KABUL—Deadly violence in Afghanistan has marred the first-ever direct talks between Kabul and the Taliban, underscoring the high stakes that face the warring sides as they struggle to get negotiations off the ground to end nearly two decades of fighting. Representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban kicked off a historic first round of … Read more
TEHRAN—Iran has executed a wrestler and alleged murderer whose life President Trump had asked the country’s leaders to spare, Iranian state TV reported. “The retaliation sentence against Navid Afkari, the killer of Hassan Turkman, was carried out this morning in Adelabad prison in Shiraz,” the chief justice of Fars province, Kazem Mousavi, said Saturday, according … Read more
Two men described as Myanmar army deserters told authorities in neighboring Bangladesh they were ordered by superior officers to kill Rohingya civilians during security operations in 2017, according to a lawyer involved in a genocide case against Myanmar at the top United Nations court. Paul Reichler, a partner at U.S. law firm Foley Hoag… Source link
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—A Saudi court reduced the death sentences of five men convicted in the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi to 20-year prison terms and handed shorter sentences to three other nationals, in a case that drove a wedge between Saudi Arabia’s heir-apparent and the West. The public prosecutor declared the case closed nearly … Read more
JOHANNESBURG—The fatal police shooting of a South African teenager has sparked protests and demands for changes to how law enforcement operates in the country, which has among the highest levels of violent crime in the world and a large number of killings by police each year. Nathaniel Julius, a 16-year-old boy with Down syndrome, was shot … Read more
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—The man who murdered 51 people in live-streamed attacks on two New Zealand mosques was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, the first time the country has imposed a punishment that denies any chance of release. The March 15, 2019, massacre in the southern city of Christchurch, which brought about a national ban … Read more
BERLIN—German police are investigating a series of apparently deliberate crashes on a Berlin highway as a possible act of terror, authorities said Wednesday. Police overpowered and detained a 30-year-old Iraqi-born man Tuesday night, after he allegedly rammed his car into several vehicles on the A100 highway that bisects the German capital, police spokeswoman, Patricia Bremer, … Read more
BEIRUT—An international tribunal convicted a member of Hezbollah of terrorism and homicide over the assassination of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 but acquitted three others and found no evidence that the militia and political group’s leadership was involved in the plot. Tuesday’s verdict comes just two weeks after the deadly Beirut explosion … Read more
Al-Shabaab militants’ deadly assault on a popular seaside hotel in Somalia’s capital has raised fresh questions about the threat posed by the terrorist group, despite a heightened U.S.-backed counterterrorism campaign in the Horn of Africa nation. The militants, carrying AK-47 rifles and explosives, detonated a car bomb outside Mogadishu’s Lido beach Sunday afternoon, before shooting … Read more