The revelations about the Israeli spyware have raised questions as to whether the government was illegally snooping on its critics.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Somalia control of most of a potentially oil- and gas-rich chunk of the Indian Ocean in a dispute over the maritime boundary with neighboring Kenya.

Some of the recaptured Palestinian prisoners say they were being subject to mental and physical torture by Israeli interrogators.

Sarkozy has been implicated in a number of other scandals which are also still being investigated.

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.