The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday stayed Christa Pike's execution in Tennessee shortly before she was due to receive a lethal injection. The court halted the execution until further notice. Pike had been scheduled to die three decades after murd…
A French court on Wednesday sentenced six men to between six and 10 years in prison over the deaths of at least 31 people in the Channel in 2021, the deadliest accident involving migrants trying to reach the English coast. Eight other men were also on trial o…
Iran hanged two men on Wednesday over charges linked to anti-government protests that peaked in January, the judiciary announced. The judiciary’s Mizan Online website identified the men as Ali Hemmati and Majid Nik-Andish. It said they were found guilty of in…
A Los Angeles judge has ruled that Ivanna Ortiz, accused of opening fire at Rihanna's Beverly Crest home in March, is mentally competent to stand trial. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Maria Cavalluzzi reinstated criminal proceedings on Tuesday and or…
Lindsay Clancy's lawyer urged a Massachusetts judge Tuesday to acquit the US mother accused of murdering her three children after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the case. Clancy, 36, did not deny at trial strangling Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan,…
Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott was sentenced to seven years in prison by a court in Scotland on Tuesday after being found guilty of sexually abusing two children. Dott, 49, was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh. Judge Sean Smith told him he…
Singapore police charged a man Tuesday over a fake AI-generated image of a crocodile at the city-state's largest reservoir that prompted public concern, a search and the suspension of activities. The man, identified as Ye Lin, 30, from Myanmar, was charged wi…
A Rome court has convicted three Egyptian security officers of murdering Italian student Giulio Regeni, sentencing each of them in absentia to 10 years in prison. The verdict on September 28 came nearly a decade after Regeni, a 28-year-old University of Cambr…
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez and FC Barcelona have been summoned to a Madrid court on November 25 for a conciliation hearing before possible criminal defamation proceedings over Perez's comments about Barcelona and referee payments, people close to…
Kosovo police arrested nine Serbs on Sunday in the northern town of Zubin Potok on suspicion of war crimes allegedly committed during the 1990s war for independence from Serbia, authorities said. Kosovo police and the Special Prosecutor's Office said the oper…
Venezuela's interim government and opposition members agreed in US-backed talks to begin work on reforming the country's top court. The deal, announced Friday after a second round of negotiations, is the first concrete step in broader judicial reform sought b…
A French court on Friday convicted two far-right activists over the 2022 killing in Paris of former Argentine rugby international Federico Martin Aramburu. The court sentenced Loik Le Priol, a 32-year-old former soldier who fired the fatal shots, to 26 years…
Thousands of people rallied across Kosovo late Friday against the war crimes sentence given to former president Hashim Thaci and several close associates over the 1990s conflict with Serbia. Former guerrilla fighters called protests in nine cities, expanding…
Turkish police have arrested 45 suspects in an investigation into an investment fund crisis, officials said Friday, as Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek denied speculation that he would resign. Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said prosecutors were investigating 76…
Loik Le Priol, accused of killing former Argentine rugby international Federico Martin Aramburu in Paris, asked forgiveness from Aramburu's family on Friday as his trial concluded. Le Priol, 32, and Romain Bouvier, 35, are far-right activists who face charges…
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said Friday that he has pardoned Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina who spent nearly 15 years on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking before being sent back to the Philippines. Veloso, 40, is expected to be freed because…
Former Catholic nun Kumiko Kosaka was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Argentina on Thursday over a clerical abuse scandal involving a boarding school for hearing-impaired children. Kosaka, a 51-year-old Japanese national, was convicted at her second trial…
An Iowa judge dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register over a 2024 election poll that showed him losing the state shortly before he won it. Trump sued over a survey published days before the vote that showed him…
A Croatian court has approved the extradition of Ukrainian Volodymyr Zhuravlyov to Germany over the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline bombings, his lawyer Ljubo Pavasovic Viskovic told AFP on Thursday. Viskovic said the court in the northern Adriatic town of Pula app…
