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Man charged with assault causing death after field confrontation

A 48 year old man reportedly killed a younger man during a confrontation in a field in Non Suwan district on June 30. Police Colonel Kanasnan Suwansap, Police Lieutenant Suthon Krachangjit, investigators, a forensic doctor, and rescue services examined the scene in Bsan Khok Krabueang, Mueang Non Suwan district, after residents reported an assault. They …

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Las Pinas court orders archiving of murder case vs. ex-BuCor chief

MANILA, Philippines – The Las Piñas City Regional Trial Court has ordered the archiving of the murder case against former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) director Gerald Bantag for the death of broadcaster Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa until the authorities find him. “Judge Cesar Huliganga ruled that proceedings against former Bureau of Corrections chief Gerald Quitaleg

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John Lewis has slashed the price of Le Creuset by 40% in summer sale including popular casserole pot and oven dishes

JOHN Lewis has slashed the price of Le Creuset in a huge summer sale that offers shoppers up to 40 per cent off the kitchenware.

John Lewis slash prices in summer sale

The popular retailer has commenced its summer sale with top brands being heavily discounted.

Set of two Le Creuset stoneware square oven dishes.
Shoppers can save up to 40 per cent on Le Creuset
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Le Creuset stoneware square oven dish set of two.
The popular oven dish set is now on sale for under £40
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The sale has seen John Lewis slash the prices of several beloved Le Creuset products.

Shoppers to save 40% on popular dish set

Among the products on offer, is its popular stoneware oven dish, which has seen a whopping 40 per cent knocked off the original price.

The iconic dish is available for just £37.80 in a range of colours, including Le Creuset’s cult orange shade.

With the retail price normally being an eye-watering £63 for a set of two dishes, shoppers can make a huge saving on the cookware.

The product description reads: “Part of Le Creuset’s enduringly popular stoneware range, this pair of square oven dishes nest together to save storage space.

“Try them for pasta bakes, roasted vegetables, gratin and pies and for oven-to-table serving of a main and side presented in matching colours.”

The description also highlighted that the dishes are durable, easy to clean, and oven, microwave, freezer and dishwasher friendly.

The product has also received glowing reviews from happy customers.

One wrote: “Aesthetically pleasing, lightweight and most importantly, durable, which essentially ticks off everything you could look for in an oven dish.

“These dishes are fantastic.”

Big-name brands featured in the John Lewis sale

Another Le Creuset item that is up for grabs is their staple Casserole Soup Pot.

The beloved pot is currently reduced to £129 from £215 and available in three of the brand’s iconic colours.

Described as “a great way to start your Le Creuset collection” now is an amazing time to get your hands on this kitchen staple.

Other big names in the John Lewis sale include Nespresso, LSA and Joseph Joseph.

This isn’t the first time John Lewis has heavily discounted Le Creuset kitchen staples.

Its boxing day sale saw shoppers save up to £100 on an array of iconic products.

These sales offer a great opportunity for keen cooks to snap up quality products without the hefty price tag.

Argos has also recently launched its summer sale – offering huge discounts across thousands of products.

The retail giant’s summer deals feature savings of up to 50 per cent and has brought welcome discounts during the peak barbecue and outdoor entertaining season.

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Set of two teal Le Creuset stoneware square oven dishes.
Le Creuset is one of many popular brands featured in the sale
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Set of two Le Creuset stoneware square oven dishes.
Their cult products are available at a heavily discounted price and in an array of colours
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Orange Le Creuset casserole dish.
Among the products on offer are the oven dishes and casserole pots
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Who is Chris Butler and where is the cop turned private investigator, drug dealer and brothel manager now?

DISGRACED former cop Chris Butler promoted the 2010 reality TV concept P.I. Moms before his spectacular fall from grace.

He was later convicted of drug dealing and running a brothel, as well as an array of other crimes — here’s everything we know about him.

Group photo of five people, four women and one man, in front of a building.
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Chris Butler surrounded by his P.I. Moms investigators — (from left to right) Michelle Allen, Denise Antoon, Julia Brazina and Charmagne Peters[/caption]
Three women in dresses investigating; one holds a camcorder, another binoculars.
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Promo pic from reality shoe P.I. Moms (2010), which came to an end following Butler’s arrest[/caption]

Who is Chris Butler?

Christopher Butler is a former police officer, who worked in Antioch, California.

