Trump ballroom: Supreme Court lets project proceed
The US Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to continue construction of his White House ballroom, lifting a lower-court order that had halted most work…
Law & Justice — August 2026
Amazon accused of $20bn ad overcharges in US lawsuit
The US Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon on Monday, accusing the company of manipulating online ad auctions and overcharging about 1.2 million…
Gaza photo must return to French sports festival, court says
A French court on Monday ordered the Deauville Sports Images Festival to put back on display a withdrawn photo of two Gaza football teams on a pitch surrounded…
Tupac Shakur murder: Duane Davis found guilty
Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been found guilty by a Las Vegas court of murdering rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996. A jury on Monday found Davis, 63, guilty of first-d…
Poland opens terrorism probe into drone factory fire
Polish prosecutors opened a terrorism investigation on Monday into a fire at a drone factory in the central city of Skarzysko-Kamienna. Prosecutors said the f…
Iran sentences two women to death, rights groups say
Rights groups said Iranian courts have sentenced two women to death in separate cases linked to anti-government protests in Isfahan in January. The Norway-based Hengaw group and the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said Monday that Taraneh Rahimi,…
Iran says 10 missing fishermen found in UAE
Ten Iranian fishermen who had been missing in Gulf waters since early August are alive in the United Arab Emirates and expected to return home this week, Iran's foreign ministry said Monday. Mohammad Soleimani, head of the ministry's representative office in…
Iraq jails kidnapper of US journalist for 15 years
An Iraqi court sentenced Amir Rahim Jabbar to 15 years in prison over the kidnapping of US journalist Shelly Kittleson, a judicial source said Monday. Kittleson was abducted in Baghdad on March 31 by Kataeb Hezbollah and held for several days before being rel…
Switzerland fire inquiry detains one after 4 deaths
Swiss prosecutors said Monday that one person has been placed in pre-trial detention in a criminal investigation into an August 21 apartment-block fire in Thus…
Marius Borg Hoiby allowed to attend Harald funeral
Marius Borg Hoiby, the son of Norway's queen, will be allowed to leave house arrest to attend the funeral of King Harald V, police said Monday. Hoiby, 29, was…
Ravi Karunanayake arrested over corruption allegation
Sri Lanka's former finance minister Ravi Karunanayake was arrested Monday after the country's anti-corruption body questioned him over allegations that state funds were used to pay private employees. The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Cor…
Vojislav Torden jail term cut in Finland war case
A Finnish court on Monday reduced the life sentence of Vojislav Torden, a Russian neo-Nazi convicted of war crimes, to 12 years and six months in a case tied to a 2014 ambush in Ukraine. Torden, a former deputy commander of the Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary g…
Unification Church leader gets two years for bribery
A South Korean court sentenced Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja to two years in prison on Monday on charges of bribing officials, including former first lady Kim Keon Hee. Han, 83, was accused of providing luxury items, including a designer handbag, to Ki…
Ali al-Bahadli gets 7 years in Iraq graft case
An Iraqi anti-corruption court has sentenced Deputy Oil Minister for Distribution Affairs Ali al-Bahadli to seven years in prison for illicit gains, Iraq's Commission of Integrity said Sunday. The commission said the ruling requires Bahadli to return to the s…
Uganda's Kizza Besigye back in hospital, wife says
Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye has been readmitted to hospital while being tried on suspicion of treason, his wife Winnie Byanyima said late on Friday. Byanyima said on X that Besigye was moved from prison to hospital after dark on Friday. She said h…
Alleged drug boat destroyed in US-Ecuador operation
The United States military intercepted and destroyed an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific on August 28 in a coordinated operation with Ecuador, officials said. US Southern Command said its forces intercepted a vessel that it described as “o…
Lenin Moreno sentenced to five years for corruption
An Ecuadorian court sentenced former president Lenin Moreno to five years in prison in a corruption case linked to the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric dam, pr…
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessions barred, NYT says
A US military judge has ruled that statements made by alleged 9/11 attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to FBI agents cannot be used against him at trial, The New York Times reported. The ruling comes before the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001…
Lenin Moreno and six others get 5 years for bribery
Former Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno and six other people have been sentenced to five years in prison in a bribery case linked to a Chinese-built hydroelec…
Deniz Goktas rearrested after court orders release
Turkish comedian Deniz Goktas was rearrested Friday after a court ordered his release in a separate case, Turkish media reported. Goktas, 32, had been accused…
Nigeria extradites two to US on fatal sextortion claims
Nigeria's anti-corruption agency said Friday it had approved the extradition of Mudashiru Afeez Olawale and Adebola Festus Adekunle to the United States to fac…
Katungi Mpeirwe faces US extradition in cartel arms case
Ugandan prosecutors have agreed to extradite retired army lieutenant Katungi Michael Mpeirwe to the United States on charges that he conspired to supply about $54 million worth of weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Mpeirwe, a former close associate of Ugandan a…
London Jewish ambulance arson: four plead guilty
Four young men pleaded guilty on Friday to criminal damage linked to an arson attack that destroyed ambulances owned by the Jewish charity Hatzola in London. British nationals Hamza Iqbal, 20, Rehan Khan, 19, and Judex Atshatshi, 18, and British-Pakistani Sai…
Amy Lopez killer jailed for 1994 rape and murder
A German court sentenced 81-year-old Hans S. to life in prison on Friday for the 1994 rape and murder of US tourist Amy Lopez. Lopez, 24, was found dead near the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress on the Rhine river in the western city of Koblenz. Her body was discover…
Chow Hang-tung says prison will not silence her
Hong Kong activist Chow Hang-tung told a court on Friday that she would continue speaking up for democracy even behind bars, after being convicted of inciting subversion over her role in annual vigils marking China's 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Chow, 41, was co…
Rwanda genocide: Dutch court jails Eugene N. for life
A Dutch court sentenced Eugene N., a 66-year-old Rwandan-born Dutch national, to life in prison on August 28 for his role in the massacre of about 3,000 Tutsis during the 1994 Rwanda genocide. The District Court of The Hague convicted him of war crimes and th…
Lindsay Clancy trial spotlights postpartum psychosis
Lindsay Clancy's murder trial in Massachusetts has renewed debate in the United States over postpartum psychosis, as jurors consider her insanity defence in the deaths of her three young children. Clancy, a 36-year-old nurse, does not deny strangling Cora, 5,…
Stars and Stripes journalists sue Pentagon over firings
Three staff at Stars and Stripes sued the US Department of Defense on August 27, alleging the Pentagon fired them in violation of their constitutional free speech rights. Editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max Lederer and reporter Lara Korte say in the la…
FIFA corruption pair admit paying bribes
Argentine sports marketing executives Hugo Jinkis and Mariano Jinkis admitted Thursday to paying bribes to international soccer officials to secure media rights, under a deal with US prosecutors to avoid trial. The father and son were charged after a 2015 US…
Colombia president ordered to apologize in secularism case
A Colombian judge has ordered President Abelardo de la Espriella to apologize for breaching state secularism by including religious preaching at his inauguration. A Bogota court ruled that De la Espriella must apologize for “violating the religious neutrality…
Timothy Ash says Turkey closed Erdogan insult probe
British economist Timothy Ash said Thursday that Turkish authorities had closed an investigation into him over alleged insult of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “I have been informed that the Turkish authorities have closed any investigation around comments I…
Jerusalem nun attack suspect acquitted over mental state
A Jerusalem court has acquitted Israeli settler Yona Simcha Schreiber over an assault on a French Catholic nun because of his mental state, public broadcaster Kan reported. Schreiber, 36, from a settlement in the occupied West Bank, was arrested in April afte…
Brian Mundubile charged with treason in Zambia, lawyer says
