Recent Updates
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Kenya’s deputy president pleads not guilty in impeachment process
Headline News 10/22/2024Kenya’s deputy president, who faces impeachment, pleaded not guilty in a senate hearing Wednesday to all allegations including corruption, inciting ethnic divisions and support for anti-government protests that saw demonstrators storm the count...
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Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court
Headline News 08/05/2024Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a U.N. court to join South Africa’s lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said.Turkey’s ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, sub...
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Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison
Headline News 07/17/2024Albania’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a verdict of the lower courts keeping a former elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority in prison after he was convicted of buying votes.A Supreme Court statement said that it upheld the ver...
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Top UN court orders Israel to halt military offensive in Rafah
Headline News 05/20/2024The United Nations’ top court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave. Although Israel is unlikely to comply with the ord...
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Live updates: NATO leader rules out no-fly zone over Ukraine
Headline News 03/16/2022NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has categorically ruled out any role for the military organization in setting up and policing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect against Russian airstrikes. Stoltenberg says “NATO should not deploy for...
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New Mexico Supreme court mediates clash on pandemic aid
Headline News 11/20/2021New Mexico’s Supreme Court is considering whether state legislators should have a greater say in the spending more than $1 billion in federal pandemic aid. Arguments in the case were scheduled for Wednesday morning at the five-seat high court. ...
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Son of ex-Nissan head Carlos Ghosn predicts court surprises
Headline News 01/02/2019The son of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn said in an interview published Sunday that people will be surprised when his father, detained since Nov. 19 for allegedly falsifying financial reports, recounts his version of events to a Tokyo court on ...
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Cancer the latest health woe for resilient Justice Ginsburg
Headline News 12/22/2018Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is resting in a New York hospital following surgery to remove two malignant growths in her left lung, the third time the Supreme Court’s oldest justice has been treated for cancer and her second stay in a hospital in...
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow asylum ban
Headline News 12/10/2018The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow enforcement of a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.Two federal courts have temporarily blocked the policy President Donald Trump announced in Nove...
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With teachers watching, Kentucky court to consider pensions
Headline News 09/18/2018Kentucky's governor and attorney general are headed to the state Supreme Court to argue about the future of one of the country's worst-funded pension systems. Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear says lawmakers did not follow the rules when ...
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Austrian court's approval for spy agency raid was illegal
Headline News 08/26/2018Judges in Austria say a lower court's authorization for police to raid the offices of the country's domestic intelligence agency was illegal.The regional court in Vienna said Tuesday that the search of the BVT spy agency on Feb. 28 wasn't justified b...
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Iran goes to UN's highest court over re-imposed US sanctions
Headline News 08/20/2018Iran went to the United Nations' highest court Monday in a bid to have U.S. sanctions lifted following President Donald Trump's decision earlier this year to re-impose them, calling the move "naked economic aggression."Iran filed the case with the In...