Crime / Law / Justice

By Carl O'Donnell and Jeff Mason (Reuters) -The Delta variant of COVID-19 is now the dominant strain worldwide, accompanied by...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the deployment of 25,000 members of the armed forces,...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday security agencies had identified a number of people suspected of instigating...

PARIS (Reuters) -French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti has been put under formal investigation in connection with a judicial investigation into...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on Cuba on Friday to release protesters and several...

KYIV (Reuters) - Denys Monastyrskiy, a lawmaker from the ruling Servant of the People Party, was approved as Ukraine's new...

By Gwladys Fouche UTOEYA, Norway (Reuters) - Norway will next week mark the tenth anniversary of the killing of 77...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Charges could be brought in the United States related to the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, a...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Both murders and killings by police rose in Brazil during 2020 despite the coronavirus pandemic,...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's new anti-elite party There Is Such a People (ITN), which won Sunday's election by a small...

By Stephanie van den Berg and Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries has...

By Horaci Garcia SITGES, Spain (Reuters) - With a summer heatwave sending hordes of people to the beach, authorities in...

By Nqobile Dludla and Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africans counted the cost on Thursday of arson and looting that...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A prosecutor on Thursday asked a Vatican court to sentence a man who...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small number of the former Colombian soldiers accused of involvement in the assassination of Haiti's President...

By Carlos Vargas BOGOTA (Reuters) - Many of the Colombian ex-soldiers accused of involvement in the assassination of Haiti's president...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy has not yet approved a Venezuelan request for the extradition of former oil minister Rafael Ramirez,...

By Gabriela Baczynska and Pawel Florkiewicz BRUSSELS/WARSAW (Reuters) -The European Union's top court ruled on Thursday that Poland's system for...

(Repeats story, removing repeated fourth paragraph) KINSHASA (Reuters) -Former Congolese Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon has been freed from house...

By Umar Farooq ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani meets regional leaders for talks in Uzbekistan on Thursday as...