Midday Essentials for Friday 13 June 2025
crime world 1:45 pm today
In today's episode, family members and friends of passengers who were on board the crashed plane have gathered in Ahmedabad's hospital for DNA tests to help identify their loved ones, there are reports that Israel is attacking Iran - with explosions heard northeast of Iran's capital Tehran a short time ago, the sentencing for Tingjun Cao for murdering real estate agent Yanfei Bao in July 2023 has got under way in Christchurch, and Indian communities in Auckland are holding a vigil on Friday for the hundreds of lives lost in the Air India plane crash.
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a day ago
- NZ Herald
The brutal, callous and depraved murder of Yanfei Bao - A Moment in Crime
On June 13, Chinese national Tingjun Cao was jailed for life for the murder of Christchurch real estate agent and mother Yanfei Bao. Bao, 44, was stabbed to death in July 2023 and buried in a shallow grave on a farm
RNZ News
4 days ago
- RNZ News
Iran executes three men for spying for Israel
Photo: 123RF Iran said that it executed three men accused of spying for Israel, the day after a truce between the two countries came into effect. "Idris Ali, Azad Shojai and Rasoul Ahmad Rasoul, who attempted to import equipment into the country to carry out assassinations, were arrested and tried for... cooperation favouring the Zionist regime," the judiciary said, referring to Israel. "The sentence was carried out this morning... and they were hanged." The executions took place in Urmia, a northwestern city near the border with Turkey on Wednesay [local time] the judiciary said, sharing photos of the three men in blue prison uniforms. Tehran regularly announces the arrest and execution of agents suspected of working for foreign intelligence services, including its arch-foe Israel. After the Iran-Israel war erupted on 13 June, Tehran vowed swift trials for people arrested on suspicion of collaborating with its arch-foe. It carried out executions of men accused of being Mossad agents on both Sunday and Monday. Iran is the world's second-most prolific executioner after China, according to human rights groups, including Amnesty International. - AFP
RNZ News
5 days ago
- RNZ News
Iranian New Zealander fled to border amid strikes
The wife of an Iranian New Zealander feared he was dead as bombs rained down on Tehran. Aucklander Vahid Safinia fled to the border after Israeli strikes pounded the area he was visiting, but his ordeal was far from over. Gill Bonnett reports To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
