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Marc Fogel, 63, had been convicted of smuggling marijuana in to Russia and was sentenced to 14 years in prisonMarc Fogel, a Pennsylvania schoolteacher who has been held in Russia since 2021, has been released after a visit to Moscow by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, the White House said on Tuesday.“Today, President Donald J. Trump and his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are able to announce that Mr. Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American who was detained by Russia,” the White House said in a statement. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/russia-us-prisoner-trump-marc-fogel Author : Guardian staff

Matildas and Chelsea star had denied charge and was cleared at Kingston crown courtSam Kerr has been found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment after calling a police officer “fucking stupid and white” after he doubted her claims of being “held hostage” in taxi.Kerr showed no emotion during the reading of the verdict, which the jury delivered after a little over four hours of deliberation, but gave a thumbs up to her barrister Grace Forbes. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/feb/11/sam-kerr-found-not-guilty-of-racially-aggravated-harassment-of-police-officer-ntwnfb Author : Sammy Gecsoyler Publish date : 2025-02-11 17:24:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

More than 1,200 officers involved in dawn raids in and around Palermo, reportedly biggest operation against Cosa Nostra since 1984Italian police have arrested almost 150 people in a significant operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which remain in the grip of powerful Cosa Nostra clans.Warrants were issued against a total of 183 people on Tuesday, 36 of whom were already in custody, for crimes including mafia-type criminal association, attempted murder, extortion, drug trafficking and illegal gambling, police said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/sicily-police-palermo-mafia-crackdown-cosa-nostra Author : Agence France-Presse in Rome Publish date : 2025-02-11 15:53:00 Copyright for

Democrats and scholars fear Trump will create a constitutional crisis by defying the courts blocking the administration’s efforts to upend federal governmentConcerns that the Trump administration would ignore court orders were heightened yesterday, when a federal judge said that the White House had ignored his ruling ordering an end to a freeze on federal funding. Here’s more on that, from the Guardian’s Anna Betts:A federal judge said on Monday that the Trump administration had defied his order to unfreeze billions in federal funding and issued a directive demanding that the government “immediately restore frozen funding”.We call upon our elected representatives