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Pakistan's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife appeared in a court near Islamabad on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty in a graft case alleging they accepted the gift of land from a real estate tycoon in exchange for large sums of laundered money, officials said. The case is the second to indict Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi over acts of corruption allegedly committed while the former cricket star turned Islamist politician was in office. In turn, the businessman was allegedly given 190 million British pounds ($240 million) in laundered money that was returned to Pakis...

US woman, 42, and collaborator arrested after Franke’s malnourished son escaped from window looking for food

Along with much else in the public sector, the prison system is at breaking point. Successive governments have promised to toughen sentences for serious offences only to find the jails are full. The two are connected. The harsher the penalties, the more prison places are needed. If they are not being provided then why make the promise in the first place?

Jail sentences for knife offenders have hit a record low as judges have been told to send fewer people to overcrowded prisons.

Russian prosecutors are seeking lengthy prison terms for suspects involved in cases linked to the war in Ukraine. A Russian court in Siberia sentenced a man to 19 years for shooting a military enlistment officer, while prosecutors in St. Petersburg asked for a 28-year sentence for a woman charged in a cafe bombing.