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Public Health Scotland also released an alert for a new synthetic opioid being found on Scotland’s streets and in prisons.

France has repatriated 15 women and 32 children held in jihadist prison camps in Syria, the foreign ministry said. This is the third major repatriation of French citizens from the Middle Eastern country in similar circumstances.

France repatriated 15 women and 32 children held in ISIS prison camps in northeastern Syria, the French foreign ministry said Tuesday. "The minors were handed over to the services in charge of child assistance and will be subject to medical and social monitoring," the ministry said in a statement.

Jordan McSweeney was wrongly graded as ‘medium risk’ during litany of errors reflecting ‘systemic issues’

Attorneys for a Native Hawaiian man imprisoned for more than 20 years after his conviction for the 1991 sexual assault, kidnapping and murder of a white woman visiting the Big Island will ask a judge Tuesday to dismiss his conviction due to new evidence — including DNA testing — in…

A man serving 10 years for manslaughter died of a heart attack in his prison cell less than two weeks after applying for parole, an inquest has been told.

A Melbourne underworld figure serving a 32-year sentence for murder has taken full responsibility for smuggling drugs into Australia while behind bars.

A father whose two-year-old son died after he crashed an ATV while performing doughnuts faces the prospect of prison time after an appeal by prosecutors.

Danielle Jones was last seen on June 18 2001 at around 8am, when she left her home in Essex to catch the bus to school.