Zambian opposition leader Brian Mundubile and his running mate Makebi Zulu have been formally charged with treason, their lawyer Kambwa Aongola told AFP, after they were taken into custody in a case that has raised concerns over political dissent. Aongola sai…
Poland crypto scandal: Tusk accuses PiS leaders
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has accused leaders of the right-wing opposition PiS party of links to what he called a corruption system involving the cryptocurrency platform Zondacrypto. Tusk said Friday that the case no longer looked like an ordinary bri…
Colombia says two guerrilla leaders extradited to US
Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella said Wednesday he had ordered the transfer and extradition to the United States of two guerrilla leaders who had served as negotiators in peace talks under his predecessor Gustavo Petro. The two men were identified…
El Salvador postpones MS-13 mass trial verdicts
El Salvador has postponed the Monday court date at which verdicts were expected in a mass trial of 485 alleged leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, known as MS-13. The president's office said the reading of verdicts “has been suspended” and that a new date w…
Colombia weighs prison ships for top criminals
Colombia's new government wants to use prison ships at sea to hold people it considers highly dangerous criminals, a defense ministry source told AFP Wednesday. President Abelardo de la Espriella took office earlier this month after campaigning on a tougher a…
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial set for June 2028
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, is scheduled to go on trial before a US military court at Guantanamo Bay on June 5, 2028, a court spokesman said Thursday. The trial at the US naval base in…
Colombia hosts US general for anti-drug talks
US Southern Command chief General Francis L. Donovan visited Bogota on Wednesday to discuss joint anti-drug operations with Colombia's new military leaders. SOUTHCOM said Donovan travelled to Colombia to discuss efforts to combat “narco-terrorists” and streng…
Jason Arday death inquest opens in London
An inquest into the death of former Cambridge University academic Jason Arday opened in London on Wednesday, after he was found dead at his south London home earlier this month. Arday, 41, was discovered by family members on August 14, the inquest heard. Coro…
ICC president says court will resist US sanctions
International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane said on August 26 that she would not give up despite US sanctions and that the court would resist if Washington escalated sanctions against the organisation itself. Akane, a Japanese judge, said the sanction…
US strike on alleged drug boat kills four in Caribbean
A US military strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean killed four people on August 25, officials said. US Southern Command said on X that the vessel was operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. It said “confir…
Iran executes two brothers over armed robberies
Iranian authorities hanged two brothers found guilty of carrying out hundreds of armed robberies in several provinces, the judiciary said Wednesday. The judiciary's Mizan Online news agency said Hamid Najafi and Saeed Najafi were hanged after judicial proceed…
Kennedy Center Trump name plan challenged in court
Opponents of restoring US President Donald Trump's name to the Kennedy Center urged a federal judge on Thursday to block the move, calling it defiance of earlier court rulings. Judge Christopher Cooper ordered Trump's name removed from the facade of the Washi…
Instagram chief admits Meta omitted teen tool use rates
Instagram head Adam Mosseri admitted in a California court on Tuesday that Meta promoted teen safety tools without disclosing low early adoption rates, as 29 U…
Jewel Howard-Taylor gets due process pledge in drug case
Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai said former vice president Jewel Howard-Taylor will receive due process after she was charged and detained in a drug-trafficking case. Howard-Taylor was charged last week and remanded in custody in a case linked to a maj…
DSK scandal figure ‘Dodo the Pimp’ dies at 77
Dominique Alderweireld, the French brothel owner nicknamed “Dodo the Pimp” after a prostitution case involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has died aged 77, his fo…
Ghislaine Maxwell loses bid to overturn conviction
A US federal judge on Tuesday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction. Maxwell, 64, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. S…
Osman Kavala: ECHR orders Turkey to release him
The European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey on August 25 to immediately release civil society leader Osman Kavala, ruling that his criminal conviction wa…
Robert Kocharyan remanded in custody on graft charges
An Armenian court has remanded former president Robert Kocharyan in custody for two months on corruption charges, authorities said Thursday, two days after he and his eldest son were arrested. Armenia's Anti-Corruption Committee said the Anti-Corruption Court…
Lockerbie bombing trial delayed over new evidence
A US federal judge has postponed the trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Masud, the Libyan man accused of making the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotlan…
Trump mail-in ballot order allowed for now
The US Supreme Court on Monday lifted a lower court block on parts of President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting, allowing the directi…
Mladic to get military and state honours, minister says
Serbia's justice minister Nenad Vujic said Friday that Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military chief convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, would receive military and state honours. “It is certain that General Mladic will receiv…
Turkey court sentences opposition mayors to up to 23 years
A Turkish court sentenced opposition mayors to prison terms of up to 23 years and three months on corruption-related charges, the state-run Anadolu news agency…
Egyptian artefacts: German court orders €32m confiscated
A regional court in Hamburg convicted two unnamed siblings on Monday of money laundering over the illegal sale of ancient Egyptian artefacts and ordered 32 mil…
Graeme Dott found guilty of child sex offences
Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott was found guilty of two child sex abuse offences at the High Court in Glasgow on August 24. Dott, 49, was found to h…
Empire State Building climbers in court after proposal
Ivan Kuznetsov and Angelina Nikolau appeared in a New York court on August 24 after climbing the Empire State Building's antenna during a July 1 stunt in which…
Norway oil permits face Supreme Court climate hearing
Norway's Supreme Court began hearing arguments Monday over government oil licences challenged by environmental groups that say the permits were approved withou…
Bangladesh court upholds Nusrat Rafi death sentences
A Bangladesh appeals court upheld death sentences for former Islamic school headteacher SM Siraj-Ud-Dowlah and a co-conspirator on August 24, 2026, in the murd…
Nvidia worker among 9 charged in Taiwan chip case
Taiwanese prosecutors said Monday that nine people, including a Nvidia worker, had been charged over the illegal export of artificial intelligence servers to C…
Syria gives Assad-era cleric Ahmed Hassoun life sentence
A Syrian court sentenced Ahmed Hassoun, the former grand mufti under ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, to life in prison on Monday after convicting him of crimes including inciting sectarian strife and exploiting his position. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan said Ha…
US strike kills two on alleged drug boat, US says
The United States military said Monday that it killed two people in a strike on a boat it alleged was trafficking drugs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. US Southern Command said on X that the Sunday strike targeted a vessel “operating along established narco-tra…
Guo Degang investigated over patriotic song gag in China
Chinese comedian Guo Degang is under investigation after he reportedly made a joke involving a patriotic song during a July performance in Wuhan, the city's culture and tourism bureau said on Sunday. The bureau said the investigation was ongoing, but it was u…
Argentina court overturns ex-nun's sex abuse acquittal
An Argentinian court has overturned the acquittal of Kumiko Kosaka, a former nun charged in a child sex abuse case involving deaf children at the Provolo Institute of Mendoza. The Supreme Court of Justice of Mendoza province reversed Kosaka's 2023 acquittal a…
GTA VI publisher gets subpoenas to identify leaks
Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of Grand Theft Auto VI parent company Rockstar Games, obtained court orders Friday requiring Microsoft and Discord to provi…
TikTok to pay $400m in US child privacy settlement
TikTok and parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle a US Department of Justice lawsuit over claims that the video-sharing platform vi…
Bordeaux face sixth tier after court rejects appeal
