A prominent Tunisian journalist was put under pre-trial detention on a judge’s order after a Tuesday hearing in which he dangled the prospect of publishing reporting on corruption and the misuse of public funds by several ministers and public institutions. Mohamed Boughalleb’s
Lawmakers with Poland’s ruling pro-European Union coalition launched a rare process Tuesday to bring the central bank chief before a special court on allegations of acting against the country’s financial interests. The result could ban him from political life. Critics of the
An 80-year-old former Stasi officer has gone on trial for the killing of a Polish man at a Berlin border crossing 50 years ago. The suspect, unnamed due to German privacy rules, faces murder charges before the Berlin state court. Prosecutors recounted
The trial began Tuesday in Norway for a man accused of aggravated terrorism for the deadly shooting at an LGBTQ+ festival in Oslo’s nightlife district. Two people were killed and nine seriously wounded in the shooting at three locations, chiefly outside the
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández took the witness stand in his defense at his New York trial on Tuesday, denying that he teamed up with drug dealers to protect them in return for millions of dollars in bribes. His testimony in
Truong My Lan, a real estate tycoon, faces the death penalty in a trial that began on Tuesday for alleged fraud amounting to $12.5 billion. Lan, the 66-year-old chair of Van Thinh Phat real estate company, allegedly utilized thousands of ghost companies,
A Dutch court has convicted 17 suspects, with three receiving life sentences, including Ridouan Taghi, the gang’s leader. Taghi, along with other suspects, did not attend the trial’s final day due to heavy security measures. Taghi was convicted of five murders and
A Vienna court is expected to announce its verdict on Friday in the trial of former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. Kurz is accused of making false statements to a parliamentary probe into alleged corruption during his first government. Kurz resigned in 2021
Christian Bruckner is facing trial in Germany for three counts of rape and two counts of sexual abuse of children allegedly committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017. Bruckner is also a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann. He
An American founder of a Haitian orphanage who is accused of sexually abusing four boys there more than a decade ago has been ordered to be sent from Colorado to Florida to face prosecution. Michael Geilenfeld, 71, was arrested in Colorado on