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A Dutch court on Friday sentenced a 67-year-old man to life in prison for war crimes and genocide committed in Rwanda in ​1994, where it said he had been involved in the killing ‌of around 3,000 Tutsis who had sought refuge from Hutu attacks at a stadium.

A Syrian court ​sentenced ousted leader Bashar al-Assad to death on Tuesday after a trial in absentia, convicting him of crimes including killings, torture, and arbitrary arrest ‌during the country's nearly 14-year war.

Russian-backed disinformation campaigns are escalating in Germany ahead of state elections, ‌often targeting local political rivals of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, German security sources said.

A Russia sanctions bill championed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham faces a tough road in Congress.

The man who stabbed and partially ​blinded author Salman Rushdie at a speaking engagement in 2022 was found guilty on Wednesday of federal terrorism charges for the attack, ‌which prosecutors said was incited by death threats over Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses."...

French police detained a man on Monday after he attacked three women with knives near Porte de ​Clichy in Paris, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told reporters.

South African President Cyril ​Ramaphosa on Friday won a court challenge that halted ‌a parliamentary impeachment process over misconduct allegations linked to the "Farmgate" scandal.

Hungary's former nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was ousted after 16 years in power in an election in April, ​has urged his supporters to restore democracy in the country which he said had ‌been crushed by the new government.

A senior member of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's ruling conservatives faced pressure to resign on Friday after having a baby born through ​a surrogate mother in the United States, contrary to his own ‌party's opposition to surrogacy.

The New York Times has filed a court motion ​to block federal grand jury subpoenas to three ‌of its journalists over their reporting on President Donald Trump's new Qatari-donated Air Force One, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman, who is serving a long prison sentence in Russia, ​has been admitted to hospital, Kommersant newspaper ‌reported on Thursday.

An Austrian court on Monday convicted a former Syrian intelligence chief from Raqqa of offences including torture and sexual assault over the ​mistreatment of opponents of then‑leader Bashar al‑Assad more than a decade ‌ago.

Thousands protested against Germany's far-right AfD and blocked roads to its annual conference in the eastern city of Erfurt on ​Saturday, where the party re-elected the two leaders who have overseen its rise as a national force.

A 45-year-old man in an apparent child custody dispute was the suspected shooter at a shelter for mothers and children in northern Germany that left six dead on Monday, officials said.

Iraqi security forces arrested politicians, lawmakers and senior government officials early on Sunday in what security and legal sources described as the start ​of a broader anti-corruption campaign ordered by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.

The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a victory on Thursday by backing the federal government's authority to turn away asylum seekers when officials deem U.S.-Mexico border crossings too overburdened to handle additional claims.

Diplomats running the International Criminal Court's oversight body have decided that prosecutor Karim Khan had an inappropriate ​sexual relationship with a junior staff member and should be fired, two copies of its decision showed.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was willing to send his interim deal to end the war with ​Iran for review by the U.S. Congress, as lawmakers, including many of his fellow Republicans, said they were largely in the dark ‌about the pact.

While the Justice Department has said it has abandoned plans for Trump's proposed $1.8 billion "weaponization" fund, some of his allies are shifting focus to a different way to make payouts to his supporters, including those who took part in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

A longstanding political stalemate in the U.S. Congress over money for immigration enforcement ended on Tuesday, when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a $70 billion bill ​to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through the ​remainder of President D...

The U.S. military ​said on Tuesday ‌that it had carried ​out a ​strike in the ⁠Eastern Pacific ​that killed ​one man and left two survivors.

Police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters in central Belgrade on Saturday, as tens of thousands gathered to demand early elections ​and an end to the more than decade-long rule of Serbia's populist President ‌Aleksandar Vucic.

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin has called for a thorough investigation into the death of a Congolese-born man after he ​was restrained outside a Dublin department store, an incident that has shocked ‌the country's small Congolese community.

The Philippine Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Senator Ronald dela Rosa for a temporary restraining order ​to prevent his arrest and transfer to the International Criminal Court.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella travelled to the northern city of Modena on ​Sunday, a day after several people were injured in a car-ramming incident that ‌was the first of its kind in the country.

The court's order will not apply to all importers, only those that sued.

Georgia sentenced ten people, including a prominent opera singer, to lengthy prison sentences on Thursday after finding them guilty of attempting to overthrow the government and organising violence ​at large rallies during municipal elections last year, in a case critics say underscores ‌a widening ...

The man accused of lobbing gasoline bombs at a pro-Israel rally last year in Boulder, Colorado, killing one ‌person and leaving more than a dozen others injured, pleaded guilty on Thursday to all charges he faced in state court.

The Trump administration's assignment of military lawyers to help the Department of Justice prosecute civilians ​for offenses unrelated to the military cannot be prevented by a court as it ‌does not violate federal law, a Minnesota judge ruled on Friday.