Recent Updates
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Spain court grants $1.7 billion compensation for oil spill
Breaking Stories 12/24/2018Spain's Supreme Court has ruled that the captain and the insurer of the Prestige oil tanker must pay more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion) in compensation for Spain's biggest environmental disaster, when the vessel sank in 2002. The court s...
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Spanish court gears up for high-stakes trial of separatists
Breaking Stories 12/16/2018A preliminary hearing in a rebellion case against Catalan separatists Tuesday displayed some of the dynamics between defense and prosecutors expected during a trial that is likely to dominate Spanish politics.Altogether, 18 former politicians and act...
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Palestinian court extends detention of Palestinian-American
Breaking Stories 12/07/2018A Palestinian court on Thursday extended the detention of a hunger-striking Palestinian-American activist who claims she was tortured in captivity. Suha Jbara, 31, a U.S. citizen born in Panama, shuffled into the Jericho courtroom with her head down,...
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Court deadlines set stage for more Russia probe details
Breaking Stories 12/07/2018Robert Mueller is set to reveal more details about his Russia investigation on Friday as he faces court deadlines in the cases of two men who worked closely with President Donald Trump.The special counsel and federal prosecutors in New York will have...
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Trial starts for Hong Kong businessman in bribery case
Breaking Stories 11/27/2018The New York trial of a prominent Hong Kong businessman charged in a United Nations-linked bribery conspiracy is set to begin with jury selection Monday.The trial of Dr. Chi Ping Patrick Ho begins a year after he was arrested on charges accusing him ...
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European court orders Turkey to free ex-Kurdish party leader
Breaking Stories 11/20/2018The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday called on Turkey to release the former head of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition from detention. Turkey's president responded by claiming his country was not bound by the court's rulings.In its ruling on Tu...
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Polish leader appoints top court judges, against ruling
Breaking Stories 10/09/2018Poland's president swore in 27 new Supreme Court judges Wednesday, stepping up the conflict over control of the judiciary and ignoring another top court that said the appointments should be suspended pending an opinion by European Union judges.Andrze...
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3 hurt in court shooting leave hospital; gunman identified
Breaking Stories 09/18/2018The wife of a gunman killed after he opened fire at a Pennsylvania municipal building Wednesday said in a social media post that she was OK but did not say whether she had been injured in the shooting.Crystal Dowdell, 39, posted on her Facebook accou...
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Trump taking Supreme Court fight to Montana, North Dakota
Breaking Stories 09/04/2018President Donald Trump is taking the Washington debate over his Supreme Court nominee to the homes of two red-state Senate Democrats this week, elevating Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation as a political litmus test for voters.Trump's strategy aims...
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Indian Supreme Court orders house arrest for activists
Breaking Stories 08/29/2018India's top court ordered Wednesday that five prominent rights activists arrested for alleged Maoist links be kept under house arrest instead of police custody until it rules next week on a petition challenging their detention.Police, meanwhile, brok...
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Court, regulators clash over uranium project in South Dakota
Breaking Stories 08/11/2018Federal regulators recently abandoned a proposed survey of Native American cultural resources at a planned uranium mine site in the southwest part South Dakota, just days before a judge decided the survey is required by federal law.The contradictory ...
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Court questions whether Maine has money to expand Medicaid
Breaking Stories 08/08/2018Maine's high court is weighing whether to allow the LePage administration to continue to block federal funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion. Justices on Wednesday heard the administration's arguments against a court order r...