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Romania

Romania government calls for calm amid confusion over corruption plans

There is confusion in Romania over the government’s plans on corruption: first the Justice Minister Florin Iordache spoke on Monday morning of presenting a new, alternative bill after the withdrawal o

USA

Passengers take advantage of suspended Trump travel ban to fly to US

The uncertainty caused by the legal tussle over the Trump administration’s travel ban has opened a window for travellers from the seven affected countries to enter the United…

USA

Legal tug-of-war brews over Trump administration immigration ban

The government faces a Monday evening deadline to provide the US appeals court with information to justify the ban after a federal judge in Seattle blocked it on Friday.

Spain

Ex-Catalan president goes on trial over symbolic independence vote

A defiant Artur Mas, the former Catalan president says he has nothing to apologise for as he goes on trial today for his role in the symbolic independence referendum staged in the region three years…

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World News

US Appeals Court refuses to reinstate the Trump travel ban

Nonetheless, Donald Trump is predicting the US Justice Department will win the appeal it has filed against a judge's order lifting a travel ban he had imposed on citizens of seven mainly-Muslim countr

USA

Trump administration appeals travel ban suspension

As the Trump administration appeals the suspension of its controversial travel ban, those affected by the restrictions are using their window of opportunity to get into the United…

USA

Trump picks conservative Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court

President Donald Trump has chosen conservative federal judge, Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacancy on the US Supreme Court.

Italy

Former Italian rail bosses convicted over 2009 disaster

Mauro Moretti and Michele Mario Elia were convicted over the derailment and explosion of a freight train carrying liquid petroleum gas through the Tuscan town of Viareggio in 2009.

USA

Stand-in US Attorney General vows to enforce Trump travel ban

After Sally Yates was sacked as the US Federal government’s top lawyer by Donald Trump, her temporary replacement has told his staff to obey the president’s…

USA

New York judge rules against Trump's Muslim travel ban

Trump's travel ban on 134 million people in tatters

Greece

Turkey: Anger as Greek court rejects extradition of fugitive soldiers

Ankara has reacted with fury after Greece's Supreme Court rejected the extradition of 8 Turkish soldiers wanted over last July's attempted coup.

Greece

Greece: Supreme Court rules against extraditing 8 Turkish soldiers

Turkey said Greece was protecting plotters and failing in the fight against terrorism on Thursday after the Supreme Court in Athens ruled against extraditing eight Turkish soldiers wanted over last Ju

South Korea

South Korea corruption scandal: president's friend protests innocence

Choi Soon-sil, the woman at the heart of South Korea's corruption scandal, insists she's been forced to confess.

Brazil

Judge in Brazil graft probe dies in plane crash

Teori Zavascki's death raises questions over who will take over the country's biggest corruption case.

United Kingdom

Whistleblowing: Manning commutation prompts questions about Assange

The fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is in question following the commutation of US whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s sentence.

South Korea

Samsung top boss faces arrest

The head of the Samsung group has been questioned behind closed doors about his alleged role in a corruption scandal that has led parliament to impeach President Park Guen-hye.

World News

Obama commutes Chelsea Manning sentence

President Barrack Obama has shortened the prison sentence of former US military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.

Germany

German court rules neo-Nazi NPD is no threat to democracy

No ban for Neo-Nazi NPD

World News

Egyptian court blocks island handover to Saudi Arabia

Cairo court rules that the islands Tiran and Sanafir remain Egyptian

South Korea

South Korea: arrest warrant sought for Samsung's de facto chief

South Korea's special prosecutors' office seeks the arrest of Samsung's de facto leader, Lee Jae-yong on allegations of corruption.