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The prosecution of Turkey demands more than 3.6 thousand years in prison for oppositional Fethullah Gülen, living in voluntary exile in the USA on all charges against him, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Gülen has been accused of involvement un the 15 July 2016 coup attempt in over 20 criminal trials, but he denies it all.
Some 32,000 people were arrested after the coup in Turkey and 100,000 state employees were fired or suspended from work.
An escape attempt at Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulted in at least 129 deaths and 59 injuries
Inmates at a prison in Russia's Volgograd region took hostages on Friday
Evelin Banev, also known as "Brendo", began serving his six-year prison sentence for money laundering from drug trafficking on Monday
The court in London's Wood Green district has handed down prison sentences ranging from 3 to 8 years for four Bulgarians involved in one of the largest welfare benefit frauds and money laundering schemes in the United Kingdom
Two prisoners got into a fight, and one of them died after the fight
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny died in the IK-3 penal colony in Yamal-Nenets region in Russia
In a video address from Brussels, North Macedonia's Prime Minister, Hristijan Mickoski, reaffirmed his country's commitment to EU membership, highlighting the government's focus on implementing reforms and improving living standards for its citizens
Turkish media outlets have reacted strongly to the anticipated accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen Area
Russian ultranationalist ideologue Aleksandr Dugin, often referred to as "Putin's ideologue," caused controversy with a statement on the social media platform "X" claiming that "soon Romania will be part of Russia"
The Constitutional Court of Romania has upheld the results of the first round of the presidential election held on November 24
During a debate in the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee in Brussels, Timco Mucunski, Foreign Minister of North Macedonia, refrained from providing a timeline for including Bulgarians as a state-forming nationality in the country’s constitut
With 99% of the votes counted in Romania’s parliamentary elections, the Social Democratic Party (PSD), led by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, has secured the largest share of the vote with 23%
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