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Harvey Weinstein Undergoes Emergency Heart Surgery After Chest Pain In Jail
Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein was rushed from Rikers Island jail to Bellevue Hospital in New York City on Sunday for emergency heart surgery.
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'Send Them To Andaman': Probe Agency's Request For Dreaded Gangsters
The probe agency wrote to the ministry a few months back requesting that 25 notorious criminals, including Lawrence Bishnoi, accused in the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, be shifted to South Indian prisons.
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Former Uzbekistan President's Daughter Built $243 Million Property Empire, Here's How
Ms Karimova was jailed in December 2017 when it was later revealed that she had been imprisoned on suspicion of corruption while her father was still in power.
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Sri Lankan Politician, Jailed For Calling Judges Corrupt, Set Free
An outspoken Sri Lankan politician imprisoned last year for accusing the island nation's judges of corruption was released Friday after a presidential pardon.
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Ship Captain Who Admitted To "Partying" Gets 20-Month Jail Over Oil Spill
The captain and first officer of a dry bulk carrier, which triggered the biggest environmental disaster in Mauritius, have been sentenced to 20 months in prison in the Indian Ocean island nation.
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"Will Put Congress MLA In Jail If Voted To Power": Assam Finance Minister
Even as the controversy over an Assam Congress MLA's proposal for a museum for people in Char-Charporis (island) areas in the state refuses to ebb, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said that once voted back to power, the MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed, who gave the proposal, will be put behind bars.
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"Miss Him Terribly": UK Woman Jailed For Stabbing Husband To Death In Malaysia
A British woman was jailed for three and a half years Monday after tearfully admitting she stabbed her husband to death during a fight on the Malaysian holiday island of Langkawi.
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Harvey Weinstein Taken To New York's Infamous Rikers Jail
Disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was taken to New York's notorious Rikers Island jail on Thursday, ten days after he was convicted of rape and sexual assault.
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Jeffrey Epstein Sexually Abused Girls Until Last Year, Says Lawsuit
The late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused and trafficked girls as young as 12 on his private Caribbean island until as recently as last year, a new lawsuit alleged Wednesday.
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K-Pop Singer Jung Joon-Young Jailed For 6 Years For Raping Woman, Filming Act
A South Korean court sentenced a K-pop musician to six years in prison on Friday for raping a woman and distributing a video capturing the act in a case that drew attention to the darker side of the country's lucrative entertainment industry.
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Fake Saudi Prince’s Days Of Designer Clothes, Jets Over With 18-Year Jail
A Florida man who posed as a Saudi royal for three decades and cheated people out of $8 million will spend 18 years in prison for fraud, authorities said Friday.
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More Than 100 Inmates Flew Indonesian Jail On Sumatra Island
More than 100 inmates escaped from an Indonesian jail on Sumatra island on Saturday, police said, in the latest breakout to hit the country's creaking prison system.
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Fugitive DHL Heir Arrested, Jailed In Palau For Drug Trafficking
The fugitive DHL heir Larry Hillbroom Jr has been arrested and jailed in Palau after two days on the run, the Pacific island nation's attorney general said Saturday.
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Jail Escapee Who Sparked Manhunt Involving 15,000 Cops Nabbed
A thief who fled an open jail in Japan sparking a high-profile manhunt involving some 15,000 officers was taken into custody on Monday, police said, more than three weeks after his escape.
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Pressure Rises On Maldives Leader To Obey Court Order To Free Jailed Foes
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen fired his second police chief in three days and the opposition said it feared violence, as the island nation was pitched deeper into a crisis caused by Yameen's failure to obey a court order to free jailed opponents.
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Harvey Weinstein Undergoes Emergency Heart Surgery After Chest Pain In Jail
Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein was rushed from Rikers Island jail to Bellevue Hospital in New York City on Sunday for emergency heart surgery.
-
'Send Them To Andaman': Probe Agency's Request For Dreaded Gangsters
The probe agency wrote to the ministry a few months back requesting that 25 notorious criminals, including Lawrence Bishnoi, accused in the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, be shifted to South Indian prisons.
-
Former Uzbekistan President's Daughter Built $243 Million Property Empire, Here's How
Ms Karimova was jailed in December 2017 when it was later revealed that she had been imprisoned on suspicion of corruption while her father was still in power.
-
Sri Lankan Politician, Jailed For Calling Judges Corrupt, Set Free
An outspoken Sri Lankan politician imprisoned last year for accusing the island nation's judges of corruption was released Friday after a presidential pardon.
-
Ship Captain Who Admitted To "Partying" Gets 20-Month Jail Over Oil Spill
The captain and first officer of a dry bulk carrier, which triggered the biggest environmental disaster in Mauritius, have been sentenced to 20 months in prison in the Indian Ocean island nation.
-
"Will Put Congress MLA In Jail If Voted To Power": Assam Finance Minister
Even as the controversy over an Assam Congress MLA's proposal for a museum for people in Char-Charporis (island) areas in the state refuses to ebb, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said that once voted back to power, the MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed, who gave the proposal, will be put behind bars.
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"Miss Him Terribly": UK Woman Jailed For Stabbing Husband To Death In Malaysia
A British woman was jailed for three and a half years Monday after tearfully admitting she stabbed her husband to death during a fight on the Malaysian holiday island of Langkawi.
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Harvey Weinstein Taken To New York's Infamous Rikers Jail
Disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was taken to New York's notorious Rikers Island jail on Thursday, ten days after he was convicted of rape and sexual assault.
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Jeffrey Epstein Sexually Abused Girls Until Last Year, Says Lawsuit
The late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused and trafficked girls as young as 12 on his private Caribbean island until as recently as last year, a new lawsuit alleged Wednesday.
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K-Pop Singer Jung Joon-Young Jailed For 6 Years For Raping Woman, Filming Act
A South Korean court sentenced a K-pop musician to six years in prison on Friday for raping a woman and distributing a video capturing the act in a case that drew attention to the darker side of the country's lucrative entertainment industry.
-
Fake Saudi Prince’s Days Of Designer Clothes, Jets Over With 18-Year Jail
A Florida man who posed as a Saudi royal for three decades and cheated people out of $8 million will spend 18 years in prison for fraud, authorities said Friday.
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More Than 100 Inmates Flew Indonesian Jail On Sumatra Island
More than 100 inmates escaped from an Indonesian jail on Sumatra island on Saturday, police said, in the latest breakout to hit the country's creaking prison system.
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Fugitive DHL Heir Arrested, Jailed In Palau For Drug Trafficking
The fugitive DHL heir Larry Hillbroom Jr has been arrested and jailed in Palau after two days on the run, the Pacific island nation's attorney general said Saturday.
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Jail Escapee Who Sparked Manhunt Involving 15,000 Cops Nabbed
A thief who fled an open jail in Japan sparking a high-profile manhunt involving some 15,000 officers was taken into custody on Monday, police said, more than three weeks after his escape.
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Pressure Rises On Maldives Leader To Obey Court Order To Free Jailed Foes
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen fired his second police chief in three days and the opposition said it feared violence, as the island nation was pitched deeper into a crisis caused by Yameen's failure to obey a court order to free jailed opponents.
