The Italian judiciary has gone to great lengths to reach a verdict, bending the rules of the trial in order to bring it to a conclusion. The result has been a thoroughly anomalous trial, featuring absent defendants (it is not known whether they are alive or dead), surreal testimony and a compromised right to a fair trial.

Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait. The other fronts in the war in the Middle East, which stretches from the Strait of Hormuz to the Mediterranean, with a map