Pakistani authorities are set to hang a man who says he was 15 when he was arrested for a murder he claims he did not commit, lawyers said on Saturday, in the latest case to shine a spotlight on Pakistan's crumbling criminal justice system. Ansar Iqbal says he was 15 when he and a friend...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday that ties with the United States had improved, although there was "still a long road to travel" before the two estranged nations could have normal relations. "The situation has certainly changed," Rouhani, in New York for the United...
Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter, the head of world soccer body FIFA, on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation of funds, the Swiss attorney general's office said on Friday. It said Blatter was interrogated after a meeting of...
Two Turkish soldiers and 34 Kurdish rebels have been killed in fighting in the southeast, where scores of people have died since the July breakdown of a ceasefire, the army said Friday. The soldiers were killed in two separate attacks by the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) near...
