News of the day from around the world, Dec. 7

1 War crimes case: A Swedish court convicted a 24-year-old Iraqi man of war crimes for posting macabre pictures on Facebook after fighting extremists in Iraq — in the first such case in Sweden.

The Philippine government’s investigation agency said Tuesday that it has filed murder complaints against two dozen police officers and personnel after a probe showed that they shot to death a jailed town mayor linked to illegal drugs and that there was no gunbattle as claimed by the law enforcers.

The findings cast a black mark on President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly antidrug crackdown, which has alarmed Western governments and human rights groups.

There have been suspicions that some of the more than 4,000 slain drug suspects may have been killed deliberately by law enforcers, and did not die in gunbattles as claimed by police.

Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, seeking reconciliation among ethnic groups in fractious western Myanmar, urged the army on Tuesday to respect civilians’ rights as concerns rise about treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority.

Annan spoke after making a three-day trip to Rakhine state, where the army has been conducting aggressive sweeps since October, when unidentified armed men killed nine policemen along the border with Bangladesh.

Rape law protest: A dozen Lebanese women, dressed as brides in white wedding dresses stained with fake blood and bandages, gathered Tuesday outside government buildings in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, to protest a law that allows a rapist to get away with his crime if he marries the survivor.