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January 10, 2020

Polish state TV ordered to apologize for migrants comments

A court in Poland has found state TV station guilty of insulting city authorities in Gdansk, including its slain mayor, and ...

January 10, 2020

Spanish judge seeks end of EU immunity for Catalan fugitives

A Spanish Supreme Court judge asked the European Parliament on Friday to strip the Catalonia region's ex-leader and another ...

January 10, 2020

Weinstein protesters gather outside courthouse

Dozens of protesters gathered outside a New York courthouse Friday where jury selection in the Harvey Weinstein rape trial ...

January 10, 2020

Female journalist wins pay-discrimination case against BBC

A BBC journalist who was paid a fraction of the fee received by a male colleague doing a similar job has won a ...

January 10, 2020

Ghosn's lawyer slams minister's gaffe on proving innocence

A lawyer for Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's former chairman who skipped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon, on Friday slammed a gaffe ...

January 10, 2020

Video in apparent Epstein suicide attempt is lost, US says

Video footage of the area around Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell on a day he survived an apparent suicide attempt “no longer ...

January 10, 2020

Pelosi to 'soon' send impeachment articles for Senate trial

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she will "soon'' transmit the articles of impeachment against President Donald ...

January 09, 2020

Spain's top court says separatist politician stays in prison

Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that an imprisoned Catalan politician will remain behind bars despite a European court ruling ...

January 09, 2020

Lebanon issues travel ban for fugitive ex-Nissan chief Ghosn

Lebanese prosecutors issued a travel ban for fugitive ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn and asked him to hand in his French ...

January 09, 2020

Man dies in Germany years after co-worker poisoned his lunch

A young man in Germany has died four years after being poisoned by a co-worker and falling into a coma. The state court in ...

January 09, 2020

Man dies in Germany years after co-worker poisoned his lunch

A young man in Germany has died four years after being poisoned by a co-worker and falling into a coma. The state court in ...

January 08, 2020

Man who stabbed Kvitova gets sentence increased to 11 years

An appeals court in the Czech Republic on Wednesday upheld a lower court conviction of a man for knifing two-time Wimbledon ...

January 08, 2020

Prosecutors raid lawyer's office where Ghosn worked on case

Tokyo prosecutors on Wednesday raided a Japanese lawyer's office where former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn had visited ...

January 07, 2020

Ex-Goldman Sachs banker pleads guilty to insider trading

A former banker at Goldman Sachs pleaded guilty to an insider trading charge Tuesday, admitting that he stole secrets from ...

January 07, 2020

UK woman in Cyprus gang rape case gets suspended sentence

A Cypriot court on Tuesday handed a four-month suspended sentence to a 19-year-old British woman who was found guilty of ...

January 07, 2020

Japan issues arrest warrant for Nissan ex-chair's wife

Tokyo prosecutors obtained an arrest warrant Tuesday for former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn's wife on suspicion of perjury, ...

January 07, 2020

12 climate activists on trial for stunt at Swiss bank office

A dozen climate activists have gone on trial for storming a Credit Suisse office in Lausanne, Switzerland, and playing tennis ...

January 07, 2020

Malta court overturns rescue ship captain's conviction

A Maltese appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a German captain of a private ship that rescues migrants in ...

January 07, 2020

Unique sex-abuse suit filed against Boy Scouts in US capital

A team of lawyers filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking to establish the nation’s capital as ...