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ICC prosecutors: Kenya trials will take months
International Criminal Court prosecutors plan to call dozens of witnesses to build their cases against four prominent Kenyans charged with involvement ...
Lawyer: Police beat New Delhi gang rape suspects
Police badly beat the five suspects arrested in the brutal gang rape and killing of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, the lawyer for one of the men ...
Transocean settlement of Gulf spill heads to court
Transocean Ltd. made an initial court appearance Wednesday for its plea agreement with the Justice Department over the company's role in the massive ...
Briton to be sentenced in weapons-to-Iran plot
A U.S. judge is expected to sentence a British businessman who pleaded guilty to trying to buy missile parts and resell them to Iran.
Judge: Army GI in WikiLeaks illegally punished
An Army private suspected of sending reams of classified documents to the secret-sharing WikiLeaks website was illegally punished at a Marine Corps ...
Winslet husband wins injunction over party pics
Kate Winslet's new husband won an injunction Tuesday in a British court to stop a tabloid newspaper publishing photos of him at a costume party.
France: 9 convicted for link to Uzbek terror group
A Paris court has convicted nine people for links to a militant group that the U.N. Security Council has described as an al-Qaida affiliate. The trial ...
2nd Winehouse inquest confirms alcohol death
Amy Winehouse died from accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after a period of abstinence, a second coroner's inquest confirmed ...
Argentines sentenced for drug trafficking in Spain
A Spanish court has sentenced two Argentine brothers to 13 years in jail each for transporting almost a ton of cocaine to Spain in a private plane.
Vietnam put on trial 14 activists
A court in central Vietnam has put on trial 14 activists accused of allegedly carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the communist government ...
NY subway terror suspect from UK pleads not guilty
A man who initially beat terror charges in the United Kingdom pleaded not guilty on Monday in a U.S. case linking him to a failed al-Qaida plot ...
Church can't withhold names in Calif. priest files
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles must release the names of church leaders and pedophile priests identified in thousands of pages of ...
UK jails mom for killing son over Quran study
A British judge on Monday sentenced a woman he called a "devoted and loving mother" to at least 17 years in prison for beating her son to death after ...
Bahrain court upholds life sentences on opposition
Bahrain's highest court Monday upheld jail terms for 20 opposition figures — including eight sentenced to life — for alleged plots to "overthrow" the ...
Cameroon judge frees 2 men jailed for looking gay
A court has overturned the conviction of two men who were sentenced for five years in prison for "looking gay" and ordering Bailey's Irish Cream.
UK detective on trial over phone hacking leak
A senior British counterterrorism detective committed a "gross breach" of public trust by trying to sell information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the ...
BBC broadcaster pleads not guilty on abuse charges
A BBC broadcaster has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually abusing three girls. The charges against the well-known 82-year-old sports broadcaster ...
Hearings, trial closed in Indian rape case
An Indian magistrate ruled Monday that the media will not be allowed to attend pre-trial hearings or the trial of the five men accused of raping and ...
Official says China to end labor camp sentences
China will stop handing down labor camp sentences this year under a system that allowed police to lock up government critics and other defendants for ...
Yemen court sentences alleged 5 al-Qaida militants
Yemen's state security court on Sunday sentenced five alleged al-Qaida militants to up to 10 years in prison for carrying out attacks against security ...
2 Romanian journalists sentenced for blackmail
A Romanian court has given two journalists suspended prison sentences after they were convicted of trying to blackmail politicians and businessmen ...
Transocean's $1.4B oil spill deal will help Gulf
A $1.4 billion settlement between the Justice Department and Deepwater Horizon rig owner Transocean Ltd. will pump hundreds of millions of dollars ...
Judge: Law won't protect unmarried victims in rape
A California appeals court overturned the rape conviction of a man who pretended to be a sleeping woman's boyfriend, ruling, in part, Wednesday that ...
British government extradites al-Qaida suspect
Police in Britain have extradited a terror suspect to the United States to face charges that he took part in an alleged al-Qaida plot to detonate ...