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BERLIN – The U.N.’s special investigator on Iran says the human rights situation in the country has deteriorated since Hassan Rouhani became president in 2013. Ahmed Shaheed says “in my view the overall situation has worsened, as indicated by the surge in executions.” Shaheed told reporters in Geneva on Monday …

DHAKA, Bangladesh – A court in Bangladesh’s capital has indicted a leader of a hard-line Islamist group and seven students in the hacking death of an atheist blogger two years ago. The court issued the indictments Wednesday after accepting the police investigation into the killing of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider …

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – An Ethiopian court has jailed in absentia a co-pilot who hijacked a plane bound for Rome and took it to Geneva a little over a year ago. The court handed Hailemedhin Abera a 19-year-sentence on Friday. It said Monday it had issued a public notice for …