Former Liverpool and England striker Andy Carroll has revealed that he was sexually assaulted by a man in 2021. Carroll wrote in his autobiography, “Owning it,” that the incident happened at his home after he invited a man to stay over following a televised b…
The Dominican Republic called Thursday for the UN-backed force fighting gangs in Haiti to be strengthened, warning that limited progress in protecting Haitians could be at risk. Dominican Foreign Minister Ito Bisono told ministers on the sidelines of the UN G…
British contractor Philip Mawer was unlawfully killed during a 2021 jihadist attack in Mozambique, an English coroner ruled, as his family demanded answers from TotalEnergies over why more people were not rescued from a besieged hotel. Mawer, 58, from Shaftes…
Seven former FARC leaders have begun searching a Colombian cemetery for missing victims of the group's long insurgency, in line with a court sentence requiring reparations, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace said. The peace tribunal said the seven began work…
A French court on Wednesday upheld a decision to send Paris Saint-Germain and Morocco footballer Achraf Hakimi to trial on a rape charge. Hakimi, 27, has repeatedly denied the accusation. His appeal to the Court of Cassation, France's highest court for civil…
The International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted former Central African Republic rebel commander Mahamat Said Abdel Kani of crimes against humanity, including torture and unlawful imprisonment. The court found that Said, 56, oversaw beatings and maltre…
British anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas, known as Danny Tommo, was refused bail Tuesday in a criminal damage case over the alleged slashing of a migrant dinghy in the Channel. A judge at Portsmouth Crown Court in southern England set a provisional trial d…
Relatives of people who died after using poison sold by Canadian Kenneth Law gave victim impact statements in a Newmarket, Ontario, court Wednesday before a judge decides his prison term. Law pleaded guilty in May to aiding the suicide of 14 people in Canada.…
The city of San Francisco has sued Trump Media & Technology Group, accusing the Truth Social owner of enabling insider trading by selling Wall Street traders priority access to posts by US President Donald Trump and other influential accounts. City Attorney D…
Niger jailed lawyer Abourahamane Lirwana on Tuesday, September 22, after he said on Facebook that the army had split into two factions, a close associate said. Trade unionist Mahamadou Gamatie wrote on Facebook that Lirwana was placed in custody at Niamey Civ…
Sri Lanka's High Court on Tuesday handed 220-year jail terms to each of 15 men convicted over the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people. Earlier in the day, the court convicted 14 men on all counts of murder and terrorism. Another man was found g…
Paris prosecutors said Tuesday they had opened several investigations after complaints that women were filmed on streets without consent using smart glasses and that videos were published online. The Paris public prosecutor's office said the complaints relate…
Braden Eric Peters, a 20-year-old online “looksmaxxing” influencer known as “Clavicular,” is facing rape and related charges in Massachusetts, according to court records. A criminal complaint seen by AFP on Tuesday charges Peters with rape, drugging a person…
A Paris court jailed French Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard for eight months on Tuesday for claiming that Nazi gas chambers did not exist during World War II. Reynouard, 57, was charged over articles published in the far-right magazine Rivarol in 2024 and…
Spain's Constitutional Court on Tuesday backed extending an amnesty to cover embezzlement offences, potentially clearing a legal obstacle to exiled Catalan former separatist leader Carles Puigdemont's return. Puigdemont headed Catalonia's regional government…
Suspended South African deputy national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya appeared in court Tuesday on rape and sexual grooming charges, police and prosecutors said. Police said Sibiya is accused of sexually grooming a 16-year-old girl be…
About 400 mostly Islamist detainees at Lebanon's Roumieh prison have been on hunger strike since September 12 over the suspended implementation of an amnesty law, a Lebanese judicial official said Tuesday. Lebanon's parliament passed the sweeping amnesty law…
A Venezuelan man shot by a US immigration agent in Austin, Texas, was moved to another hospital after experiencing left-side paralysis, his lawyer said Monday. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, had earlier been detained with a bullet still inside his body, atto…
Sanna Manjang, the former head of Gambia's “Junglers” paramilitary unit under ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh, appeared in military court in Banjul on Monday on desertion charges. Manjang, a lieutenant colonel, is charged with deserting the armed forces when he went…
