Shortly after her dismissal by the internationally recognized government in Tripoli, Amel Jerary, whose detention was ordered by the country's prosecutor general over alleged corruption, was questioned about "administrative and financial abuses" allegedly used to "obtain illicit material advantages by illegally seizing public funds".

ROME, ITALY - An Italian-Palestinian student detained without charges by Israel since August was due to be released, his lawyer in Rome said on Sunday. Khaled El Qaisi, 27, was arrested on August 31 while crossing from the West Bank to Jordan after a family vacation in his home city of...

Iran released one Danish and two Austrian-Iranian citizens it had been holding after mediation by Oman, and they are being flown to Belgium, said the country's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. This comes a week after Tehran freed a Belgian aid worker in exchange for an Iranian diplomat who was...

China has urged the International Criminal Court to respect immunity for heads of state and to avoid what it called "double standards". Last week the tribunal issued an arrest warrant for Russian leader Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges. China is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, the UN...

Noureddine Bedoui, the former prime minister of Algeria, has been detained on court orders, two days after another court had placed him under supervision and confiscated his passport. He is the third ex-premier to face jail on corruption charges. Bedoui briefly served as prime minister in early 2019.

Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein held bank staff hostage in Beirut last week to demand access to his trapped savings. After a long stand off Hussein turned himself in after the bank agreed to let him draw out $30,000 of his more than $200,000 in trapped savings.

Iranian police have arrested academic and author Said Madani on charges of acting "against the security" of the country and of having ties to foreign states, Mehr news agency reported Monday. Madani, 61, professor of sociology at Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran, has published several books on social issues in...

Saudi Arabia said Saturday it executed 81 people in one day on a variety of terrorism-related offenses, exceeding the total number of executions in the kingdom in the whole of last year. Of the 81 people, 73 were Saudi citizens, seven were Yemeni and one was a Syrian national.

A Lebanese judicial delegation will meet French authorities in Paris next week to discuss investigations into Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh, a judicial source said on Thursday. Salameh is among the top Lebanese officials widely blamed for the country's unprecedented financial crisis that the World Bank says is of...