Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged French President Emmanuel Macron to raise human rights abuse s during a meeting with Egyptian President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi in Paris on Tuesday. Tuesday's meeting will be Macron's first meeting...
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US veterans filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday against five big pharmaceutical firms for funding terrorist organizations in Iraq. The suit was brought by more than 100 US veterans and their families for injuries sustained in...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against international mining group Rio Tinto and two of its chief executives alleging fraud and deception in violation of federal law. The...
Pennsylvania's Beaver County filed a lawsuit on Monday against opioid manufacturers. The lawsuit, filed in the Beaver County Court of Common Pleas , accuses manufacturers and doctors of deceptive acts, fraud, unjust enrichment, negligence, misrepresentation...
A jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York convicted Chelsea bomber Ahmed Khan Rahimi on Monday on indictments related to bombings and attempted bombings in New York City last September....
Germany formally ratified on Thursday the Council of Europe convention on preventing and comabting violence against women and domestic violence . The so-called "Istanbul Convention" criminalizes violence against women in all its forms. The 81 Articles in...
A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Ayla Albayrak in absentia to 25 months in prison for propaganda charges . The conviction underlying the sentence comes as a result of Albayrak's 2015 story...
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Monday aimed at making drug prices for both public and private health plans more transparent. Beginning October 1, 2018, the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development [official...
The Supreme Court began the October 2017 term with oral arguments in two cases, one concerning employment dispute arbitration and the other concerning criminal-removal in immigration proceedings. The first, Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis ,...
Chief Judge Brian Jackson of the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana , held Thursday that a police officer could not sue Black Lives Matter (BLM) for injuries sustained during a protest on July 9, 2016...
