English

More about this topic

USA

Iran US prisoner swap on same day that sanctions are lifted

Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post journalist who’s one of four Americans being released from prison in Iran as part of a deal coinciding with the news

World News

Iran 'frees four US detainees' in prisoner swap

As diplomats gathered in Vienna on Saturday to announce the lifting of international sanctions on Tehran under last year’s nuclear deal, Iran’s state

Mexico

Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' recaptured

He made headlines around the world when he tunneled out of a maximum security prison through a long tunnel, but now he’s been recaptured. The

World News

The 'forced' marriage that highlights Russia’s repressive new law

ADVERTISEMENT

Europe News

Sakharov Prize an 'historic moment' for jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi

Jailed Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi has been officially awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Collecting the European Parliament

World News

Montserrat Caballe handed six-month suspended jail sentence

The Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe has been handed a six-month suspended jail sentence and fined more than 250,000 euros for tax evasion

Europe News

Wife of jailed Saudi blogger hopes Sakharov Prize will be 'gateway to freedom'

Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi is being officially awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on Wednesday. But the human rights activist

No Comment

Prison protests hit Bolivia

Bolivia’s capital La Paz have been hit by prison protests as inmates expressed their anger over alleged cuts in daily food allowances. Prisoners at

France

French comedian Dieudonné is sent to jail over anti-semitic remarks

USA

Israel spy Jonathan Pollard freed by US

Thirty years behind bars but now Jonathan Pollard a former US Navy analyst who passed secrets to Israel has been released from prison. It ends one of

Spain

Man faces prison in Spain for battering his horse to death

A man in Spain has been given a record eight months in prison for killing a horse. Eugeni Sanchez was convicted of beating his horse, Sorky das Pont

Mexico

El Chapo: hammering heard on escape video

Loud hammering can be heard on a video showing the escape of a notorious drugs baron from prison in Mexico. Joaquin Guzman, known as “El Chapo”

Mexico

Mexique : [vidéo inédite] Entrez dans la cellule du narco "El Chapo" juste avant son évasion

Sport

Former Liverpool striker Cisse released following blackmail arrest

Former Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse has been released from custody following an alleged plot to blackmail his former Marseille and France

India

Mumbai court condemns five to death for deadly train bombings

A Mumbai court has sentenced five men to death for the serial bombings of commuter trains in the sprawling city. #मुंबईस्फोट: 11 मिनिटात 7 स्फोट, 9

Guatemala

Guatemala President Perez behind bars amid corruption probe

Guatemala’s former leader Otto Perez is to remain in jail over his alleged role in a bribery scandal that has plunged the country into political

USA

Kentucky official jailed for refusing to recognise gay marriages

A judge in the US state of Kentucky jailed an official on Thursday for repeatedly refusing to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples. Country

Serbia

War criminal Nikola Sainovic back in Serbia after 18 years in prison

The former deputy prime minister of Yugoslavia Nikola Sainovic has returned to Serbia after serving two-thirds of his prison sentence. He had been

Venezuela

Jailed Venezuelan opposition leader transferred to house arrest

Jailed Venezuelan opposition politician Daniel Ceballos is to be freed from prison and placed under house arrest. He was jailed last year following

USA

Disappointment at life sentence for Colorado cinema killer

Victims’ relatives say they are disappointed that US cinema gunman James Holmes has been spared the death penalty. The 27-year-old killed 12 people