Knife attacker injures two tourists at Acropolis entrance
A man with a knife attacked a Greek-American couple at the base of the Acropolis shortly after the site opened on Tuesday, 21 July, Athens police said. Police…
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Rohingya refugees face deadly sea crossings as trafficking grows
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are continuing to risk dangerous sea journeys as human trafficking networks expand and conditions in the camps around Cox's Baz…
France vote comes as more countries weigh child social media limits
French lawmakers were scheduled to vote on Tuesday on a proposal to ban social media access for children under 15, as governments in several regions consider o…
Colombia president-elect's team alleges guerrilla plot to kill him
The team of Colombia's hard-right president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella alleged Monday that guerrilla groups were plotting to assassinate him before he takes office next month. De la Espriella won last month's presidential runoff by less than a percentage…
Louvre gallery hit by crown jewel theft to reopen without jewels
The Apollo Gallery at Paris's Louvre Museum, where French crown jewels worth 88 million euros were stolen in 2025, will reopen to the public on Wednesday, an informed source told AFP. The source said no jewels will be on display. The gallery will instead retu…
Six Ivory Coast opposition officials released after months in custody
Six local officials from Ivory Coast's main opposition party were released on Monday after several months in custody, their lawyer said. Lawyer Ange Rodrigue Dadje wrote on Facebook that the PDCI activists were freed after a hearing at the anti-terrorism cham…
French judge approved overnight Tour de France doping tests
A French judge approved overnight anti-doping tests on Tour de France riders Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, the Paris public prosecutor's office confirmed. The International Testing Agency asked a Paris judge responsible for liberty and detention matters…
US Army veteran arrested over fire outside New York immigration offices
A US Army veteran was arrested on Monday after a fire was started outside a federal building in New York that houses immigration courts and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, officials said. Andrew Arrabaca, 43, allegedly poured gasoline outside t…
Ghana court jails opposition politician for 20 years over illegal mining
A Ghanaian court jailed opposition politician Bernard Antwi-Boasiako for 20 years on Monday after finding him guilty of illegal mining offences. The High Court in Accra found Antwi-Boasiako guilty on all six charges against him. The charges included the unlaw…
Greece plans scooter ban for riders under 17 after accidents
Greece plans to tighten rules on electric stand-up scooters after repeated accidents, especially involving young people, Deputy Transport Minister Giorgos Kotsiras said. Kotsiras told Skai TV that a bill due to be voted on the next day would ban scooter use b…
Italian prosecutors probe Moroccan man's death under police restraint
Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation after Abderrahim Fakir, a 42-year-old Moroccan man who had lived in Italy since childhood, died in Bologna while being restrained by police. Human rights campaigners and Italian opposition parties demanded answ…
Ismael Zambada sentenced to life in US prison in Sinaloa cartel case
Mexican drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada was sentenced to life in a US prison on Monday for co-leading the Sinaloa cartel. A New York court also ordered the 76-year-old to pay a $15 billion forfeiture. Zambada, a former top associate of Sinaloa cartel found…
Indian police fire tear gas at students marching over exam problems
Indian police fired tear gas on Monday, 20 July 2026, to stop thousands of protesters from marching on parliament in New Delhi. The protesters, most of them young students, were demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and wider refo…
Hong Kong survivors say sexual offence reforms leave legal gaps
Hong Kong is seeking to overhaul decades-old sexual offence laws, but survivors and activists say proposed reforms still leave gaps in how the legal system handles consent, trauma and long-term child abuse. Jessie, an NGO worker in her 30s, said she froze in…
Norway unveils memorial to 77 victims of 2011 attacks
Norway unveiled a memorial in Oslo on Sunday to the 77 people killed in the July 22, 2011 attacks, the deadliest peacetime massacre in the country's history. Anders Behring Breivik set off a bomb in a van near government headquarters in Oslo, killing eight pe…
Iran says it hanged two men over protest-related charges
Iran's judiciary said two men were hanged on Sunday over charges linked to anti-government protests that began over economic grievances and peaked in January. The judiciary named the men as Erfan Esfandiari and Gol-Mohammad Mohammadi. It said they were found…
Tate brothers to oppose UK extradition on sex crime charges, lawyer says
Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate will fight extradition to Britain on sex crime charges, their lawyer said Monday after a hearing in Miami. US authorities detained the brothers on Saturday as UK prosecutors announced new charges including r…
UN experts call for probe into alleged interference with Mexico missing-person protests
