Courts

Trump, ac­cused of pay­ing hush mon­ey to a porn star, is the first for­mer US pres­i­dent to be crim­i­nal­ly pros­e­cut­ed.

In a blow for Iran, how­ev­er, the UN court said it didn’t have ju­ris­dic­tion over frozen as­sets from Iran’s cen­tral bank.

Sonko’s tri­al could mark the start of a new era of po­lit­i­cal un­rest or strength­en the pres­i­dent’s grip, an­a­lysts say.