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Greece

Turkey/Greece: Soldier's extradition or asylum?

The eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece and sought asylum on Saturday have appeared in court in Alexandroupoli. They deny taking part in the failed coup attempt.

21/07/2016

Switzerland

Russia loses appeal against ban on track and field athletes at Rio Olympics

A legal challenge by a group of Russian track and field athletes against their exclusion from next month’s Summer Olympics in Rio has been rejected.

21/07/2016

Business Series

Uber drivers fight for workers rights in London

Two Uber drivers in London have brought a test case at an employment tribunal arguing the ride service is acting unlawfully by not offering paid holidays and sick pay.

20/07/2016

Zimbabwe

Celebrations as pastor is freed by Zimbabwe court

There was much celebrating in Zimbabwe after a court freeded a detained pastor accused of trying to overthrow the government via an internet campaign.

14/07/2016

USA

Two bailiffs and a gunman killed at US courthouse

A gunman has shot dead two bailiffs and wounded two others, including a deputy sheriff at a courthouse in the US state of Michigan.

11/07/2016

Uruguay

Uruguay defeats tobacco giant in court dispute

The World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has ruled in favour of Uruguay after cigarette giant Philip Morris International tried to seek compensation from the

09/07/2016

Vatican

Italian journalists cleared in Vatican leaks trial, two others convicted

Two journalists have been cleared by a Vatican court of publishing leaked documents claiming the top of the Catholic Church was plagued by corruption.

07/07/2016

France

Prosecutor calls for bullying trial over France Telecom suicides

The Paris prosecutor has recommended that France Telecom, its former boss and other senior executives face trial for bullying after a wave of suicides among the…

07/07/2016

World News

Messi to appeal against prison term for tax fraud

World football superstar Lionel Messi and his father are to appeal against a 21-month prison term and 2 million euro fine in a tax case.

07/07/2016

France

France jails seven men for recruiting and training for ISIL

Seven men have been found guilty in France of supporting ISIL, either by recruiting or suppling logistical or other support, or by travelling to Syria for military…

06/07/2016

Spain

Why were the Messis convicted?

Lionel Messi and his father Jorge have both been sentenced to 21 months in jail (though it is very unlikely that they will be put behind bars) and handed multi-million Euro fines, after being found gu

06/07/2016

Spain

Messi facing 21 months in prison for tax fraud

Spanish media say the Barcelona player was convicted of the multi-million euro fraud along with his father. The sentence can be appealed.

06/07/2016

World News

Oscar Pistorius gets six year sentence for murder

The South African athlete has been sentenced by a court in Pretoria for the murder of his girlfriend in 2013.

06/07/2016

Belgium

Belgian court gives heavy sentences to Verviers ISIL cell members

A Belgian judge on Tuesday sentenced 15 members of an ISIL militant cell, nine of them in absentia, to up to 16 years in prison after convicting them of plotting attacks on targets including Brussels…

05/07/2016

Business Series

EU court perks up McDonald's with MACCOFFEE ruling

McDonald's has won an EU trademark dispute with a Singaporean rival which wanted to use the name MACCOFFEE.

05/07/2016

Germany

Man jailed by German court for stabbing mayor of Cologne

A German court has sentenced a man to 14 years in jail for stabbing the mayor of Cologne the day before Henriette Reker was elected.

02/07/2016

World News

German MPs file war crime lawsuit against Turkey

The Turkish military shelled the town of Cizre in the southeast for five months last year, and then claimed it had killed 600 PKK fighters in its war with the Kurdish militant…

27/06/2016

Italy

Italian mafia boss captured in mountain village

Italy’s second biggest mafia boss has been arrested in Molochia, a small town in the Aspromonte mountains of Calabria.

26/06/2016

Russia

Russian governor Nikita Belykh held over 'large bribe' in corruption probe

The governor of the central Russian Kirov region has been detained, “accused of accepting a 400,000 euro bribe’:http://tass.

25/06/2016

Germany

Germany: jailed nurse suspected of murdering more patients

A former German nurse already serving a life sentence for murdering two patients after injecting them with heart medication, may have killed dozens more, say…

22/06/2016