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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…
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…
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…
Sweden will hand over to Ukraine a seized Russian “shadow fleet” cargo ship after the country's Supreme Court rejected an attempt to block the transfer, court documents show. The Supreme Court on August 4 dismissed an appeal by Caffa Shipping Ltd, the owner o…
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…
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…
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 Korean police raided the Korea Football Association's offices on Thursday as part of an investigation into the appointment of former national team coach Hong Myung-bo after the country's group-stage exit at the World Cup. A Seoul police spokesman told A…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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'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'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…
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…
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 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'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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Italian authorities accused four Romanian men of exploiting undocumented foreign workers in Sicily, saying the workers were made to work 70 hours a week and live in housing without electricity or water. Police in Palermo said prosecutors in Enna placed the al…
Former Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh was transferred to prison on Saturday after being held under police guard in a hospital outside Beirut, a judicial official told AFP. The official, who requested anonymity, said Salameh “was admitted and plac…
A Moroccan court granted rapper Mehdi Black Wind’s bail request on Friday after he spent almost three weeks in jail on accusations of undermining institutions, one of his lawyers said. The 34-year-old artist, whose real name is El Mahdi Lyoubi, is known in ar…
Two former Sri Lankan security chiefs sentenced to death over failures before the 2019 Easter bombings will appeal their convictions, their lawyer said Saturday. Former defence ministry secretary Hemasiri Fernando, 76, and former police inspector-general Puji…
A Guinean court has sentenced Moussa Conde, the main suspect in the gang rape case of two teenage girls, to 15 years in prison, judicial sources said Friday. The assaults took place in April in Mandiana, in eastern Guinea, and were filmed and shared on social…
British funeral director Robert Bush was jailed for 20 years on Friday after a court heard that bodies were stored for months in undignified conditions and relatives were given other people’s ashes. Bush, 48, ran Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull,…
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued prediction market platform Kalshi on Friday, accusing it of running an illegal gambling platform that exposes New Yorkers to “serious personal and financial risk.” James said New York’s gambling laws protect childr…
A British court dismissed a challenge to planning permission for a large Chinese embassy in central London on Friday, but residents seeking to block the project said they would try to appeal. A campaign group of local residents and businesses had challenged p…
A Kosovo war crimes trial opened in Pristina on Friday against 21 Serb officials accused over the January 1999 killings in the village of Racak, with the defendants being tried in absentia. Presiding judge Violeta Namani Hajra noted the absence of the accused…
A Paris court has rejected an appeal against France's expulsion order for Russian television commentator Xenia Fedorova, whose case has drawn condemnation from Moscow. Russia's deputy foreign ministry spokesman Alexei Fadeyev said Thursday that Moscow conside…
The European Union accused Temu on July 31 of failing to provide information during surprise inspections in Dublin linked to a probe into the Chinese-owned online retailer. The European Commission said it preliminarily found that Temu breached its duty to act…
Iceland has ordered the expulsion of 21 anti-whaling activists after authorities seized their ship during a confrontation with one of the country's last remaining whaling vessels, police said. The case concerns crew members aboard the Bandero, a vessel belong…
Singapore police have opened an investigation after British trip-hop band Massive Attack displayed a Palestinian flag during a concert in the city-state. The Singapore Police Force told AFP on Friday that reports had been lodged and investigations were ongoin…
Peru's constitutional court has quashed former president Ollanta Humala's 15-year prison sentence in a corruption case linked to Brazilian construction group Odebrecht and ordered his release. A Constitutional Court ruling dated July 15 and published Thursday…
Johannesburg Zoo's three elephants are awaiting a court ruling on whether they should be moved to a rewilding sanctuary after animal welfare campaigners argued that keeping them in the zoo is harming them. The elephants are Lammie, 47, Ramadiba, 28, and Mopan…
A justice of Brazil's Supreme Court has authorised a police investigation into Fabio Luis Lula da Silva, a son of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a judicial source told AFP on Thursday. The judicial source said Justice Andre Mendonca authorised the inves…