A Paris administrative court rejected Bordeaux's final legal appeal on Friday, leaving the six-time French champions barred from the fourth tier and relegated…
Succes Masra lawyers seek amnesty after Chad pardon
Lawyers for Chad opposition leader Succes Masra called on President Mahamat Idriss Deby on August 21, 2026, to grant him amnesty after he was recently released…
White House ballroom work allowed to continue for now
The US Supreme Court on Friday allowed construction of a White House ballroom to continue for now, temporarily lifting a lower court order that would have stop…
UK rugby brain injury case allowed to go to trial
A legal case involving hundreds of former rugby players who allege they suffered brain injuries during their careers can proceed to trial, a judge ruled Friday…
Prince Harry and others ordered to pay Daily Mail £9.5m
The High Court in London has ordered Prince Harry and six other claimants to make an initial payment of £9,544,355 to the publisher of the Daily Mail after the…
Japan cancels Netflix dating show campaign after backlash
Japan's justice ministry said on August 21 that it will cancel a collaboration with the Netflix dating show “Badly in Love” after criticism that the campaign c…
Swiss man jailed in Bali over Hindu holiday insult
A Swiss man has been sentenced to one year in prison in Indonesia for insulting Nyepi, the Hindu Day of Silence, while he was on holiday in Bali. I Wayan Suar…
Djibouti football federation accused of misusing funds
Djibouti's football federation is facing allegations of favouritism, poor procurement and misuse of funds after a 2024 government inspector's report accused it…
Tundu Lissu calls Tanzania treason trial political
Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu opened his defence Friday in his treason trial, calling it a “political case” after a court ruled that prosecutors had…
Indian captain 'scapegoat' in shadow-fleet case, wife says
Ritu Pant has said her husband, Indian tanker captain Ajay Pant, is being made a scapegoat as he awaits trial in Britain on sanctions offences linked to the oi…
Russian-Australian charged over Ukraine intel allegation
Australian police have charged a 27-year-old Russian-Australian man with foreign interference, alleging he tried to provide information about Ukrainian militar…
Japan executes Osaka pachinko arsonist
Japan executed Sunao Takami on Friday for a 2009 arson attack on an Osaka pachinko parlour that killed five people, Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi said. T…
Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists convicted
A Hong Kong court convicted Tiananmen vigil activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung on Friday of incitement to subversion in a national security case linked…
US special forces support Ecuador anti-drug operations
US troops are carrying out joint military operations with Ecuadoran forces against drug-trafficking gangs near the Colombian border, Ecuadoran officials said. Juan Jaramillo, governor of violence-hit Esmeraldas province, said on Aug. 19 that Ecuadoran forces…
New York Capitol plot: US charges woman with IS support
US authorities charged Jessica Bowie, 35, with a terrorism offense Thursday after prosecutors alleged she supported the Islamic State group and discussed blowi…
Steve Amoussou freed after two-year Benin sentence
Steve Amoussou, a Beninese cyberactivist accused of running an online account critical of the government, was released Thursday after serving a two-year senten…
Russia issues arrest warrant for German journalist
Russia issued an arrest warrant on Thursday for Michael Martens, a German journalist whose question to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this month caused controversy in Russia, Serbia and Germany. Martens, a reporter for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitu…
Germany arrests alleged online abuse group leader
German prosecutors said Thursday they had arrested the suspected ringleader of an online group accused of inciting murder and other acts of sadistic violence i…
Mother charged in Finland with trafficking children to Syria
A Finnish-Russian woman has been charged in Finland with trafficking her children to parts of Syria that were then controlled by the Islamic State group, Finni…
Brazil Supreme Court expands protections for women
Brazil's Supreme Court has expanded legal protection for women facing gender-based violence, ruling that protective measures under the Maria da Penha law must…
Syria police investigator referred over detainee death
A Syrian committee investigating the death of Mohammed Ghumeira has referred police investigator Ahmed Jawad to the Public Prosecutor's Office in Latakia after…
Nigeria plans bill to decriminalise attempted suicide
Nigeria plans to send a bill to the National Assembly to decriminalise attempted suicide, Health Minister Ali Pate said. Attempted suicide remains a criminal offence in Nigeria. It is punishable by up to one year in prison under the colonial-era Criminal Code…
Munich Jewish centre arson suspect identified, police say
German police and prosecutors said Thursday they had identified a far-right suspect who allegedly carried out a 1970 arson attack on a Jewish centre in Munich…
Erin Patterson prosecutors seek life without parole
Australian prosecutors asked appeal judges on Thursday to keep convicted mushroom murderer Erin Patterson in prison for life without parole, while Patterson sought to overturn her triple-murder conviction. Patterson, 51, was found guilty in July 2025 of murde…
Evergrande founder Xu Jiayin jailed for life in China
Evergrande founder Xu Jiayin has been sentenced to life in prison by a Shenzhen court, which also fined Evergrande Group and its real estate arm a total of 15.…
CK Hutchison seeks over $1.5bn in Panama ports case
CK Hutchison said on August 20 that it had filed international arbitration proceedings against Panama over the cancellation of its concession to operate two po…
Palisades fire suspect pleads not guilty to new charges
Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man accused of starting a fire that grew into the Palisades fire in Los Angeles, pleaded not guilty on August 19 as prosecutors made…
Joel Le Scouarnec faces probe into 50 alleged abuse offences
French prosecutors have opened a new judicial investigation into surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec, who was convicted last year of raping or sexually abusing hundreds…
Kizza Besigye wife calls Uganda trial a 'farce'
Winnie Byanyima, wife of jailed Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye, called the second day of his treason trial a "farce" on Wednesday, saying he was too i…
Syria arrests Assad-era officer convicted in Austria
Syrian authorities have arrested former security officer Musab Ahmad Abu Rukbah, who was convicted in Austria last month of torturing opponents of longtime rul…
Harvard to pay $53 million over stolen body parts
Harvard University has agreed to set up $53 million in settlement funds after its former medical school morgue manager stole and sold body parts donated for sc…
Diego Maradona test mix-up admitted by health firm
Swiss Medical has admitted that medical tests presented in the trial over Diego Maradona's death were actually those of his father, the latest setback in proce…
French filmmaker held in Togo released to hospital
French filmmaker Sebastian Perez Pezzani, who was arrested in Togo while making a documentary, has been released under judicial supervision and is receiving ho…
Meta says it tried to reduce Facebook, Instagram risks
Meta's lawyer told a court on August 18 that the company knew some users were negatively affected by Facebook and Instagram but had tried to reduce those risks…
Scott Bessent assassination plotter gets 73 months
Ryan Michael English, a 24-year-old from Massachusetts also known as Raleigh Jane English, was sentenced on August 18 to 73 months in prison for plotting to as…
ICC head warns of rule of law demise after US sanctions
International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane warned against “the demise of international rule of law” after the United States imposed sanctions on her.…
Meta exploited children, misled public, prosecutor says
A California prosecutor told an Oakland courtroom Tuesday that Meta put profits over children’s health and misled the public about the safety of Facebook and I…
Swedish prisoners arrive in Estonia under jail deal
The first four Swedish prisoners arrived Tuesday at a prison in Estonia under a deal aimed at easing pressure on Sweden's overcrowded jails, Estonia's prison s…
ABC sues FCC over broadcast license threat
Disney-owned ABC sued the Federal Communications Commission in federal court in Washington on August 18, accusing the US regulator of carrying out a retaliator…
Vietnam ex-MP faces no charges in fatal crash
Vietnamese authorities defended a decision not to prosecute former National Assembly member Nguyen Sy Cuong over a fatal car crash, after days of online outrage. A state television broadcast on Monday night confirmed that Nguyen Sy Cuong was the driver in the…
Sri Lanka ex-minister arrested over king's stone theft
Former Sri Lankan minister Keheliya Rambukwella was arrested on August 18 over allegations that he helped steal a centuries-old carved stone from the palace of Sri Lanka's last Sinhala king, the country's anti-corruption commission said. The Commission to Inv…
