Former French Prime Minister Édouard Balladur goes on trial over charges of financing his failed presidential campaign in the 1990s with illegal kickbacks from arms deals with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

Many of the accused are white-collar workers who aided the ‘Ndrangheta clan in building its crime empire.

The crowd was assembled by the ‘Crime Minister,’ one of several groups demanding Netanyahu’s resignation.

A court in Jerusalem al-Quds set the trial date to February 8.

A Turkish court has accepted an indictment against the co-head of the country’s pro-Kurdish opposition party.

Leyla Guven, an opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy, was not present at her hearing.

The Beirut blast probe has been suspended after two former ministers who are suspects in the incident contested the high-profile case.

50 people have died in recent days in attacks by militants linked to Daesh in the northern region of Mozambique.

Hamas has decried a decision by Israeli authorities to level a charge of unintentional murder against a police officer who shot dead an unarmed Palestinian nearly five months ago.

A court in Pakistan formally charges former president Asif Ali Zardari in two corruption cases.