Romanian prosecutors detained far-right politician Calin Georgescu, a former presidential candidate, on Monday in a fraud investigation. Georgescu, 64, is accused in a fresh case of forming an organised criminal group and fraud with particularly serious conse…
Vincent Brown, a 65-year-old British-Rwandan man, was granted bail after appearing in a London court charged over alleged involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, the first such prosecution in a UK court. Brown, formerly known as Vincent Bajinya, is accused o…
French singer Amanda Lear has accused Miley Cyrus of plagiarising her 1978 song "The Sphinx" in Cyrus's new track "Redlights". Lear wrote on social media on Sunday: "Thank you, Miley, for copying my song ‘The Sphinx’! I’m flattered!" She added the hashtags "r…
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan's three sisters have been arrested in Lahore, his party said Monday. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf information secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram said Aleema Khan, Dr Uzma Khan and Noreen Khan were taken into custody and sent to…
Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace faces a proposed budget cut of about $31 million, a plan supported by President Abelardo de la Espriella, who denied that he was pursuing revenge against the tribunal. A pro-government senator introduced the bill on T…
Eighteen suspects in the 2021 assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise have been transported from Haiti to Florida to stand trial, US officials said on September 20. Federal prosecutor Jason Reding Quinones said the suspects were flown by military pla…
Thousands of people marched in Paris and other French cities on September 20 against a proposed French law on police and gendarme use of force, which critics say would give officers a “licence to kill.” Deputies in the National Assembly approved the bill in J…
Australian police have charged a 47-year-old man with domestic violence murder after a 90-year-old woman was fatally stabbed near Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday, New South Wales police said. Emergency services were called to Chambers Avenue at about 5:15 p.m.…
Syrian authorities said on Saturday, September 19, that they had arrested former Major General Ahmed Mohammad Ismail, a former Republican Guard commander under ousted president Bashar al-Assad. Security forces described Ismail as a high-ranking commander in t…
Israeli President Isaac Herzog granted a pardon Saturday to former soldier Elor Azaria, clearing the remaining period of his criminal record after his manslaughter conviction over the 2016 killing of Palestinian attacker Abdul Fatah al-Sharif in Hebron. Azari…
Kizza Besigye's defence lawyers said testimony from a key prosecution witness has weakened the treason case against the Ugandan opposition figure, after the witness challenged parts of the prosecution's evidence under cross-examination this week. Besigye, a l…
Iran's judiciary said Saturday that Hossein Pedaran had been executed after being accused of giving Israeli intelligence information about Iranian missile sites in Isfahan province. Judicial authorities said Pedaran had provided Mossad with information on mis…
A US federal appeals court on Friday broadly upheld a ruling restricting the Trump administration's policy of deporting undocumented migrants to countries that are not their own. A unanimous three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit s…
Australian man Simon Peter Carman pleaded not guilty at Pattaya Provincial Court on Friday in the case over the death of a 17-year-old Thai girl whose body was found in a suitcase near a railway track in Pattaya. A court statement said Carman, 45, denied all…
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak's conditional royal pardon to serve the rest of his current jail sentence under house arrest has triggered a new row in Malaysia over the 1MDB corruption scandal. King Sultan Ibrahim granted Najib's request on Frida…
A US federal judge sentenced Samir Ousman Alsheikh, a former Syrian prison official, to 60 years in prison Thursday for torture and immigration fraud, the US Department of Justice said. The department said Alsheikh, 74, had been in the United States since 202…
Lebanon's military court has charged 14 Lebanese and Syrian people over an alleged network trained to carry out attacks on Syria's coast, a judicial official said Thursday. The official, speaking anonymously, said the accused included five detainees, a Hezbol…
A Japanese legal experts' panel recommended on Thursday that the country change its prostitution law to punish people who seek to buy sex, a proposal expected to lead to amendments to the decades-old legislation. Under current rules, street sex workers can fa…
