Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi sentenced to another year in prison
Iran's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi, has been sentenced to another year i...
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Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal gets four weeks extension on temporary bail
The Bombay High Court on Friday has given extension by four weeks to Jet Airways founder Naresh Goya...
UAE sentences 43 Emiratis to life for ‘terror’ links in mass trial
A court in the United Arab Emirates has handed life sentences to 43 Emiratis for "terrorist" links, ...
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed American journalists on July 18 for delaying talks be...
TV news off air, jail stormed as protests surge in Bangladesh
Television news channels in Bangladesh were off the air and telecommunications were widely disrupted...
Prisoner swap: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris greet U.S. prisoners
The United States (the U.S.) and Russia completed a 24-person prisoner swap on August 1, the largest...
Evan Gershkovich | Pawn in the game
Evan Gershkovich was on a reporting assignment in Yekaterinburg, some 1,400 km off Moscow, when Russ...
Twelve killed in twin Bangladesh jailbreaks
“Twin jailbreaks in Bangladesh killed at least 12 inmates and freed hundreds more in the chaotic day...
Drug convicts await ‘shock’ execution in Saudi Arabia
The two Egyptian inmates ate a routine final dinner in a prison in northern Saudi Arabia, not knowin...
Congo says 129 people died during an attempted jailbreak, many of them in a stampede
At least 129 people died during an attempted jailbreak in Congo’s main prison in the capital, author...
Hong Kong outlet ‘Stand News’ editor jailed for sedition
A Hong Kong judge jailed a former chief editor of pro-democracy outlet Stand News for sedition on Th...
