HONG KONG, Jan 3 (Reuters) - China opened its first national sports arbitration centre this week in Beijing, the capital, taking a key step to strengthen the legal framework for resolving sports ...

WATERVILLE — Mayor Mike Morris has vetoed a vote the City Council took to establish a task force that would recommend ways the city can support vulnerable residents, including homeless people ...

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of north Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, is reportedly held at the notorious Israeli Sde Teiman detention centre, following his shock arrest on Friday. The medic was ...

Unlike traditional detention facilities, these centres are outside the purview of the judicial system, allowing the NSC to detain suspects for months without formal charges or access to legal ...

Whatever we need to deal with, we will deal with and be ready for Sunday." Spurs' 18-year-old versatile midfielder Archie Gray has been filling in at centre-back, starting the past five matches across ...

China has built or expanded more than 200 specialized detention facilities nationwide to interrogate suspects ensnared in Xi Jinping’s widening anti-corruption drive, a CNN investigation has ...

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TOKYO (AFP): A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a detention centre at age 78, officials said on Friday.

More than 100,000 people are thought to have died in Syria’s jails and detention centres during the 13-year civil war, with the fate of many detainees still unknown. Raghad Khallouf records a ...

Homan, who was appointed by President-elect Donald Trump last month, said that the new detention centres will be able to hold families exiting the country. “You knew you were in the country illegally ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s "border czar" said Thursday that the use of family detention centers for migrants is “on the table,” raising the possibility that the practice ended by the ...