01·East Asia·HK·3d agoUnder-covered Elderly in-laws arrested in California shooting death of New York Times employee
A 77-year-old couple gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with their daughter.
Jonathan McKinsey, a 40-year-old gaming engineer for The New York Times, was shot to death Saturday afternoon in the car park of a sports complex in Dublin, east of San Francisco. A police sergeant was driving nearby and saw him on the ground as witnesses began calling 911 and pointing out...
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02·East Asia·HK·4d agoUnder-covered 3 people killed and 4 injured in shooting at Michigan strip club, police say
Three people were killed and four others were injured when an argument led to gunfire at an after-hours strip club on Sunday morning in Detroit, officials said.
Police responding to the 7.21am shooting on a largely residential street found three men who had been fatally shot, Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison told reporters at a news conference.
Four more people – two men and two women – were taken in private cars to area hospitals.
All the victims are thought to be in their 20s and 30s,...
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03·East Asia·JP·20h agoUnder-covered Experts warn of xenophobia as viral 'foreigner theft' video in Japan turns out to be unrelated clip
Social media posts claiming to show foreigners stealing metal from railway tracks in Japan, viewed about 4.3 million times, used footage lifted from an unrelated Arabic-language video posted overseas, a Tokyo cybersecurity firm has found.
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