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The wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that laboratory analysis of smuggled biological samples found he was killed by poisoning while incarcerated at an Arctic prison in February 2024.

Days after escaping alongside 13,500 others in a giant jailbreak during deadly anti-corruption protests in Nepal, Avinash Rai rubbed his belly after a meal -- and strolled back into prison.

Madeleine’s case remains one of the most high-profile unsolved disappearances of recent decades – but 18 years on, investigators appear no closer to bringing a culprit to justice

Inmates at San Pedro prison in La Paz staged a riot on Tuesday, seizing control of the facility for several hours to demand higher daily food allowances.

Christian Brückner, der Hauptverdächtige im Fall des Verschwindens von Madeleine McCann im Jahr 2007, wurde nach Verbüßung einer Strafe in einem anderen Fall aus einem deutschen Gefängnis entlassen. Er steht weiterhin unter Ermittlungen im Fall McCann, wurde jedoch nie offiziell angeklagt.

The top suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal was freed from a German prison on Wednesday, an AFP journalist at the scene reported.

He left the prison at Sehnde, near Hannover in northern Germany, on Wednesday morning

German national Christian Brueckner was serving a seven-year prison sentence for the rape of an elderly woman at her home in Praia da Luz in 2005.

“He's got a criminal record longer than a telephone directory,” said one man who knew Christian Brueckner. The suspect was released from prison on September 17.

Christian Brueckner, 48, was released from prison in Germany after serving a sentence for an unrelated sex crime in Portugal’s Algarve region where McCann disappeared

A German man who is under investigation in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann 18 years ago was released from prison Wednesday after serving his sentence in an unrelated case, police said