A Vietnamese court handed a former government spokesperson a suspended prison sentence Monday for graft, state media said, an accusation that has seen dozens of senior officials jailed. Thousands of people, including top officials and senior business leaders, have been caught up in the Southeast Asian country's "blazing furnace" crackdown. On Monday the court in…

A Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded a 30-year-old earing-impaired man, Temitope Holo, in Awarjigoh correctional facility

A British teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to charges of murdering three young girls in a knife attack in northern England in July, a crime that caused days of nationwide rioting. Axel Rudakubana, 18, changed his pleas from not guilty to guilty on what was due to be the first day of his trial at…

The European Union launched a new challenge at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Monday against China's rules on royalty rates for high-tech patents, amid escalating trade tensions between Beijing and Brussels. The European Commission accused China of pressuring innovative European high-tech companies into lowering their fees by allowing its courts to set binding worldwide…

Ukraine attacked a Russian-occupied town in the southern Kherson region on Monday, killing two people and wounding more than a dozen others, Russian state media reported. The region's Moscow-installed governor said Ukrainian forces had fired "cluster munitions" near a school in the town of Bekhtery when students and teachers were on their way to lessons…