Colin Gray, the father of a teenager who killed four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, was sentenced on July 30, 2026, to 15 years in prison. Gray, 55, gave his son Colt Gray an AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas present in 2023 despite warnin…
Iran's supreme court has upheld the death sentence of Benyamin Naghdi, a 26-year-old arrested during January anti-government protests in Shiraz, the Norway-based rights group Iran Human Rights said Thursday. The group said Naghdi, an MMA fighter and kickboxer…
Britain's Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal against the government ban on activist group Palestine Action, a prohibition that has led to thousands of arrests. Huda Ammori, a co-founder of Palestine Action, is challenging the interior ministry's decis…
Kosovo forensic teams have found seven bodies at a potential wartime mass grave in the country's north, Prime Minister Albin Kurti told AFP on Saturday. Kurti said he believed 23 people may be buried at the site. He said the remains were most likely those of…
Syrian Kurdish Christian pastor Nihad Hassan has been arrested over social media posts, a church figure and a local official told AFP on Thursday. The Kurdish Church in Lebanon said Syrian authorities arrested Hassan, pastor of the Kurdish Evangelical Church…
An Afghan woman in Texas accused by the FBI of supporting an Islamic State election-day shooting plot was set to face a US deportation hearing on July 30 in the first case ever heard by a special terror court created 30 years ago. Nazira Haji Zada, a legal pe…
Turkish prosecutors said on July 30 that Erdal Besikcioglu, an award-winning television actor and opposition mayor of Etimesgut near Ankara, had been arrested in a corruption investigation. Prosecutors said raids across nine provinces in the Ankara area targe…
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is conscious but very weak and unable to speak in a Kampala intensive care unit, his wife Winnie Byanyima said on August 3, days after he collapsed during a treason trial hearing. Byanyima, executive director of UNAIDS,…
Lebanon's judiciary postponed a Thursday hearing for former central bank governor Riad Salameh after he failed to appear because of illness, a judicial official told AFP. Salameh, 76, was due in court over a complaint filed by new central bank governor Karim…
Australia's cyber safety regulator has taken Telegram to court, alleging the messaging platform failed to remove terrorism-related and violent material after Australian users reported it. The eSafety Commissioner said Telegram could face a maximum penalty of…
A court in El Salvador has given prison sentences exceeding 1,000 years to gang members convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering and other crimes, the Attorney General's office said Wednesday. Prosecutors said the El Gremio gang was targeted for drug t…
A federal jury convicted Salman Rushdie's assailant, Hadi Matar, of engaging in an act of terrorism over the August 2022 stabbing attack at the Chautauqua Institution in Mayville, New York. Matar, a 28-year-old Lebanese American, was also convicted of support…
A 19-year-old French teenager was fined Sg$600, about $465, in Singapore on Thursday after pleading guilty to a public nuisance charge over a straw-licking stunt. Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien admitted posting a social media video showing himself putting a s…
Australia's cyber safety watchdog took court action against Telegram on Thursday, July 30, alleging the messaging platform failed to remove terrorism material. Under Australia's online safety law, Telegram faces a maximum penalty of up to AU$54.6 million, or…
Bolivian prosecutors issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday for former president Evo Morales, accusing him of fomenting recent protests that paralyzed the country. Attorney General Roger Mariaca said the warrant was linked to an investigation into dozens of ro…
Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie at a New York cultural center in 2022, faces a maximum federal penalty of life in prison after a federal jury convicted him of engaging in an act of terrorism and supporting Hezbollah. Matar, a 28-year-o…
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was taken to hospital in Kampala on Wednesday after collapsing in court, his wife said. Besigye, 70, collapsed after rejecting state-appointed lawyers. An AFP reporter in court saw him visibly angered after his own lawy…
Prince Harry, Elton John and five other claimants may have to pay millions of pounds after losing their case against the publisher of the Daily Mail, the High Court in London heard on Wednesday. The seven claimants lost their case this month against Associate…
Burkina Faso's media regulator fined French broadcaster Canal+ 200 million CFA francs ($350,000), accusing it of failing to provide free access to state TV channels after an earlier sanction. The High Council for Communication, or CSC, said Canal+ had not com…
Former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner said Wednesday she was taking her corruption conviction to the UN Human Rights Committee, saying she is innocent and alleging a plot to remove her from politics. Kirchner, 73, was president from 2007 to 2015. In 20…
US citizen Samuel Tunick is facing charges for allegedly giving Customs and Border Protection agents a passcode that erased his phone during questioning at Atlanta’s airport. Tunick, an activist in a campaign against construction of a police training centre i…
Norwegian teenager Johannes Kongsnes Natland was found guilty in the UK on Wednesday of conspiring to commit murder for Sweden’s Foxtrot organised crime group. Natland, 19, travelled to Britain in March 2025 to shoot an unknown target for €25,000, but police…
