Ignoring the judge's advice, one of two brothers accused of fatally shooting three of their dead brother's in-laws on Thanksgiving in Oakland proclaimed in court Tuesday that he acted in self-defense.

Last March, as they languished in a detention centre in the Libyan city of Misrata, Kedija* and her brother Yonas’s epic attempt to reunite with their mother in Switzerland after eight years of ...

Though Saleh Aberra has a degree in chemistry from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia (he returned to Eritrea to be project manager in a Red Sea fishing operation for many years) and Yonas has an ...