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A TWENTY eight year old woman who left a voicemail threatening to slit her former partner’s throat has been fined £420.   Lilith Noble, of Leaside, Mossbank, admitted sending a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character in which she...

A THIRTY four year old man from Lerwick has been jailed for 19 months after previously admitting possession over 1,000 images of child sexual abuse which he accessed over a 16 year period. Henry Hunter, of the town’s Hoofields, was sentenced at Lerwick Sheriff Court on...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities on Tuesday tightened anti-virus controls at ports, raising the risk of trade disruptions after some auto and electronics factories shut down as the government fights coronavirus outbreaks.Stock prices in China and Hong Kong sank for a second day following the shutdown on Monday of Shenzhen, a tech and finance hub adjacent to Hong Kong in the

NEW YORK (AP) — A dissident legal scholar who was jailed for two years in China after participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement was killed Monday in his law firm’s office in New York, where he had settled after seeking asylum in the U.S., police said.Li Jinjin, 66, was stabbed to death in the city where he had long worked as an immigration lawyer, even

THE UNITE union has confirmed that its members working at Lerwick Port Authority have voted in support of industrial action over pay, terms and conditions. As it stands Unite members will now commence a continuous overtime ban from 28 March. Due to the level of overtime required...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s relentless bombardment of Ukraine edged closer to central Kyiv on Tuesday, with a series of strikes hitting a residential neighborhood as the leaders of three European Union countries planned a bold visit to Ukraine’s embattled capital in a show of support.Shortly before dawn, large explosions thundered across Kyiv from what Ukrainian authorities

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's military forces kept up their punishing campaign to capture Ukraine's capital with fighting and artillery fire in Kyiv's suburbs Monday after an airstrike on a military base near the Polish border brought the war dangerously close to NATO's doorstep.Residents of besieged Ukrainian cities held out hope that renewed diplomatic talks might open the

NEW YORK (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is planning trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is considering a rough timeline for a potential presidential announcement. And allies of Rep.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese authorities reported 1,337 locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 across dozens of mainland cities Monday as the fast-spreading variant commonly known as “stealth omicron” fuels China’s biggest outbreak in two years.The vast majority of the new cases — 895 — were in far northeastern Jilin province, where the COVID-19 task force effectively banned

BAGHDAD (AP) — As many as 12 missiles struck near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Sunday, in what a U.S. defense official and an Iraqi official said was a strike launched from neighboring Iran.No injuries were reported in the attack, which marked a significant escalation between the U.S. and Iran. Hostility between the longtime foes