A tribunal in The Hague found Hashim Thaci, who led Kosovo’s independence struggle in the 1990s, responsible for arbitrary detention, torture and murder.
NYTimes – World Hashim Thaçi, who served as both president and prime minister, was found guilty of murder, torture, cruel treatment and arbitrary detention by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, as tens of thousands who had gathered in Prishtina expecting his acquittal watched proceedings on a livestream.
NYTimes – World Hashim Thaçi, 58, was convicted by The Hague for crimes committed while he was senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army Europe live – latest updates Hashim Thaçi, the former president of Kosovo, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by a tribunal in The Hague for war crimes, including dozens of murders, committed during his time as a senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army during the country’s war fo…
Hashim Thaçi, who served as both president and prime minister, was found guilty of murder, torture, cruel treatment and arbitrary detention by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, as tens of thousands who had gathered in Prishtina expecting his acquittal watched proceedings on a livestream.
Sky News – World Kosovo's former president Hashim Thaci has been jailed for 25 years after being found criminally responsible for war crimes following a trial in The Hague.
NYTimes – US Death row inmate Christa Pike is conscious and speaking in hospital after Tennessee's failed lethal injection execution last week, her lawyers say. She received two doses of the drug but survived and was taken from the execution chamber by ambulance. She remains hospitalised with severe arm injuries; her lawyers are seeking to commute her sentence to life without parole.
NPR – World Belgian-born physicist Francis Halzen, 82, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work detecting high-energy neutrinos from deep space. His research, which began in the 1980s, led to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. The Nobel committee described neutrinos as "ghostly messages from space." Halzen is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
NYTimes – World At a Nebraska campaign rally, US President Donald Trump said Iran could "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego, drawing cheers and later bipartisan condemnation. California Governor Gavin Newsom called him "dangerous and deranged," while a White House official said the remarks were taken out of context.
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