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Russia Seeks To Jail US Russian Woman Over $50 Donation To Ukraine
Ksenia Karelina, who lives in the United States, was arrested in February while visiting family in Russia, accused of providing financial assistance to the Ukrainian army.
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US Jails Honduran Ex-President For 45 Years On Drug Trafficking Charges
A court in New York on Wednesday sentenced former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez to 45 years in prison after he was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States.
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New York Subway Shooting Suspect Faces Terror Charge: Official
The suspect arrested for shooting 10 people on the New York subway has been charged with a federal terror offense and could face life in prison, authorities said Wednesday.
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US Leaves "High-Value" ISIS Detainees Behind In Syria: Report
The American military was unable to carry out a plan to transfer about five dozen "high value" Islamic State detainees out of Kurdish-run wartime prisons, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Sunday.
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Accused Times Square Driver's Troubled Past Included Navy Prison
Richard Rojas was also charged with drink driving in 2008 and 2015, according to New York City police. The state motor vehicle department said he was convicted of driving while impaired in both cases but still had a valid driver's licence.
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Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo Lands In New York To Face Charges
Infamous Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who twice escaped from maximum-security prisons in his country, was extradited at the request of the United States to face drug trafficking and other charges and arrived in New York late Thursday.
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John Lennon's Killer Denied Parole For 9th Time
The man who shot and killed John Lennon in New York City nearly 36 years ago has again failed to persuade a state parole board to release him from prison on parole, officials said on Monday.
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Watch: Inmates Break Out Of Jail To Save Guard's Life
A group of eight handcuffed inmates in the US state of Texas busted out of their cell and saved the life of a prison guard having a heart attack, a media report said today.
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Lawsuit Deplores Sex Abuse Of Women In New York State Prisons
Sexual abuse and harassment of women in New York State prisons persists and flourishes because the state's "zero tolerance" policy is a sham, a lawsuit says.
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Pregnant New York Prisoners To Be Unshackled In Transit
Pregnant prisoners in New York state will no longer be shackled while in transit, a move hailed by rights groups that describe physically restricting expectant mothers as "dangerous and inhumane."
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From Indonesia, a Muslim Challenge to The Ideology of the Islamic State
The scene is horrifyingly familiar. Islamic State soldiers march a line of prisoners to a riverbank, shoot them one by one and dump their bodies over a blood-soaked dock into the water.
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Woman Who helped United States Jailbreak Gets Up to 7 Years' Prison
A prison seamstress who helped two convicted killers escape a maximum security facility in New York was sentenced to up to seven years on Monday.
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US Jails Albanian Over Thwarted Trip to Join Jihadists
A 31-year-old Albanian, arrested for trying to travel from New York to Pakistan, was sentenced to 16 years in an American prison on Thursday for terrorism.
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Another Escaped US Murderer Back in Prison
A convicted murderer has been captured in the US state of North Carolina days after escaping from jail, allegedly with the help of a female prison worker, an official told AFP today.
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'Possible Sightings' in US Hunt for Escaped Killers
New York state police were investigating Saturday possible sightings of two killers who escaped a maximum-security jail two weeks ago in an elaborate prison break that was likened to a Hollywood movie.
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Russia Seeks To Jail US Russian Woman Over $50 Donation To Ukraine
Ksenia Karelina, who lives in the United States, was arrested in February while visiting family in Russia, accused of providing financial assistance to the Ukrainian army.
-
US Jails Honduran Ex-President For 45 Years On Drug Trafficking Charges
A court in New York on Wednesday sentenced former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez to 45 years in prison after he was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States.
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New York Subway Shooting Suspect Faces Terror Charge: Official
The suspect arrested for shooting 10 people on the New York subway has been charged with a federal terror offense and could face life in prison, authorities said Wednesday.
-
US Leaves "High-Value" ISIS Detainees Behind In Syria: Report
The American military was unable to carry out a plan to transfer about five dozen "high value" Islamic State detainees out of Kurdish-run wartime prisons, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Sunday.
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Accused Times Square Driver's Troubled Past Included Navy Prison
Richard Rojas was also charged with drink driving in 2008 and 2015, according to New York City police. The state motor vehicle department said he was convicted of driving while impaired in both cases but still had a valid driver's licence.
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Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo Lands In New York To Face Charges
Infamous Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who twice escaped from maximum-security prisons in his country, was extradited at the request of the United States to face drug trafficking and other charges and arrived in New York late Thursday.
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John Lennon's Killer Denied Parole For 9th Time
The man who shot and killed John Lennon in New York City nearly 36 years ago has again failed to persuade a state parole board to release him from prison on parole, officials said on Monday.
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Watch: Inmates Break Out Of Jail To Save Guard's Life
A group of eight handcuffed inmates in the US state of Texas busted out of their cell and saved the life of a prison guard having a heart attack, a media report said today.
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Lawsuit Deplores Sex Abuse Of Women In New York State Prisons
Sexual abuse and harassment of women in New York State prisons persists and flourishes because the state's "zero tolerance" policy is a sham, a lawsuit says.
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Pregnant New York Prisoners To Be Unshackled In Transit
Pregnant prisoners in New York state will no longer be shackled while in transit, a move hailed by rights groups that describe physically restricting expectant mothers as "dangerous and inhumane."
-
From Indonesia, a Muslim Challenge to The Ideology of the Islamic State
The scene is horrifyingly familiar. Islamic State soldiers march a line of prisoners to a riverbank, shoot them one by one and dump their bodies over a blood-soaked dock into the water.
-
Woman Who helped United States Jailbreak Gets Up to 7 Years' Prison
A prison seamstress who helped two convicted killers escape a maximum security facility in New York was sentenced to up to seven years on Monday.
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US Jails Albanian Over Thwarted Trip to Join Jihadists
A 31-year-old Albanian, arrested for trying to travel from New York to Pakistan, was sentenced to 16 years in an American prison on Thursday for terrorism.
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Another Escaped US Murderer Back in Prison
A convicted murderer has been captured in the US state of North Carolina days after escaping from jail, allegedly with the help of a female prison worker, an official told AFP today.
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'Possible Sightings' in US Hunt for Escaped Killers
New York state police were investigating Saturday possible sightings of two killers who escaped a maximum-security jail two weeks ago in an elaborate prison break that was likened to a Hollywood movie.
