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Tech News

TikTok fights back against US law forcing sale of platform

Attorneys for ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, will argue in front of US lawmakers on Monday that the law forcing its sale is unconstitutional.

14/09/2024

Green News

Shell appeals Dutch court’s landmark climate ruling

The oil and gas giant claims the historic climate ruling ‘obstructs’ climate action but environmental groups say the scientific basis of the case has only got stronger since 2021.

02/04/2024

Green News

'Belief in consent’: UK climate activists could lose key defence

Five XR protesters could be the last to use the statutory defence, after the government asked the Court of Appeal to review it.

21/02/2024

Business

Court throws out $200 million verdict against J&J in talc cancer case

Johnson & Johnson faces more than 38,000 lawsuits alleging that its talc products contain asbestos.

04/10/2023

Russia

Ilya Yashin loses court appeal against eight-and-a-half year sentence

A critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine is to remain behind bars after losing an appeal against an eight-and-a-half-year sentence handed down in December 2022.

19/04/2023

Culture news

Andrew Tate will stay in jail after losing appeal against 30-day renew

Andrew Tate and his brother are currently being detained in Romania on suspicion of organised crime and human trafficking.

01/02/2023

Turkey

Turkish court upholds life sentence for philanthropist Osman Kavala

The Council of Europe has repeatedly called on Turkey to immediately release the 65-year-old activist.

28/12/2022

Germany

Former German Nazi camp secretary appeals against conviction

The 97-year-old was found guilty last week of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders.

28/12/2022

Russia

Russia rejects appeal against Brittney Griner's prison sentence

The US basketball player was convicted in Moscow on drug charges in August.

25/10/2022

Russia

Navalny loses appeal over being labelled an extremist and a terrorist

Navalny, Russia's highest profile critic of Vladimir Putin, was given a nine-year jail sentence earlier this year.

08/06/2022

Europe Decoded

Dutch police use 'deepfake' video in appeal over boy's murder in 2003

Police in Rotterdam say it is the world's first time that an artificially manipulated video has been used in this way.

23/05/2022

France

Former French PM Fillon loses appeal against corruption conviction

The court gave Fillon a one-year prison sentence for a "fake jobs" scandal involving his wife Penelope.

09/05/2022

United Kingdom

Post-Brexit Northern Ireland protocol is legal, says Belfast court

The decision is a setback for unionists who see the agreement as a threat to their place in the UK.

14/03/2022

Norway

Norway appeals court increases sentence of ‘ambulance hijacker’

Two young children were injured when a man deliberately drove the vehicle into pedestrians in Oslo in 2019.

09/03/2022

Sweden

Swedish filmmakers face second trial for exploring wreck of MS Estonia

A total of 852 people died - it was Europe’s worst peacetime maritime disaster.

15/02/2022

Switzerland

Rich countries should pay €14 billion urgently to end pandemic — WHO

"Science gave us the tools to fight COVID-19; if they are shared globally in solidarity, we can end COVID-19 as a global health emergency this year," said the World Health Organization's chief.

09/02/2022

Afghanistan

'Absolutely essential': UN launches €4.4 bn appeal to help Afghans

The UN says $5bn (€4.4bn) is needed to pay health and other essential workers to help prevent the collapse of basic services following the Taliban takeover.

11/01/2022

Sport

Mercedes withdraws appeal against controversial F1 season finale

A safety car decision by the FIA had led to Red Bull's Max Verstappen winning his first F1 world championship.

16/12/2021

France

SNCF told to pay passenger over €1 million after train door accident

France's national state-owned railway company has been ordered to pay more than €1 million in compensation to a passenger who had her leg amputated in 2008 after a train door accident.

10/11/2021

Sport

Footballer Lucas Hernandez avoids prison in Spain after winning appeal

The World Cup-winning footballer had been facing jail time in Spain for violating a restraining order.

27/10/2021