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Former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials who were involved in the effort to bring “Merchant of Death” Viktor Bout to justice have characterized his trade to Russia for WNBA star Brittney Griner’s freedom as a “disgrace” and a “grave threat” to U.S national security.  Griner, who has been held prisoner …

Kyiv has called on the U.S. to help it create a tribunal that would investigate and try Russian leadership for the war crimes committed in Ukraine since the war began more nine months ago. “Peace is impossible without justice. And justice is impossible without judiciary,” head of Ukraine’s presidential office Andriy Yermak …

Students joined protesters who took to the streets across Iran on Wednesday as protests stemming from the death of Mahsa Amini continued into the 83rd day. The protesting students were joined by shopkeepers across the country who closed up their shops and went on strike for the last several days, …

A U.K. court handed down an eight-month suspended prison sentence to Anne Sacoolas, an American woman who admitted to causing the death of 19-year-old Harry Dunn by careless driving in August 2019. Sacoolas, wife of an American intelligence officer, was driving on the wrong side of the rode when her …

Twenty-seven people were lashed in public on Thursday in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan as punishment for alleged adultery, theft, drug offenses and other crimes, according to a court official. Afghanistan’s new authorities have implemented hard-line policies since they took over the country in August 2021 that have underlined their interpretation of Islamic …

Following similar actions last month, climate activists in Germany briefly disrupted traffic at the Munich airport on Thursday to protest the impact of air travel as “the ultimate climate killer.”  Members of the group Letzte Generation, or Last Generation, said some of its members had glued themselves to the tarmac …

Thai soldiers clashed with suspected drug smugglers in a forested area in the country’s north near the Myanmar border, killing 15, authorities said Thursday. The soldiers encountered the group of suspects carrying backpacks Wednesday evening and ordered them to stop, but they instead opened fire, according to the Pha Muang …

The U.S. has not “encouraged nor enabled” Ukraine to carry out strikes against Moscow within Russian borders, Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed late Tuesday. “We have neither encouraged nor enabled the Ukrainians to strike inside of Russia,” he told reporters. “But the important thing is to understand what Ukrainians …

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed concern that the threat of nuclear war is rising as his country continues its invasion of Ukraine — a conflict that he said “might be a long process.” Putin, asked by a member of the Human Rights Council to state unequivocally that Russia would not …

A state prosecutor in Tijuana, Mexico, is warning that three recent murders in the town along the U.S. border display similar characteristics to the killings of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. “This subject has criminal tendencies associated with violent and psychopathic behavior,” Baja California Attorney General Ricardo Iván Carpio told …