Adel Issa extradited to Syria from Lebanon
Syrian authorities have received former Syrian major general Adel Issa from Lebanon after his extradition, Syria's interior ministry said Wednesday. The minis…
Taiwan charges 15 over tainted cooking oil scandal
Taiwanese prosecutors charged 15 people and four companies on Tuesday over contaminated cooking oil after food authorities found excessive levels of a cancer-c…
Witness links Francois Bozize to rival's disappearance
A witness at a UN-backed court in the Central African Republic has linked former president Francois Bozize to the disappearance and presumed death of Charles M…
Ukrainian convicted in Germany over Russian sabotage plot
A German court sentenced Ukrainian man Yevhen Bezchasnyi to one year and three months in jail on Tuesday for spying for Russia and helping prepare possible act…
Imran Khan back in jail as PTI challenges hospital checks
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was returned to Adiala Jail on Friday after court-ordered medical checks in Islamabad, while his Pakistan Tehreek-e-I…
Syria sentences Assad cousin Wassim al-Assad to death
A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced Wassim al-Assad, a detained cousin of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, to death after convicting him of multiple murders linked to atrocities during Syria's civil war. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan said the 46-year-old was con…
Thailand reviews pardons after drug trafficker freed
Thailand's justice minister said Tuesday he had ordered a review of pardon rules after 85-year-old drug trafficker Laota Saenlee was released from prison after serving less than a decade of a life sentence. Thailand's corrections department said Monday that L…
Sri Lanka judicial reforms criticised by lawyers
Sri Lanka's government proposed judicial reforms on August 18 that it says would cut a backlog of about 1.1 million court cases, but lawyers and opposition parties criticised the package as a threat to judicial independence. The two bills put before parliamen…
Meta accused of hooking children in $200bn trial
A coalition of US states is seeking about $200 billion in penalties from Meta in a federal trial over allegations that the company deliberately made Instagram…
David Warner ordered to use breathalyser vehicle lock
Australian former cricketer David Warner was fined Aus$1,500 and ordered to use a vehicle breathalyser lock after admitting to drink driving. Judge Clare Farnan formally convicted Warner at Sydney's Waverley Local Court on Tuesday, August 18. The court ordere…
Trump sex assault, defamation appeal rejected again
The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn a jury judgment that he sexually assaulted and defamed writer E Jean Carroll. The court did not give a reason for refusing to hear Trump's challenge. It had also refused in l…
Erin Patterson appeal hears jury hotel was accident
Prosecutors told a Melbourne court that a jury hotel issue in Erin Patterson's Australian death cap mushroom murder appeal was an accident, as her lawyers argu…
Tupac Shakur trial hears revenge killing claim
Prosecutors told a Las Vegas jury on Monday that Duane “Keffe D” Davis ordered the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur as revenge after Shakur and others beat Davis's…
Syria detains seven over custody beating death
Italian police said Friday that paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth more than nine million euros ($10.4 million) have been recovered after they were stolen from a museum in northern Italy in March. The works were taken by masked thieves from the vi…
Iran says Shahram Sadeghi executed in protest case
Iran's judiciary said it executed Shahram Sadeghi on Sunday after he was convicted of running over police officers with a car during anti-government protests in Karaj, west of Tehran, on January 8. The judiciary's Mizan Online website said seven officers were…
Al-Fayed probe data breach prompts Met Police apology
London's Metropolitan Police apologised after email addresses of complainants in the Mohamed Al-Fayed abuse investigation were accidentally visible to other people on a communications list. The force said the breach happened on Tuesday when it sent a monthly…
Chey Tae-won appeals $666m South Korea divorce ruling
Lawyers for SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won said on Saturday that he has appealed a South Korean court ruling ordering him to pay 944 billion won, or $666 million, to his former wife Roh Soh-yeong in a divorce asset settlement. The appeal sends the case back t…
Vienna toilet fees lawsuit alleges sex discrimination
A Viennese woman is suing the city council, alleging discrimination because women must pay to use public toilet cubicles at some facilities while men can use urinals for free. Melanie Gradik, 27, said she decided to act after visiting Vienna's Augarten park w…
Mexico chief justice says he faces anti-Indigenous bias
Hugo Aguilar, Mexico's Supreme Court chief justice, said he faces discrimination every day because of his Indigenous roots, while rejecting claims that he is politically beholden to the country's leftist government. Aguilar is the first Indigenous Mexican to…
Meta lawsuit: US states seek $193bn penalty
A coalition of US states plans to seek about $193 billion in damages from Meta when a trial begins over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were intentionally designed to be addictive for children. Opening statements are due to begin on August 18 in Oakla…
Luigi Mangione blames back injury for CEO killing
Luigi Mangione, who admitted shooting dead UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson in Manhattan, used a court appearance to blame a back injury and said his crimes sought to make “health care work better for everyone.” Mangione, 28, was arrested in Pe…
Belgian woman charged over Paris Bank of America plot
A 23-year-old Belgian woman was charged in France on Friday over an alleged role in a foiled March 28 bomb attack on a Bank of America branch in Paris, France's anti-terrorist prosecution office said. The office, known as PNAT, said she was handed over by Bel…
Luigi Mangione admits shooting Brian Thompson
Luigi Mangione admitted in a New York courtroom on Aug. 14, 2026, that he shot UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson in Manhattan, while pleading guilty to federal stalking charges. "I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died," Mangione said. "I kn…
Luigi Mangione admits shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO
Luigi Mangione admitted in federal court Friday that he shot UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson in Manhattan in December 2024, as he pleaded guilty to stalking charges. “On the morning of December 4, I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died,”…
Luigi Mangione state murder trial postponed after plea
Luigi Mangione's New York state murder trial over the killing of UnitedHealthCare chief executive Brian Thompson has been postponed after he pleaded guilty in…
Trump White House ballroom appeal reaches Supreme Court
The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to let it complete a White House ballroom and underground bunker project that lower courts have blocked over lack of explicit congressional consent. Solicitor General John Sauer filed an emergency…
Stolen Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse recovered in Italy
Italian police said Friday that paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth more than nine million euros ($10.4 million) have been recovered after they were stolen from a museum in northern Italy in March. The works were taken by masked thieves from the vi…
Guinea teacher gets one month in jail over imam insult
A Guinean court on Wednesday sentenced teacher and civil rights advocate Abdourahmane Bella Bah to six months in jail, five of them suspended, for insulting an…
Singapore AI sexual abuse image ban starts Aug 17
Singapore will start enforcing legislation on August 17 that creates a new offence for producing intimate images, including AI-generated material, without consent. The home affairs department said offenders can face up to two years in jail, a fine, or both. I…
ICE officer kills Mexican man in Texas; son seeks probe
The son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo demanded an investigation on July 8 after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot the Mexican man in Ho…
Ex-Afghan MP extradited to US on drug, gun charges
Former Afghan parliament member Abdul Zahir Qadeer has been extradited from Kenya to the United States to face drug and firearms charges, the US Justice Depart…
Charlie Kirk murder trial decision delayed to September
A US judge said Friday that a preliminary hearing over the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk will resume in September, delaying a decision on wheth…
Paris wife killer jailed for 27 years
A Paris court sentenced a 53-year-old man to 27 years in prison on Friday for murdering his wife and scattering parts of her body in Buttes-Chaumont park in 2023. Park workers found a plastic bag containing remains in the popular northeast Paris park. The wom…
