The British government is considering scrapping jail sentences of 6 months or less for most crimes in a bid to reduce reoffending and ease pressure on the system, the prisons minister said on Saturday, January 12. Source: Rappler
At the end of an anti-drug operation police officers in a neighborhood of Bagnols-sur-Ceze (Gard), officials were violently attacked by about fifty individuals, including many young adolescents. Several police vehicles were heavily degraded. Source: Actu17
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday he was “99 per cent” sure a Paris summit aimed at reviving talks with Kosovo would be cancelled, as the former war foes remain stuck in an acrimonious diplomatic deadlock. Source Business Standarrt
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chinese President Xi Jinping sat down here Thursday for talks with Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Xi is paying a two-day state visit to the neighboring country at the invitation of Kim, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK. Source, People’s Daily