A London judge ordered Amy Winehouse's father, Mitch Winehouse, on Wednesday to pay £950,000 ($1.26 million) to two of the late singer's friends after he unsuccessfully sued them over the auction of her clothes and other belongings. Mitch Winehouse had earlie…
Lebanese judicial authorities issued a warrant on Wednesday seeking the arrest of influential businessman Antoun Sehnaoui after he was accused of meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a Lebanese judicial source told AFP. The judicial source said…
Anthony Fauci faces a possible contempt vote after invoking the Fifth Amendment during adversarial Senate questioning on Wednesday about the origins of Covid-19. Fauci, the former top US infectious disease official, appeared before the Senate Committee on Hom…
Nine Indonesians detained while trying to take aid to Gaza in May filed a complaint against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, alleging crimes against humanity, their lawyer Kafin Muhammad said. The men were part of the Global Sumud Floti…
Xenia Fedorova's French employers condemned France's order expelling the pro-Kremlin journalist, saying the decision would violate freedom of expression. Canal+, owner of the CNews television channel, and Lagardere, which owns Europe 1 radio, said in a joint…
A Swedish court convicted a former computer consultant to the Swedish army on Wednesday for trying to hand over secrets to Russia and ordered him to undergo psychiatric treatment. The court said the 34-year-old man, identified only as R.T., had a serious ment…
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on July 30 that Russia labelled him a “terrorist” because he refused Moscow’s demands for “mass surveillance and censorship” on Telegram. His statement followed his addition to the online register of “terrorists and extremist…
Colt Gray, the teenager who pleaded guilty to killing four people at Apalachee High School in Georgia, was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Gray, now 16, was 14 when he carried out the September 2024 shooting in the to…
Iraq's judiciary said on Tuesday that a criminal court sentenced Kazem Hamad to life in prison for drug trafficking. The National Centre for International Judicial Cooperation said the Karkh criminal court issued the life sentence and ordered the confiscation…
Relatives of Chinese passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 attended a Beijing court on Tuesday as it began hearing an appeal against a compensation ruling they say failed to address key questions about the plane's disappearance. The Boeing 777, carryin…
India's road transport minister Nitin Gadkari sued Meta and other technology companies on Tuesday, seeking 110 million rupees, or $1.14 million, in damages over what he said were defamatory social media posts linking him to the country's E20 ethanol-blending…
Bangladesh has detained active army Brigadier General Miftah Uddin Ahmed over the alleged extrajudicial killing of local politician Akramul Haque during a 2018 anti-narcotics crackdown, officials said Tuesday. Army officer Sami-Ud-Dowla Chowdhury told AFP tha…
Johnson & Johnson has offered $5.5 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits claiming that its talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer, the US pharmaceutical company said Monday. The company said the proposed settlement covers around 76,000 claims,…
Myanmar's military-backed parliament approved a law authorising the death penalty for people who detain or violently coerce victims into working in online scam centres. Union Parliament Speaker Aung Lin Dwe said during a live television broadcast that lawmake…
Mexican authorities arrested the widow of Temoac Mayor Valentin Lavin and the town's police chief on Monday in an extortion case, prosecutors and local media said, less than a week after Lavin was shot dead. The Morelos state prosecutor's office said Marisol…
American singer D4vd will stand trial on charges linked to the killing and dismemberment of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez after a judge ruled there was enough evidence for the case to proceed. Judge Charlaine Olmedo issued the order on Monday after a fi…
Renault will face a criminal trial in France on aggravated fraud charges over allegations that devices installed in its diesel vehicles were designed to circumvent emissions regulations, the public prosecutor’s office told AFP. The order sending the case to t…
A Guinean court acquitted police colonel Bienvenu Lamah on Monday over charges linked to a 2009 crackdown on an opposition rally in which at least 156 people were killed, according to a United Nations-mandated commission. The court in Conakry ordered Lamah’s…
Swiss private bank Lombard Odier said it would appeal after Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court fined it three million Swiss francs, about $3.7 million, in a money laundering case linked to Gulnara Karimova. Karimova is the daughter of Uzbekistan’s late form…
A Guinean court sentenced former minister Oye Guilavogui in absentia on Monday to six years in prison for corruption and misuse of public funds. Guilavogui, who previously led Guinea’s telecommunications and environment ministries, was convicted by the Court…
A prison guard union in Italy’s southern Puglia region plans to ask prosecutors to investigate alleged workplace safety failures in overcrowded prisons, including claims that temperatures in some areas have reached at least 50°C. The SAPPE union plans to file…
A British funeral director faced prison on Monday after police found 31 bodies at his premises in Hull that should have been cremated months earlier. Robert Bush, 48, previously pleaded guilty to 67 offences committed over 12 years and affecting hundreds of v…