Dieselgate carmakers win most UK High Court claims
The High Court in London has ruled largely in favour of five major carmakers accused of using devices in diesel vehicles to circumvent clean-air rules, in the…
Paris school monitor guilty of preschooler sexual assault
A Paris court found a leisure-centre monitor guilty on July 10 of sexually assaulting a kindergarten-age girl in his care, the first such verdict after multipl…
Guinea-Bissau opposition leader sent back to prison
A military court placed Guinea-Bissau opposition leader Domingos Simoes Pereira in prison Friday, according to a security source, as he faces accusations linke…
UK migrant removals rights curb unlawful, court rules
A High Court judge ruled Friday that the UK government acted unlawfully when it restricted legal options for migrants facing removal to France who claim to be…
Nobby Stiles inquest ordered after CTE finding
A coroner in England ruled on July 10 that a full inquest must be held into the death of Nobby Stiles after a court heard the 1966 World Cup winner died with c…
Mauritania pardons MPs jailed over discrimination claim
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has pardoned two opposition lawmakers who were sentenced to four years in jail after accusing him of rac…
Charlie Kirk suspect cried after killing, roommate says
Tyler Robinson, the man accused of murdering right-wing campaigner Charlie Kirk, cried days after the killing and said he wished he had not done it, his roomma…
National Guard shooting suspect hospitalized, judge says
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan man awaiting trial over the shooting of two National Guard members near the White House, has been hospitalized after refusing f…
Nicaragua lawyers lose 2,000 permits, reports say
Lawyers and Nicaragua's exile media said the government has revoked work permits for 2,000 lawyers without explanation, removing them from the Supreme Court of…
Mexico's Rocha denies hiding over US drug charges
Mexican politician Ruben Rocha Moya, who took leave as governor of Sinaloa state in May, has denied that he is in hiding after a US indictment on drug charges. Rocha Moya wrote on X that he had stayed at his home in Culiacan, the Sinaloa state capital, and th…
David Hearn pleads not guilty in Reflecting Pool case
Former US Olympic canoeist David Hearn pleaded not guilty Thursday in Washington to a felony vandalism charge over alleged damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Hearn, 67, was indicted last week. Prosecutors allege National Park Service employees sa…
BBVA and former chairman to face spying trial
Spain's National Court ordered BBVA and its former chairman Francisco Gonzalez to stand trial over alleged corporate spying involving former police commissioner Jose Manuel Villarejo. The court ruled there was enough evidence for Spain's second-biggest bank a…
Irishman jailed 14 years for US tourist's murder in Hungary
A Hungarian court sentenced an Irishman to 14 years in prison on Wednesday for murdering US tourist Mackenzie Elizabeth Michalski in Budapest. The Budapest-Capital Regional Court found the defendant, identified only as L. T. M., guilty of killing Michalski, a…
Poland jails former Russian activist, wife for spying
A Polish court sentenced a former Russian opposition activist and his wife to prison on Thursday for spying for Moscow. Court documents said Russian citizen Igor R., identified by Russian media as Igor Rogov, was jailed for seven years. His wife, Irina, was s…
EU court says paid criminal records online breach GDPR
The European Union's top court said Thursday that putting criminal conviction records online for payment does not in principle count as journalism and can violate data protection rights. The Court of Justice of the European Union gave the guidance after a Swe…
SAP avoids EU fine with 10-year antitrust pledges
SAP avoided a European Union fine after the European Commission said the German software company had addressed competition concerns through legally binding commitments. The commission, the EU's antitrust regulator, opened an investigation into SAP in Septembe…
Japan flag desecration bill opposed by 148 academics
A group of 148 Japanese legal experts has petitioned lawmakers against a bill that would criminalise damaging the national flag, saying it threatens freedom of expression. The bill, part of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's conservative agenda, says anyone who…
Brazil authorizes expulsion of accused Russian spy
Brazil has authorized the expulsion of Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov, a Russian national accused by the United States of espionage, according to a government decision published July 6. The decision did not say which country the 40-year-old would be expelled…
Sri Lanka ex-spy chief accused over Easter bombings
Former Sri Lankan intelligence chief Suresh Sallay remains in custody before a court hearing scheduled for July 10 after the government accused him of directing the 2019 Easter bombings, which killed 279 people and wounded more than 500. Public Security Minis…
Yoon Suk Yeol awaits South Korea martial law ruling
South Korea's Supreme Court was due on July 9 to rule in a case against former president Yoon Suk Yeol over alleged crimes linked to his failed 2024 martial law declaration. The case covers accusations that Yoon obstructed cabinet deliberations, used forged s…
Trump seeks birthright citizenship rehearing
US President Donald Trump said on July 8 that he would ask the Supreme Court to rehear a case on birthright citizenship after the court rejected his effort to restrict the constitutional provision. Trump wrote on Truth Social that he would seek a rehearing “i…
Trump ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million
A US judge ordered President Donald Trump on Wednesday to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million after a civil jury found that he sexually assaulted and defamed her. The order came after the US Supreme Court refused last week to hear Trump's appeal against the…
Trump loses bid to restore Kennedy Center name
A US appeals court on July 8 rejected President Donald Trump's request to have his name restored to the Kennedy Center facade while his administration and the center's board fight a lower-court ruling. Trump's name was removed from the Washington performing a…
Satnam Singh employer jailed for 16 years in Italy
An Italian court near Rome sentenced farmer Antonello Lovato to 16 years in prison on July 8 over the abandonment of Satnam Singh, an injured Indian farm worker who died after a work accident. Singh, a 31-year-old undocumented worker, had his arm torn off and…
Guo Wengui appeals 30-year US fraud sentence
Exiled Chinese entrepreneur Guo Wengui has appealed his 30-year US prison sentence for defrauding thousands of people of more than $1 billion, court records made public on July 8 showed. Guo challenged both his conviction and sentence in a July 2 filing. The…
Chinese doctor jailed in Berlin rape network case
A Berlin court sentenced Chinese doctor Shao Zhiting to five years in prison on Wednesday for his role in an online sexual abuse network that operated under the code name “Driving School for Experts”. The court said the 32-year-old repeatedly gave medical adv…
Harvard antisemitism suit dismissed by US court
A US federal court dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit against Harvard University on Thursday after finding the government had not sufficiently shown that Harvard violated a Civil Rights Act anti-discrimination provision during pro-Palestinian campus ral…
Luigi Mangione says he will plead guilty to stalking
Luigi Mangione, accused of shooting dead UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson in Manhattan, told a federal judge on August 14 that he was willing to plead guilty to stalking charges. Mangione, 28, faces stalking charges in the federal system and mu…
Shein loses UK copyright case against Temu
Shein lost a UK copyright lawsuit against Temu after accusing the Chinese e-commerce platform of breaching copyright on photographs of clothing, the High Court in London ruled Thursday. The case concerned product listings on Temu's UK website by third-party s…
Sher Bahadur Deuba returns to Nepal amid graft probe
Former Nepal prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba returned home on Thursday after six months abroad for medical treatment, while facing an arrest warrant issued in April over money laundering allegations. Deuba, 80, waved to supporters near Tribhuvan airport in…
Heidi Beirich arrested in alleged $4m SPLC payment case
Heidi Beirich, a former Southern Poverty Law Center executive, was arrested on Wednesday over her alleged role in donor money being secretly used to pay confidential informants in extremist groups, federal officials said. FBI Director Kash Patel said Beirich,…
Colombia authorizes US anti-drug ops, Hegseth says
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Colombia has authorized joint military operations with the United States to target drug traffickers, as Bogota joined a Washington-led anti-cartel alliance. Speaking Wednesday at an anti-cartel conference in Panama, Hegs…
Rob Reiner's son pleads not guilty to murder charges
