Crime / Law / Justice

By Max Hunder and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -A Ukrainian state prosecutor asked a court on Thursday to sentence a...

(Corrects currency of potential damages to Brazilian reais from euros in second paragraph after PGMBM amendment) By Kirstin Ridley LONDON...

ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government proposed on Thursday letting its spy agency penetrate the country's famous banking secrecy to...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun registering hundreds of prisoners of war (POWs)...

By Rich McKay (Reuters) - In one of the largest cash settlements involving sex abuse and the Roman Catholic Church...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos said on Wednesday it will ban motorcycle taxis from operating in most of...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - One of the last remaining fugitives sought by a U.N. tribunal over his alleged key role...

By Sudarshan Varadhan NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of A.G. Perarivalan, who was convicted...

DUSHANBE (Reuters) -Security forces killed eight anti-government militants who had ambushed a convoy during an operation in eastern Tajikistan, the...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - In its first ever judgment a special tribunal in The Hague jailed two leaders of the...

(Reuters) - Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has approved changes to the country's criminal code that would make attempted acts of...

OSLO (Reuters) - A man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stabbing five people to death and attempting to murder 11...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. anti-narcotics agents have discovered a drug-smugglers' tunnel running under the U.S.-Mexico border and equipped with...

By Vivian Sequera, Matt Spetalnick and Marianna Parraga CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the country's opposition were expected...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez on Tuesday said her government hopes the United States' decision to ease...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Spanish rapper convicted of praising terrorist groups won a legal battle in a Belgian court on...

(Reuters) - Russian investigative committee will question Ukrainian fighters who surrendered at the Azovstal steel plant in city of Mariupol,...

By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters blocked a highway in Pakistan for second day on Tuesday...

(Reuters) - A Moscow court has fined U.S.-backed broadcaster Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe 10 million roubles ($153,459) for not deleting...

LONDON (Reuters) - The leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, Jeffrey Donaldson, said that he would take a "graduated...