A special court in Afghanistan on Tuesday sentenced 20 men to four to five years in prison for their involvement in the USD $935 million fraud that led to the 2010 collapse of Kabul Bank. Founder and former chairman...
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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday affirmed a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of an Arizona immigration law that prohibits motorists from stopping traffic to pick up workers....
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously in Levin v. United States that the intentional tort exception in the Gonzales Act does not immunize individual government medical...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in one new case on Monday. In Walden v. Fiore the court will consider two questions of venue and jurisdiction . First,...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism Ben Emmerson called Monday on the US government to publish the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report...
The Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on Monday voted to impeach outgoing President Vaclav Klaus for charges of treason. After a 38 to 30 vote , the Senate filed...
Yemen's government should stop seeking and carrying out the death penalty for child offenders, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Monday. The report found that since 2007 Yemen executed at...
A Moscow court on Monday began preliminary hearings in the posthumous trial against Russian whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky . This case marks the first time that Russia will carry out a legal proceeding against a...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday began the trial of 94 people charged with plotting to overthrow the government. The group of defendants includes unnamed doctors, academics, lawyers and other professionals arrested over the...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday upheld the listing of polar bears as a "threatened" species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) . Designation of the animal...