Syria's judiciary issued its first verdicts on Thursday over the 2025 killing of hundreds of members of the Alawite minority on the Syrian coast. A court sentenced a former member of government forces to 20 years in prison for murder. Two supporters of the de…
A special Indian court has sentenced 10 Maoist rebels to death for their role in a May 2013 ambush on a convoy in Chhattisgarh that killed 27 people, including Congress party members, India's National Investigation Agency said. The NIA said the Maoists were c…
A Colombian judge has lifted a temporary ban on airstrikes against guerrilla camps, allowing operations to resume with caution under a reinforced precaution standard. The ruling says attacks may proceed when there is certain, objective or reasonably verifiabl…
Police in Samoa have charged two men with conspiracy to murder Lorenzo Lemalu, a Sydney gangland figure killed outside a seafood restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City in May, Australian Federal Police and Samoan law enforcement said. The men, one a New Zealander and…
An Argentine judge has ordered the suspension of a British-Israeli oil project near the Falkland Islands, an interim ruling with symbolic force as Argentina presses its claim over the British-administered territory. The ruling was issued on Wednesday by a cou…
The US Department of Justice announced charges on September 15 against five alleged agents for Russian intelligence accused of conspiring to carry out attacks and murders around the world, including in the United States. The department said the group had been…
James Spyridon Vlassakis, who took part in Australia's “bodies in the barrels” serial murders, is to be released on parole after serving more than 27 years in jail. Parole administrative review commissioner David Lovell upheld the original decision to release…
Former French culture minister Rachida Dati appeared in court on Wednesday on corruption and influence-peddling charges linked to alleged dealings with the Renault-Nissan group. Dati, 60, denies all the charges. She is accused of accepting 900,000 euros, arou…
Thousands of people rallied in Kosovo's capital on Friday against the 25-year prison sentence handed to former president Hashim Thaci for war crimes, in one of the largest demonstrations since the verdict. The rally in Pristina was led by former guerrilla fig…
Hungary's new government is reviewing suspected corruption from Viktor Orban's years in power, but its new top anti-graft official has warned that major convictions could take many years. Anna Unger told a parliamentary confirmation hearing it would be "fooli…
A Seoul court ordered North Korea on Wednesday to pay South Korea 44.6 billion won, about $32.5 million, over Pyongyang's 2020 demolition of the Inter-Korean Liaison Office in Kaesong, a court spokeswoman told AFP. The Seoul Central District Court ruling came…
A Lebanese prosecutor has requested that former president Michel Aoun be indicted over the 2020 Beirut port blast, a judicial official told AFP on Tuesday. The prosecutor at Lebanon's Court of Cassation asked investigating judge Tarek Bitar to press charges a…
A public inquiry into the Lucy Letby case found Tuesday that some baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital could have been prevented if senior staff had acted sooner. Letby, a 36-year-old former nurse, was convicted of murdering seven newborn babies an…
Three Norwegian teenagers appeared in court on Tuesday accused of helping plan a murder in Britain for the Swedish-based Foxtrot organised crime group. The defendants, aged 17 to 19, are accused of helping 19-year-old Johannes Kongsnes Natland, another Norweg…
A clash between Brazilian Supreme Court justices Alexandre de Moraes and Andre Mendonca has deepened a crisis at the country’s highest court weeks before October presidential elections. The dispute was triggered by a probe linked to a major fraud scandal and…
A New Zealand inquiry found Tuesday that authorities missed warnings before Tom Phillips went on the run with his three children for nearly four years. Phillips was shot dead by police in September 2025 after hiding with the children in the Waikato region of…
A US federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from implementing new visa rules that would impose stricter limits on how long foreign students and journalists can study or work in the United States. District Judge Dennis Saylor issued a prelimi…
US immigration authorities detained Nicaraguan journalist-in-exile Luis Galeano in Florida on September 14 while he was awaiting a decision on his political asylum application, his family said. Galeano's wife, Deykel Santamaria, told AFP that Immigration and…
Hungary's new government submitted draft legislation Monday to remove anti-LGBTQ provisions that ban the “promotion” or “display” of homosexuality and gender transition to minors. The move is the first clear sign of a shift on LGBTQ issues from Prime Minister…
Russian charity leader Lida Moniava is facing years in prison after being arrested over a social media post about the war in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees living in Russia. Moniava, 38, has been placed under supervised curfew and made to wear an ankle monito…