Chad said on Monday that it would withdraw from the International Criminal Court, accusing the tribunal of having a limited and uneven record and focusing too heavily on Africa. The Chadian government said the decision followed an in-depth review of the ICC’s…
A South Korean court gave jailed former president Yoon Suk Yeol an 18-month prison sentence, suspended for three years, after finding him guilty of making false statements during his 2022 presidential campaign. The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Yoon…
Australian senator Pauline Hanson lost an appeal on Monday against a racial vilification ruling over comments telling fellow senator Mehreen Faruqi to return to Pakistan. The Federal Court of Australia ruled in 2024 that Hanson’s comments amounted to a “stron…
Police have captured Nelson Haase Mazzei, a retired military officer convicted over the 1973 kidnapping and murder of Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara, a Justice Department statement said. Haase, 80, fled in August 2023 when he was sentenced to 25 years…
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez returned to Honduras on Sunday after Donald Trump pardoned him while he was serving a 45-year US prison sentence for drug trafficking, with fraud and money-laundering charges still pending against him at home.…
Germany’s government pledged on Monday to tighten security laws after a van and machete attack near Berlin’s Pride parade killed a 65-year-old Polish woman and wounded 29 other people. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told Bild that he planned measures in…
Police in Scotland said 15 people were arrested on July 25 after what officers described as significant disorder linked to rival anti-immigration and anti-racism demonstrations in Glasgow. Police Scotland said officers responded to incidents connected to plan…
China's market regulator said on 25 July that it had fined and confiscated a total of 5.18 billion yuan, or about $765 million, from Trip.com Group for violating monopoly laws. The State Administration for Market Regulation said it had determined that Trip.co…
A pub manager in Australia has had his licence to sell alcohol revoked after a patron consumed 21 drinks in five hours and later collapsed in the street. New South Wales alcohol licensing authorities said this week that the man entered the Gladstone Hotel in…
Guinea-Bissau's Supreme Court on Friday ordered four men accused of involvement in an alleged coup attempt to be released from pre-trial detention at a military prison. The court said the men had never been formally named as suspects. It also said prosecutors…
Venezuela will withdraw from the International Criminal Court because of what it sees as bias by the tribunal, Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia said Friday. Plasencia wrote on X that Caracas had informed the United Nations of its firm and irrevocable decision…
Karim Khan is set to be remembered at the International Criminal Court both for securing arrest warrants against prominent leaders and for the sexual assault allegations that he strongly denies and that led to his dismissal from the prosecutor's post. Khan, a…
Alex Saab, Venezuela's former minister of industry and a close ally of deposed president Nicolas Maduro, pleaded not guilty on Friday to US charges of money laundering and other financial crimes. Saab, a 54-year-old Colombia-born businessman, was not present…
A federal court in Virginia ruled that restrictions imposed by the US drug regulator on the abortion pill mifepristone are unlawful and ordered President Donald Trump's administration to reconsider them. The case was brought in May 2023 by the nonprofit Cente…
British sprinter CJ Ujah has denied involvement in an alleged cryptocurrency fraud. Ujah was one of 10 people who appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court, east of London, on Friday. They are accused of being part of an organised crime group linked to a scam. The a…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticised former International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan on Sunday after ICC member states voted to remove him over findings of serious misconduct and breach of duty. In an interview with Fox News, Netanya…
The International Olympic Committee has rejected a complaint by the human rights NGO FairSquare against FIFA president Gianni Infantino over alleged breaches of political neutrality rules, an IOC spokesperson said Friday. FairSquare alleged that Infantino had…
A court in Mali sentenced former domestic intelligence chief Colonel Kassoum Goita to 15 years in prison on Friday for conspiracy against the government. Goita, a former head of internal security, had been charged on suspicion of attempting a coup and destabi…
American R&B singer Chris Brown pleaded guilty on Friday to affray, a public order offence, over a 2023 brawl at a London nightclub, avoiding a UK trial. Brown, 37, entered the plea at Southwark Crown Court in London. He had previously denied several other ch…
A Croatian Olympic Committee official arrested over alleged corruption has resigned, the committee said Friday, in the latest fallout from a graft scandal at the country’s ski federation. Damir Segota, director of the committee’s Olympic programme, and his wi…
A legal case involving hundreds of former rugby players who allege they suffered brain injuries during their careers is at risk of collapse at London's High Court. The claimants include professional and amateur players. They allege that World Rugby, the Welsh…
