THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (BNO NEWS) — Former Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) leader Laurent Koudou Gbagbo on Wednesday arrived at the International Criminal Court (ICC) detention center in The Hague, where he will face charges of crime against humanity.

G…

ABUJA (BNO NEWS) — The Nigerian senate has passed a bill which prohibits same-sex marriages and introduces extreme prison sentences for people involved in homosexuality, local media reported on Wednesday.

Under the new bill, anybody convicted of homo…

LONDON (BNO NEWS) — Amnesty International on Wednesday urged the government of the Unites States to ban the imposition of life without parole sentences against young offenders.

The London-based rights group also urged the U.S. to review the cases of …

DAMASCUS (BNO NEWS) — Syrian authorities on Wednesday released more than 900 people who were arrested during the ongoing social unrest in the country, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.

According to the government, 912 people who…

MINSK (BNO NEWS) — The Supreme Court of Belarus on Wednesday sentenced two men to death for carrying out a bomb attack in the Minsk subway earlier this year, RIA Novosti reported.

Dmitry Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalyov were both found guilty of det…

JERUSALEM (BNO NEWS) — Israel on Wednesday decided to release millions of dollars in Palestinian tax revenues it had previously frozen as punishment for Palestinian efforts to gain statehood recognition at the United Nations.

Despite the vocal opposi…

NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — The United Nations has warned that the humanitarian situation in Yemen is likely to continue to deteriorate over the next year despite the recent political agreement to restore peace and stability.

Assistant Secretary-General fo…

NANCHANG, CHINA (BNO NEWS) — Six people were killed on early Tuesday morning when a lift collapsed at a coal mine in eastern China, local authorities said on Wednesday. One person was injured.

The accident happened at around 8.30 a.m. local time at t…

KUALA LUMPUR (BNO NEWS) — The Malaysian parliament on Tuesday approved a bill which will limit the opportunity to stage legal street demonstrations, despite a rally against the bill by lawyers and activists, local media reported on Wednesday.

The Pea…