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The International Criminal Court has started hearing an appeal against an earlier decision to reject a request to open an investigation into possible war crimes and other abuses committed during the conflict in Afghanistan.
Iran's President Hassan Rohani has called for the release of protesters who were arrested in recent demonstrations against a sharp hike in gas prices if they were unarmed and simply voicing their opinion.
Beijing has summoned a U.S. diplomat after lawmakers in Washington approved legislation that calls for sanctions against senior Chinese officials for human rights violations linked to a crackdown on the country's Muslim minority.
Ukraine’s parliament on December 3 passed a law that revamps the State Bureau of Investigations (DBR) on the same day that authorities detained a close associate of the corruption-fighting agency’s chief for allegedly demanding a $150,000 bribe from a construction company.
The Democrat-led U.S. House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee has approved a 300-page report that concluded President Donald Trump abused his power of office by pressuring a foreign government to investigate his political opponent.
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has rejected a Russian claim that a former U.S. Marine it is holding on spying charges is feigning illness and lying about his ill treatment in custody to draw attention to his case.
A self-confessed money launderer who wired nearly $1 billion out of Kyrgyz banks before his murder in Turkey last month also ran a network of informal cash couriers who carried tens of millions of dollars from the Central Asian nation by hand, a new investigation has found.
German federal prosecutors are preparing to take over the case related to the slaying of an ethnic Chechen Georgian national in Berlin this summer, according to media reports, amid suspicions that Russian intelligence was involved in the killing.
Former Afghan football official Mohammad Hanif Sediqi Rustam has been banned from the sport for five years and fined 10,000 Swiss francs after being found guilty by FIFA's ethics committee of violations relating to the abuse of female players.
U.S. President Donald Trump has accused Iran of killing "big numbers" of protesters following unofficial casualty numbers in the hundreds that Tehran characterized as "utter lies."
Russian investigators say two sisters who killed their father after years of abuse should face murder charges in a closely watched case that has fueled a debate on domestic violence in the country.
The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has named the four witnesses who will testify this week at a public hearing in the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump as a new phase starts in the proceedings.
NATO leaders have pledged their commitment to the 29-member alliance's mutual defense clause while naming Russia a security "threat" in a joint declaration issued following their 70th anniversary summit in London.
NATO, the most successful military alliance in history, is celebrating its 70th anniversary in London during a two-day summit of the alliance's leaders.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill that amends an existing law on media outlets deemed "foreign agents" that critics say is used to muzzle dissent, limit news plurality, and discourage the free exchange of ideas.
The Dutch Public Prosecution Service has accused Russia of allowing a suspect to evade its investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 by not arresting him and letting him return to separatist-held territory in eastern Ukraine.
At least 208 people are believed to have been killed during last month's crackdown on protests in Iran that followed fuel-price hikes, Amnesty International said on December 2.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has denied in an interview with several foreign magazines that there had been a quid-pro-quo deal with U.S. President Donald Trump to investigate the latter's political rival, ex-vice president Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter.
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