The Malaysian government has questioned a move by Goldman Sachs to file for arbitration in a dispute connected with the multibillion-dollar looting of a sovereign wealth fund ByThe Associated Press October 12, 2023, 4:45 AM FILE – In this Wednesday, July 8, 2015 photo, a 1MDB (1 Malaysia Development Berhad) logo is set against the … Read more
A Congolese military court has sentenced a colonel to death after soldiers fired upon a crowd of protesters earlier this year ByJUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press FILE – Arrested members of the Wazalendo sect are sat and lined up in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Aug. 30, 2023. A military court on Monday, Oct. … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Bahrain has sentenced 13 prisoners to an additional three years over a sit-in held in a detention facility in 2021 that prison authorities say was violent. The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy said Wednesday that the convictions issued the day before stemmed from a mass trial of 65 defendants, … Read more
A court in northern Switzerland has acquitted a former Belarusian security operative over the enforced disappearances of three of President Aleksander Lukashenko’s political opponents in the late 1990s ByJAMEY KEATEN Associated Press September 28, 2023, 12:45 PM FILE – Yuri Harauski is pictured outside the court of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. A … Read more
KAMPALA, Uganda — A rights watchdog is accusing the World Bank of enabling the Tanzanian government’s violent expansion of a national park through financing from the global lender. The World Bank has failed to hold Tanzanian authorities accountable for serious rights violations, including extrajudicial killings and sexual assaults, relating to the expansion of Ruaha National … Read more
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday was hearing a challenge to a law that makes it harder to remove a sitting prime minister, which critics say is designed to protect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has been working to reshape the justice system while he is on trial for alleged corruption. The hearing is … Read more
LONDON — A former neonatal nurse who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of seven babies in her care and trying to kill six others at a U.K. hospital will face a retrial on a charge of attempting to murder a newborn baby girl, prosecutors said Monday. Lucy Letby, 33, was sentenced … Read more
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A U.S. decide dominated that Argentina should pay $16.1 billion to minority shareholders of state-controlled oil firm YPF because of the authorities’s 2012 nationalization of a majority stake within the agency. U.S. District Decide Loretta Preska in New York issued last judgment Friday detailing the greenback quantity that the South American … Read more
BANGKOK — Myanmar’s imprisoned former chief, Aung San Suu Kyi, is affected by signs of low blood strain together with dizziness and lack of urge for food, however has been denied therapy at certified amenities outdoors the jail system, a medical employee stated Thursday. Suu Kyi, 78, who was arrested in February 2021 when the … Read more
LA PAZ, Bolivia — The governor of Bolivia’s most populous and richest area was allowed to briefly go away his high-security jail cell Wednesday for medical assessments, highlighting how the politician broadly thought-about the nation’s opposition chief has been governing from behind bars for greater than eight months. Santa Cruz Gov. Luis Fernando Camacho, who … Read more