UK: Pressure grows on prisons as they near capacity

A number of prisons in the East of England were running out of space, figures revealed. They included HMP Whitemoor, a category A jail in Cambridgeshire, which had four spaces…

USA: Footage shows NY officers beating prisoner before death

Newly released bodycam footage appears to show New York corrections officers fatally beating a handcuffed inmate who died the following morning. The inmate, 43-year-old Robert Brooks, was pronounced dead on…

India: Nation mourns ex-PM Manmohan Singh with full state funeral

India has mourned one of its longest-serving prime ministers, Manmohan Singh, with a state funeral in Delhi. Singh led the country from 2004 to 2014 and was considered the architect…

USA: Trump urges US Supreme Court to delay TikTok ban

US President-elect Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to delay an upcoming TikTok ban while he works on a “political resolution” .His lawyer filed a legal brief on…

Europe: Ukrainians hope for a New Year prisoner exchange with Russia

A Ukrainian official has told the BBC they hope a New Year prisoner exchange with Russia will happen “any day,” although arrangements could fall through at the last minute. Petro…

USA: Authorities sanction billionaire founder of Georgia Dream party

The US has imposed sanctions on Georgia’s former prime minister and billionaire founder of the Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Ivanishvili and his…

German: President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolves parliament, confirms February vote

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has dissolved the country’s parliament, confirming that snap elections prompted by the recent collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government will be held on February 23. Delivering a…

Yemen: Houthis vow to continue attacking Israel despite strikes on Yemen

A Houthi political official says the group will continue attacking Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians despite the escalating Israeli air strikes in Yemen. Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told the BBC that…

S Korea: Crypto-boss Do Kwon to be extradited to US

South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur Do Kwon will be extradited to the United States from Montenegro over the collapse of two digital tokens – TerraUSD and Luna tokens. For months, the…

China: Hong Kong offers rewards for arrest of six activists abroad

Hong Kong police have offered rewards of HK$1m (£103,000; $129,000) for information leading to the arrests of six pro-democracy activists living in the UK and Canada. Among them is Tony…