United Nations experts called on Saturday for impartial investigations into allegations that protests about Mexico’s disappearance crisis faced undue interference during the football World Cup. The six independent experts said security operations around tourn…
The Hague residents evacuated after illegal drug lab found
Authorities in The Hague evacuated residents from dozens of homes on Saturday after an illegal drug lab was found in their neighbourhood, Dutch officials said. It was the second time in 24 hours that residents were asked to leave because of the lab. Barrels c…
Turkey reports arrests in Islamic State-linked operation
Turkey's interior ministry said Saturday that authorities had arrested people across the country accused of links to the Islamic State group. The ministry said the police operation was carried out in 30 provinces, including Istanbul and Ankara. The report giv…
Aung San statues removed in Myanmar amid dispute over his legacy
Statues of Myanmar independence figure Aung San are being removed in parts of the country, amid a dispute over his place in public life and his connection to his detained daughter, Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San fought both with and against British and Japanese c…
Ex-spy gets 30 years in French masonic lodge-linked trial
A Paris court jailed an ex-spy and a former journalist on Friday after a trial over violence and criminal activity linked to a former French masonic lodge just outside Paris. The court heard more than three months of evidence about murder attempts, industrial…
UN expert and rights groups urge Thailand not to deport journalist to China
A United Nations expert and dozens of press freedom and rights groups urged Thailand not to forcibly return detained Chinese investigative journalist Bai Zhaodong to China. Andrea Bolanos Vargas, the UN special rapporteur on rights defenders, said Bai fled Ch…
Brazil requires gambling ads to warn about addiction and losses
Brazil made it mandatory on Friday for gambling advertisements to carry warnings about addiction and money loss, tightening rules on a betting sector that has grown quickly in recent years. Brazil's betting market has expanded since a regulatory framework was…
Mother of UK student killer jailed for hiding knife used in attack
The mother of a British Sikh man jailed for killing a white student was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday for taking away the ceremonial knife used in the fatal stabbing. Henry Nowak was handcuffed by police in December as he lay dying after his at…
France to block access to Polymarket prediction market
France said on Friday that it is blocking access to the online prediction market Polymarket, saying people continued to bet through the site despite an existing ban on financial transactions from French accounts. The national gaming authority, ANJ, said Polym…
Italian regulator fines six companies over Olympic ambush marketing
Italy's Competition Authority said it had fined six Italian companies a total of 2.5 million euros, or $2.86 million, for ambush marketing during the Milan-Cortina Olympics. The regulator, known as AGCM, said the companies ran advertising campaigns and promot…
Russian activist who turned against Putin remanded in custody
Russian activist Ilya Remeslo, who for years targeted opponents of the Kremlin before later denouncing President Vladimir Putin and Russia's offensive in Ukraine, was arrested Friday, his lawyer said. Lawyer Sergei Badamshin said Remeslo, 42, is accused of sp…
Sri Lanka court orders LPL team co-owner held in match-fixing case
A Sri Lankan court ordered Manjot Kalra, the Indian co-owner of a Lanka Premier League team, to be held in prison until the end of the month after he was charged with attempting to bribe five players for match-fixing. Inspector Supun Vidanage of the Sports In…
ICC confirms charges against former Libyan prison official
A former Libyan prison official will stand trial at the International Criminal Court after judges confirmed 17 charges including murder, rape and torture. ICC prosecutors accuse Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, 48, of war crimes and crimes against humanity alleg…
Bangladesh police arrest suspect in 1981 killing of former president
Bangladesh police said they arrested on 16 July a retired military officer accused of involvement in the assassination of former president Ziaur Rahman more than four decades ago. Ziaur Rahman was killed in 1981 during a military coup. After his assassination…
EU orders Google to share search data and open Android to AI rivals
The European Union demanded that Google share search data with other search engines and open its Android system to rival AI services. Google said the measures would create privacy and security risks. The order was made under the EU's Digital Markets Act, whic…
Italian court finds 32 defendants guilty over Genoa bridge collapse
An Italian court sentenced 32 defendants over the 2018 collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, which killed 43 people and was one of Italy's worst infrastructure disasters. Giovanni Castellucci, the former chief executive of motorway operator Autostrade, was…
UK court jails two British hackers over London transport cyberattack
A UK court has jailed two British hackers over a cyberattack involving London transport. The available source text did not give the hackers' names, the court, the sentence lengths, when the attack happened, or further details of the case.
