Americans in Brazil indicted in abuse
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A U.S. couple was indicted Thursday on charges of sexually abusing children at a Brazilian nudist colony, a court official said.
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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced the indictment yesterday of two men on charges of financially supporting and helping to recruit terrorists, including an unidentified US citizen believed to be &quot;dirty bomb&quot; suspect Jose Padilla.
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Seven people, including a popular TV star and a former diplomat, went on trial over a high-profile child abuse scandal in Portugal, facing charges that include the sexual abuse of minors in a network of state-run children's homes.
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Charges are considered against three men over the abuse of Dana Fowley and another victim.
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Police on Friday formally accused two U.S. pilots in connection with Brazil's deadliest air disaster, saying their "lack of caution" at the controls of an executive jet played a role in the collision over the Amazon that killed 154 people.
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LISBON, Nov 25 (IPS) - Eight people implicated in a high profile child sex   abuse scandal that has shaken Portuguese society to the core  since late 2002  finally came to trial Thursday.
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A couple accused of subjecting five of their adopted children to torture that included beating them with hammers and pulling their toenails out with pliers agreed Monday to be returned to Florida to face charges.
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By Leonardo Pedro BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb deathsquads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leaderand two workers in land battles in the last four days.
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Brazilian police arrested 18 people accused of allowing illegal logging in the Amazon rain forest and were searching for 19 others, including environmental protection agents, the environment minister said.
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Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court filed their first indictment Monday, charging a former Congolese warlord for allegedly abducting and recruiting children as young as 10 to fight in Congo's brutal civil war.
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The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was charged in the United States on Wednesday with committing torture in Liberia, the Justice Department's first case under a 12-year-old anti-torture law.
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Brazil publishes an official list of atrocities allegedly committed during two decades of military rule.
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Brazilian authorities charge two US pilots with endangering air safety over the country's worst aviation disaster.
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Two men were indicted by a U.S.  grand jury on Thursday on charges of helping raise money for  terrorism and recruiting fighters to send to Afghanistan,  Chechnya, Somalia and Kosovo.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilian police have  detained in Rio de Janeiro a Massachusetts man who is wanted by  U.S. authorities for kidnapping his own child 10 years ago, a  police spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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It was a case that showed all the difficulties of prosecuting child sexual abuse cases in the American courts. Yesterday morning, a grand jury indictment was unsealed charging retired Massachusetts
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The son of former Liberian President  Charles Taylor was charged in the United States with two counts  of torture and one count of using a firearm to carry out a  violent crime, a U.S. law enforcement official said on  Wednesday.