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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” and was freed by Rwanda last week from a terrorism sentence has arrived in Qatar on his way to reuniting with family in the United States. Paul Rusesabagina is currently in Doha, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told journalists on […]
WASHINGTON — An American aid worker abducted by militants more than six years ago in West Africa has been freed, his wife and U.S. officials said on Monday, but the circumstances of his release were not immediately clear. The aid worker, Jeffery Woodke, was kidnapped in Niger in October 2016 and then was believed to […]
Maria Jose Aragon holds a Nicaraguan flag as she hugs Maria Jose Martinez, both recently released political prisoner from Nicaragua, during a news conference at the office of Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine-Cava on Feb. 15, 2023, in Miami. | Lynne Sladky/AP Photo “For the prisoners, it’s good. For the country, it sucks,” said Eddy […]
The infamous stepdad of slain rapper Tupac Shakur has been released from prison after serving nearly 40 years in the 1981 Brinks armored-truck heist that left two Nyack cops and a security guard dead. Mutulu Shakur, a 72-year-old former Black Liberation Army member who is terminally ill, was granted release by the US Parole Commission […]
Comment on this story Comment Suedi Murekezi, a U.S. Air Force veteran whose family says he was captured by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine earlier this year, has been freed in a prisoner swap, a senior Ukrainian official announced Wednesday. Murekezi, who has lived in Ukraine since 2018, was taken by pro-Russian forces in the . […]
Russia-Ukraine live news: Brittney Griner freed in prisoner swap Al Jazeera English Source link
Cars leave Kherson, southern Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Fleeing shelling, hundreds of civilians on Saturday streamed out of the southern Ukrainian city whose recapture they had celebrated just weeks earlier. Bernat Armangue/AP hide caption toggle caption Bernat Armangue/AP KHERSON, Ukraine — Fleeing shelling, civilians on Saturday streamed out of the southern Ukrainian city whose […]
Maurice Hastings: US man in prison for 38 years freed by new DNA evidence BBC Source link
HOUSTON, United States A Black man who spent nearly four decades in prison for a murder he did not commit was released in the state of California on Friday after DNA tests showed he was not the killer. Maurice Hastings, 69, had his murder conviction overturned by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office after […]
When Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh were captured by Russians in Ukraine over the summer and later held in a “black site” for a month, where the two Alabama men said they endured daily torture and lived on spoiled bread and dirty water, they expected . . .