International News

A Chinese court has sentenced a Taiwanese activist to five years in jail for “subverting state power”. Lee Ming-che went on trial in September for attempting […]

A court in Denmark has increased the jail sentence of a teenage girl who had planned bomb attacks on schools. The 17-year-old, a Muslim convert, was […]

A Supreme Court judge in Spain has said the speaker of the Catalan parliament can be freed on bail pending an investigation into her role in […]

More than a third of the city’s three million private cars were off the road during the trial period last year The government in the Indian […]

Saudi Arabia’s attorney general says at least $100bn (£76bn) has been misused through systemic corruption and embezzlement in recent decades. Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb said 201 people […]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has authorised prosecutors to open a full investigation into alleged crimes against humanity in Burundi. The move comes just weeks after […]

The UN mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) released rebel fighters accused of shooting a UN peacekeeper, confidential documents seen by the BBC show. The […]

The US administration has published a series of measures increasing limits on Americans’ dealings with Cuba. The package includes a blacklist of state-owned companies and entities, […]