The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh sentenced Abdul Quader Mollah, leader of the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami, to life in prison over crimes related to the 1971 war.
A Somali court sentenced a woman who accused Somali security forces of rape to a year in prison for insulting a government body and making false claims.
The authorities now blame gas accumulation for a blast that killed at least 37 people at the headquarters of Mexico’s accident-prone state oil monopoly.
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled against thousands of laid-off electrical workers who want to be hired by a state enterprise after the government shut down their former employer.
San Juan province’s government has released a report claiming that two mines owned by Barrick Gold will do no damage to glaciers near the facilities high in the Andes.
In a big shift for the Honduran political scene, the presidential candidate of the newly formed center-left Freedom and Refoundation Party is slightly ahead in a new opinon poll.
An international campaign is demanding that President President Otto Pérez Molina provide land for indigenous campesino families expelled from their fields in the Polochic Valley.
Kurdish militias in Syria—some linked to the PKK—are battling jihadist rebels, but it is uncertain if they necessarily back the Damascus regime.
The Iranian Parliament voted to impeach Labor Minister Abdolreza Sheikholeslami, because he appointed an official who was implicated in the deaths of prisoners in 2010.
A Lebanese judge issued an arrest warrant for a top Syrian intelligence official and his aide for alleged involvement in a bombing plot in Lebanon.
With French forces carrying out air-strikes in preparation for an advance on Kidal, it remains unclear if the remote town is under the control of jihadists or Tuareg separatists.
Ex-CIA agent John Kiriakou gets five years for blowing the cover of a fellow agent, and claims that he is a “whistleblower” on CIA torture—despite having justified the practice.
