A Guatemalan court on Tuesday ordered former dictator Efrain Rios Montt to undergo competency tests to determine whether he is fit to stand trial for his alleged role in the torture, rape and murder of 1,771...
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Kosovo's Parliament approved the creation of a war crimes court on Monday which will investigate alleged war crimes committed by ethnic Albanians during the 1998-99 guerrilla war. Members of parliament also passed laws to create the office...
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday announced they have submitted a revised bid claiming over 350 nautical miles of Arctic sea shelf to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS)...
Interim Baltimore City Police Commissioner Kevin Davis on Monday met with officials from five federal law enforcement agencies to begin a program to address the recent increase of homicides in the city. The so-called B-FED partnership [Baltimore...
Shafqat Hussain, a man convicted of kidnapping and killing a seven-year-old child in 2004, was hanged on Tuesday in Karachi, Pakistan. This case has attracted ongoing international attention, as his execution was postponed four times for...
A Burundi human rights activist, Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, was shot and severely wounded by motorcyclists while in his vehicle on Monday. Pierre Claver Mbonimpa is the head of the Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons...
The government of India and the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) on Monday signed a peace agreement ending over 60 years of fighting. The feud between the NSCM and the Indian government for the independence of...
Mexico City Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera said Monday he plans an exhaustive investigation into the murders of a photojournalist and four women last week. The photojournalist, Rueben Espinosa, and four women were found murdered [Proceso report, in...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Monday sentenced Christopher R. Glenn 120 months in jail and three years of supervised release for willful retention of classified national defense information...
Former UK bank trader Tom Hayes was convicted Monday of eight counts of conspiracy to defraud. Following a unanimous jury verdict, Judge Jeremy Cooke sentenced Hayes to 14 years in prison for attempting to rig...
