Authorities in Honduras have confirmed the murder of yet another indigenous activist, four months after the assassination of award-winning environmentalist Berta Cáceres prompted international outrage over the targeting of campaigners who oppose mega-projects and resource extraction in the Central American country.
For the next seventy-two honrs, on cable and network tributes; on YouTube searches, and a ton of tiny Twitter urls, there will be the clip of Cronkite removing his black, horn-rimmed glasses -- almost losing his composure -- as he confirmed the murder of President Kennedy in Dallas.
In February a second report, this one from a "truth commission", confirmed the murdered bishop's findings.
The BBC's Mark Lowen says that, if confirmed, the state-sponsored murder on Turkish soil of a high-profile Saudi dissident would worsen already strained relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
The failure to apprehend or successfully prosecute those who commit racist crimes has become sadly familiar, though it has not yet been confirmed that the murder of Firsat Yildiz was racially motivated.
But shortly before 1 p.m. on Friday, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, the group's chairman of educational and social services, announced, "We have just received news confirming the brutal murder of two of our finest".
It also sentenced the mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti, who is in prison in the US, to 24 years for involvement in the murder, but confirmed the acquittal of four other suspects.
In the fall of '99, Mr. Paciello's arrest and incarceration for his role in a robbery and murder confirmed the repeated whispers of mob connections (and late-night beat downs), and put a cap on an era in which a Staten Island thug could arrive in town and handily reinvent himself as a hip impresario.
Canadian police confirmed the teenager faces four first-degree murder charges and seven charges of attempted murder after the shooting at a house and school in La Loche.
Guardian Australia verified court documents and spoke to a number of the lawyers who acted in Abdellatif's 1999 mass trial in Egypt where he was convicted in absentia, to confirm that the murder, explosives and damage charges were non-existent.
Khashoggi was "strangled as soon as he entered the consulate," said Irfan Fidan, Istanbul's chief prosecutor, calling the act part of a Saudi team's "premeditated plans". Khashoggi's body, "after being strangled, was subsequently destroyed by being dismembered, once again confirming the planning of the murder," Fidan added.
