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Turkiye teetered on the edge of political crisis Wednesday as one top court filed a criminal complaint against members of another over its order to release a jailed opposition politician. The Supreme Court of Appeals said it was filing…
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A French court has sentenced four men between five and 15 years in jail for plotting an attack on Paris’s emblematic Champs Elysees avenue. A fifth walked free as he had already served his term in pre-trial custody. The five…
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A woman suspected of involvement in a bombing that killed a Russian military blogger at a St. Petersburg cafe should stay in custody for two months pending an investigation, a court in Moscow ruled Tuesday. The blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky,…
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Seven people were imprisoned in Belgium Wednesday in two investigations into “possible terrorist attacks,” the federal prosecutor’s office said. The seven, five Belgians as well as a Turk and a Bulgarian, were charged with participation…
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Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Berlatsky was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday by a court in his native Belarus which found him guilty of financing protests in a ruling condemned by Germany as a “farce.”…
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Morocco’s prison service said on Tuesday that a man sentenced to death over the 2018 beheadings of two Scandinavian women hikers had killed himself in his cell. “This morning, (the prisoner) at Oujda prison committed suicide,” the…
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An Austrian has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in jail in Iran for spying, Vienna said Tuesday, adding it had summoned the Iranian ambassador. The foreign ministry had announced the man’s detention in October and said it is in…
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Two men were each sentenced on Wednesday to a minimum of 35 years in jail for murdering a 71-year-old woman after attempting to take control of two properties she owned in the capital. The court was told that Mohamed El-Abboud, 28, and…
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A South Korean court has convicted a man for imprisoning and beating his girlfriend for refusing to show him the contents of her smartphone. The Jeju Provincial Court found the defendant, 41, guilty of forcibly dragging the victim into a…
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Former Russian economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev, who in 2017 was sentenced to eight years on bribery charges, walked free Thursday after he was granted early release. He was accused of taking a $2-million bribe from Igor Sechin, the…
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