UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday action on climate change has become ‘unstoppable’, and he expressed hopes that US President-elect Donald Trump would drop plans to quit ...
Egypt's Court of Cassation on Tuesday overturned a death sentence against deposed president Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered a retrial.
Cocaine dusted the vinyl flooring of the drab third-storey conference room at Nairobi's CID headquarters as Kenya's top narcotics cop sliced open another kilogramme slab of the drugs.
British journalist Mazher Mahmood, better known as the ‘Fake Sheikh’ who caught out a string of celebrities in tabloid stings, was on Friday jailed for 15 months for perverting the course of justice.
A teenage girl went on trial in Germany Thursday for stabbing a police officer, an assault allegedly ‘ordered’ by the Islamic State organisation but which was not claimed by the jihadist group.
A top court in Bahrain on Monday overturned a nine-year jail term against Shia opposition chief cleric Ali Salman, convicted of inciting hatred and calling for forceful regime change.
Turkish courts have placed 32,000 suspects under arrest ahead of trial on charges of links to a group run by US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen who is blamed for the July 15 coup ...
An Egyptian court froze assets of five prominent human rights defenders and three non-governmental organisations on Saturday, provoking fears of an intensified crackdown on civil society.
An Emirati man suspected of ties to a Syria-based militant group has gone on trial in the United Arab Emirates on charges of trying to kill an American and planning attacks ...
The trial of two Chinese Uighurs accused of killing 20 people when they allegedly bombed a Bangkok shrine was postponed Tuesday because the men still do not have a translator.
A German court Friday handed a 14-year jail sentence to a man for stabbing Cologne's future mayor in the neck in a violent protest against her welcoming stance towards refugees.
An Indonesian woman accused of murdering a friend with cyanide-laced coffee went on trial Wednesday, in a case that has caused tensions between Indonesia and Australia over the death penalty.
