Photo: kevin lamarque/Reuters El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele plans to double the size of the maximum-security prison where his government is holding U.S. deportees. Bukele plans to expand ...

The justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, said he would visit the Toulon-La Farlède prison on Tuesday in support of the officers there. Image Bullet holes in a wall of the Toulon-La Farlède prison ...

Former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, were sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years in prison for money laundering. Brazil granted her diplomatic asylum, officials said. By Alan ...

The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday asked a federal judge to bar deportation of Venezuelans held in northern Texas under President Donald Trump's invocation of an 18th century wartime law.

Vehicles were torched, shots were fired, and prison staff left deeply shaken. A wave of coordinated overnight assaults has rattled France, as multiple prisons across the country were targeted in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

La Palma is one of the Canary Islands, which lie in the Atlantic Ocean. The Canary Islands are an autonomous region of Spain. The Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma erupted from the 19th September ...

Photo: BIRN/Islam Berisha The Basic Court of Pristina on Wednesday sentenced a Serb former prison guard, Dragisa Milenkovic, to seven years’ imprisonment for war crimes against civilians during ...

NEW YORK, April 16 (Reuters) - A former New York City police sergeant was sentenced to 1-1/2 years in prison on Wednesday over his 2023 conviction for acting as an illegal Chinese agent.

A court in Pristina sentenced Dragisa Milenkovic to seven years in jail for torturing and mistreating prisoners during the Kosovo war. Dragisa Milenkovic in court on Wednesday. Photo: BIRN/Islam ...

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