Belarus human rights campaigner Ales Bialiatski, who was freed on Saturday in a U.S.-brokered deal, only found out he had won ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski has been released from a Belarusian prison after more than four years. He was ...

Dec 13 - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko released 123 prisoners on Saturday in return for a further easing of sanctions by the United States. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Looming ominously off the coast of French Guiana in South America, a mere 8.5 miles or 13.76 kilometers away, stands Devil’s Island, or Île Du Diable, as it's known in French. The island's memorable ...

(CNN) — France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 movie “Papillon,” ...

[Apologies for more typographical chaos than usual in this edition of Roaming Charges, which was largely written and assembled by iPhone after the 8-week-old Australian shepherd chewed her way through ...

Four officers at a maximum security prison in Russia were killed after inmates who identified themselves as affiliated to ISIS took several staff hostage, Russian state media reported.Russian special ...

President Biden and Vice President Harris met WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, after he was freed from Russia in the largest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War.

A Russian court has sentenced a U.S.-Russian ballerina to 12 years in a penal colony for "high treason," accusing her of transferring funds to a Ukrainian charity in February 2022 when Russia launched ...