A South African court ruled in favour of President Cyril Ramaphosa's request to pause impeachment proceedings linked to a scandal over foreign currency kept at his ranch. Ramaphosa had asked the Western Cape High Court to stop a parliamentary impeachment comm…
Novelist Salman Rushdie testified on Thursday, 23 July 2026, at the federal trial of Hadi Matar, the man previously sentenced by New York state's justice system for trying to kill him with a knife in 2022. Matar, a 28-year-old Lebanese-American, was sentenced…
A Minnesota man who killed a state lawmaker and her husband was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, US media reported. Vance Boelter, 59, shot people at the homes of two Democratic members of the Minnesota state legislature on June 14, 2025, while disgui…
The European Union has allowed online platforms to scan users' chats for child sexual abuse material, while exempting encrypted messaging services. The renewed authorisation will remain in effect until April 2028. The EU hopes the extension will give governme…
A UK court sentenced Mohammad Bashir, 31, to life in prison Thursday for planning a separate terror attack with Jihad Al-Shamie, who later carried out a deadly stabbing attack at a Manchester synagogue. Bashir pleaded guilty last month to preparation of terro…
Former Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who is under investigation for graft, said Thursday that luxury jewellery and watches found during a search of his office were a gift from a foreign country. Zapatero, who governed Spain from 2004 to…
The captain of a Spanish trawler that sank off Canada in 2022, killing 21 people, will stand trial along with two executives from the company that operated the vessel, a Spanish court said. The Villa de Pitanxo, based in the northwestern Spanish port of Marin…
The European Union fined Google a total of 890 million euros, about $1 billion, on 23 July 2026, in a competition decision that could increase tensions with the United States. The EU imposed a 460 million euro fine on the US technology company for illegally f…
French Jewish DJ Barbara Butch has filed complaints after campaigners disrupted one of her performances in Grenoble, her lawyer said. Butch, 45, was forced of…
The trial of seven medical workers accused of negligence over Diego Maradona's death has continued for months in Argentina, with no clear end date after more than 25 hearings and nearly 70 statements from witnesses and defendants. The proceedings began in Apr…
A US teenager has withdrawn his lawsuit against Meta, his lawyers announced on Wednesday, ending a closely watched case over alleged harms from social media to…
Mauritius lawmakers have voted to make marital rape a criminal offence. The island nation passed the law on Tuesday. People found guilty of marital rape will face prison terms of 10 to 45 years. The law says marriage, whether civil or religious, cannot be use…
A lawyer for five women who accuse Slovenian priest Marko Rupnik of abuse said they feel abandoned and betrayed by the Vatican's handling of judicial proceedings against him. Laura Sgro, who represents the five women, said the lack of information in the case…
Google said on Wednesday that it would appeal a Swedish antitrust court order requiring it to pay about $1.5 billion to the PriceRunner site for illegally favouring its own price comparison service. The July 1 award was one of the biggest made by a court in a…
Matthew Wright, the former chief executive of British water company Southern Water, has been charged with conspiring to manipulate water quality tests, the government said Wednesday. The Environment Agency brought the case against Wright and announced the cha…
Kenyan lawyers staged a nationwide boycott of court proceedings on Wednesday to protest judicial corruption and long delays. Official records say cases in Kenya take an average of two years to conclude. Lawyers blame graft and systemic inefficiencies. Charles…
Deutsche Bank said prosecutors searched its headquarters in Frankfurt, while media reports said the probe was linked to alleged cum-cum tax avoidance. The bank said prosecutors were carrying out measures in its offices. It said the case concerns activities at…
Venezuela's ousted president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are scheduled to go on trial in the United States on June 1, 2027, after a federal court ruling Wednesday. Judge Alvin Hellerstein set the date during a roughly 20-minute hearing followin…
A South Korean court convicted Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon of campaign finance crimes on Wednesday. The ruling would remove him from office and bar him from running for president if it is upheld by the Supreme Court. Oh was first elected mayor of Seoul in 2006 and…
Colombia's president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella said the country will host an office for US President Donald Trump's Shield of the Americas anti-cartel initiative in Medellin. Colombia, described as the world's largest cocaine producer, is not currently a…
United Nations experts appealed on Tuesday for an end to what they called a reign of terror imposed by the M23 armed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, citing civilian reports of sexual torture and murder. The experts said rape, gang rape, violent ass…
A British man accused of murdering veteran right-wing former MP Ann Widdecombe was kept in custody on Tuesday after his first court hearings. Joshua Kerry, 28, of Rotherham in northern England, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court. During the short hear…
