Unbiased headline news – A Russian court has denied an appeal by a U.S. soldier sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for alleged death threats and theft.
Gordon Black was sentenced in June by a court in Vladivostok, located in Russia’s Far Eastern region, where he was arrested in May while visiting a Russian woman he had met and dated while stationed in South Korea. The 34-year-old was detained after the woman, identified by Russian media as Alexandra Vashuk, reported him to the police following an argument.
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The United Kingdom has enacted emergency measures to alleviate overcrowding in prisons overwhelmed by those sentenced for participating in, or inciting, riots across England and Northern Ireland earlier this month.
Under Operation Early Dawn, defendants in northern England who have been arrested but not yet appeared in court will be held in police station cells until a prison space becomes available, causing delays as they cannot face trial until space is secured.
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The United States and South Korea commenced a significant joint military exercise on Monday aimed at deterring escalating threats from North Korea, which criticized the drills as “offensive and provocative.”
The annual exercise will address “realistic threats across all domains, including the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s increasing missile threats, GPS jamming, cyber-attacks, and lessons learned from recent armed conflicts,” both militaries stated last week. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is North Korea’s official name.
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Tourists will soon have the opportunity to visit North Korea again.
According to two China-based tour operators, the reclusive nation is set to reopen one city to foreign tourists after nearly five years of border closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in December, visitors will be allowed to travel to the northern mountainous city of Samjiyon, as reported by CBS News partner BBC News.
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Harvey Weinstein will remain in custody in New York while awaiting retrial on rape and sexual assault charges in Manhattan.
Prosecutors confirmed this as the former movie mogul made a brief court appearance related to California’s request to extradite him. However, after the New York case concludes, he will return to California to serve his pending 16-year sentence for a separate rape conviction there, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement.
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The family of D’Vontaye Mitchell, who died on June 30 after being pinned down by four hotel workers outside a Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee, has reached a settlement with the hotel following the workers’ charges in his death, which were captured on security video.
Family attorneys Ben Crump, Will Sulton, and B’Ivory Lamarr stated in a joint announcement that the Mitchell family’s legal team “entered good faith conversations” with Hyatt “with the goal of helping to achieve resolution for the family of D’Vontaye Mitchell.”
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A shooting near a Boston festival left five people injured, and police on Monday were searching for the suspects.
The shooting occurred Sunday night in Franklin Park as a Dominican festival was concluding. Police reported that three men and two women sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to a hospital. Their ages and names have not been disclosed.
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Phil Donahue, the influential TV talk show host whose program aired for nearly 30 years, has died at the age of 88.
Donahue passed away Sunday night following an undisclosed illness, according to a family statement provided to ABC News by a representative for Donahue’s wife of 44 years, Marlo Thomas. The family has requested that donations be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or the Phil Donahue Notre Dame Scholarship Fund in lieu of flowers, as per the statement.
