Hamas said Friday it was ready to start talks "immediately" on a proposal for a ceasefire with Israel in Gaza, after holding consultations with other Palestinian factions.

Zelensky said they included servicemen from the army, national guard, border service and transport service, adding: "And also civilians."

For nearly two years, a nearly nonstop parade of allegations and revelations has ravaged and unraveled Sean "Diddy" Combs' carefully cultivated reputation as an affable celebrity entrepreneur.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He is a powerful figure in the Middle East now and had issued a 'fatwa' or religious decree against US President Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

The dissidents called for "the immediate and unconditional release of sick political prisoners who are dying in Russian prisons" in their statement, which was backed by a message from Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov.

With less than a month to go before parts of the European Union's AI Act come into force, companies are calling for a pause in the provisions and getting support from some politicians. European companies have urged the AI act to be delayed by years.

Bangladesh's deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina was on Wednesday sentenced to six months in prison in a contempt of court case by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), according to a local media report.

The jury will struggle to find proof of force, fraud or coercion, needed for a conviction in such cases, the former prosecutor said.

Two Chinese nationals have been arrested for espionage and for allegedly seeking to recruit members of the US Navy to serve as intelligence assets, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Models wearing white T-shirts and shorts resembling the uniforms worn by inmates at CECOT walked the ramp at Paris Fashion Week.

Israel's attack on the Evin Prison in Iran's capital Tehran on June 23 killed 71 people, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said on Sunday.

Amy Murray has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for poisoning and murdering his husband in a fire.

The man, booked under the provisions of the state's anti-conversion law, was granted bail by the top court on April 29 but released from Ghaziabad district jail only on June 24 - indicating a delay of 28 days.

A Taiwanese man lost both feet after freezing them in dry ice for 10 hours to fake an accident and claim insurance. The scheme, involving a friend, failed and led to criminal charges and social media outrage.

"Our lips were sealed but our conscience wasn't," said a retired Tihar Jail official, claiming that during the 1975 Emergency, probe agencies covertly deployed officers inside the prison to monitor staff and political detainees.

Taiwan's High Court on Wednesday sentenced a former soldier to two years and two months in prison for photographing and leaking confidential military documents to China.

A Japanese court sentenced a US marine to seven years in prison, a spokesperson for the judiciary said Wednesday, in the latest sexual assault case involving American military personnel.

Chen Shijiang, a Chinese businessman, was wrongly convicted of murder in 1998 and spent years in prison before being declared innocent in 2006.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it was a "travesty of justice" that a man it granted bail to in April in a case under UP's anti-conversion law had not yet been released from jail.

An Indian civil engineering student at Northumbria University in the UK has received a prison sentence after breaking into a fellow undergraduate's room and masturbating on her bed and belongings.

Built in 1971, the Evin Prison was used by the Shah regime to detain thousands of political prisoners in horrifying conditions.

Israel hit Revolutionary Guard sites and the notorious Evin prison in Tehran on Monday, calling them its most powerful strikes yet on the Iranian capital on the 11th day of the war.

An Israeli strike on Evin prison in Tehran is completely irresponsible and puts prisoners "in mortal danger", said Noemie Kohler, the sister of French national Cecile Kohler who is jailed there.

A leading Belarusian opposition figure freed from prison by President Alexander Lukashenko said on Sunday his wife would continue to lead the exiled movement, and urged supporters to keep fighting for change and the release of political prisoners.