Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow and Washington are in contact over U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, who has been jailed in Russia since March on espionage charges that the Biden administration and the Wall Street Journal have denounced forcefully as baseless. Putin, speaking … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave A memory once shared by María Consuelo Loera was how her son counted the stacks of money as he started to rise in Mexico’s drug world. Then he would recount the money over and over for the satisfaction of feeling the bills and announcing the totals. The … Read more
LONDON — The son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai met with Britain’s foreign secretary on Tuesday to lobby for the U.K.’s help in securing his release from prison. Lai, the founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, an outspoken pro-democracy newspaper, faces a long-delayed trial next week over charges he … Read more
Play video content OnlyFans model and combat veteran Joshua Hopkins spent part of his Bahamas vacation in jail — dude got arrested for his role in a brawl at Nobu, and the whole fight is on video. TMZ obtained footage of Joshua brawling with other patrons inside Nobu Bahamas on Paradise Island, and you see … Read more
Senegal’s highest court has effectively barred detained opposition leader Ousmane Sonko from running for president early next year ByBABACAR DIONE Associated Press November 17, 2023, 1:28 PM FILE – Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko addresses journalists following his release from police custody in Dakar, Senegal, on March 8, 2021. Senegalese authorities say that opposition leader … Read more
An organiser of a Black Lives Matter protest used her profile to raise money for charity she then spent it on herself, a judge said as she was jailed for two and a half years. Xahra Saleem, now aged 23, gained a high public profile as a member of the BLM march in Bristol in … Read more
Four former student leaders from the University of Hong Kong have been sentenced to two years in prison for inciting people to wound others through their praise of a man who stabbed a police officer before killing himself in 2021 ByKANIS LEUNG Associated Press October 30, 2023, 4:32 AM HONG KONG — Four former student … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota county agreed to pay a $12.2 million settlement to a man who was jailed on suspicion of drunken driving but ended up losing both his hands and suffering a heart attack, a stroke and skin lesions all over his body, allegedly due to the inaction of officials in the county … Read more
ISLAMABAD — A prominent Pakistani television journalist who went missing more than four months ago after being arrested by police returned home Monday after being freed, police and his colleagues said. It is widely believed that Imran Riaz Khan, known for publicly supporting jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, was being held by security agencies. … Read more
An imprisoned Russian opposition figure has been transferred to a maximum security prison in Siberia and was placed in a tiny “punishment cell.” ByDASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press September 24, 2023, 10:34 AM TALLINN, Estonia — An imprisoned Russian opposition figure has been transferred to a maximum security prison in Siberia and placed in a tiny … Read more