second from left, visits the victims of of a recent gun attack on a village at the hospital in Benue, north- central, Nigeria, Wednesday June 18, 2025. (Taiwo Okanlawon/Nigeria State House via AP)

Nigerian president orders crackdown on gangs after 150 killed in conflict-hit north

 
Supporters of Argentina's former President Cristina Fernandez protest in her defense at Plaza de Mayo, after she began serving a six-year prison sentence under house arrest for corruption in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

Photos of Cristina Fernández supporters as she serves a prison sentence for corruption in Argentina

 

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Maxwell Anderson, right, with his defense attorney Anthony Cotton, left, in Milwaukee County Circuit court on Thursday, June 5, 2025, in Milwaukee, Wis. (Angela Peterson/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Jury finds Milwaukee man guilty of killing and dismembering 19-year-old woman

 
Flowers and a candle lie in front of a portrait of slain investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia during a vigil outside the law courts in Valletta, Malta, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Jonathan Borg, File)

Jury finds 2 men guilty of supplying the bomb used to kill Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia

 

Interpol says 20 arrested in child sexual abuse operation across 12 countries

 
In this image taken from police body camera footage provided by Los Angeles Sheriff's office, a Sheriff's deputies arrests a couple in a grocery store parking lot in Lancaster, Calif., on June 24, 2023. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Officer who used excessive force allowed to plead guilty to misdemeanor after felony conviction

 

Man accused of yelling ‘Free Palestine’ and firebombing demonstrators charged with attempted murder

 
Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is seen at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Detained Columbia graduate claims ‘irreparable harm’ to career and family as he pleads for release

 
The Orleans Parish jail is pictured in New Orleans on Friday, May 16, 2025.(Brett Duke /The Advocate via AP, file)

Authorities investigating a new social media post by a New Orleans jail escapee on the run

 
Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco sits in court during his trial on charges of sexually abusing a minor, in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)

Teen girl testifies behind closed doors in Wander Franco trial in the Dominican Republic

 

Police consider whether ‘King of the Hill’ actor’s sexual orientation played a role in his killing

 
U.S. Army Pfc. Dewayne Johnson sits with his teammates during the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center 24-01 at Helemano Military Reservation in Wahiawa, Hawaii, Nov. 2, 2023. (Spc. Joshua Linfoot/U.S. Army via AP)

US soldier gets 23 years for killing his pregnant wife with a machete and dumping her in the trash

 
President Donald Trump speaks at U.S. Steel Corporation's Mon Valley Works-Irvin plant, Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Diver convicted of freeing sharks off Florida coast says he was surprised by presidential pardon

 

Trump pardons 2 divers who freed 19 sharks off the coast of Florida

 
In this image taken from video, Jonathan Joss, an actor best known for his voice work on the animated television series “King of the Hill,” talks to reporters following a fire at his San Antonio, Texas, home on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (KSAT via AP)

Police consider whether ‘King of the Hill’ actor’s sexual orientation played a role in his killing

 
In this image taken from WSOC video, various police vehicles gather outside a community after a mass shooting, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in Hickory, a city in Catawba County, N.C. (WSOC via AP)

North Carolina judge revokes bond for house party shooting suspect

 

Inmate dies and others hurt after a fight inside a county jail in central Georgia

 
A sign that reads in Portuguese "Justice for Dom and Bruno" with images of the British journalist Dom Phillips, on the left, and the Indigenous specialist Bruno Pereira, is displayed on the Arcos da Lapa aqueduct during a protest by environmental groups to ask for justice for their deaths, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)

Brazilian prosecutors charge man accused of ordering high-profile killing in Amazon region

 

Brazilian president calls Israeli attacks on Gaza ‘premeditated genocide’

 
Nancy Wilson, of Heart, performs during the "Love Alive Tour" at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre on Thursday, July 11, 2019, in Chicago. (Photo by Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, file)

Arrest made in theft of instruments stolen from the rock band Heart at New Jersey venue

 
This 2021 photo shows Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

A central Florida sheriff was arrested as part of a gambling probe

 
Harvey Weinstein appears for his retrial at a Manhattan court, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith, Pool)

Jury deliberations begin in Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial

 
Sean "Diddy" Combs looks on as defense attorney Nicole Westmoreland cross examines Dawn Richard during Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering trial in Manhattan federal court, Monday, May 19, 2025, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

In the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial, an ex-girlfriend testifies about abuse and control

 
Australian national identified as P.R., second left, and an Indian national identified as H.V., left, who were arrested for drug possession, react during a National Narcotics Agency press conference in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Indonesia arrests foreign nationals in Bali on drugs charges that could carry the death penalty

 
Special police force officers secure packages of seized cocaine as they are presented to a news conference at police headquarters in Hamburg, Sept. 27, 2024. (Marcus Brandt/dpa via AP)

Outgoing head of Europe’s drug agency warns of surge of violence from stimulant trade

 
Lesli Colin Johnsen, right, hugs Beth Blacker before a community vigil at the Boulder Jewish Community Center, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, Pool)

Man accused of yelling ‘Free Palestine’ and firebombing demonstrators charged with attempted murder

 

Witnesses at vigil describe Boulder firebombing attack

 

US Marshals arrest a Dominican man sought in last year’s killing of 4 people in New York

 
This image released by Lionsgate shows Ana de Armas in a scene from "Ballerina." (Lionsgate via AP)

Movie Review: Ana de Armas is better at killing than ballet in ‘Ballerina,’ a John Wick spinoff

 
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis arrives during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case in Atlanta, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool, File)

Long-running Young Thug gang trial to end without any murder convictions

 
Investigators use a metal detector to collect evidence at the scene of a mass shooting, Sunday, June 1, 2025 in Hickory, N.C. (Sarah C. Johnson/The Hickory Daily Record via AP)

North Carolina law enforcement outraged over bond for suspect in house party shooting

 
Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan for his retrial on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 in New York. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)

Jury deliberations near in Weinstein sex crimes retrial

 
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