64 h. ago Greek tourist followed from London club and stabbed, court told

Greek tourist followed from London club and stabbed, court told  BBC

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67 h. ago Gang followed Greek tourist from nightclub before stabbing, court hears

Antonis Antoniadis, 26, was allegedly followed and attacked on a doorstep in New Cross on July 7 last year

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67 h. ago Gang followed and stabbed Greek tourist after botched bag robbery, court hears

Antonis Antoniadis, 26, was allegedly followed and attacked in New Cross, south-east London, on July 7 last year, and died two weeks later.

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2 d. ago Canada wildfires: How to keep yourself safe as smoke from deadly inferno reaches Europe

‘Very unhealthy’ air quality has been reported in many areas

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3 d. ago Mystery of Brit 'drug mule' explosion as 13 in hellhole jails with some facing death

A dramatic surge in the number of Brits arrested for drug smuggling around the world has triggered mounting alarm among police and border force officials as 13 languish in hellhole jails

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3 d. ago Greek court jails 4 officials over botched evacuation during deadly wildfire near Athens

Four former senior fire service and civil protection officials have been jailed in Greece after being found guilty for failing to mount a proper evacuation during a wildfire that killed more than 100 people outside Athens in 2018

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4 d. ago Ten guilty over Athens wildfire that killed 104 people as ‘lenient’ sentences spark outrage

The deadly 2018 blaze was Greece’s worst wildfire in recent memory

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1 week ago Naval court charges 17 Greek coastguards over deadliest migrant shipwreck in Mediterranean for a decade

Up to 650 people are feared to have drowned when an overcrowded fishing vessel sank off the Greek coast in 2023

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2 w. ago Up to 43,000 criminals a year set to avoid jail under Labour's soft

A new sentencing review already been accepted 'in principle' by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood could see tens of thousands of offenders avoid jail each year, official data shows.

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2 w. ago New Orleans jail maintenance worker arrested on allegations he helped 10 inmates escape

Investigators arrested Sterling Williams, who allegedly admitted he turned water off to toilet covering hole in wallA maintenance worker at New Orleans’s jail has been arrested on allegations that he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in the wall that 10 men who escaped from the facility early Friday used for their getaway.Investigators arrested 33-year-old jail maintenance worker Sterling Williams after he allegedly admitted to officials that one of the men “advised him to turn the water off in the cell” before the men slipped away through the hole in the wall at the Orleans Justice Center (OJC), the Louisiana attorney general’s office said in a statement. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago British teen 'drug mule' Bella Culley 'has been left to freeze in Georgian jail cell and received no medical treatment despite her pregnancy,' celebrity lawyer reveals

Drug arrest Brit Bella Culley has revealed she has been left freezing in her Georgian jail cell and is receiving no medical attention despite telling officials she is pregnant.

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2 w. ago British teen 'drug mule' Bella Culley 'has been left to freeze in Georgian jail cell and received no medical treatment despite her pregnancy'

Drug arrest Brit Bella Culley has revealed she has been left freezing in her Georgian jail cell and is receiving no medical attention despite telling officials she is pregnant.

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3 w. ago Critics blast hourslong gap before officials disclosed 10 inmates' escape from New Orleans jail

At least a dozen law enforcement agencies are searching for seven of the 10 men who broke out of a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall

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3 w. ago Judge strips NYC of full authority over Rikers Island, citing 'unprecedented' violence

A federal judge has ordered an outside official to take over control of much of New York City's jail system after local officials failed to stem high rates of violence and long-standing dysfunction

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