Former US soldier Steven Green was sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenage girl and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya.
A Spanish court reinstated charges against three US soldiers in the death of cameraman José Couso, which occurred when the soldiers opened fire on a Baghdad in 2003.
Authorities in Burma closed the trial of pro-democracy advocate and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi after briefly opening it to 30 foreign diplomats earlier this week.
Rwandan Hutu militant Desire Munyaneza was convicted by the Superior Court of Quebec under Canada’s new Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
More than a dozen Ethiopian military trucks crossed the border into Somalia this week, as Islamist insurgents launch an all-out offensive for the capital Mogadishu.
A Libyan militant whose false information about ties between Baghdad and al-Qaeda was used by the Bush administration to justify war in Iraq died in prison, a Libyan newspaper says.
Guantánamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani will be prosecuted in a US federal court for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
An Italian judge ruled that the trial of 26 Americans and seven Italians in the 2003 abduction of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr by the CIA will proceed despite excluded evidence.
Italian police arrested 68 people believed to be members of the Camorra, Naples’ ruling crime machine, in one of the largest crackdowns on organized crime in recent years.
Thousands of Guatemalans have taken to the streets since the slaying of a prominent lawyer who left a videotape saying that if anything happened to him it was at the behest of the country’s president.
Colombian security forces arrested 112 suspected members of the paramilitary arm of the Norte del Valle Cartel in an area of Chocó department near the border with Panama.
The Colombian Senate approved a proposal to hold a referendum on amending the country’s constitution to allow a third term for the hardline President Alvaro Uribe.
