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...More than 400 inmates have died in the past four years, with many massacres taking place within the Regional complex where Macías was being held....
...“Faced with the threat of Iran — we will build a regional coalition and [exact] a price from Iran, in the way and at the time that suits us,” he said....
...13 intruders and liberating the hostages, but across the country similarly harrowing scenes were playing out, triggered by the escape of jailed drug-lord Adolfo “Fito” Macías from his cell in the nearby Regional...
...Only with clarity and unity can Tehran’s hostage-taking — domestic, regional or nuclear — be mitigated....
...The resulting supply glut, he argues, is likely to drive down prices — and western companies’ profits....
...But talks resumed this year as western fears mounted over the rapid progress of Iran’s nuclear programme....
...France’s ostensible aim in sending troops into western Germany’s industrial heartland was to enforce its claim to war reparations....
...And Israel’s enemies and friends will watch and wonder whether this formidable regional power has succumbed to the same internal divisions that have felled so many of its neighbours....
...Western leverage in Russia is at its lowest since the Soviet collapse. But foreign companies still doing business there should waste no further time in pulling out....
...Prosecutors and judges have begun to put ATM attackers on trial for attempted murder, punishable by up to 15 years in jail....
...Sharply rising interest rates, a regional banking crisis that curtailed credit and a trend towards remote work are all wreaking havoc....
...“If you’re importing from the western world, you’re protected by existing regulations,” said Taal, adding that drugs shipped to the US have to meet regulatory standards there....
...And secondly, you don’t call it a western coalition. This is the coalition of democracies across the world....
...Despite his government’s human rights record, Sisi has enjoyed sound relations with western capitals that have traditionally viewed Egypt as an important Arab partner and vital to regional stability....
...And if he had done it, he would have been treated like the Chechnyans were and he would be dead or in jail....
...just before sundown when Muslims break their fast, dozens of Tunisian policemen swooped on the home of Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of the country’s biggest political party and took the 81-year-old man to jail...
...Yakunin spoke to the FT from a jail in Norway, maintaining his innocence....
...And we’ve seen, of course, in Bakhmut the Wagner Group picking people up out of jails, but also, again, throwing all these civilians....
...If found guilty on all charges, he faces up to 15 years in jail. Two other former senior Wirecard managers have also been charged, the prosecutors said on Monday in a statement....
...Western diplomats have said they believe the men are not in jail but that their movements are restricted....
...In February 2020 an extremist killed nine people with immigrant roots in the western city of Hanau, before turning the gun on his mother and himself....
...The 44-year-old political activist has spent more than 10 years in jail over his alleged anti-regime activities....
...Putin, who denies any involvement in Navalny’s poisoning, has said the activist is a western agent bent on destroying Russia....
...The two were among five journalists and activists sentenced to six years in jail last month, after they covered or took part in anti-government protests in the Kurdish city of Duhok....
...They emptied Syrian jails of seasoned jihadis in 2011, betting they would hijack the rebellion, just as they had fomented sectarianism in Lebanon and funnelled Sunni extremists into US-occupied Iraq....
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