An Ankara court ordered the conditional release of Turkish journalist Alican Uludag, who works for Deutsche Welle, a day after he was detained over social media posts, the MLSA media rights group said. MLSA said the court released Uludag pending trial, ordere…
An Indian court sentenced 44 Somali nationals to life imprisonment for crimes linked to the hijacking of vessels off Somalia. The cases involved two separate incidents. In December 2023, 35 Somalis attacked the Maltese-flagged bulk carrier MV Ruen. In March 2…
A Singapore court sentenced an Indian tourist to more than two years in jail over a failed attempt to steal a diamond from a jewellery store by hiding it in an accomplice's mouth. Court documents said Mangroliya Manojkumar Kurjibhai, 41, and an accomplice vis…
An Indonesian court sentenced Lie Siu Luan, described by the source as the leader of a baby trafficking ring, to seven years in prison on Tuesday. Presiding judge Gatot Ardian Agustriono said the 70-year-old was found guilty of committing crimes for the purpo…
France's parliament approved a bill banning social media access for children under 15, making France the first European country to bar children from platforms such as TikTok. President Emmanuel Macron, who has promoted the measure as a flagship reform of his…
The team of Colombia's hard-right president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella alleged Monday that guerrilla groups were plotting to assassinate him before he takes office next month. De la Espriella won last month's presidential runoff by less than a percentage…
Six local officials from Ivory Coast's main opposition party were released on Monday after several months in custody, their lawyer said. Lawyer Ange Rodrigue Dadje wrote on Facebook that the PDCI activists were freed after a hearing at the anti-terrorism cham…
A French judge approved overnight anti-doping tests on Tour de France riders Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, the Paris public prosecutor's office confirmed. The International Testing Agency asked a Paris judge responsible for liberty and detention matters…
A Ghanaian court jailed opposition politician Bernard Antwi-Boasiako for 20 years on Monday after finding him guilty of illegal mining offences. The High Court in Accra found Antwi-Boasiako guilty on all six charges against him. The charges included the unlaw…
Greece plans to tighten rules on electric stand-up scooters after repeated accidents, especially involving young people, Deputy Transport Minister Giorgos Kotsiras said. Kotsiras told Skai TV that a bill due to be voted on the next day would ban scooter use b…
French prosecutors said they had opened an investigation after a 21-year-old man died by suicide following what his family described as years of racist harassment. The man's body was found Monday last week in Chatonnay, a village of about 2,000 people in sout…
Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation after Abderrahim Fakir, a 42-year-old Moroccan man who had lived in Italy since childhood, died in Bologna while being restrained by police. Human rights campaigners and Italian opposition parties demanded answ…
Mexican drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada was sentenced to life in a US prison on Monday for co-leading the Sinaloa cartel. A New York court also ordered the 76-year-old to pay a $15 billion forfeiture. Zambada, a former top associate of Sinaloa cartel found…
Hong Kong is seeking to overhaul decades-old sexual offence laws, but survivors and activists say proposed reforms still leave gaps in how the legal system handles consent, trauma and long-term child abuse. Jessie, an NGO worker in her 30s, said she froze in…
Iran's judiciary said two men were hanged on Sunday over charges linked to anti-government protests that began over economic grievances and peaked in January. The judiciary named the men as Erfan Esfandiari and Gol-Mohammad Mohammadi. It said they were found…
Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate will fight extradition to Britain on sex crime charges, their lawyer said Monday after a hearing in Miami. US authorities detained the brothers on Saturday as UK prosecutors announced new charges including r…
United Nations experts called on Saturday for impartial investigations into allegations that protests about Mexico’s disappearance crisis faced undue interference during the football World Cup. The six independent experts said security operations around tourn…
Iran's judiciary media outlet reported on Saturday that Iran executed another suspect who had been sentenced to death for killing a member of the security forces during the wave of protests that began in 2022. The Mizan agency said the sentence against Aref K…
Turkey's interior ministry said Saturday that authorities had arrested people across the country accused of links to the Islamic State group. The ministry said the police operation was carried out in 30 provinces, including Istanbul and Ankara. The report giv…
Statues of Myanmar independence figure Aung San are being removed in parts of the country, amid a dispute over his place in public life and his connection to his detained daughter, Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San fought both with and against British and Japanese c…
A Paris court jailed an ex-spy and a former journalist on Friday after a trial over violence and criminal activity linked to a former French masonic lodge just outside Paris. The court heard more than three months of evidence about murder attempts, industrial…
A United Nations expert and dozens of press freedom and rights groups urged Thailand not to forcibly return detained Chinese investigative journalist Bai Zhaodong to China. Andrea Bolanos Vargas, the UN special rapporteur on rights defenders, said Bai fled Ch…
