(SomaliNet) Thailand's Supreme Court has sentenced former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to two years in prison in absentia. By the narrowest of margins, the nine judges ruled that Mr Thaksin had acted illegally by giving his wife the opportunity to obtain land belonging to the state.
The cou
(SomaliNet) Three Colombians have been arrested in connection with some three hundred kilos of cocaine found on a cargo ship in Antwerp. The ship came from Rotterdam.
Media reports say the cocaine, with a street value of nine million euros, were hidden in a container loaded with coffee and came
(SomaliNet) Twenty-seven people have been arrested, in a fraud case involving fake diplomas from Peruvian universities. Sources say some of them purchasers of the forged documents.
According to police, the forgers provided false diplomas for, among others, doctors, psychologists, engineers, archi
(SomaliNet) The Afghan Supreme Court in Kabul has commuted the death sentence imposed on a journalism student to 20 years imprisonment.
At the beginning of the year, 23-year-old Perwiz Kambakhsh was sentenced to death for blasphemy. He was said to have insulted Islam and the prophet Muhammad in
(SomaliNet) The beginning of the first, historic, trial by the International Criminal Court in The Hague is still not in sight.
The court's Board of Appeal has ruled that the case against Thomas Lubanga, the Congolese man suspected of war crimes, was correctly adjourned in June.
Mr Lubanga i
(SomaliNet) According to reports, three children and two adults were killed on Tuesday when their car burst into flames after a motorway accident in the British county of Cheshire.
The victims have yet to be identified but police are assuming that they are a family.
A Spanish lorry driver ha
(SomaliNet) US presidential candidate Barack Obama will abandon the campaign trail to be with his sick grandmother in Hawaii.
The Democrat has cancelled engagements on Thursday or Friday so that he can be with his grandmother, whose health has seriously deteriorated in recent weeks.
Mr Obama
(SomaliNet) Police in Amsterdam are starting a campaign against "Italian-style" robberies. These occur when thieves on scooters pull up beside a car stopped, for example, before a traffic light.
They then open the car door or smash a window to grab valuables lying on a seat.
Police officers h
(SomaliNet) French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called on the EU member states to set up state funds to protect European companies from the threat of takeovers by major government funds from China, Singapore or the Middle East.
In a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Mr. Sarkozy p
(SomaliNet) Some hundred of thousands of Italians took to the streets of Rome on Saturday to protest against the policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The protest march was organised by Walter Veltroni, leader of the Democratic Party, Italy's largest opposition party.
According to Mr
