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Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been given a suspended death sentence by a Chinese court, five years after he was arrested and accused of spying. The sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment after two years, according to Australian…

Police in Turkey have arrested seven people on suspicion of selling information to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency related to tracking and monitoring local targets. The suspects were taken into custody in a joint operation of police…

More than 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have signed a statement warning that their own governments' policies on the Israel-Gaza war could amount to "grave violations of international law". The "transatlantic statement", a copy…

Bus and tram stations across Germany were at a standstill on Friday, disrupting millions of commuters and travellers, as 90,000 public transport workers were called on to walk off the job. The 24-hour strike, called by labour union Verdi…

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's 12-year jail sentence for corruption has been halved by the country's pardons board. Najib was jailed in 2022 over the embezzlement of Malaysia's State-owned wealth fund 1Malaysia Development…

A former CIA officer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking a trove of classified hacking tools to whistle-blowing platform Wikileaks. Joshua Schulte was also found guilty of possessing child abuse images. Prosecutors have…

US President Joe Biden has approved sanctions on four Israeli settlers accused of attacking Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Biden signed a broad executive order, saying violence in the West Bank had reached "intolerable levels".…

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from families of captives and the international community to reach a ceasefire deal with Hamas, but he vows to continue the Gaza attack. Israeli troops have stormed al-Amal Hospital in…

Myanmar has handed over three Chinese warlords to Beijing, who were notorious for trafficking thousands of foreign nationals to forcibly run scams. Bai Suocheng, Wei Chaoren and Liu Zhengxiang led three of four families which ruled…

Kremlin challenger Boris Nadezhdin says he has collected enough signatures to stand as a candidate in Russia's upcoming presidential election. The former Local Councillor has become known for his relatively outspoken criticism of Putin and…