German neo-Nazi to serve sentence in men's prison despite legal gender change
A German neo-Nazi figure who had been expected to be sent to a women's prison after a legal gender change will instead serve a sentence in a men's correctional facility, local authorities said on Thursday. Marla-Svenja Liebich, who previously used the name Sv…
EU court backs Spain’s Catalan separatist amnesty law
The European Union's top court upheld Spain's contested 2024 amnesty law for Catalan separatists involved in a failed secession bid, giving a symbolic boost to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. The Court of Justice of the European Union agreed with Spain'…
French justice minister says 970 child sex-abuse allegations are priority cases
France's Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin said Wednesday that prosecutors had identified 970 allegations of child sex abuse as priority cases, as he faced pressure over the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. The girl, Lyhanna, went missing in southwester…
French lawmakers approve assisted dying law for some adults
French lawmakers on Wednesday adopted a bill to establish a right to assisted dying for some adults suffering from an incurable condition. The lower chamber approved the law by 291 votes to 241. France's highest constitutional authority still has to examine t…
Thai police arrest boxing camp manager in child trafficking case
Thai police said Wednesday they had arrested the manager of a boxing camp on charges of trafficking underage boys for sex, and were searching for a Norwegian national also believed to have been involved. Police raided the day camp in Rayong province, southeas…
Iran executes man convicted over January protests
Iran hanged Mohammad Amini Dehaghani on Wednesday after he was convicted over his role in anti-government protests, the judiciary announced. The judiciary's press agency reported that Amini Dehaghani was executed after the supreme court confirmed the verdict.…
French parliament adopts assisted dying law, with constitutional review ahead
France's parliament has adopted legislation creating a right to assisted dying for some adults with incurable conditions, moving the country closer to legalising the practice if the Constitutional Council approves the law. President Emmanuel Macron had promis…
Nepal court sentences former ministers over refugee resettlement scam
A Nepal court has sentenced two former ministers and more than a dozen other people over a scam that promised Nepali citizens resettlement abroad by falsely presenting them as refugees, a court official said. Kathmandu district court information officer Shiva…
Family seeks release of US seismologist detained in China
The family of American seismologist Youlin Chen says he has been detained in China on espionage charges since 2024 and is seeking his release. Global Reach, an NGO working with Chen's family, said Chen was detained on November 5, 2024. Chen has researched how…
ICC prosecutors ask judges to drop Darfur rebel leader case
International Criminal Court prosecutors on Tuesday recommended that judges drop war crimes charges against Abdallah Banda, a rebel leader from Sudan's Darfur region, over a deadly 2007 attack on African Union peacekeepers. Banda had faced three counts of war…
Sierra Leone drops treason case against former president Koroma
Sierra Leone has discontinued treason proceedings against former president Ernest Bai Koroma over his alleged role in what authorities described as an attempted coup in 2023, officials said on Tuesday. Koroma, who led Sierra Leone from 2007 to 2018, was charg…
Former Croatia footballer Dario Simic arrested in corruption case
Former Croatian international footballer Dario Simic was arrested on Tuesday in an anti-corruption operation linked to a coastal campsite development, local media and prosecutors said. Anti-corruption prosecutors said an investigation had been opened into thr…
UK man admits 32 sexual offences against girlfriend
A UK man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 32 sexual offences against his girlfriend while she was allegedly drugged or asleep over more than a decade. The man, who is in his 40s, cannot be named because his girlfriend has lifelong anonymity as a victim of sexual…
Trump pays $5.6 million to E. Jean Carroll after civil jury verdict
US President Donald Trump has paid $5.6 million to writer E. Jean Carroll after a civil jury found he sexually assaulted and defamed her, a court filing showed Tuesday. Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said a unanimous nine-person jury had found Trump liab…
Doubts surround Mexico's reported fall in homicides
Mexico's government says President Claudia Sheinbaum's security strategy has cut homicides sharply, but allegations about crime records have raised questions about the scale of the reported decline. Sheinbaum said Tuesday that homicides had fallen 48 percent…
Bahrain says three sentenced to life over Iran spying charges
On 14 July 2026, Bahraini authorities said three people had been sentenced to life in prison on charges of spying for Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The prosecution said the three defendants were charged with colluding with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps…
