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January 18, 2019

British sailor acquitted in gang rape case at Canadian base

A British sailor accused in an alleged gang rape at a Canadian military base has been acquitted. Darren Smalley was charged ...

January 18, 2019

Barcelona avoids scare over ineligible player, stays in Copa

Barcelona will not be penalized in the Copa del Rey. Levante's complaint that Barcelona used an illegible player arrived ...

January 18, 2019

ICC judges: Former Ivory Coast president must remain jailed

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo must spend at least another two weeks in detention at the International Criminal ...

January 18, 2019

Ex-judge: Romania ruling could collapse murder trials

A court ruling that Romanian prosecutors obtained evidence illegally could collapse murder and child pornography trials in ...

January 18, 2019

Grand jury charges 4 Audi managers in emissions case

A federal grand jury in Detroit has indicted four Audi engineering managers from Germany in a widening diesel emissions ...

January 17, 2019

Germany: Love Parade trial headed for inconclusive end

The trial of 10 people in Germany over a deadly mass panic at the Love Parade techno music festival in 2010 appears likely ...

January 17, 2019

Lawyers again urge ICC to release ex-Ivory Coast president

Defense lawyers on Thursday again called for the immediate release of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and an ...

January 17, 2019

Tokyo court denies appeal by Nissan ex-chair Ghosn for bail

A Tokyo court rejected Thursday another appeal by lawyers of Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn to have him released on ...

January 16, 2019

ICC judges say Gbagbo should be released following acquittal

International Criminal Court judges said Wednesday that former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and a former government ...

January 16, 2019

Russia: Ex-Marine held on spying charge gets prison visit

The brother of a former U.S. Marine with multiple citizenships says Irish government representatives have visited Paul Whelan ...

January 16, 2019

Serbia court acquits suspects in 2008 torching of US embassy

A Serbian appeals court has acquitted the suspects in the 2008 rioting and torching of the U.S. embassy in Belgrade after a ...

January 16, 2019

French court upholds prison sentence for Sarkozy former aide

The French court of cassation has upheld a two-year jail sentence, including one suspended, against ex-French President ...

January 16, 2019

Romania: Ruling on intelligence pact puts trials in doubt

Romania's Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled that secret protocols between prosecutors and the country's domestic ...

January 16, 2019

Drug trafficker tells of bribe to ex-president of Mexico

A Colombian drug trafficker testified Tuesday that Mexican cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman boasted about paying a ...

January 15, 2019

ICC judges acquit former Ivory Coast president Gbagbo

Delivering a stinging defeat to prosecutors at the International Criminal Court, judges on Tuesday acquitted former Ivory ...

January 15, 2019

Mueller not ready for Trump aide's sentencing, filing says

Rick Gates, a former senior campaign aide to President Donald Trump, will have to wait at least another two months for his ...

January 15, 2019

Suspect in Brussels Jewish museum attack refuses to testify

A French citizen charged with "terrorist murder" for the slayings of four people at a Jewish museum in Belgium refused to ...

January 15, 2019

Belarus model arrested for Thai sex seminar pleads guilty

A model from Belarus who claimed last year that she had evidence of Russian involvement in helping elect Donald Trump ...

January 14, 2019

2 French policemen go on trial accused of raping tourist

Two French policemen went on trial Monday on charges of gang-raping a Canadian tourist at Paris police headquarters nearly ...