Crime / Law / Justice

By Raul Cortes MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he will respect a...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Supreme Court said on Monday the government and Congress should legalize recreational marijuana use, bringing...

By Ezequiel Abiu Lopez SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Dominican authorities arrested a former attorney general on Tuesday over accusations of...

By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) -Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez met Catalonia's new pro-independence regional head on Tuesday for the...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. investigator on human rights in Iran has called for an independent inquiry...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Netherlands' defence minister said on Tuesday that Russian fighter jets armed with air-to-surface missiles had harassed a...

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - A bill allowing commercial agriculture and mining on protected tribal reservations in Brazil advanced...

LILONGWE (Reuters) - The former governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi, Dalitso Kabambe, and three other former senior officials...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's public prosecutor has asked the Senate to authorise a formal investigation into allegations former prime minister...

KYIV (Reuters) -The Ukrainian parliament approved a draft law on Tuesday that would re-establish a special commission on appointing judges,...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday ordered the arrest in absentia of Ivan Zhdanov, an ally of jailed...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's constitutional court on Tuesday sentenced ousted president Jacob Zuma to 15 months in jail for...

By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - When Jacob Zuma finally caved to pressure to quit as South African president in...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police raided the homes of two investigative journalists on Tuesday and detained a third as part...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A former senior journalist at Hong Kong's now-closed pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily was released from custody...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday approved in a final reading a law to impose jail sentences on officials...

TOKYO (Reuters) -U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Michael Taylor and his son Peter told a Tokyo court on Tuesday that...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A knife attack in the German town of Wuerzburg that killed three people and seriously injured seven...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine and the United States will start a military exercise involving more than 30 countries in the...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - An opposition senator filed a formal criminal complaint at the Supreme Court on Monday against...