Katungi Michael Mpeirwe, a Ugandan former military intelligence officer and diplomat, has been extradited to the United States to face charges over an alleged plot to supply weapons to Mexican drug cartels, Uganda's prisons chief said. Johnson Byabashaija, Ug…
Tens of thousands of people rallied in Pristina on Saturday to demand the acquittal of former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, days before a Hague-based Kosovo court is due to issue a war crimes verdict against him and three other former Kosovo Liberation Army…
A Guatemalan judge on Friday dismissed the case against four Indigenous protest leaders, including energy and mines vice minister Luis Pacheco, who had faced terrorism charges over demonstrations in 2023. Pacheco was arrested last April over protests calling…
A Paris court has sentenced two men over the violent burglary of Manchester City goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and Alessia Elefante at their Paris home, and acquitted a third defendant. The Paris Criminal Court on Sept. 11 sentenced Ilyas Kherbouch, 21, to…
An Afghan woman accused of supporting a plot to carry out a mass shooting in the United States has been sent back to Afghanistan in the first case heard by a special US terror court, the Department of Justice said Friday. Nazira Haji Zada, 47, a Texas residen…
British man Darren Conway pleaded guilty on Friday to encouraging other men in an online group chat to sexually abuse unconscious partners and exchange images of the abuse. Conway, 52, admitted multiple charges including voyeurism, possessing an extreme porno…
Two doctors have been arrested in Greece after prominent pop star Giorgos Mazonakis died of cardiac arrest during a plasma exchange appointment, raising questions about private clinic licences. Mazonakis, 54, died on Wednesday. Plasma exchange is a blood-clea…
An Ivorian court has remanded opposition figure Justin Kone Katinan in custody on charges including terrorist acts and conspiracy against the state, prosecutor Oumar Braman Kone said Friday. Katinan is a vice-president of the PPA-CI party of former president…
Macau was due to begin its first closed-door national security trial on Wednesday, with former pro-democracy lawmaker Au Kam San facing subversion and other charges. Au, 69, was detained in July 2025 and was the first person arrested under Macau's expanded na…
An Italian appeals court on Friday upheld an order to shut blast furnaces at the Taranto steelworks before the end of October because of pollution levels. The ruling confirmed a July order requiring the shutdown by October 28 of the furnaces, which are alread…
A French court has sentenced a father to six months in prison without parole after he threatened to behead a teacher at his nine-year-old son's school in Le Fauga, in southwestern France. The man confronted the 58-year-old teacher in the school car park last…
Ten Iranian fishermen who went missing in August off Iran's southern coast and were later found in the United Arab Emirates left Dubai for Iran on Friday, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported. IRNA, citing the Iranian consulate general in the UAE, said the…
The International Criminal Court is preparing technical alternatives in case future US sanctions hit the institution itself, interim chief prosecutor Mame Mandiaye Niang said, while arguing that Washington's pressure on the court stems from a misunderstanding…
South Africa is to extradite six Nigerian nationals to the United States on Friday over allegations that they helped defraud more than 100 women in online romance scams, the Hawks police unit said. The Hawks said the men are wanted by US authorities on charge…
Syrian authorities said on September 10 that nine former military pilots, including three generals, had been arrested over accusations that they took part in lethal bombings of towns and villages under Bashar al-Assad's former rule. State news agency SANA cit…
Hong Kong sentenced three former Tiananmen vigil leaders on Friday to prison terms ranging from five years and two months to seven years and three months under the city's national security law, drawing condemnation from the United Nations, rights groups and f…
Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuela's deposed leader Nicolas Maduro, has asked to be released from detention in New York and placed under house arrest, citing serious heart problems. Her attorney, Mark Donnelly, said in a document dated September 9 that Flore…
Court documents in a corruption and money-laundering investigation into Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro point to a $12.3 million transfer linked to financing for a forthcoming film about his father, former president Jair Bolsonaro. A newly r…
France's interior minister has warned that allowing Russian commentator Xenia Fedorova back on French television could lead to criminal proceedings after she was expelled from France. Laurent Nunez wrote to France's ARCOM media regulator after conservative ch…
