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February 11, 2021

Guatemala mom waits 2 decades for trial in daughter's murder

Rosa Franco Sandoval spent two decades seeking justice for her daughter, whose murder helped spur the creation of Guatemala’s ...

February 11, 2021

UK man convicted in policeman's death leaves Bali prison

A British man convicted of murdering a traffic police officer on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali walked free from prison ...

February 10, 2021

Report: Colombia failing to protect human rights defenders

Colombia has failed to protect human rights activists in its remote communities, resulting in hundreds of slayings since the ...

February 10, 2021

Priest in Vatican youth seminary trial denies abuse claims

An Italian priest denied Wednesday that he sexually molested a fellow altar boy when both were teenagers at the Vatican’s ...

February 10, 2021

Appeal hearing postponed for American imprisoned in Russia

A Moscow court on Wednesday postponed hearing the appeal of an American sentenced to nine years in prison for assaulting ...

February 10, 2021

'Finally': France seeks to set age for sexual consent, at 15

France’s government wants to set the age of sexual consent at 15 and make it easier to punish long-ago child sexual abuse, ...

February 10, 2021

Myanmar junta cracks down on crowds defying protest ban

Police cracked down on demonstrators opposing Myanmar’s military coup, firing warning shots and shooting water cannons to ...

February 10, 2021

1 dead, 4 injured in shooting at Minnesota health clinic

A 67-year-old man unhappy with the health care he'd received opened fire at a clinic Tuesday, killing one person and wounding ...

February 09, 2021

Former Nazi guard, age 100, charged as accessory to murder

German prosecutors have charged a 100-year-old man with 3,518 counts of being an accessory to murder on allegations he served ...

February 09, 2021

Danish sub killer gets 21 months for brief prison escape

A Danish man convicted of torturing and murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine, was given a 21-month ...

February 08, 2021

Polish court rules record compensation for wrongful jailing

A Polish court on Monday ordered a record high compensation of nearly 13 million zlotys ($3.4 million) to a man who had spent ...

February 08, 2021

Algeria orders investigation into student police abuse claim

In an unprecedent move, the prosecutor's office in the Algerian capital has ordered a preliminary investigation into torture ...

February 08, 2021

3 years' probation issued in Puerto Rico cruise ship death

A grandfather who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the fall of his young granddaughter from an 11th-story window of ...

February 07, 2021

Johnson eases to another victory at Saudi International

Top-ranked Dustin Johnson won the Saudi International for the second time in three years on Sunday after shooting a 2-under ...

February 06, 2021

AP Interview: Olympic champion adds voice to #MeToo movement

Before she could join sailing classes near her home in Athens, Sofia Bekatorou had to show an instructor she could tie a ...

February 05, 2021

Prosecutor charged with sex assault vows to remain in office

A Pennsylvania district attorney vowed Friday to remain in office while he fights sexual assault charges, maintaining his ...

February 05, 2021

German prosecutors charge secretary to Nazi camp commandant

German prosecutors have charged the elderly secretary of the former SS commandant of Stutthof with 10,000 counts of accessory ...

February 05, 2021

Fiercely divided House kicks Greene off both her committees

A fiercely divided House has tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees, an unprecedented punishment that ...