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A former corrections officer at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin was convicted Monday of sexually abusing two female inmates at the prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said.John Bellhouse, 40, of Pleasanton, is one of six FCI Dublin staff members to be arrested in connection with sexual abuse at the prison, four of whom have been convicted.

The Qatar Controversy- Keva Bush, Surbiton High School (Image: Unsplash) This years FIFA has created a lot of controversy with fans and athletes alike.Here is why: On its official website FIFA claims that it embraces its responsibility to respect human rights across its operations and relationships'.

The once formidable New England mob boss Francis Cadillac Frank Salemme has died in prison while serving a life sentence for the 1993 killing by strangulation of a Boston nightclub owner, according to authorities.He was 89.Salemme died on 13 December, online records from the US Bureau of Prisons show.

U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner appears on a screen via video link during a court hearing in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on Oct. 25.(Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)A Russian court rejected U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner's appeal against her nine-year prison sentence on drug charges Tuesday.

Police search teams prepare to set out from an operation tent near Barragem do Arade, Portugal, Wednesday May 24, 2023.Joao Matos/AP LISBON, Portugal Police in Portugal have ended the latest search for clues regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British child who went missing in 2007 in southern Portugal.

Police in Portugal have ended the latest search for clues regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British child who went missing in 2007 in southern Portugal.Authorities gave no details about the results of the search Thursday.A statement by Portugal's Judiciary Police said some material had been collected and would be handed over to German authorities for examination.

Police searching for clues regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British child who went missing in 2007 in Portugal, were concentrating operations Wednesday in several areas around a dam, including one where media reports say a lead suspect in the case often stayed.The latest search for clues regarding the disappearance started Tuesday following a request by German authorities.

1684911648 Madeleine McCann's disappearance has puzzled detectives for 16 years but in 2020 a new potential suspect emerged.Now, police are searching a remote reservoir in Portugal's Algarve that he used to visit in a renewed effort to shed further light on the case.German prisoner Christian Brueckner was first named in connection with the unsolved mystery that summer, and officially named as a suspect last year.

An illegal streaming gang who offered cut-price subscriptions for Premier League matches to more than 50,000 people have been jailed.The Premier League said five men were convicted of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and contempt of court after generating more than 7 million in five years.Mark Gould, from London, was reported to have masterminded the operation and was handed an 11-year prison sentence at Chesterfield Crown Court on Tuesday.

A man from the Netherlands connected to the 2005 disappearance in Aruba of an American teenager, Natalee Holloway, will be temporarily extradited to the United States from Peru to face extortion and wire fraud charges, the Peruvian authorities said on Wednesday.The man, Joran van der Sloot, has been a suspect in the disappearance of Ms. Holloway, then 18, during her class trip to the Dutch island in 2005.

Two years ago, Deshawn Danzler was given a break in a federal contempt case after promising he was finally ready to "break the cycle" of Chicago's relentless gun violence if given a second chance.Instead, Danzler was arrested within months on a South Side street while carrying a pistol with an extended magazine and automatic switch that prosecutors say turned the gun into a bullet-spraying "killing machine."

A French court on Tuesday convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice.The judge's verdict followed 3 1/2 months of sometimes heart-wrenching testimony from survivors of the 2016 attack, who during the trial described the horrors and carnage they witnessed that Thursday summer night and the impact on their lives since.

A Russian court has given a two-year suspended sentence to a St Petersburg woman who left a note on the grave of President Vladimir Putin's parents saying they had raised a freak and a killer.The court found Irina Tsybaneva, 60, guilty of desecrating burial places motivated by political hatred.Her lawyer said she didn't plead guilty because she hadn't desecrated the grave physically or sought publicity for her action.

As the war enters its 435th day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Thursday, May 4, 2023: At least 21 civilians were killed in a Russian attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson and the surrounding region, with dozens more wounded, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

May is traditionally a month for public celebration in Russia, with massive public processions on 1 May for Labour Day and military parades on 9 May for Victory Day, a holiday commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.Not so in 2023.Russia's biggest trade union cancelled its traditional Labour Day demonstrations because of the heightened risk of terrorist activity, while regions near the Ukrainian border called off Victory Day parades so as to not provoke the Ukrainian army.

