Appeal judges at the international criminal court (ICC) have upheld a decision that allows Libyan authorities to put on trial a former intelligence chief from Colonel Gaddafi's era.
Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst on trial on charges of leaking classified intelligence information and more than 250,000 diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks last year.
Seventeen defendants, including several former intelligence agents, went on trial on Saturday for the killings of four dissident intellectuals in 1998.
The former chief of Peru's intelligence service went on trial in Lima on Tuesday to face charges that he had provided rebels in neighboring Colombia with 10,000 assault rifles purchased from Jordan in a complex transaction involving Brazilian drug lords and a Ukrainian flight crew.
Mr. Pope, a former career naval intelligence officer, has been on trial since Oct. 18.
In a Moscow by-election for a seat in the national parliament held on the same day, Vladimir Kvachkov, an anti-Semitic former military intelligence officer who is on trial for the attempted murder of Anatoly Chubais, a reformer of the 1990s, won almost 30% of the vote.The ban on Rodina brought extra votes to the Communists, who did better than expected.
"We're continuing, but it is more of a formality," said the lawyer for Nicolò Pollari, the former chief of Italian military intelligence, who is among those on trial.
France opens landmark Rwanda trial Jump to media player Former Rwandan intelligence chief Pascal Simbikangwa goes on trial in Paris on charges relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a landmark case.
A former intelligence officer who worked directly with her is quoted by NBC, on background, as saying that she bears so much responsibility for so many intelligence failures that "she should be put on trial and put in jail for what she has done".
Bradley Manning, who is currently on trial for allegedly leaking classified intelligence documents.
