2 h. ago Man, 19, who was upset his girlfriend's family went on a cruise without him while he looked after their pets is jailed for sending false bomb threat to ship she was on

A Michigan man who was upset that he had to watch pets while his girlfriend's family went on a cruise was sentenced to eight months in prison for making a false bomb threat.

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4 h. ago Tommy Robinson will STAY in prison after losing bid to overturn his 18

Tommy Robinson has lost a Court of Appeal challenge against his 18-month sentence for contempt of court.

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18 h. ago Man who killed his father, left his body in a cardboard box behind a shed and then used 67

Thomas Sykes, 41, from Burton-on-Trent, was today sentenced to 18 years and seven months behind bars for the murder of his 67-year-old father, Anthony Sykes.

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22 h. ago Voyeur photographer sentenced again after more victims come forward

David Glover, who was jailed for 20 months in 2023, was given a 15-month suspended sentence after further victims saw his case reported in the news.

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36 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Captive Chinese soldiers appear before the press in Kyiv

Republicans increase pressure on Trump after 35 killed in Sumy, with US president calling for ‘death and destruction to stop’. What we know on day 1,147Ukraine held a press conference with Chinese soldiers captured on the frontline after Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of recruiting fighters from China using social media. The men were led into a press centre handcuffed and flanked by armed Ukrainian guards and it was unclear if they were speaking of their own volition. The pair told journalists they hoped to be part of a prisoner swap.Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, has accused Moscow of dragging Beijing into its invasion, saying that several hundred Chinese nationals were fighting at the frontline. The Kremlin has denied it claim while Beijing has warned parties to the conflict against making “irresponsible remarks”.Zelenskyy accused Vladimir Putin of remaining focused on continuing the war, saying Russia had openly refused to engage in ceasefire talks. “There is only one re...

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60 h. ago Prisoner of war, 34, who was held captive in Russian jail for 1,000 days reveals how he survived the constant hunger and endless beatings

Ukrainian journalist Oleksandr Gudilin was captured by Russian soldiers on April 12, 2002 during the siege of Mariupol while fighting as a reservist against invading Russian forces.

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4 d. ago Boris Johnson says jailing of mum for riot tweet damages UK's reputation as a haven for free expression and is 'a propaganda gift to our enemies'

The former prime minister said the 31-month sentence does 'huge damage to this country's global reputation as a haven for free expression'.

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4 d. ago Rogue landlords fined more than £270,000 for illegally converting home into flats

Failure to comply with the confiscation order could result in a prison sentence of two years and nine months

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4 d. ago Tommy Robinson should have prison sentence cut 'because he has PTSD and isolation is affecting his mental health'

Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is serving an 18-month prison sentence for contempt of court are breaching an injunction.

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4 d. ago Tommy Robinson should have prison sentence cut as behind bars segregation to stop Muslim inmates attacking him is 'making him ill and affecting his mental health', court told

Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is serving an 18-month prison sentence for contempt of court are breaching an injunction.

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5 d. ago Moment US ballerina Ksenia Karelina embraces fiancé as she returns from Russian jail

A US ballerina jailed for 12 years in Russia after donating $51 to a charity supporting Ukraine reunited with her fiancé in an emotional embrace as she landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Thursday, 10 April.

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5 d. ago US ballerina Ksenia Karelina, who donated $51 to Ukraine, freed from Russian jail in prisoner swap

Russian President Vladimir Putin pardons ballerina jailed after donating money to support Ukraine

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5 d. ago Trump reveals UFC chief Dana White pushed for release of ballerina in Russian prisoner swap

President Donald Trump has revealed that UFC CEO Dana White petitioned for the release of ballerina Ksenia Karelina who was facing treason charges in Moscow.

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5 d. ago A Los Angeles woman arrested in Russia has been freed in a prisoner swap. Here's what we know

Russia has freed a Russian American convicted of treason in exchange for a Russian German man jailed on smuggling charges in the U.S. Thursday’s prisoner swap comes as the two countries work to repair ties

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6 d. ago Russian ballerina freed in prisoner swap deal with US after being jailed by Putin

A ballerina jailed by Vladimir Putin for making a donation to a Ukrainian charity has been freed as part of a prisoner swap between the US and Russia, officials have confirmed.

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6 d. ago Ksenia Karelina: Ballerina freed from Russian jail and flying to US in Moscow

Ksenia Karelina left for the US on a plane from Abu Dhabi on Thursday morning, her lawyer said

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6 d. ago US ballerina Ksenia Karelina is freed from Russian jail hell in prisoner swap months after she was sentenced to 12 years in penal colony for high treason

Russia has today released American ballerina Ksenia Karelina from her jail hell in an early morning prisoner swap between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump's respective intelligence agencies

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7 d. ago Social worker imprisoned nearly 4 years for mediation attempts at Hong Kong protests

A Hong Kong social worker has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for rioting after she tried to mediate between protesters and police at the 2019 anti-government protests

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1 week ago Woman jailed over 'racist' migrant hotel tweet after Southport stabbings 'is denied temporary release to see daughter, 12, and ailing husband'

Lucy Connolly, 42, is currently serving a 31-month sentence for a post made last summer where she spoke of mass deportations and setting fire to asylum hotels 'for all I care'.

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1 week ago In the crosshairs of stiff US tariffs, tiny coral islands in the South Pacific and Arctic outposts

The Trump administration appears to be leaving no stone unturned with its sweeping tariffs around the globe, from rocky outcrops home to polar bears in the Arctic to tiny tropical islands to a former British penal colony

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