Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner delivers a speech in Buenos Aires on December 9, 2012. Argentina’s president has summoned the country’s congress to potentially change a law on prevention and punishment of human trafficking after a court acquitted 13 people accused of running a trafficking ring. On Thursday, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner summoned the Argentine National... 

Ex-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s accountant Giuseppe Spinelli Italian police have revealed the kidnapping case of ex-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s accountant and his wife, following the arrest of six alleged abductors. The police at a Milan news conference on Monday said Giuseppe Spinelli and his wife were held for ransom on October 16 in an attempt to extort 35 million... 

The SV Estelle welcomes on board Greek pro-Palestinian activist Vassilis Pissias and a Greek left coalition Syriza party deputy on October 16. A Gaza-bound Swedish ship carrying aid to Palestinians has “come under attack” by Israeli naval forces, a spokeswoman for the group says. The Israeli forces attacked Estelle, a Swedish-owned ship under the Finnish flag, on Saturday in the international... 

The promise to scrap his predecessor’s hardliner war-on-terror policies, which helped Barack Obama win presidential election, is apparently off the table. The political reality is that the current administration is doing quite the opposite thing. Long before he became US president or the winner of a Noble Peace Prize, Barack Obama was a constitutional law professor. During his election campaign... 

Charlotte Cassez, mother of Florence Cassez, sentenced in Mexico to 60 years in prison for kidnapping, gives a press conference in Lille, northern France. A Mexican court on February 10, upheld the conviction of a French woman who is serving a 60-year prison term for kidnapping. Diplomatic relations between France and Mexico deteriorated into a crisis Friday, after a Mexican court upheld a 60-year... 

Senior police fear Victoria’s most notorious Vietnamese criminal, who has just served his seventh jail term since being granted Australian citizenship, will turn to violent crime again. Nam Van Nguyen once referred to as the “Saigon Tiger” has cost Victorian taxpayers an estimated $1.5 million in legal costs, prison time and victim compensation since arriving from Saigon via a Thai...