Ratko Mladic is due to be buried in Belgrade on Monday, with thousands expected to honour the convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal despite his life sentence for atrocities committed during the war in Bosnia. Mladic spent his final years serving a life sentence…
Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic is due to be buried on September 7 after his death in prison on August 27, drawing attention to the fates of other major figures from the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Mladic was convicted of genocide and…
Nabila Habiby, who admitted fraud over former Dutch footballer Edgar Davids’s art collection, failed to appear at Wood Green Crown Court in north London on Sep…
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4, 2026, in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman who killed her three young children, af…
Colombian former leader Alvaro Uribe denied responsibility Friday for two 1990s massacres and the killing of a human rights defender ahead of a hearing about his alleged role in the events. Uribe, 74, is due to give his account of paramilitary massacres in th…
Kosovo prosecutors brought charges Friday against 35 former Serbian police over the killing of around 60 people in Prekaz in March 1998, including many relativ…
Two former employees of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias have filed another complaint against him in Spain for alleged sexual abuse and forced labour, the advocac…
Turkish prosecutors charged comedian Deniz Goktas with insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other offences over a June stand-up performance, in a case that could lead to years in prison if he is convicted. Goktas, 32, was arrested in early July, about…
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Friday in Lindsay Clancy's case over the killing of her three children, but put the ruling on hold for one hour so her lawyer could appeal to a higher court. The jury was deadlocked 11-1, with the majority apparently…
An Argentine judge said Friday that an 18th-century painting stolen by Nazis from Dutch Jewish art collector Jacques Goudstikker will be returned to his heir a…
Six members of the Swiss far-right Junge Tat movement went on trial in Zurich on Friday on charges including inciting hatred over disruptions of LGBTQ events. The case centres on actions by the group, including at a church service during the 2022 Zurich Pride…
A Swiss court on Friday acquitted five people charged with homicide by negligence after a 2017 landslide killed eight hikers and destroyed part of the village of Bondo in the Swiss Alps. Four German, two Austrian and two Swiss hikers were buried in an Alpine…
UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed has pardoned Abdul Rahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the son of the late Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the United Arab Emirates' official WAM news agency said Friday. Qaradawi, an Egyptian opposition act…
Sri Lankan lawmaker Namal Rajapaksa, the son of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, was ordered held for two weeks on Friday after anti-graft authorities accused him of receiving $800,000 linked to a 2013 Airbus aircraft deal. Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga…
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte posted bail at a Manila courthouse on Saturday, a day after an arrest warrant was issued over an alleged death threat against President Ferdinand Marcos, his wife and a congressman cousin. Duterte posted a cash bond tota…
Christian Castro, a suspended Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, is facing a federal charge of lying to investigators about the January 14 shooting of…
A top court in Argentina's Mendoza province on Thursday dismissed rape charges against French rugby players Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou, upholding rulings fro…
Apple faces a £2 billion lawsuit from UK app developers who accuse the company of giving its own advertising services an unfair advantage through its app track…
Venezuela's ousted leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have asked a US judge to dismiss federal drug trafficking and firearms charges, arguing th…
The United States announced Thursday the return of Roman-era sarcophagus fragments to Lebanon after an FBI investigation recovered antiquities described as loo…
Uber drivers from across Europe have filed a class action lawsuit against the US ride-hailing company, claiming it violated privacy laws and used dynamic prici…
Tunisia's Court of Cassation on Thursday rejected the final appeal of 34 opposition figures accused of plotting against the state, upholding prison sentences o…
A Vietnam court sentenced 11 people to death and jailed more than 200 others for trafficking illegal drugs hidden in toothpaste tubes from France and related c…
Survivors and relatives of people killed when apartheid police opened fire on a 1960 protest have launched legal action against the South African government, L…
Turkish prosecutors said Thursday they were investigating former prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu over comments on social media that were viewed as insulting Pre…
The US government has sided with OpenAI in a copyright lawsuit brought by the New York Times, defending the use of copyrighted works to train artificial intell…
The captain of an oil tanker that collided with a cargo ship off Istanbul has been arrested with the tanker's third officer on negligent homicide charges, prosecutors said. The arrests were ordered late Thursday by a court in Silivri, on the western outskirts…
A Hong Kong court upheld the convictions of Cardinal Joseph Zen and other dissidents Thursday over a multimillion-dollar fund that helped people arrested during the 2019 anti-government protests. Zen, a 94-year-old senior Catholic figure in Asia, was among th…
A US federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new executive order limiting who qualifies for birthright citizenship. US District Ju…
Lindsay Clancy's defense accused a single holdout juror on Thursday of blocking a verdict in the Massachusetts mother's trial over the deaths of her three chil…