Israeli opposition politician Yair Golan said Thursday he had filed a libel lawsuit against Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, afte…
A French investigation linked to Jeffrey Epstein has identified names of potential recruiters, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said Thursday. Beccuau told Fran…
Rockstar Games, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto VI, is fighting an unfair dismissal claim brought by 23 former UK employees at a Scottish employment tribuna…
Singapore's DBS Bank faces a civil claim seeking about $1.024 billion in damages after court-appointed liquidators of four companies linked to 1MDB said they had filed and served a lawsuit accusing the bank of facilitating the movement of misappropriated mone…
A Hong Kong court on Thursday found Dow Jones guilty of trying to deter journalist Selina Cheng from taking a union role, but acquitted the Wall Street Journal publisher of firing her because of it. Cheng, who was made redundant from the Wall Street Journal i…
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a presidential pardon granted to Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara and ordered him back to prison to serve the rest of a six-year sentence. A three-judge bench ruled that the pardon granted by then president…
Former Ecuador president Abdala Bucaram and his son Jacobo were sentenced on Wednesday to nine years and four months in prison in a corruption case linked to the sale of medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic. Bucaram heard the decision remotely fro…
Lawyers for Abdoulaye Miskine said a court in Chad sentenced the former Central African Republic rebel leader to 15 years in prison on Wednesday on charges including murder, rape and torture. Miskine, a self-proclaimed “general”, led the Democratic Front of t…
British man Joshua Cammidge was remanded in custody on Thursday after appearing in a London court on charges linked to an alleged plan to sabotage drone manufa…
A Quebec City court acquitted Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan of sexual assault charges on Wednesday, Canada's CBC reported. K'naan, whose real name is Keinan Abdi Warsame, had been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s in a hotel room in 2010, when…
US Southern Command said American forces carried out a lethal strike on a go-fast vessel in the Caribbean on Wednesday, saying the operation killed three “narco-terrorists” on established drug-trafficking routes. SOUTHCOM posted black-and-white footage on X s…
British police said they have widened a criminal investigation into allegations that Nigel Farage's Reform UK party accepted illegal donations after new claims aired last week. London's Metropolitan Police said on Wednesday that allegations shown in undercove…
The Philippine Supreme Court has dismissed a graft case against former first lady Imelda Marcos, court documents released on Wednesday showed. The ruling, dated June 10, overturned a 2018 verdict by the anti-graft Sandiganbayan court that had ordered Marcos t…
Roman Abramovich lost his third attempt to overturn European Union sanctions on Wednesday, when the EU General Court rejected his challenge to measures imposed over Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Russian billionaire and former Chelsea football club owner was ad…
A Seoul court on Wednesday ordered South Korean video game tycoon Kwon Hyuk-bin, founder of Smilegate, to transfer a 35 percent stake in the company and pay 65 billion won in cash in a divorce settlement worth more than 2 trillion won, or about $1.5 billion.…
A US appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling barring the Internal Revenue Service from sharing taxpayer information with immigration authorities. The 3-0 decision blocks a Trump administration effort to gather tax data that could help US Immigrat…
Former Kenyan sports official Peter Kaberia was charged in a Nairobi court on Tuesday over graft allegations linked to money allocated for Kenya's failed bid t…
Pierre Mirabaud, the former head of the Swiss Bankers Association, was given a two-year suspended jail sentence on Tuesday after a Swiss court convicted him in…
Argentina said Tuesday it had filed a criminal complaint in Argentine courts against Israeli company Navitas Petroleum over oil drilling near the Falkland Isla…
Elon Musk's lawyers put the makers of Alex Gibney's four-hour documentary about him on formal legal notice days before its Venice Film Festival premiere, warning that the film defames him. In a September 3 letter to a producer at Gibney's Jigsaw Productions,…
South Africa's government asked the Constitutional Court on Tuesday to halt the planned auction in the United States of 29 items that belonged to Nelson Mandel…
A Chinese court gave former Shanxi governor Jin Xiangjun a suspended death sentence on Tuesday for taking bribes worth more than 148 million yuan, or $22 milli…
