The court also reduced sentences for 31 other Brotherhood members to life in prison.

A Turkish court hands down life sentences to five individuals in the 2016 assassination of the then-Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara, local media reports say.

Dozens of people, including many of the most prominent protest leaders, have been arrested on a variety of charges in recent months.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rules that a German commander behind a deadly 2009 airstrike in Afghanistan did not act improperly.

‘The court gave a very harsh verdict,’ said a case lawyer.

Police in Nigeria shoot dead at least two protesters demonstrating against the continued detention of Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky and his wife, Mallimah Zeenat.

Former French Prime Minister Édouard Balladur goes on trial over charges of financing his failed presidential campaign in the 1990s with illegal kickbacks from arms deals with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

Many of the accused are white-collar workers who aided the ‘Ndrangheta clan in building its crime empire.

The crowd was assembled by the ‘Crime Minister,’ one of several groups demanding Netanyahu’s resignation.

A court in Jerusalem al-Quds set the trial date to February 8.