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Russian Court Sentences Former US Marine To 16 Years Hard Labour
Ex-US marine Paul Whelan has been sentenced to 16 years of hard labour on spying charges in Russia.
He was arrested in a hotel room in Moscow 18 months ago with a USB flash drive which security officers say contained state secrets.
The Moscow City Court found him guilty of receiving classified information.
Whelan - who is also a citizen of the UK, Canada and Ireland - denounced the closed trial as a "sham" ahead of the verdict. The US ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, condemned the trial as unfair and lacking transparency, and said the conviction would harm Russia-US relations.
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US Fighter Jet Crashes Off The UK Coast
A US Air Force pilot is missing after a fighter jet crashed into the North Sea.
The F-15C Eagle, from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, crashed shortly after 09:40 BST while on a training mission. The cause of the crash is currently unknown but the US Air Force confirmed only one pilot was on board.
Search and rescue teams are looking for the aircraft, which is believed to have crashed 74 nautical miles off the East Yorkshire coast.
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Knifeman Shot Dead After Fatal Attack At School In Slovakia
A school deputy head has been killed and children wounded in an apparent knife attack in northern Slovakia.
The attacker, a 22-year-old man, was a former pupil who had broken into the school in the town of Vrutky. Police said they had later shot dead the attacker and the situation was under control.
Among those taken to hospital with stab wounds were two children. The school is said to include a kindergarten, primary school and senior school.
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US Consulate Employee Jailed By Turkish Court On Terror Charges
A Turkish employee of the US consulate in Istanbul has been sentenced to almost nine years in prison for aiding a terrorist organisation.
Metin Topuz was arrested in 2017 and accused of having links to an "armed terror group" that Turkey blames for a failed coup the previous year. He was jailed for eight years and nine months in Istanbul on Thursday.
Mr Topuz denies the allegations. The US has said there is "no credible evidence" to support his conviction. Mr Topuz is reported to have spent decades working as a translator and fixer for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Istanbul.
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Mosque Gunman Sentenced To 21 Years By Norwegian Court
A Norwegian court has sentenced a gunman to 21 years in prison - with a minimum term of 14 years - for killing his teenage step-sister and opening fire at a mosque.
Philip Manshaus, 22, opened fire at the al-Noor Islamic Centre in Baerum, west of the capital Oslo, last August. Several shots were fired in the mosque but nobody was seriously hurt. Manshaus was overpowered before police arrived. It was treated as an act of far-right racist terror.
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Police Officers Attacked In Hackney
The home secretary and the Police Federation have condemned an attack on two police officers which was filmed by members of the public.
Video circulating on social media shows an officer struggling on the ground with a man in Frampton Park Road in Hackney, north London.
The attack was called "sickening" by Priti Patel, while the federation said: "We are not society's punch bags." Two men, aged 20 and 38, were arrested on suspicion of assault on police.
The officers, a man and a woman, suffered minor injuries but did not require hospital treatment, the Metropolitan Police said.
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US Cops Show Cancelled
One of America's longest running reality TV cop shows has been cancelled amid nationwide protests against police brutality over George Floyd's death.
Cable network Paramount said it had no plans for Cops, which first aired more than three decades ago, to return. The future of another reality ride-along cop show, Live PD, is in doubt.
The A&E cable TV network hit has been engulfed by controversy since the death of another unarmed black man who was heard pleading: "I can't breathe."
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Swedish Police Close Former Prime Minister's Murder Case
Swedish prosecutors have named the man who they say killed former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, ending years of mystery.
They said it was Stig Engstrom, a graphic designer known as "Skandia Man" who killed himself in 2000. As a result they were closing the investigation into Palme's death, Chief Prosecutor Krister Petersson said.
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US Navy Veteran Released From Detention In Iran
A US Navy veteran is returning home after being freed from detention in Iran.
Michael White was sentenced to prison last year on unspecified charges, but was released temporarily on medical grounds to the Swiss embassy in March. He was arrested in 2018 after travelling to meet his girlfriend in the Iranian city of Mashhad. His release came on the day that Iran's foreign minister announced the return from the US of an Iranian doctor.
US officials have yet to confirm the release of Majid Taheri, but a third man - an Iranian scientist detained in the US - was deported to Iran earlier this week.
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Demonstrators Clash With Police During Anti-Racism Protests
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said anti-racism protests at the weekend were "subverted by thuggery" after some demonstrators clashed with police.
He said people had the right to protest but engaging in violence was a "betrayal" to the protesters' cause.
Thousands of people attended largely peaceful demonstrations in cities across the UK at the weekend. Paulette Simpson, director of The Voice newspaper, said violence was regretful but had not hijacked the protest.
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