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There are currently 488 media professionals imprisoned around the world, the highest number since Reporters Without Borders began counting more than 25 years ago, the NGO announced Thursday. By contrast, the number killed this year — 46 —…

PARIS: There are currently 488 media professionals imprisoned around the world, the highest number since Reporters Without Borders began counting more than 25 years ago, the NGO announced Thursday (Dec 16).  By contrast, the number killed…

An unusual contender for the Christmas No 1 is released today.Thirty years ago the pop group The Christians released a song to support British hostage John McCarthy kidnapped for five years in Lebanon. Today they rereleased a…

PARIS - The sister of a man who was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia is asking seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton to help save her brother's life. Zeinab Abu Al-Kheir told The Associated…

Every Sunday night, I would call my father, a horse farmer and part-time political pundit in Nicaragua, who would give me his analysis of the week's events, followed by a simple question: "Have you voted yet?" Then, he would say, "This is…

The US-based rights group is calling on authorities in Beijing to release Zhang, a former lawyer, who was detained in May 2020 and sentenced in December to four years in prison for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" -- a charge…

ROSEMONT, Penn.: Megan Rice, a nun and Catholic peace activist who spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons, has died. She was 91.Rice died of…

WASHINGTON: In a surprising development, a Russian man who was imprisoned in the U.S. for cybercrimes has been deported to Russia, officials said Tuesday.Aleksei Burkov, 31, facilitated $20 million in credit card fraud and ran a…

SEOUL — Lee Jae-yong, the de facto leader of the Samsung conglomerate, who was imprisoned for bribery, will be released on parole on Friday, the Ministry of Justice of South Korea said on Monday.The ministry’s parole committee met on Monday…