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HON KONG , China (Reuters) — Hong Kong’s former leader Donald Tsang, the highest-ranking official ever to be charged in the city’s history, will make a plea for a bribery charge on Tuesday (January 3) as his graft trial began. Tsang, 72, dressed in a black suit and black bow tie, walked into court with two security guards. He pleaded not guilty to two counts of misconduct in public office during a pre-trial in December […]
SOUTH CAROLINA, Unite States (Reuters) — Defense attorneys urged a South Carolina jury on Wednesday (November 30) to look beyond a shocking video of a white police officer shooting a fleeing black motorist to death last year and consider all the evidence presented at the former policeman’s murder trial. Lawyers were making their closing arguments to jurors who will decide whether Michael Slager, 35, committed a crime when he killed 50-year-old Walter Scott in […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — An Indonesian woman accused of murdering a friend with cyanide-laced coffee went on trial Wednesday, in a case that has caused tensions between Indonesia and Australia over the death penalty. Jessica Kumala Wongso, who is an Australian permanent resident, denies the premeditated murder of her college friend Wayan Mirna Salihin, who collapsed and died after drinking the coffee at an upmarket Jakarta cafe in January. The case has attracted huge national […]
