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Kenya Cult Leader Handed 200 Year Prison Sentence for Mass Murder

Paul Nthenge Mackenzie told followers to starve themselves in order to meet Jesus, an edict that was violently enforced, a court heard during his trial.

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Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, center, at a court in Mombasa, Kenya, on Friday. He was arrested in 2023 after the Kenyan authorities exhumed the bodies of more than 400 people.

American Is Convicted of Murder in Case That Gripped Italy

A TV program helped to identify the victims, a Russian woman and her young daughter, who were found dead in a Rome park.

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Investigators in Villa Pamphili park in Rome, where the bodies of Anastasia Trofimova and her daughter Andromeda were found, in 2025.

Court Rejects Erin Patterson’s Appeal in Mushroom Murders Case

Judges took away the possibility of parole for an Australian woman, Erin Patterson, and rejected a bid to overturn her conviction over a deadly beef Wellington lunch.

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Erin Patterson leaving the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, in 2025.

Brazil Supreme Court Orders FlΓ‘vio Bolsonaro to Hand Over Passports in Money Laundering Inquiry

Brazil’s Supreme Court told the police to seize passport of Mr. Bolsonaro, who lost the presidential election, over his links to an investigation.

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Flavio Bolsonaro speaking in BrasΓ­lia last night after losing the presidential election.

Australian Murderer Has No Right to Vegemite, Court Says

A judge said that denying him the staple in prison restricted his cultural rights but ruled that keeping drug dogs focused and cells free of illicit home brew was more important.

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Andre McKechnie filed suit last year, arguing that the Vegemite ban in prisons in Victoria denied him his β€œculture as an Australian.”

Chris Brown Gets Suspended Prison Sentence Over Nightclub Assault

The singer, 37, had pleaded guilty after hitting a music producer repeatedly in the head with a bottle in London in 2023. He is unlikely to serve any prison time.

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Chris Brown walked past fans and journalists as he arrived at the court in London on Monday.
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