Brazil made it mandatory on Friday for gambling advertisements to carry warnings about addiction and money loss, tightening rules on a betting sector that has grown quickly in recent years. Brazil's betting market has expanded since a regulatory framework was…
France said on Friday that it is blocking access to the online prediction market Polymarket, saying people continued to bet through the site despite an existing ban on financial transactions from French accounts. The national gaming authority, ANJ, said Polym…
Italy's Competition Authority said it had fined six Italian companies a total of 2.5 million euros, or $2.86 million, for ambush marketing during the Milan-Cortina Olympics. The regulator, known as AGCM, said the companies ran advertising campaigns and promot…
Mexican authorities arrested former Baja California governor Ernesto Ruffo on Thursday in an investigation into alleged large-scale fuel smuggling. The Attorney General's Office said Ruffo was identified as one of the leaders of the operation. Attorney Genera…
Russian activist Ilya Remeslo, who for years targeted opponents of the Kremlin before later denouncing President Vladimir Putin and Russia's offensive in Ukraine, was arrested Friday, his lawyer said. Lawyer Sergei Badamshin said Remeslo, 42, is accused of sp…
A Sri Lankan court ordered Manjot Kalra, the Indian co-owner of a Lanka Premier League team, to be held in prison until the end of the month after he was charged with attempting to bribe five players for match-fixing. Inspector Supun Vidanage of the Sports In…
A former Libyan prison official will stand trial at the International Criminal Court after judges confirmed 17 charges including murder, rape and torture. ICC prosecutors accuse Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, 48, of war crimes and crimes against humanity alleg…
Bangladesh police said they arrested on 16 July a retired military officer accused of involvement in the assassination of former president Ziaur Rahman more than four decades ago. Ziaur Rahman was killed in 1981 during a military coup. After his assassination…
An Italian court sentenced 32 defendants over the 2018 collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, which killed 43 people and was one of Italy's worst infrastructure disasters. Giovanni Castellucci, the former chief executive of motorway operator Autostrade, was…
A UK court has jailed two British hackers over a cyberattack involving London transport. The available source text did not give the hackers' names, the court, the sentence lengths, when the attack happened, or further details of the case.
The European Public Prosecutor's Office said Thursday that four Greek members of parliament were among 22 people indicted in an alleged multi-million-euro fraud scheme involving European Union farm subsidies. The office said the defendants also included sever…
A German neo-Nazi figure who had been expected to be sent to a women's prison after a legal gender change will instead serve a sentence in a men's correctional facility, local authorities said on Thursday. Marla-Svenja Liebich, who previously used the name Sv…
The European Union's top court upheld Spain's contested 2024 amnesty law for Catalan separatists involved in a failed secession bid, giving a symbolic boost to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. The Court of Justice of the European Union agreed with Spain'…
France's Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin said Wednesday that prosecutors had identified 970 allegations of child sex abuse as priority cases, as he faced pressure over the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. The girl, Lyhanna, went missing in southwester…
French lawmakers on Wednesday adopted a bill to establish a right to assisted dying for some adults suffering from an incurable condition. The lower chamber approved the law by 291 votes to 241. France's highest constitutional authority still has to examine t…
Thai police said Wednesday they had arrested the manager of a boxing camp on charges of trafficking underage boys for sex, and were searching for a Norwegian national also believed to have been involved. Police raided the day camp in Rayong province, southeas…
Iran hanged Mohammad Amini Dehaghani on Wednesday after he was convicted over his role in anti-government protests, the judiciary announced. The judiciary's press agency reported that Amini Dehaghani was executed after the supreme court confirmed the verdict.…
France's parliament has adopted legislation creating a right to assisted dying for some adults with incurable conditions, moving the country closer to legalising the practice if the Constitutional Council approves the law. President Emmanuel Macron had promis…
A Nepal court has sentenced two former ministers and more than a dozen other people over a scam that promised Nepali citizens resettlement abroad by falsely presenting them as refugees, a court official said. Kathmandu district court information officer Shiva…
The family of American seismologist Youlin Chen says he has been detained in China on espionage charges since 2024 and is seeking his release. Global Reach, an NGO working with Chen's family, said Chen was detained on November 5, 2024. Chen has researched how…
International Criminal Court prosecutors on Tuesday recommended that judges drop war crimes charges against Abdallah Banda, a rebel leader from Sudan's Darfur region, over a deadly 2007 attack on African Union peacekeepers. Banda had faced three counts of war…
Sierra Leone has discontinued treason proceedings against former president Ernest Bai Koroma over his alleged role in what authorities described as an attempted coup in 2023, officials said on Tuesday. Koroma, who led Sierra Leone from 2007 to 2018, was charg…