Air alarms blared throughout Ukraine early Friday, from the capital, Kyiv, to areas closer to the front line, according to Ukrainian officials.At least two civilians - a 3-year-old child and a young woman - were killed in the southern city of Dnipro, its Ukrainian mayor said.Three other people were killed in the central city of Uman, the regional governor said.

Russian police searched several apartments belonging to former employees of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group Memorial on Tuesday.The human rights group said some of the former employees were also apprehended for questioning.One opposition party condemned the move as an assault on dissent.Memorial, one of Russia's most renowned rights groups, was founded in 1987 to document cases of political repression in the Soviet Union.

A French appeals court on Wednesday upheld a one-year prison sentence for former President Nicolas Sarkozy on a conviction for corruption and influence peddling.His lawyer said he will take the case to France's highest court and insisted that Sarkozy is innocent.The 68-year-old ex-president would not have to serve time until a final ruling, and if definitively convicted, he could ask to serve his sentence at home.

Two French citizens imprisoned in Iran have been freed, French authorities said on Friday.Benjamin Briere and Bernard Phelan, who both had been held in a prison in Mashhad, in northeast Iran, were heading to Paris, a statement from Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said.Free at last, President Emmanuel Macron tweeted.

Issued on: 09/11/2022 - 14:13 A picture taken on November 9, 2022 in Paris shows a view of the offices of the "Groupement d'Interet Public (GIP) France-2023", the organisers of the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France during a police raid, as prosecutors announced they had opened an inquiry into the management of the competition.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes arrives at federal court in San Jose, Calif., Oct. 17, 2022.Jeff Chiu/AP SAN FRANCISCO Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes appears to be soon bound for prison after an appeals court Tuesday rejected her bid to remain free while she tries to overturn her conviction in a blood-testing hoax that brought her fleeting fame and fortune.

Former Malaga player Sergio Contreras, better known as "Koke," has pleaded guilty to leading a gang of drug traffickers and accepted a six-year prison sentence.Koke, 40, who also played for Major League soccer club Houston Dynamo as well as Marseille and Sporting Club, agreed to a plea deal at a court in Malaga on Tuesday after prosecutors had initially requested a 16-year prison sentence.

Here's a rundown of the criminals who are now behind bars.Billy Grant Grant attacked a woman three times, including once with a knife, and also attacked a police officer and a Primark security guard (Image: Metropolitan Police) Billy Grant, of Dunkery Road in Mottingham, was jailed after he was convicted of five assaults and possession of a knife.

A trio of men who posed as police officers during a violent burglary in Putney have been jailed for a total of 35 years.Michael Cloherty, 58, of Chipperfield Road, Orpington, Simon Ludlow, 50, of London Road, Mitcham, and Michael Cook, 54, of Northborough Road, London, were all found guilty of aggravated burglary on November 9 at Kingston Crown Court.

The political party of Myanmar's imprisoned opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has been officially dissolved, in yet another blow to the Southeast Asian nation's democracy, two years after the military staged a coup.The party, the National League for Democracy, was disbanded by Myanmar's military-appointed election commission, state media said late Tuesday night.

Biden's top hostage negotiator details Brittney Griner's flight home.Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy at the State Department for hostage affairs, told CNN on Sunday that he told Paul Whelan, another American detained in Russia, We're coming to get you.Credit...CNN Roger Carstens, the Biden administration's top hostage negotiator, said he greeted Brittney Griner at the airport in Abu Dhabi with a simple message: I'm here to take you home.

Roger Carstens, the Biden administration's top hostage negotiator, said he greeted Brittney Griner at the airport in Abu Dhabi with a simple message: I'm here to take you home.Mr. Carstens, the special presidential envoy at the State Department for hostage affairs, laid out more details of Thursday's prisoner exchange for Ms. Griner, the W.N.B.A. star who had been detained in Russia since February, as well as continued efforts to bring home Paul Whelan, another American currently imprisoned in Russia, in an interview with CNN's State of the Union on Sunday.

U.S. officials met with Brittney Griner, who is doing as well as can be expected,' the White House says.WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner arrives to a hearing at the Khimki Court, outside Moscow in August.Credit...Kirill Kudryavtsev/Agence France-Presse  Getty Images U.S. officials met with the jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner on Thursday for the first time since a Russian court rejected her appeal on a drug-possession conviction, and the White House said she was doing as well as can be expected.

