RIP OJ Simpson; Kim Jong Un War Talk | Top Stories | April 11, 2024

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0:00 OJ Simpson dies after battle with cancer aged 76
- OJ Simpson, the former American football star, actor and notorious suspected double murderer, has died of cancer at 76, his family has said in a statement. His 1995 trial, and controversial acquittal, for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, provided one of the world’s most-watched popular culture events of the last century.

0:25 Kim Jong Un: ‘Now is time to be prepared for war’
⁃ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says now is the time to be more prepared for war than ever as he visited the country’s main military university, state media reported. He made his remarks on the same day as rival South Korea’s parliamentary elections in which the governing party suffered a major defeat.

0:45 Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death in fraud case
- A Vietnamese property developer was sentenced to death on for looting one of the country's largest banks over a period of 11 years. Truong My Lan was convicted for taking out 44 billion dollars in loans from the Saigon Commercial Bank. Prosecutors said 27 billion dollars may never be recovered. Authorities said 2,700 people were summoned to testify, while 10 state prosecutors and around 200 lawyers were involved. The evidence was in 104 boxes weighing a total of six tonnes. Eighty-five defendants were tried with Truong My Lan, who denied the charges.