He became a private investigator and gained notoriety for his involvement in a series of high-profile crimes.

These include drug dealing, operating a brothel and orchestrating fraudulent DUI arrests.

In the mid-2000s, Butler founded a private investigations firm — Butler & Associates Private Investigations — in Concord, California.

He was also known for promoting the 2010 Lifetime show P.I. Moms of San Francisco, featuring female investigators catching cheating husbands red-handed while filming them.

Butler’s criminal activities came to light in 2011 when he and Norman Wielsch — then-commander of the Contra Costa County Narcotics Enforcement Team (CNET) — were arrested and indicted on multiple felony charges.

The charges included selling confiscated drugs — with Butler’s assistance, Wielsch stole methamphetamine, marijuana and steroids from police evidence lockers and sold them on the street.

Butler also rented office space in Pleasant Hill, California, where he managed a brothel disguised as a massage parlor.

The parlor’s sex workers were required to make weekly payments, which Butler shared with Wielsch, in exchange for Wielsch’s agreement to provide protection from law enforcement.

Butler and Wielsch staged fake police raids, seizing money and possessions under the guise of law enforcement.

In addition, Butler orchestrated stings to frame men for drunk driving at the request of ex-wives.

He used his female investigators to lure targets into drinking with them before notifying police.

Where is he now?

In May 2012, Butler pleaded guilty to seven federal felony charges, including drug offenses, conspiracy, extortion and illegal wiretapping.

His cooperation with federal investigators led to a plea deal, but the severity of his crimes resulted in an eight-year federal prison sentence.

Two women and a man loading a suitcase into the trunk of a vehicle.
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Butler was sentenced to eight years behind bars after a plea deal[/caption]

Prosecutors noted that Butler’s actions, motivated by a desire for fame and money, caused significant harm to individuals and undermined public trust in law enforcement.

While he was eligible for release by around 2020, there is no recent public information indicating that Butler has returned to public life or resumed any professional activities, as of July 1, 2025.

Netflix’s Trainwreck: P.I. Moms

A new true crime documentary revisits the reality show and the scandal that followed.

The original P.I. Moms show aired in 2010 and was marketed as an inside look at women balancing motherhood and undercover detective work.

The Netflix doc explores how the show unraveled when journalists and producers began to suspect that not everything was as it seemed.

Allegations surfaced that the agency was being used as a front for drug dealing and that a local police officer was involved, leading to a full-blown scandal.

The documentary promises to detail the true story behind the show’s collapse and criminal allegations, as well as the broader impact of the case on reality television and law enforcement

Trainwreck: P.I. Moms drops on Netflix on July 22, 2025.

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Horror moment hundreds storm Turkish magazine wrongly believing it printed forbidden image of Prophet as staff arrested

THIS is the horrifying moment angry protestors storm a Turkish magazine accused of publishing a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

LeMan is facing heated demonstrations over claims it published a forbidden picture of the sacred Islamic figure – as four employees at the satirical magazine are arrested.

Protesters clashing with riot police in Istanbul.
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Angry protesters clash with riot police in Istanbul after accusing a magazine of publishing a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad[/caption]
Islamist protesters clashing with Turkish riot police in Istanbul.
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Up to 300 people lined the streets outside the LeMan offices in protest[/caption]
Protesters clashing with riot police in Istanbul.
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Cops had to fire rubber bullets and use tear gas to break up the angry mob[/caption]

Another four – including the editor-in-chief – were also hit by arrest warrants by Turkish prosecutors.

Turkey’s interior minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed the warrants and condemned LeMan’s drawing as “shameless“.

LeMan have denied the cartoon was a caricature of Muhammad as they said on X: “The work does not refer to the Prophet Muhammad in any way.”

But their social media defence did little to calm down up to 300 hundred raging Muslims who took to the streets of Istanbul to protest the magazine.

Fierce demonstrations kicked off outside the LeMan headquarters with riot police being deployed to stop the growing crowd.

Protesters could be heard chanting “tooth for tooth, blood for blood, revenge, revenge” at one point.

As the issues continued on into the evening, cops were forced to use rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowds, witnesses claimed.

LeMan’s editor-in-chief Tuncay Akgun said the work had been misinterpreted and the magazine would “never take such a risk”.

Investigations were opened up against the magazine around the June 26, 2025 issue.