The wife of Olympic cyclist Mark Cavendish has said that her family were left in terror by a knifepoint robbery at their home and that the impact continues to this day.Peta Cavendish, speaking outside Chelmsford Crown Court where two of the robbers were jailed on Tuesday, said it was not about the two watches worth a total of 700,000 that were stolen.

A Chicago woman was sentenced to just over five years in prison after fraudulently obtaining the identities of dozens of dead people, from infants to adults, and using the information to steal more than $45,000 of government funds, according to prosecutors and court records.The woman, Katrina Pierce, acquired more than 36 death certificates for murder victims in Illinois ranging from 2 to 22 years old from 2019 to 2021 by pretending to be related to them, according to court records.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Lawyers defending a former SNP MP jailed for embezzling thousands of pounds from two Scottish independence groups have appealed against her conviction, claiming a tsunami of tweets were prejudicial and prevented her from receiving a fair trial.

A transgender rapist who raped two women while still a man has been jailed for eight years.Isla Bryson, from Clydebank, was sentenced to eight years in prison at the High Court in Edinburgh, with a further three years on licence.The 31-year-old was convicted last month of raping two women one in Clydebank in 2016 and one in Drumchapel, Glasgow, in 2019 while a man known as Adam Graham.

Ales Bialiatski is the founder of Viasna, the country's most prominent human rights group.Germany has described the sentencing as a "disgrace."A court in Belarus on Friday handed 2022 Nobel Prize winner Ales Bialiatski a 10-year prison sentence, his rights group said.The pro-democracy activist and three other members of the Viasna human rights center were convicted of smuggling money and financing opposition protests in the country.

Fox News has so far been wary in reporting on a defamation lawsuit brought against it by Dominion Voter Systems, and on the many private messages the suit has surfaced from high-ranking Fox News personnel, expressing their disbelief at falsehoods and conspiracy theories the network promoted after the 2020 presidential election.

The Kremlin has banned the spread of false information' or any criticism about the Russian army during the special military operation' in Ukraine.A Russian journalist was sentenced to six years in a penal colony after accusing the Russian air force of bombing a theatre in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol last year.

The boyfriend of a woman who is accused, along with her daughter, of strangling 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez and cutting her baby out of her womb pleaded guilty Monday to his role in the 2019 case that shocked the nation.Piotr Bobak, 44, pleaded guilty to a felony count of obstruction of justice.He was charged with felony counts of concealment of a homicide, concealment of a death and obstruction of justice.

Chicago native Heather Mack has been behind bars since the day her mothers bludgeoned body was discovered nearly 8 1/2 years ago, stuffed in a suitcase in the Bali resort where they'd been vacationing.Mack was convicted in Indonesia of helping her boyfriend with the murder and served about seven years of a 10-year sentence, only to be arrested by the FBI when she landed at O'Hare International Airport in 2021 on federal murder conspiracy charges.

TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau was warned years ago by a federal judge that a 10-year prison sentence for contempt wasn't going to magically erase the whopping $37.6 million civil penalty he still owes for lying about his controversial weight-loss book."He told me he was broke when he had hundreds of millions of dollars going through his hands," U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said back in 2015.

A New Hampshire man pleaded guilty Friday to using stolen identities from Puerto Rican Americans to buy nearly $100,000 in cars.Ricardo Acevedo, 34, of Manchester, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and false representation of a social security number.

Local Prosecutors said while being arrested, Eric Mohan dropped a bag containing more than $10,000 and a demand note.CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A man has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for six bank robberies in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, taking more than $25,000 total.Eric Mohan, 48, received a 57-month federal prison sentence on Thursday.

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi plays a version of himself in No Bears.TIFF Jafar Panahi is one of the world's great filmmakers, and certainly one of the bravest.He emerged in the mid-'90s and early 2000s with dramas like The Circle and Crimson Gold, which took bold aim at class and gender divisions in contemporary Iranian society.

Harvey Weinstein's sentencing on his second rape and sexual assault conviction in Los Angeles has been delayed until February, as his lawyers ask for a new trial.Winstein, 70, faces up to 18 additional years in prison after being convicted of forcibly raping a woman in California in 2013.He is already serving a 23-year prison sentence after being convicted of rape and sexual assault charges in New York in 2020.

Before his death, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia tried to get clean after years of freebasing cocaine and other drugs, so he gifted a marijuana pipe to a fellow musician who socked it away in his San Francisco home.About 31 years later, the handmade pipe has resurfaced in a Marin County antique shop, whose owner considers it a unique rock 'n' roll artifact.