Iran hangs two people convicted of Islamic State membership
Iranian authorities hanged two people convicted of being part of the Islamic State group, the judiciary's news website Mizan Online reported on Tuesday. Mizan said Mohiyodin Abdollahi and Hossein Palani were hanged in the morning after a final Supreme Court v…
Peru's jailed ex-president Toledo seeks humanitarian pardon
Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence on corruption charges, asked the Peruvian government on Monday for a humanitarian pardon because of his health, his lawyer told AFP. Toledo, 81, said in a written statement t…
US judge voids Trump tax settlement with IRS
A US judge on Monday voided a settlement between Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service that had given the president and his allies broad protections from audits. The judge ruled that Trump's lawsuit over leaked tax returns had been filed for an improp…
UN experts criticise Nicaragua over lawyers' licences
UN human rights experts on Monday criticised what they described as an ongoing purge of Nicaragua's legal profession after the government revoked work credentials for numerous lawyers without explanation. The independent UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Ni…
Uganda treason trial of opposition leader opens without main lawyers
The treason trial of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye opened without his main defence lawyers after they were arrested or barred from the country. Besigye, who ran multiple times for the presidency against President Yoweri Museveni, was taken from Keny…
Serbian court restores charges against ex-minister over station collapse
A Serbian appeals court said it had restored charges against former construction minister Goran Vesic over the collapse of a canopy at a newly renovated railway station in Novi Sad that killed 16 people. The November 2024 tragedy sparked nationwide protests a…
EU criticises US threats against International Criminal Court
The European Union criticised threats against the International Criminal Court on Tuesday after the United States vowed a broad campaign against the tribunal. EU spokesman Anouar El Anouni said the EU was strongly committed to international criminal justice a…
Pig's head found in Muslim cemetery in Bosnia's Mostar
A pig’s head found in a Muslim cemetery in the Bosnian city of Mostar forced organisers to cancel a memorial service on Monday. A group of Bosnian Muslims had arrived at the cemetery in a Croat-majority neighbourhood to mark the anniversary of the 1992 format…
Austria says alleged Russian arms smuggler arrested in Vienna
Austria's interior ministry said special forces arrested an alleged Russian weapons smuggler during an attempted arms deal in Vienna. The 35-year-old suspect is accused of trafficking weapon parts that customers could assemble into working firearms, in some c…
Ukraine brigade commander held in custody in murder case
A Ukrainian court has ordered Stanislav Luchanov, commander of the French-trained Anne of Kyiv brigade, to be held in pre-trial detention for at least 60 days while he faces murder charges. Luchanov told reporters on Tuesday that he denies the allegations. Uk…
German court jails Iraqi couple over enslavement of Yazidi girls
A German court on Monday jailed an Iraqi couple who were members of the Islamic State group for keeping two Yazidi minority girls as slaves. The court in Munich sentenced the man, previously partially named by prosecutors as Twana H. S., to life in prison. Hi…
Moroccan journalist Ali Lmrabet detained after return from Spain
Prominent Moroccan journalist Ali Lmrabet was set to appear before a prosecutor on Monday after being detained on his return to Morocco from Spain, his wife told AFP. Laura Feliu said Lmrabet, 66, called her at 7:00 pm on Sunday and told her he had been detai…
UK counter-terror police lead Ann Widdecombe murder inquiry
Counter-terrorism police have taken over the investigation into the killing of veteran British right-wing politician Ann Widdecombe after new evidence emerged, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Monday. Police said a suspect detained at the weekend over the…
Turkey orders arrests of 968 suspects before coup anniversary
Turkish prosecutors ordered the arrest of 968 suspects linked to an organisation Ankara blames for the failed 2016 coup attempt, the justice minister said Monday. The order came ahead of the July 15 anniversary of the coup attempt. On July 15, 2016, a rogue m…
Sudan court sentences RSF leader to death in absentia, state media says
A Sudanese court on July 12 sentenced paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo and 15 others to death in absentia over the killing of a regional governor and alleged war crimes in Darfur, state media reported. The ruling is the first against the leadership of…
Turkish musician Haluk Levent arrested in NGO graft probe, media report
Turkish police arrested rock musician and civil society activist Haluk Levent on Sunday, media reports said. BirGun newspaper and the left-leaning Sozcu daily said the Istanbul public prosecutor's office issued a warrant as part of a graft investigation into…