A Canadian court has reduced the sentence of the man behind a 2017 shooting at a Quebec City mosque. Alexandre Bissonnette was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences last year for killing six people and […]
Six US oil executives have been jailed after being found guilty of corruption by a court in Venezuela. The men all worked for Citgo, a US refining company owned by Venezuela’s state oil firm, and […]
A 14-year-old transgender boy is starting legal proceedings against NHS England over delays to gender reassignment treatment. The teenager has waited over a year for referral to the only NHS gender clinic for children and […]
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci is being held in detention in The Hague, hours after resigning from office to face a war crimes indictment. He and two other suspects were flown to the Dutch city on Thursday, […]
Nigeria’s police chief has ordered the unconditional release of all demonstrators arrested during protests against police brutality. This was a key demand of protesters who have rallied against the hated Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) in […]
A 41-year-old man has failed in a legal bid to force his wealthy parents to continue financially supporting him. A qualified solicitor with mental health disabilities, the man said his parents “nurtured his dependency” on […]
The authorities in Mozambique have promised to investigate a video showing people dressed in army uniforms beating and killing a naked woman in the restive gas-rich Cabo Delgado province. The defence ministry condemned the footage […]
Lawmakers in Nigeria’s Kaduna State have approved surgical castration as punishment for those convicted of raping children under the age of 14. State governor Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai needs to sign the bill for it to […]
Iran has executed a wrestler accused of murder, state media report, defying international appeals for him to be spared. Navid Afkari, 27, was sentenced to death over the murder of a security guard during a […]
Thai police have arrested nine people in a sweep targeting activists involved in recent anti-government protests. Among the nine was lawyer Anon Nampa, who was charged over a protest at which he called for reform […]
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