Crime / Law / Justice

By Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) -Hissene Habre, the former strongman president of Chad and security ally of the West during...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A district court in Japan on Tuesday sentenced the head of a gangster organisation to death after...

By Drazen Jorgic (Reuters) - Weak cooperation between U.S. and Chinese authorities is hindering efforts to curb increasingly sophisticated forms...

By Joanna Plucinska, Matthias Williams and Andrius Sytas WARSAW (Reuters) - Belarusian lawyer Mikhail Kirilyuk says he received an unsettling...

(Adds details in paragraphs 3 and 4) By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Law Society votes for...

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong said on Tuesday new film censorship legislation will be introduced to...

(Reuters) - The British government will discuss proposals to blacklist Afghanistan, which would allow its authorities to jail people for...

By Fayaz and Bukhari NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The top commander of a militant group and his deputy, allegedly involved...

By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) -A Belgian lawyer for the man whose story inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda", who is...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A state inquiry into a stampede in April at a Jewish pilgrimage site that killed 45 people, among...

By Dave Graham and Andre Paultre PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitian President Jovenel Moise began this year by warning that his...

By Scott Murdoch and Anne Marie Roantree HONG KONG (Reuters) -A council member of a professional group of solicitors in...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's president on Friday said he was open to freeing drug lord Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo,...

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine on Friday said it was imposing sanctions on Andriy Derkach, the Ukrainian lawmaker who was accused by...

By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - London's police warned on Friday that protests by environmental activists planned for the next...

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -For the first time, Colombia on Thursday extradited two alleged members of the National...

By Sangmi Cha and Minwoo Park SEOUL (Reuters) - Jin-hui, a cream-coloured Pomeranian, was buried alive and left for dead...

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Four Hong Kong student leaders charged with "advocating terrorism" after their union passed...

By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The last surviving leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime on Thursday denied...

By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - One year after Switzerland's top prosecutorial role was left vacant, a parliamentary body...