The controversial image showed a black-and-white image with two characters hovering in the skies over a city under bombardment from air strikes.

The two men both said their names – Muhammad and Moses – in the cartoon via speech bubbles.

Both names are synonyms with religion with Muhammad being sacred among Muslims and Moses being the most important prophet in Judaism as well as being involved in Christianity and Islam.

A post from LeMan justified the cartoon as they claimed: “The cartoonist wanted to portray the righteousness of the oppressed Muslim people by depicting a Muslim killed by Israel.

“He never intended to belittle religious values.”

Istanbul governor Davut Gul lashed out the cartoonist’s reasoning.

He said “this mentality seeks to provoke society by attacking our sacred values”.

Gul added: “We will not remain silent in the face of any vile act targeting our nation’s faith.”

Founded in 1991, LeMan has long lived on the edge through many of their drawings.

Turkish police officers standing behind a metal fence.
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Turkish police secure the street in front of the headquarters of LeMan Magazine[/caption]
Islamist protesters in Istanbul protesting against a satirical magazine.
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Protesters could be heard chanting ‘tooth for tooth, blood for blood, revenge, revenge’ at one point[/caption]

And Akgun now fears the level of backlash his magazine is experiencing draws worrying “similarities with Charlie Hebdo”.

In 2015, a disturbing attack on a French satirical magazine left 12 people dead after gunmen stormed the publishers after they released a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad.

The heinous attack was carried out by al-Qaeda terrorists who caused three days of carnage in Paris after going on the run.

Many Muslims view any depiction of Muhammad as sacrilege including pictures, cartoons and artist’s interpretations.

They are prohibited due to believers fearing it may encourage the worship of idols.

Others also say any attempt to picture prophets – including Allah – can’t be true and accurate depictions so will therefore be insulting.

There is no specific ban in the Koran on images of the Prophet however.

Two major events have sparked fury among religious believers in recent years – including the Charlie Hebdo attack.

The second saw Swedish artist Lars Vilks draw a sketch of the Prophet Mohammad on a dog’s body in 2007.

This act prompted years of death threats as Vilks was forced to go into police protection for over a decade following two assassination attempts.

In 2021, he was found dead after a mystery car crash.

The Charlie Hebdo terror attack

OVER a decade ago, al-Qaeda terrorists stormed the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris and killed 12 people in an act of vengeance.

Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, 32 and 34, brutally ambushed the paper’s offices in retaliation for a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad being printed.

On January 7, 2015, the Kouachi brothers shot and killed the caretaker, Frederic Boisseau, before forcing cartoonist Corinne Rey to open the second-floor office where the editorial meeting was happening.

The terrorist brothers stormed the meeting room, killing police officer Franck Brinsolaro, editor Stephane Charbonnier, and cartoonists Jean Cabut, Georges Wolinski, Bernard Verlhac, and Philippe Honore.

Economist and writer Bernard Maris, psychiatrist Elsa Cayat, copy editor Mustapha Ourrad and visitor Michel Renaud were also killed in the heinous attack.

Five minutes after the attacks, the evil Kouachi brothers came onto the street and got into their car to flee the scene.

They attempted to drive north but got into a shootout with a police vehicle where one brave cop, Ahmed Merabet, got wounded before one of the brothers shot him in the head.

The two fled to a printworks in the capital before an eight-hour standoff with cops took place.

In the early evening, smoke was seen rising from the building as a result of explosions and gunfire.

The Kouachi brothers then emerged from the building, firing at police.

The terrorists were killed in the shoot out, while two cops were left injured.

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Gunmen flee the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris in 2015 after an attack on the cartoon[/caption] Map detailing the events of the January 2015 attacks in Paris.

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Transport minister takes over as audio scandal topples Paetongtarn

Thailand was thrown into political upheaval today as Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was abruptly suspended over a leaked audio scandal, paving the way for Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit to seize the top job — at least for now. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport Suriya, a senior figure in the Pheu Thai Party, has …

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Blackview Mega 3 Full Specs, Features, Price In Philippines

Here’s The Complete List of Specifications, Features, & Price of the Blackview Mega 3 The Blackview Mega 3 was officially announced in June 2025. The tablet is fueled with a Li-Ion 8800 mAh battery + 33W wired charging. The tablet is available in two colors: Grey and Blue. Body & Display: The dimension of the ... Read more

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