Two Iranian journalists who were serving long prison sentences over their coverage of the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini have been released on bail pending their appeal, Iranian media reported …
Dozens of elections are scheduled to take place across the globe this year, with more possible, including in seven of the world’s 10 most populous countries, such as India, Russia, Mexico …
A critic of the Kremlin could be barred from obtaining Canadian citizenship because she has to prove to immigration officials here that it isn’t a crime in Canada to criticize …
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released from prison on parole and is now at home, South Africa’s Department of Corrections said Friday. The department gave no more details …
A handful of young people in Israel are refusing mandatory military service in the Israel Defence Forces on political grounds, in opposition to the Israel-Hamas war and the occupation of …
A judge in the Netherlands has ruled that the Dutch man convicted for sexually extorting B.C. teen Amanda Todd should serve six years in prison. Aydin Coban wasn’t present in …
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most senior Catholic Church official ever to stand trial before a Vatican criminal court, was convicted on Saturday of embezzlement and sentenced to five and a …
An Australian appeals court overturned all convictions against a woman on Thursday, 20 years after a jury found her guilty of killing her four children. Kathleen Folbigg had already been pardoned …
The court ruled that Xu, in his role as bank chief, and his accomplices had embezzled more than 900 million yuan (US$125.4 million) in US dollars, Hong Kong dollars and …
As It Happens6:45Son of Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai calls on Canada, U.K. to demand his father’s release Sebastien Lai, son of the jailed Hong Kong media tycoon …