Former Croatian international footballer Dario Simic was arrested on Tuesday in an anti-corruption operation linked to a coastal campsite development, local media and prosecutors said. Anti-corruption prosecutors said an investigation had been opened into thr…
A UK man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 32 sexual offences against his girlfriend while she was allegedly drugged or asleep over more than a decade. The man, who is in his 40s, cannot be named because his girlfriend has lifelong anonymity as a victim of sexual…
US President Donald Trump has paid $5.6 million to writer E. Jean Carroll after a civil jury found he sexually assaulted and defamed her, a court filing showed Tuesday. Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said a unanimous nine-person jury had found Trump liab…
Mexico's government says President Claudia Sheinbaum's security strategy has cut homicides sharply, but allegations about crime records have raised questions about the scale of the reported decline. Sheinbaum said Tuesday that homicides had fallen 48 percent…
On 14 July 2026, Bahraini authorities said three people had been sentenced to life in prison on charges of spying for Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The prosecution said the three defendants were charged with colluding with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps…
Iranian authorities hanged two people convicted of being part of the Islamic State group, the judiciary's news website Mizan Online reported on Tuesday. Mizan said Mohiyodin Abdollahi and Hossein Palani were hanged in the morning after a final Supreme Court v…
Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence on corruption charges, asked the Peruvian government on Monday for a humanitarian pardon because of his health, his lawyer told AFP. Toledo, 81, said in a written statement t…
A US judge on Monday voided a settlement between Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service that had given the president and his allies broad protections from audits. The judge ruled that Trump's lawsuit over leaked tax returns had been filed for an improp…
UN human rights experts on Monday criticised what they described as an ongoing purge of Nicaragua's legal profession after the government revoked work credentials for numerous lawyers without explanation. The independent UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Ni…
The treason trial of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye opened without his main defence lawyers after they were arrested or barred from the country. Besigye, who ran multiple times for the presidency against President Yoweri Museveni, was taken from Keny…
A Serbian appeals court said it had restored charges against former construction minister Goran Vesic over the collapse of a canopy at a newly renovated railway station in Novi Sad that killed 16 people. The November 2024 tragedy sparked nationwide protests a…
The European Union criticised threats against the International Criminal Court on Tuesday after the United States vowed a broad campaign against the tribunal. EU spokesman Anouar El Anouni said the EU was strongly committed to international criminal justice a…
A pig’s head found in a Muslim cemetery in the Bosnian city of Mostar forced organisers to cancel a memorial service on Monday. A group of Bosnian Muslims had arrived at the cemetery in a Croat-majority neighbourhood to mark the anniversary of the 1992 format…
Austria's interior ministry said special forces arrested an alleged Russian weapons smuggler during an attempted arms deal in Vienna. The 35-year-old suspect is accused of trafficking weapon parts that customers could assemble into working firearms, in some c…
A Ukrainian court has ordered Stanislav Luchanov, commander of the French-trained Anne of Kyiv brigade, to be held in pre-trial detention for at least 60 days while he faces murder charges. Luchanov told reporters on Tuesday that he denies the allegations. Uk…
A German court on Monday jailed an Iraqi couple who were members of the Islamic State group for keeping two Yazidi minority girls as slaves. The court in Munich sentenced the man, previously partially named by prosecutors as Twana H. S., to life in prison. Hi…
Prominent Moroccan journalist Ali Lmrabet was set to appear before a prosecutor on Monday after being detained on his return to Morocco from Spain, his wife told AFP. Laura Feliu said Lmrabet, 66, called her at 7:00 pm on Sunday and told her he had been detai…
Counter-terrorism police have taken over the investigation into the killing of veteran British right-wing politician Ann Widdecombe after new evidence emerged, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Monday. Police said a suspect detained at the weekend over the…
Turkish prosecutors ordered the arrest of 968 suspects linked to an organisation Ankara blames for the failed 2016 coup attempt, the justice minister said Monday. The order came ahead of the July 15 anniversary of the coup attempt. On July 15, 2016, a rogue m…
A Sudanese court on July 12 sentenced paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo and 15 others to death in absentia over the killing of a regional governor and alleged war crimes in Darfur, state media reported. The ruling is the first against the leadership of…
Turkish police arrested rock musician and civil society activist Haluk Levent on Sunday, media reports said. BirGun newspaper and the left-leaning Sozcu daily said the Istanbul public prosecutor's office issued a warrant as part of a graft investigation into…