Nick Reiner, the son of US film director Rob Reiner, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to two counts of murder after grand jury indictments were unsealed in the deaths of his parents. The charges include special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and…
US arrests 11 over alleged sham marriage scheme
US officials said Wednesday that 11 people had been arrested for allegedly organising sham marriages for foreigners seeking US residency, mostly Chinese nationals. Attorney General Todd Blanche told a press conference in Washington that Chinese nationals woul…
Trump sued over paid Truth Social post access
Two US media groups sued President Donald Trump in New York on Wednesday over his move to charge for early access to his Truth Social posts. The Intercept and Freedom of the Press Foundation filed the lawsuit, which describes the paid access plan as “extraord…
Russian jailed, banned from France over Nazi salute
A 19-year-old Russian man was sentenced to eight months in prison and permanently banned from French territory after making Nazi salutes near a synagogue in Sarcelles, north of Paris, prosecutors said Wednesday. He was detained three days earlier in Sarcelles…
Lebanon passes first general amnesty since 1991
Lebanon's parliament passed a general amnesty law on Wednesday, the country's first such measure since 1991, with the legislation expected to benefit thousands of prisoners and wanted people. The office of the parliament speaker announced approval of a draft…
Hong Kong teen gets probation for seditious graffiti
A Hong Kong judge sentenced 19-year-old Leung Kai-lok on Wednesday to 18 months of probation for writing words found to have a seditious intention on a toilet wall, including a slogan used during the city's 2019 pro-democracy protests. Leung, who has autism s…
Japan cosmetic tattoo artists face prosecution threat
Japan's cosmetic tattoo artists face possible criminal complaints if they perform permanent make-up without medical licences, while practitioners argue procedures such as scalp micropigmentation, eyebrow tattooing and lip tinting are art rather than medicine.…
Bondi Beach attack hero Ahmed al Ahmed has charges dropped
Australian police dropped charges Wednesday against Ahmed al Ahmed, the fruit seller praised for disarming a gunman during last year's Bondi Beach mass shooting. Ahmed had been accused earlier this year of stalking and assaulting his father. He denied the cha…
Bukele inauguration plot trial postponed to September
The trial of 11 people accused of planning attacks to disrupt Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's 2024 inauguration has been postponed to September 7, as relatives of the defendants denounced the case outside court. The defendants include three former leftist…
CJNG cartel members sought Czech arms, US says
The US Justice Department unsealed indictments Tuesday against four alleged members of Mexico's Jalisco New Generation cartel, accusing them of seeking to buy arms and ammunition in the Czech Republic. US officials said the four alleged members of the cartel,…
UN says Afghan intelligence arrested 2 staff
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said two of its Afghan male staff members were detained by the country's intelligence agency in Herat and that it had not been allowed to see them for two days. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said the staff…
Luigi Mangione trial jurors to be anonymous
Jurors selected for Luigi Mangione's New York state murder trial will be anonymous, Judge Gregory Carro said at the final pretrial hearing on August 11, 2026, before jury selection begins September 8. Mangione, 28, is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare chief…
Trump ICC sanctions face rights groups' lawsuit
Four rights groups including Human Rights Watch sued US President Donald Trump in a New York court on Tuesday over sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court, saying the measures block victims of war crimes from seeking justice. The complaint was fi…
Hungary files complaint over Orban social media spending
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar's office filed a criminal complaint Tuesday over millions of euros in public funds spent on social media communications under former prime minister Viktor Orban. Magyar's office said the complaint was filed on suspicion o…
German navy sabotage probe dropped for lack of evidence
German prosecutors have discontinued proceedings against two men suspected of trying to sabotage German navy corvettes in 2025, saying there was not enough evidence to file charges. The two men, a 37-year-old Romanian and a 54-year-old Greek who worked at Ham…
Sara Duterte charged over alleged Marcos death threat
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte was charged with grave threats on Tuesday over an alleged death threat against President Ferdinand Marcos, his wife and a former congressman. Department of Justice spokesman Polo Martinez said the charge was filed in a Q…
Taiwan jails Chinese woman for election infiltration
A Taiwan court sentenced Chinese woman Xu Chunying to seven years in jail on Tuesday after finding her guilty of taking instructions from Chinese Communist Party officials to campaign for candidates in Taiwanese elections. New Taipei District Court documents…
Atif Najib sentenced to death by Syria court
A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced Assad-era official Atif Najib to death after convicting him of crimes against humanity committed when he was head of political security in Daraa province. The court said Najib, a cousin of ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad, was…
Bashar al-Assad sentenced to death in absentia
A Syrian court sentenced former ruler Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia on Tuesday after convicting him of crimes against humanity and war crimes over atrocities during Syria's nearly 14-year civil war. At a court in Damascus, Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan c…
False King Charles death broadcast broke UK radio rules
A false Radio Caroline broadcast announcing the death of King Charles III broke UK broadcasting rules, regulator Ofcom said on Monday. The community radio station apologised in May after messages prepared for the monarch's death were accidentally aired. One m…
Meta destroyed data in Forrest fake-ad case, judge rules
A federal judge in California ruled on August 10 that Meta destroyed or allowed essential data to be erased in Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest's lawsuit over scam cryptocurrency ads that used his image without permission. Judge P. Casey Pitts found the…
Gautam Adani US bribery case dismissed by judge
A US judge has dismissed the fraud and bribery case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani after the Trump administration moved to drop the charges. Brooklyn federal judge Nicholas Garaufis formally granted prosecutors' May request to throw out the 2024 alle…
USA Swimming CFO Cory Hilliard arrested on theft charges
Cory Hilliard, USA Swimming's chief financial officer, was arrested Monday in Colorado on charges of theft, embezzlement and official misconduct linked to his time as a University of Colorado employee. The Boulder County district attorney's office said prosec…
Nigeria coup suspect says patriotism drove alleged plot
Colonel Mohammed Ma'aji, the alleged ringleader of a failed 2025 coup attempt in Nigeria, told military investigators he acted out of “patriotism” and concern over the country's decline, Premium Times reported Monday. Nigeria's military announced in January t…
Israeli settler accused of abuse barred from most West Bank
The Israeli army said Monday it had banned Tal Yinon Dardik, a settler accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian, from most of the occupied West Bank. West Bank commander Major General Avi Bluth issued an order barring Dardik from all of the territory except…
German killer nurse probed over 139 more cases
German prosecutors are investigating 139 further cases that could be linked to a palliative care nurse already jailed for murdering 10 patients. The man, partially identified by German media as Ulrich S., worked at a hospital in Wuerselen near Aachen. He was…
Ashraf Dabbour family urges Lebanon not to extradite him
The family of former Palestinian ambassador to Lebanon Ashraf Dabbour urged Lebanese authorities on Monday not to extradite him to Ramallah over corruption allegations, saying the case should be handled in Lebanon. Lebanon's public prosecutor ordered Dabbour'…
Tundu Lissu treason trial resumes, Chadema says
Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu's treason trial resumed on Monday after a five-month pause over procedural issues, his Chadema party said. Lissu, whose party Chadema was disqualified from the 2025 elections, was detained in April 2025 and charged with…
Italy arrests Berlusconi associate in Ranucci bomb attack
Italian police arrested businessman Valter Lavitola, who had ties to former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, over a bomb attack last year outside the home of television journalist Sigfrido Ranucci. Rome's carabinieri police said Lavitola was the alleged mast…
