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The former head of Italy's motorway operator has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in the Genoa bridge collapse that killed 43 people.
Giovanni Castellucci among 32 people convicted over the 2018 Morandi Bridge collapse, which killed 43 Thirty-two people, including the former chief executive of Italy’s motorway operator, have been convicted over the 2018 collapse of a Genoa bridge in which 43 people died. In a hushed courtroom on Thursday in the north-western Italian city, Giovanni Castellucci, former boss of Autostrade per l’Italia, was sentenced…
Sky News – World The former head of Italy's motorway operator has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in the Genoa bridge collapse that killed 43 people.
Sky News – World The former head of Italy's motorway operator has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in the Genoa bridge collapse that killed 43 people.
NYTimes – US President Donald Trump approved the execution by U.S. Army firing squad of former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Pentagon confirmed. Hasan was convicted and sentenced to death in 2013 for killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. The execution will be the first by the U.S. military since 1961 and the first by firing squad since World War II; the date and location have not yet been set.
Sky News – Front Page Former "American Idol" contestant and Ohio music pastor Caleb Flynn was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors said he staged a home invasion after shooting her while having an affair. Flynn maintained his innocence at Monday's sentencing hearing in Ohio.
The FBI arrested Wanying Zhang, also known as Heather, at Los Angeles International Airport as she was departing for China, accusing her of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government by surveilling the son and family of Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te at the behest of Chinese officials. Lai condemned the alleged operation as a "barbaric" act and criticized China for disregarding human rights and suppressing personal freedoms.
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