Belgian ex-diplomat Etienne Davignon is defending himself in Brussels over his alleged role in the 1961 killing of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba — a landmark case in Belgium's reckoning with its ...

Much of postcolonial Africa still fails to confront the political vision for which Patrice Lumumba was eliminated.

On January 20, a Belgian court held a closed-door hearing to determine whether to pursue a criminal case against the last living former Belgian official for his alleged involvement in the 1961 ...

The family of murdered Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba said Tuesday they hope to get justice, as a Belgian court weighs prosecuting the sole surviving suspect over the 1961 killing.

By then, Pax Americana had come to represent an expansionist project of “gunboat diplomacy” and “Yankee imperialism” in which the US annexed Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, and Puerto Rico, while occupying the ...

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A Belgian court will hold a hearing Tuesday on whether a former senior diplomat should go on trial over the 1961 killing of ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, had admitted to shooting Mr. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister; but his case divided Japan.

A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment, ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, earlier admitted to killing Abe in July 2022 as the former prime minister was giving a campaign speech ...

The man who killed Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a homemade gun was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, public broadcaster NHK reported.