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September 22, 2018

Ford Motor told to pay Thai customers for transmission woes

A Thai court has ordered a local sales affiliate of Ford Motor Co. to pay 291 customers a total of about $720,000 in ...

September 22, 2018

Pennsylvania dioceses consider victims' compensation fund

Pennsylvania's Roman Catholic dioceses said late Friday they are willing to set up a victims' compensation fund as they face ...

September 21, 2018

Suspects in American tourist's killing go on trial in Greece

Suspects in the Greek murder trial stemming from the fatal beating of 22-year-old American tourist Bakari Henderson have ...

September 21, 2018

Parents of Wisconsin teen who died in Rome come for trial

The parents of a 19-year-old Wisconsin student whose body was found in the Tiber River in Rome have testified in the Italian ...

September 21, 2018

Father of Russian held in US says jail conditions improved

The father of a Russian woman jailed in the U.S. on charges that she tried to infiltrate U.S. political organizations as a ...

September 21, 2018

Snapchat addict sentenced to 14 years for manslaughter

A judge has sentenced a Snapchat addict to 14 years in prison for orchestrating the killing of her sometime boyfriend and ...

September 21, 2018

Model sentenced to at least 25 years for murdering rival

A British fashion model has been sentenced to at least 25 years in prison for murdering a more successful rival during a ...

September 21, 2018

Portugal women's groups outraged by sexual assault sentence

Women's rights groups in Portugal reacted angrily Friday to a court's suspended sentence for two men found guilty of sexually ...

September 20, 2018

Turkey frees prominent opposition lawmaker Berberoglu

A Turkish court on Thursday released a prominent lawmaker from the main opposition party who had been sentenced to more than ...

September 20, 2018

Anti-abuse activists pan US Catholic bishops' new proposals

Lawyers and advocates for victims of clergy sex-abuse are assailing as inadequate some new steps announced by U.S.

September 20, 2018

Court rules against Poland over plane crash exhumations

The European Court of Human rights has ruled that the Polish government violated the rights of two women whose husbands were ...

September 20, 2018

Hungary: Court cuts Syrian's sentence over migrant riot

A Hungarian appeals court on Thursday lowered to five years from seven the prison sentence of a Syrian man convicted of ...

September 20, 2018

German anti-abortion activist loses case against injunctions

The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a German anti-abortion activist's case against injunctions ordering him to ...

September 20, 2018

Pakistan's ex-PM Sharif freed after court suspends sentence

Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law were released from prison Wednesday after a court ...

September 20, 2018

Judge sets Dec. 18 sentencing for Michael Flynn

After months of delay, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn now has a sentencing date. A federal judge on Wednesday ...

September 19, 2018

Croatian TV says Liverpool's Lovren charged with perjury

Croatian state TV said Wednesday that Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren has been charged with perjury for allegedly giving ...

September 19, 2018

FIFA life bans for 3 who pleaded guilty in US case

FIFA's ethics committee has imposed life bans on three officials for bribery and corruption after they pleaded guilty in the ...

September 19, 2018

Egypt court upholds suspended sentence against activist

An Egyptian appeals court on Wednesday upheld a three-month suspended prison sentence for a prominent rights lawyer convicted ...

September 19, 2018

Rape trial starts of man at center of Nobel scandal

The man at the center of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy that awards the Nobel Prize ...