Russian Athletics challenges World Athletics ban at CAS
Russian Athletics said it has lodged a new claim at the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenging sanctions imposed by World Athletics. World Athletics announced in July that it was keeping in place a ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes imposed in March 2…
Riad Salameh faces new Lebanon embezzlement suit: official
Lebanon filed a lawsuit on Monday against former central bank governor Riad Salameh over accusations including embezzlement and illegal enrichment, a judicial official told AFP. The official said a judge filed legal proceedings against Salameh and former Bank…
Sri Lanka arrests Rajapaksa ally over alleged death threat
Sri Lankan police arrested Sagara Kariyawasam, General-Secretary of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Podujana Party, on Monday over an alleged death threat against the police chief. Police said Kariyawasam was taken into custody after making a s…
Bangkok bar fire owner faces six charges over 37 deaths
Thai police intend to charge the owner of a Bangkok restaurant and bar over a July 12 fire that killed 37 people, the lead investigator said Monday. Suvicha Salaibatr, owner of Rong Beer Na Lad Phrao, was among dozens of people taken to hospital after the bla…
Tupac Shakur murder trial begins in Las Vegas
Jury selection began Monday in Las Vegas in the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the former South Side Compton Crips leader accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty. He faces life in prison without par…
Meta faces $1.4tn US trial over alleged child harms
Meta is set to face a federal trial in Oakland, California, starting August 12, as four US states seek restrictions and up to $1.4 trillion in penalties over allegations that Instagram and Facebook were designed to addict children. Jury selection is scheduled…
UK subscription traps face new cancellation rules
UK subscription traps will face new cancellation rules from January 2027 as Prime Minister Andy Burnham seeks to tackle hard-to-cancel contracts and misleading discounts, Downing Street said on Sunday. The government said businesses will have to give customer…
Daniel Kinahan charged in Ireland after UAE extradition
Daniel Kinahan was charged in Dublin on Sunday with directing a criminal organisation and was remanded in custody after being extradited from Dubai to Ireland. The 49-year-old Irishman appeared at the Special Criminal Court, where he was told the charge alleg…
Ecuador charges seven in Villavicencio murder case
Ecuador's Prosecutor's Office formally charged seven people on Saturday as alleged indirect perpetrators in the 2023 murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. Villavicencio, a legislator known for anti-corruption investigations, was shot dead a…
Daniel Kinahan extradition jet heads to Dubai, RTE says
Daniel Joseph Kinahan, an Irishman alleged by US and European authorities to have led a transnational cartel, was expected to be flown from Dubai to Ireland after an Irish government jet left to collect him, Irish national broadcaster RTE reported Saturday. R…
Lebanon detains Assad-era Syrian officer wanted by Damascus
Lebanese authorities detained Adel Issa, a former Syrian army officer under ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, after Damascus issued an arrest warrant accusing him of killing and crimes against humanity, a Lebanese judicial official told AFP. The official said Is…
Apple-OpenAI trade secrets lawsuit escalates
Apple and OpenAI escalated a San Jose, California, court fight over OpenAI's secretive consumer device project after OpenAI called Apple's trade-secret allegations baseless and asked for the case to be dismissed permanently. Apple sued OpenAI last month, accu…
ICC urges Chad, Venezuela to reconsider withdrawals
The International Criminal Court urged Chad and Venezuela on Friday, Aug. 7, to reconsider decisions to withdraw from the Hague-based court, saying the moves could weaken global efforts to end impunity. “The presidency regrets these developments,” the court's…
Trump ballroom halt upheld by US appeals court
A US appeals court on Friday upheld an order halting most above-ground construction on President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom, but paused its ruling for two weeks so he can ask the Supreme Court to intervene. Trump criticised the ruling as a “n…
Senegal influencers jailed over anti-president comments
Three Senegalese influencers who support ousted prime minister Ousmane Sonko have been sentenced to prison over comments that a court interpreted as targeting President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. The case stemmed from a TikTok video in which the men said they had…
US egg producers to donate 53 million eggs in price case
Three big US food producers have been forced to donate 53 million eggs to American food banks and pay $3.3 million after 17 states sued them over alleged price fixing. New York Attorney General Letitia James accused the businesses of colluding to raise egg pr…
Maradona doctors ignored warning signs, court told
Diego Maradona showed “warning signs” that were not acted on during the home hospitalization before his death in 2020, forensic physician Carlos Cassinelli told the trial examining whether medical negligence contributed to the Argentine football legend's deat…
Ivan Toney charged over London nightclub assault
England striker Ivan Toney has been charged with assault causing actual bodily harm over a reported incident at a nightclub in Soho, central London, the Metropolitan Police said on Friday. Police said Toney, 30, was charged on July 31. The charge relates to a…
Meta ordered to pay $567m in New Mexico child harm case
Meta has been ordered by a New Mexico judge to pay $567 million over five years and change some Facebook and Instagram features after the state said the company created a public nuisance that endangered children. The order follows a March jury finding that Me…
Angel Aguirre arrested in Ayotzinapa student case
Mexican authorities announced the arrest of former Guerrero governor Angel Aguirre on Thursday over alleged evidence tampering in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers college. General Prosecutor Ernestina Godoy said Aguirre…
Awdah Hathaleen killing: Israeli settler charged
Israeli prosecutors charged Israeli settler Yinon Eliya Levi on August 6 in the killing of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen in the occupied West Bank, Israel's justice ministry said. The ministry said Levi, 33, from Ma'on, was indicted on charges of reckl…
Apollo Quiboloy extradition request confirmed by Manila
The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that the United States formally requested the extradition of Filipino pastor Apollo Quiboloy, who is wanted in the US on sex-trafficking charges. Department spokeswoman Analyn Ratonel said the request…
Olga Stefanishyna named suspect in Ukraine corruption case
Ukraine’s former ambassador to Washington, Olga Stefanishyna, has been named a suspect in a corruption case, the country’s High Anti-Corruption Court and investigators said Thursday. The court said Stefanishyna had been “notified of suspicion of illicit enric…
Tarun Tejpal sentenced to 10 years in rape case
An Indian court sentenced former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment on Thursday after convicting him of raping a junior colleague in a case that drew nationwide attention. Tejpal, 63, was accused of raping the journalist in the l…
Munich car-ramming: Afghan man jailed for life
A Munich court sentenced an Afghan man to life in prison on Thursday for a car-ramming attack last year that killed a two-year-old girl and her mother and injured dozens of people. The court found the 25-year-old defendant, identified only as Farhad N., guilt…
South Korea FA apologises after referee sex claims
South Korea's Korea Football Association has apologised after allegations that it provided sexual entertainment for foreign referees added to scrutiny over the hiring of former national team coach Hong Myung-bo. The KFA said in a statement posted on August 8…
Chile's Kast seeks tougher organized crime laws
Chilean President Jose Antonio Kast said in a televised national address on Wednesday that he would push Congress to approve reforms aimed at fighting organized crime. Kast said there were more than 30 bills, including some already in Congress, that would cha…
Egg producers to give 53m eggs over price-fixing claims
Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman's Egg Ranch will donate 53 million eggs to US food banks under a settlement announced on August 5 over price-fixing claims brought by 17 states. New York Attorney General Letitia James said the companies will also pay $3.3…
Andrew Tate extradition moves welcomed by UN expert
A United Nations expert on violence against women and girls has welcomed moves towards extraditing Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, saying no one should be above the law regardless of status or influence. Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violenc…
CJNG cartel members indicted as US rewards top $100m
