International News

December 12, 2017

Sudan women in trousers: No indecency charges

Charges of indecency have been dropped against 24 women who were caught wearing trousers at a party near the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The gathering was raided […]
November 29, 2017

India hotel guest arrested for stealing 120 TVs over four months

A man has been arrested for allegedly stealing more than 120 television sets from budget hotels across southern India over a four-month period. A senior police […]
November 29, 2017

Benghazi ‘ringleader’ cleared of most serious charges

The man accused of masterminding the 2012 attack on a US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, has been acquitted by a US jury of the most serious […]
November 29, 2017

War crimes suspect ‘takes poison’ in court

A war crimes appeal hearing in The Hague has been suspended after the accused drank what he said was poison upon hearing the verdict. Slobodan Praljak […]
November 29, 2017

Pamplona ‘wolf pack’ gang rape trial angers Spain

Feminists and legal observers in Spain have expressed outrage at what they see as “patriarchal justice” during the trial of five men accused of gang raping […]
November 29, 2017

Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa offers amnesty for funds stashed abroad

Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has offered a three-month amnesty for individuals and companies to surrender public funds illegally stashed abroad. In a statement, he said […]
November 29, 2017

Egypt jails 16 for ‘debauchery’ as LGBT crackdown continues

Sixteen men arrested last month during a crackdown on homosexuality by the authorities in Egypt have been sentenced to three years in prison. A court in […]
November 29, 2017

Shell accused of abuses in Nigeria’s Ogoniland

Oil giant Shell should be investigated for alleged complicity in” horrific crimes” committed by the military in Nigeria in the 1990s, Amnesty International has said. Shell […]