Italy's highest appeals court has upheld guilty verdicts on 23 Americans, all but one of them CIA agents, accused of kidnapping a terror suspect. Their case related to the abduction of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003.The man, known as Abu Omar, was allegedly flown to Egypt and tortured.
The Americans were tried in absentia, in the first trial involving extraordinary rendition, the CIA's practice of transferring suspects to countries where torture is permitted.
The practice has been condemned by human rights groups as a violation of international agreements.
The group of Americans - 22 of whom were CIA agents and one an Air Force pilot - are believed to be living in the US and are unlikely to serve their sentences.
A prominent Palestinian children's rights charity has shut down its operations after decades of documenting violations...
The Red Cross said it was “outraged by the devastating death and destruction” in densely populated...
Questionnaires of children forcibly taken from a Kherson orphanage have been found on a Russian state...
A 68-year-old Palestinian woman was beaten to death by Israeli soldiers during a raid on her...