France’s financial prosecutor’s office has asked investigating judges to send former Asian football chief Mohamed Bin Hammam and three other people to trial ov…
Brazil's Supreme Court is facing a widening crisis over messages banker Daniel Vorcaro sent to a phone number attributed to Justice Alexandre de Moraes before…
Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela urged “sympathy, prudence and caution” after the acquittal of businessman Yorgen Fenech over the 2017 car-bomb murder of in…
A Moscow court on Thursday placed Russian charity director Lida Moniava under a curfew and communications restrictions in a case accusing her of spreading “fal…
A US federal judge refused on Wednesday to force Google to sell part of its digital advertising business, rejecting the government's bid to break up part of th…
British former glam rock star Gary Glitter pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to eight charges of sexual offences against a young girl dating back to the 1970s an…
Nicolas Maduro Guerra said photos of his father, deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, in a US detention center were taken by prison staff and mailed to the family. Two photos of Maduro appeared on his social media on Sunday. Maduro is incarcerated in a f…
Vietnamese police arrested Deputy Health Minister Tran Van Thuan on Wednesday on allegations that he accepted bribes involving a large sum of money, the public…
Tiger Woods had his driver's license suspended for five years on Wednesday after reaching a plea agreement in a case stemming from a March rollover crash in Fl…
Bangladesh has released Lesedi Molapisi, a 33-year-old Botswana woman sentenced to death for drug trafficking, and she was expected to return home Wednesday, t…
Czech police began exhuming the remains of former Czechoslovak foreign minister Jan Masaryk on Wednesday as they investigate his 1948 death as a suspected murd…
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Sept. 2 that Slovakia will challenge in court new European Union rules allowing some plants produced with gene-editin…
Real Madrid defender Raul Asencio was cleared Thursday by a Spanish court of distributing an explicit video involving a minor, shortly after coach Jose Mourinh…
French filmmaker Gael Mocaer and local fixer Fred Vedomey have been provisionally released in Togo after being detained since July on charges of making “false…
Masami Kurumada, the Japanese author of the manga series "Saint Seiya", said on Wednesday in Tokyo that he is suing a former business associate accused of embe…
Tyler James Robinson, the 23-year-old defendant accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, pleaded not guilty after a Utah judge ruled that he must…
A judge in Argentina charged two former medical officials Tuesday over their alleged involvement in contaminated fentanyl linked to at least 90 deaths in 2025.…
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes faced new scrutiny Tuesday after a federal police report seen by AFP detailed WhatsApp messages sent to him…
A United Nations-backed armed force helping Haitian police fight gangs will not be fully staffed by October as planned, its spokesperson said Tuesday. The Gang Suppression Force had been expected to build up between April and October to 5,500 uniformed person…
New York's climate superfund law was struck down by a federal judge on Monday, wiping out a measure that would have required fossil fuel companies to pay $75 b…
A Honduran judge on Tuesday dismissed a corruption case against former president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had been accused of embezzling $2 million in publi…
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty Wednesday to foreign collusion in a second national security trial, a charge that can carry life im…
A Madagascar court sentenced former gendarmerie general Richard Ravalomanana to 10 years of hard labour over a crackdown on protests last year, local media reported on Tuesday. Ravalomanana was a former top security official and a key figure under ousted pres…
Iraq's judiciary said Tuesday it had completed questioning 5,704 Islamic State group suspects transferred from northeast Syria and referred their cases to trial. Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council said the interrogations identified several IS commanders, includi…
India's Supreme Court on Tuesday called off criminal investigations against most protesters who joined demonstrations over a leaked medical exam paper that forced the education minister to resign. The court used its special constitutional powers to provide re…
French prisons held 89,668 inmates on August 1, a new high that pushed occupancy to a record 141.6 percent, justice ministry data showed Tuesday. The prison system had capacity for only around 63,300 people in France, a country of 69 million. Overcrowding for…
A former Japanese prosecutor who accused Osaka's then top prosecutor of raping her said Tuesday that prosecutors' offices need reform and that victims' allegations are not properly investigated. The woman, who uses the pseudonym Hikari, publicly accused Kenta…
Mexican senator Enrique Inzunza, who is wanted by the United States on drug trafficking charges, said on Monday that he would not become a protected witness for US authorities. The US Justice Department charged Inzunza and nine other officials from the ruling…
A Sri Lankan court jailed former aviation minister Piyankara Jayaratne for seven years on Tuesday over government money used to buy lunch for voters attending a ruling party May Day rally. Jayaratne, 61, was also fined 200,000 rupees, about $615, in a case in…
A South Korean police officer was accused of lying to close more than two dozen missing-person cases, including two involving people later found dead on Jeju, authorities said Tuesday. Two of the missing people were among four bodies found over several days i…
A Thai criminal court sentenced activist Tantawan Tuatulanon to two years in prison after convicting her under Thailand's lese-majeste law over a 2022 livestream near a royal motorcade, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights said. The legal advocacy group said the cou…
A North Carolina grand jury indicted Sarah Santiago, 17, on August 31 on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree…