The European Commission on Tuesday stated that Visa Europe, a subsidiary of Visa, Inc. , has breached EU antitrust laws. Visa Europe imposes multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) that retailers must pay for accepting...
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A Taiwanese university announced Monday that it has filed a patent suit against Apple in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas . Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University holds two different...
An Iranian court on Monday sentenced to death four individuals convicted on financial corruption charges, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported . The national news agency cited Prosecutor-General Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, who said that...
The UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) on Monday confirmed its jurisdiction over the trials of the assassins of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri . The defense counsel for the...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announced Friday that four men responsible for killing seven UN officials during an armed conflict near the border town of Tai were arrested in Liberia [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday expressed concern about the continued violence and human rights violations prevalent in Myanmar's Rakhine state since clashes began between its Buddhist and minority Rohingya [BBC...
A Chinese intermediate court on Friday dismissed fraud charges against Ni Yulan, a human rights lawyer with disabilities, resulting in a two-month reduction to her two-year and eight-month sentence while upholding convictions against the lawyer for causing a disturbance....
A German court on Friday granted Microsoft Corp. an injunction against Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility in a patent infringement case involving a technology related to common names for long and short file allocation tables. With the...
The UN Human Rights Committee (OHCHR) on Thursday urged Kenya to investigate all cases related to the 2007 post-election violence in order to avoid impunity. The OHCHR expressed concern that the...
The UN Compensation Commission (UNCC) on Thursday made available additional funds for the government of Kuwait in an amount of around $1.3 billion for losses suffered during 1990-1991 Iraqi...
