2 h. ago Footballer turned drug dealer who earned six times his wage says 'I'm not Pablo Escobar'

A former Spanish footballer starred for his boyhood club and became an icon in Greece, but his life was derailed when he was arrested for drug trafficking in 2019

Economics

5 h. ago He sexually assaulted a teenager on a bus – her ordeal at his hands had only just begun

Micahel Davies went to prison for the assault but following his release began a horrifying six-year stalking campaign against his victim

Economics

9 h. ago Venezuelan soldiers 'bled and collapsed' after US deployed powerful sonic weapon during dramatic Maduro capture, according to eyewitness account

The United States launched a strike on Venezuela on January 3, capturing President Nicolas Maduro on drug trafficking charges.

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10 h. ago America used a powerful sonic weapon that left Venezuelan soldiers vomiting blood: Harrowing 'new account of Maduro raid'

The United States launched a strike on Venezuela on January 3, capturing President Nicolas Maduro on drug trafficking charges.

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38 h. ago Algerian migrant sex offender who was wrongly released from prison admits burglary and carrying a knife

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was at the centre of a manhunt in November after he was mistakenly set free from HMP Wandsworth while he was supposed to be held in custody awaiting trial.

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39 h. ago Vivek Ramaswamy's family bodyguard arrested on drug trafficking charges

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed alarm that a man who worked as his family’s bodyguard is facing federal drug trafficking charges

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39 h. ago From Caracas to Minneapolis, the threat is the same – an American president ruling like a global emperor | Jonathan Freedland

Trump’s admission that he recognises no constraint outside his own morality was a horrifying moment of truth. It should galvanise all those who oppose himFor a serial liar, Donald Trump can be bracingly honest. We’ve known about the mendacity for years – consider the 30,573 documented falsehoods from the president’s first term, culminating in the big lie, his claim to have won the 2020 election – but the examples of bracing candour are fresher. This week both began and ended with the US president speaking the shocking truth.At a press conference to celebrate his capture of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, Trump announced that from now on the US would “run” that country, before moving in the very next breath to Venezuela’s oil. There was no pious talk of democracy, scant mention even of the drug trafficking that earlier served as a pretext for military action. Instead, Trump said out loud what had once been a slogan on leftist placards in protest at past US interventions, admi...

Politics

40 h. ago Rapper Fetty Wap released from prison early in drug trafficking case

Rapper Fetty Wap has been released from a federal prison to home confinement after serving just over half a six-year sentence for drug trafficking

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45 h. ago Fetty Wap released from prison three years early after drug trafficking conviction

Rapper, best known for hits ‘Trap Queen’ and ‘My Way,’ was sentenced to six years in prison in 2023

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51 h. ago Venezuela begins releasing political detainees to ‘consolidate peace’

Opposition leader María Corina Machado hails move to tackle ‘injustice’ as Spain’s foreign ministry confirms release of five Spanish nationalsFive days after the US seized Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela has announced it is releasing an “important number” of detainees in what the congressional president characterised as a gesture to “consolidate peace”.Former opposition candidate Enrique Márquez was among those released from prison, according to an opposition statement. “It’s all over now,” Márquez said in a video taken by a local journalist who accompanied him and his wife, as well as another opposition member Biagio Pilieri, who was also released. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Female prison officer who became pregnant with inmate's baby after starting a relationship with him while he was on overnight release is spared jail

Sarah Barnett, 33, who worked as a member of operational support staff at HMP Sudbury in Derbys, spent two nights with Scott Taylor after he was temporarily freed from the Category D prison.

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64 h. ago He had just got out of prison when his 'erratic behaviour' in a beauty salon saw him back before the courts

Raymond John had only just been released from a prison sentence for shoplifting a bottle of tequila and exposing his penis in public

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2 d. ago Police release new image of attempted murderer absconding from prison as manhunt continues

The public are being warned not to approach Kieran Cameron

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3 d. ago Man convicted of murder released from prison after 26 years as prosecutors admit he did not commit the crime

Brian Pippitt was convicted in 2001 in the 1998 killing of convenience store clerk Evelyn Malin

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3 d. ago Man convicted of murder released from prison after 26 years when prosecutors admit he did not commit the crime

Brian Pippitt was convicted in 2001 in the 1998 killing of convenience store clerk Evelyn Malin

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3 d. ago High school gunman set to be released from prison as judge OKs resentencing

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison but is set to be released early, prosecutors say

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4 d. ago Convicts make New Year's Day prison escape as police release CCTV of killer and criminal

Matthew Armstrong and Daniel Washbourne absconded from HMP Leyhill in Gloucestershire on New Year's Day and police have now released CCTV of them in a bid to track them down

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4 d. ago New CCTV released in hunt for convicted murderer after prison escape

Matthew Armstrong and a second prisoner absconded from HMP Leyhill on New Year’s Day

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4 d. ago Dozens of January 6 supporters march through Washington five years after attack; brawl erupts as counter

Many of those at today’s march, including ex-Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio say that they were there to protest against the death of Ashli Babbitt, a rioter who was killed by Capitol police five years agoMy colleague Sibylla Brodzinsky has reported on the relationship between the US and Colombia, home to significant oil reserves. Here is an extract from her story:Colombia has long been a close partner of the US in the fight against drug trafficking and enjoyed bipartisan support in Washington but relations have soured dramatically since Trump came to office.Colombia’s narcotics trade is largely controlled by illegal armed groups such as the Gulf Clan, the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissident factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group, the majority of whose members demobilised after a 2016 peace deal Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Rebel violence in Colombia forces more than 300 to flee amid rising tensions

The region has long been a battleground for drug traffickers and various rebel groups vying for control

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