By Valerie Hopkins KYIV — A Russian soldier pleaded guilty in a Kyiv court Wednesday (18) of having shot a civilian, in the first trial that Ukraine has conducted for an act that could be considered a war crime since Russia launched its…
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By Megan Specia LONDON — Britain’s Supreme Court on Monday (14) said it had refused the latest appeal by Julian Assange, the embattled WikiLeaks founder, to prevent his extradition to the United States. The announcement was a blow to…
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By David Streitfeld SAN FRANCISCO — Near the end of Elizabeth Holmes’ criminal trial, her lawyers submitted into evidence her punishing self-improvement plan. “4 a.m. Rise and thank God,” the handwritten memo began. Exercise,…
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By Benjamin Weiser, Rebecca Davis O’brien and Colin Moynihan NEW YORK — A federal jury in Manhattan began deliberations late Monday in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former socialite charged with conspiring with…
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COLOMBO - A Sri Lankan court on Tuesday (23) began the trial of 25 men accused of plotting the Easter Sunday bombings that killed nearly 270 people in 2019, as lawyers warned of a protracted and complicated legal battle ahead. The…
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MOSCOW - Russian scientist Nikolai Kilafyan, on trial in Sri Lanka for collecting insects illegally is in dire need of surgery after a serious leg fracture, the Vice-President of the Russian division of the International Committee for the…
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POTSDAM – A former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp run by the Nazi regime near Berlin is to go on trial charged with being an accessory to murder in 3,518 cases, a court spokeswoman said on Monday (2). The trial is to…
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By Jane Arraf AMMAN - After a trial rife with accusations of betrayal within Jordan’s royal family and interference by Saudi Arabia, a Jordanian court Monday (12) sentenced King Abdullah II’s former adviser and a cousin of the monarch to…
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By Nicholas Bogel Burroughs MINNESOTA - Derek Chauvin is being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day in Minnesota’s only maximum-security prison after he was convicted of murdering George Floyd and led out of a courtroom in…
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By Charles M. Blow There are many appalling narratives emerging from the trial of the former police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd. There is the transference of guilt from the people who killed Floyd to those who…
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