US authorities announced charges on Wednesday against five high-ranking members of Mexico's Jalisco New Generation cartel, or CJNG, and said reward money for information leading to the arrests of top cartel leaders would rise to more than $100 million. Acting…
Kenyan bank CEOs charged in €2.4m company theft probe
The chief executives of three of Kenya’s largest banks have been charged with failing to report suspicious transactions in a case linked to the alleged theft of more than 2.4 million euros from an insurance company, Kenya’s public prosecutor said Wednesday. T…
Club Med worker charged with rape in South Africa
A French Club Med employee in South Africa has been charged with rape and sexual assault involving a teenage guest, prosecutors said Wednesday. The 35-year-old accused appeared in court on Tuesday and was released on bail of 5,000 rand, about $300, a spokespe…
Germany jails far-right group members over attack plots
A German court sentenced seven members or supporters of the far-right militant group Last Wave of Defence to prison terms of two years and four months to five years on Wednesday. The men, all teenagers or in their early 20s, were convicted in Hamburg of offen…
Sri Lankan pageant contestant fined over python dance
A Sri Lankan court fined a 19-year-old beauty pageant contestant after she danced on stage with an endangered python, a wildlife official said Wednesday. The wildlife department prosecuted Methmi Hiranya after her act five months ago in Colombo went viral on…
Taiwan probes 17 China-funded firms over tech poaching
Taiwanese investigators said Wednesday they had raided dozens of locations in a probe into 17 Chinese-funded companies suspected of illegally poaching high-tech workers from Taiwan. The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau said more than 300 investigators…
Starbucks Korea says HQ raided in 'Tank Day' inquiry
Starbucks Korea's local operator said Seoul police raided the chain's national headquarters on Wednesday as part of an investigation into allegations that its “Tank Day” promotion defamed and insulted victims of the 1980 Gwangju pro-democracy uprising. A Shin…
Colombia tribunal charges 27 ex-guerrillas
Colombia's peace tribunal charged 27 ex-guerrillas on Tuesday with crimes against humanity and sexual violence committed during the country's armed conflict. The Special Jurisdiction for Peace, known as the JEP, was created by the 2016 peace deal with the now…
Gianni Infantino accused of blackmail by Jordan FA chief
Jordanian Football Association president Prince Ali bin Hussein accused FIFA and Gianni Infantino of attempted “blackmail”, saying FIFA had withheld prize money owed for Jordan reaching last year's FIFA Arab Cup final. Prince Ali, a former FIFA vice-president…
Rafa Mir loaned to Aris after sexual assault verdict
Sevilla loaned Spanish striker Rafa Mir to Greek side Aris Thessaloniki on Tuesday after a Valencia court sentenced him in June to eight and a half years in prison for sexual assault and bodily harm. Mir, 29, has appealed the verdict, which was issued after h…
Syrian Kurdish pastor released, church official says
Syrian authorities have released Syrian Kurdish Christian pastor Nihad Hassan more than two weeks after he was detained over social media posts, a Kurdish church official in Lebanon told AFP on Tuesday. The official said Hassan was released on Monday evening…
Bangladesh seeks death penalty for enforced disappearances
Bangladesh's government has proposed allowing the death penalty when an enforced disappearance results in death, after an official inquiry recorded more than 1,500 cases during former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's 17-year rule. The draft Prevention and Remed…
Juan Orlando Hernandez stays free in corruption trial
A Honduran judge ruled on Monday that former president Juan Orlando Hernandez can remain free while he faces a corruption trial in Honduras. Judiciary spokesman Carlos Silva said Hernandez was formally charged with money laundering and fraud at the hearing. S…
Trump tariffs face lawsuit from 25 US states
Twenty-five US states sued the Trump administration on Monday over tariffs of 10 to 12.5 percent on 60 trading partners, arguing that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority. The states filed the case at the US Court of International Trade in New York.…
Boeing 737 MAX crash trial opens over UN worker's death
A US trial opened Monday over the death of Michael “Mick” Ryan, a United Nations World Food Programme engineer killed in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash. A Chicago jury will hear claims from Ryan's survivors to determine damages. The tr…
Ashraf Dabbour arrested in Lebanon over graft case
Lebanese authorities arrested Ashraf Dabbour, the former Palestinian ambassador to Beirut, on Monday ahead of possible handover to the Palestinian Authority over corruption charges, a Lebanese judicial official told AFP. The official said Lebanon's public pro…
Todd Blanche sworn in as US attorney general
Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, was sworn in as US attorney general on Monday after the Senate confirmed him in a 50-49 vote. W…
Central African Republic court resumes criminal trials
The Central African Republic's main court resumed criminal trials on August 3, 2026, after a two-year halt that kept suspects in prolonged custody and worsened prison overcrowding, the court said. The suspension, blamed on financial difficulties, created a ba…
Sandoz settles US drug price claims for $478.5m
Swiss pharmaceutical group Sandoz said Monday it had reached two settlements in the United States worth a total of $478.5 million to resolve long-running generic drug pricing disputes. Sandoz and its subsidiary Fougera Pharmaceuticals agreed with a consortium…
Alleged Archetyp Market founder charged in Germany
German prosecutors said Monday they had charged an unnamed 31-year-old German man alleged to have founded and operated Archetyp Market, a major darknet drug-trading platform. The platform was shut down in an international operation in June 2025. Prosecutors s…
Xenia Fedorova loses French deportation appeal
A Paris court on Monday rejected Russian television commentator Xenia Fedorova's appeal against an order to leave France after authorities accused her of spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda. The Paris administrative court said Fedorova, 45, a former journalist f…
Hong Kong prison guard jailed for inmate assault
A Hong Kong court sentenced former prison officer Tam Lik-chung to three years in jail on Monday for assaulting an inmate who later needed hospital treatment, Hong Kong media reported. Tam had pleaded guilty this year to wounding with intent to do grievous bo…
Kosovo mass grave search expands to third possible site
Kosovo authorities say they have identified a third potential mass grave in the country's north, widening an investigation into a suspected 1990s war crime that has already uncovered the remains of 11 people. Excavation work began last week in the Zubin Potok…
Beirut port blast families await indictment six years on
Families of people killed in the Beirut port blast gathered at the port on Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of the explosion, saying they were still waiting for justice as Lebanon's justice minister said the case could move closer to trial within 60 to 90 days.…
Brij Bhushan Singh acquitted; Phogat says wrestlers will appeal
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the former head of the Wrestling Federation of India, has been acquitted by a New Delhi court of sexual harassment and stalking charges, his lawyer Rajiv Mohan said Monday. Singh, 69, a former lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra M…
Iran executes two men for spying for Israel, judiciary says
Iran executed Omid Behzad and Pouria Safvat on Monday after convicting them of spying for Israel, the judiciary's Mizan news outlet said, amid a rise in hangings over alleged espionage. Mizan said the two men were hanged for transmitting coordinates of sensit…
Alan Jones goes on trial in Australia sexual assault case
Australian broadcaster and former Wallabies coach Alan Jones appeared in a Sydney local court on Monday for the opening day of a trial over sexual assault accusations. The 85-year-old faces 20 charges of indecent assault and two charges of sexually touching w…
Al-Fayed accusers recognised as trafficking victims, group says
Four women who allege they were abused by late Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed have been recognised by the UK's interior ministry as victims of human trafficking, the No One Above advocacy group representing them said. The women, who use the pseudonyms Isabell…
Rabat archdiocese gets administrator amid Romero inquiry
The Vatican has appointed Father Mario Leon Dorado to provisionally govern the Archdiocese of Rabat while the Holy See investigates Cardinal Archbishop Cristobal Lopez Romero, who stepped aside after AFP reported sexual assault allegations against him. In a s…
Trump criticises prosecutor over Reflecting Pool case
President Donald Trump criticised U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro after she sought to dismiss charges against former Olympian David Hearn in the Washington Reflecting Pool case. Pirro filed documents Friday seeking dismissal of the case against Hearn, saying new…