Ikea may be able to stop Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang from using its trademark if the party has not shown that its freedom of expression outweighs Ike…
A Russian ship captain and an Azerbaijani bosun went on trial in Helsinki on Tuesday over allegations that the cargo ship Fitburg damaged two telecommunication…
Fourteen men went on trial in France on Tuesday over the 2021 Channel migrant boat disaster, in which 27 people died and four others remain unaccounted for aft…
China's new badminton chief Zhang Xin vowed Tuesday to fight corruption after being named president of the Chinese Badminton Association, following investigati…
The father of Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson told a Mexican court on September 8 that his life had been turned into “hell” after his sons and the…
Spain's top criminal court opened an investigation on Monday, September 7, into July's deadly migrant surge into Ceuta, examining alleged criminal conduct abroad and claims that Moroccan security forces facilitated the crossings. More than 70,000 migrants cro…
An Azerbaijani court sentenced prominent rights defender and climate advocate Anar Mammadli to 13 years in prison on Monday, his lawyer Elchin Sadygov told AFP. Sadygov said the Baku court on grave crimes also sentenced Mammadli's co-defendant, Anar Abdullaye…
Syrian authorities said Monday they arrested former Major General Mohammed Ali Durgham, an Assad-era officer accused of involvement in the repression of 2011 protests and linked by authorities to the 1982 Hama massacre. Security forces described Durgham as a…
A Chinese court sentenced former senior finance regulator Wang Jianjun to life in prison on Monday for bribery after finding that he illegally received more than 93.4 million yuan, equivalent to $13.9 million. Wang, 58, served as vice-chairman of the China Se…
Belgian authorities said Monday they had arrested a suspected spy who allegedly sold a local chip-maker's trade secrets to a Chinese rival. Federal prosecutor…
Ukraine's prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko said Monday that he had submitted his resignation after anti-corruption officers searched his offices as part of investigations into illegal call centres. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised A…
Philippine police arrested Martin Romualdez, a congressman and cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in his hospital bed on Monday over his alleged role in…
Nicaragua accused Germany at the International Court of Justice on Tuesday of “multiple violations of international law” as it pressed its case alleging that B…
Loik Le Priol, one of two far-right activists on trial in Paris over the 2022 killing of former Argentina rugby international Federico Martin Aramburu, acknowledged responsibility for Aramburu's death on Monday but said he acted in self-defence. Aramburu, 42,…
A man went on trial in Finland on Monday accused of sexually abusing 361 children aged nine to 15 on social media platforms including Snapchat. The case was due to be presented publicly at Pirkanmaa district court on Monday before continuing behind closed doo…
Indian police publicly beat Faizal Lakhani, a man accused of killing his partner, after taking him to the alleged crime scene in Bhavnagar in Gujarat state, local media reported Sunday. Police had arrested Lakhani and took him on Friday to reconstruct the inc…
Former Liberian vice president Jewel Howard-Taylor has been released from pre-trial detention and placed under house arrest in a drug trafficking case, a human…
An Egyptian court sentenced television presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 other defendants to death in a drugs case, official media reported on Saturday. The state-linked Al-Ahram newspaper said the Cairo court sentenced Khalifa and the others to death by hanging…
Former Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma returned home on Sunday after authorities dropped treason charges against him over an alleged coup attempt. Koroma arrived at the international airport in Freetown accompanied by Nigerian former president Oluseg…
Kosovo's former president Hashim Thaci has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by a Hague tribunal for war crimes, after judges found him guilty over illegal arrests, torture, murder and cruel treatment committed by Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas during K…
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 has said an 18th-century painting stolen by Nazis from Dutch Jewish art collector Jacques Goudstikker will be returned to his heir after an agreement between the parties. Judge Santiago Inchausti said an order would be issued for "Portrait…
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…
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 president Edson Fachin suspended rival rulings by two justices on Wednesday, stepping into a dispute over federal police chief Andrei Rodrigues that has deepened a crisis at the country's top court. A ruling seen by AFP said Fachin susp…
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…