War crimes judges will hold closed-door talks next month to discuss whether to allow the launch of a probe into the forced exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar. Only chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda will appear before the three judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) hearing on June 20, presiding Judge ...
Western Australian police say seven shooting deaths were murder-suicide
Three generations of a single family were identified Saturday as the victims of Australia's worst mass shooting in 22 years, ...
Seven found dead with gunshot wounds on west Australia property
Seven people were found dead with gunshot wounds at a property near the tourist town of Margaret River in Australia's ...
The U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday it had indicted a former CIA operative for spying for China, in a case that could be tied to the dramatic collapse of the CIA's China network eight years ago. Three years after he left the CIA in 2007, ...
Genocide alleged as four rights groups urge UNSC to refer Myanmar's handling of Rohingya to ICC
Four human rights groups urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity, including targeting about 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled military-led violence to Bangladesh. Matthew Smith, head of the Asia-based group Fortify Rights, ...
14 arrested in India after teen raped, burned to death; main suspect still at large
Police arrested 14 men on Saturday after a teenager was raped and burned alive at her home in eastern India, in the latest case of sexual violence in the country. The 16-year-old was abducted from her home when her family was away to attend a ...
Otto Warmbier's mother speaks out at U.N. to denounce North Korea's rights violations
Her voice cracking with emotion, the mother of college student Otto Warmbier who was sent home from North Korea in a coma and died soon after said Thursday her family will keep speaking out about the country's human rights violations to "rub their noses" ...
North Korea calls U.S. claim that it hacked U.N. database on sanctions 'nonsense'
North Korea on Wednesday dismissed as "nonsense" what it said was a U.S. claim that Pyongyang hacked the database of the United Nations committee that monitors sanctions against the North, saying the Trump administration should instead be working toward peace. North Korea's U.N. Mission said ...
Parents sue Pyongyang over torture and death of detainee Otto Warmbier
The parents of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier filed a wrongful death lawsuit against North Korea on Thursday, saying its government tortured and killed their son. Fred and Cindy Warmbier filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., seeking compensation for the ...
A Pakistan court on Thursday jailed a man for seven years in the country's first ever conviction for child pornography. Sadat Amin was found guilty by a Lahore court of being part of a global child pornography racket spread across Europe and the United States. Pakistan ...
Guilt by association: Kin of Chinese activists face house arrest, harassment from 'smiling tigers'
When a team of Chinese state security agents picked up Li Wenzu and then prevented her from leaving her own home last week, she was scared but not surprised. She was detained on the seventh day of a protest march she organized in an attempt ...
Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye reportedly won't appeal prison term
South Korea's disgraced former president, Park Geun-hye, will not appeal her 24-year prison sentence for corruption, reports said Monday. Park, 66, removed from office last year over a massive corruption scandal last year, was convicted of multiple criminal charges, including bribery and abuse of power, ...
Second arrest made in India rape case as outrage mounts over assaults
Indian police have made another arrest after the alleged rape of a teenager by a ruling party politician sparked protests across the country, federal investigators said Sunday. The case, along with the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl, has brought Indians onto the streets ...
Myanmar 'seriously concerned' over war crimes prosecutor's move on Rohingya jurisdiction
The government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi expressed "serious concern" Friday over a move by the International Criminal Court prosecutor seeking jurisdiction over alleged deportations of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh. Since August, nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a brutal military ...
The brutal gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in India has triggered nationwide outrage, inflamed communal tensions and shone a fresh critical light on the prevalence of sexual crimes. The killing has sent out the sort of shock waves that shook the country ...
