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A court in Karachi has sentenced two men to death for arson after finding them guilty of starting Pakistan's deadliest industrial fire, which killed some 260 people in 2012. The...

The authorities in Mozambique have promised to investigate a video showing people dressed in army uniforms beating and killing a naked woman in the restive gas-rich Cabo Delgado province.The defence...

Gunmen have killed at least 22 people in Nigeria's central state of Niger, according to the state’s security coordinator. Most of the casualties are from local vigilante groups and police...

The Supreme Court has ruled that bail conditions of an undertrial prisoner cannot be made so onerous as to disable him to avail of the relief and make him suffer...

Three years ago the Southern African Kingdom of Lesotho started distributing condoms in all its male and female prisons. The aim was to curb the spread of HIV in its...

A Florida man who was spotted standing through his sunroof while driving on a busy expressway told police that he would rather get locked up than go home to his...

UN investigators have for the first time declared the violence against Rohingya Muslims in northern Myanmar to be a campaign of genocide. In a damning final report from their fact-finding mission, observers said Myanmar’s commander-in-chief and...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar began releasing more than 9,000 prisoners on Wednesday, with many drug offenders among the first to walk free, but just two political detainees, after the president...

Ninety-two prisoners have escaped from a prison in Gambella regional state in Western Ethiopia, state media, Ethiopia News Agency reported on Tuesday. John Umod, Chief Police Inspector of Gambella City...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar began releasing more than 9,000 prisoners on Wednesday, with many drug offenders among the first to walk free, but just two political detainees, after the president...