Recently mobilized Russian soldiers prepare to board a train at a railway station in Tyumen, Russia, on Dec. 2. (AP) (AP)RIGA, Latvia - Despite heavy combat losses over ten months of brutal war, Russia now has more than double the number of troops poised to fight in Ukraine as it did when it invaded in February, including thousands of convicts released from prison and conscripts from a controversial mobilization drive this fall.

Former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall has said he told a lie out of necessity during Garda interviews in 2016 on what he knew about the Regency shooting.A video of gardai interviewing Mr Dowdall in May 2016 was played in the trial of Gerard The Monk Hutch over the murder of David Byrne.Mr Byrne was killed during a crowded boxing weigh-in event on February 5, 2016, in one of the first deadly attacks of the Hutch-Kinahan gangland feud.

Former SNP MP Natalie McGarry is to appeal against her conviction and sentencing for stealing thousands of pounds from two political organisations.McGarry, who was the MP for Glasgow East between 2015 and 2017, is serving a two-year prison sentence after being found guilty in May of embezzling 19,974 while treasurer of Women For Independence (WFI).

Former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall has claimed that Gerry The Monk Hutch was lying to him when he said the six people involved in the Regency Hotel shooting did not know each other.On the second day giving evidence at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, Dowdall also said the Kinahans did not start the gangland feud which led to the deaths of 18 people.

A new R. Kelly album released early Friday morning while the disgraced R&B star serves prison time was quickly yanked off of streaming platforms."I Admit It" featured such song titles as "Freaky Sensation," "I Found Love" and "Good Ole Days," and was initially uploaded by Universal Music Group-owned distributor Ingrooves, TMZ reported.

FILE - Maria Kolesnikova, one of Belarus' opposition leaders, gestures during a rally in Minsk, Belarus, on Aug. 30, 2020.Kolesnikova, a prominent member of the Belarusian opposition serving an 11-year prison sentence for helping organize anti-government protests was taken to a hospital emergency department and underwent surgery, her father said Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022.

Malaysia's early general election was called to try to end the messy politics that have plagued the Southeast Asian nation since the historic defeat of the long-ruling Barisan Nasional coalition four years ago.The opposition alliance that pulled off that shock victory fell apart after 22 months due to infighting, leading to the BN's eventual return to power.

Malaysia's early general election was called to try to end the messy politics that have plagued the Southeast Asian nation since the historic defeat of the long-ruling Barisan Nasional coalition four years ago.The opposition alliance that pulled off that shock victory fell apart after 22 months due to infighting, leading to the BN's eventual return to power.

Britain announced a roughly $60 million aid package for Ukraine - including 125 antiaircraft guns, dozens of radars and anti-drone technology - during a surprise weekend trip to Kyiv by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who said in a statement that the aid was "to counter deadly Iranian-supplied drones."

Family members of a former Russian prison inmate, who defected to Ukraine after being recruited by the Kremlin-linked private military group Wagner, have expressed horror over his apparent execution after a gruesome video emerged on Friday that showed him being repeatedly struck with a sledgehammer.

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 260th day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Thursday, November 10.Russia ordered its forces to withdraw from the Ukrainian city of Kherson, the only regional capital seized by President Vladimir Putin's troops since the war began.

Brittney Griner, the American basketball star who has been jailed in Russia for more than eight months, is being transferred to a penal colony, her lawyers said Wednesday.Her case has become part of a geopolitical struggle between Russia and the United States, and the Biden administration has been trying to secure a deal for her release.

A Russian appeals court on Tuesday upheld a nine-year prison sentence imposed on Brittney Griner, the American basketball star arrested after she arrived in the country carrying a small amount of hash oil.Ms. Griner has been jailed since her detention in February, and the new ruling may now pave the way for her transfer to a prison colony, although it was not clear when that might happen.

In a Thursday "smoke out" outside the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., cannabis activists protested the continued detention of out WNBA star Brittney Griner.Griner recently lost her appeal and is currently sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison for possessing less than a gram of cannabis oil in two vape cartridges.

Russia conducted annual nuclear exercises Wednesday as President Vladimir Putin continued to make the unfounded claim that Ukraine was preparing to use a "dirty bomb" containing radioactive material.While the nuclear exercises are routine, Russia has repeatedly wielded the threat of nuclear weapons since invading Ukraine in February.

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