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Ukraine

Confusion over trial of Ukrainian pilot

Nadia Savchenko's case has been heard by a Russian court

Russia

Confusion over Savchenko trial

Earlier guilty verdict disputed by those in court

World News

Verdict due in Savchenko trial in Moscow

Nadia Savchenko, the Ukrainian pilot on trial in Moscow charged with complicity in the deaths of two Russian journalists will hear her fate today

Belgium

UPDATED: Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam charged with 'terrorist murder'

France has issued a new arrest warrant to speed up the suspect's extradition.

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Netherlands

Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders appears in court to answer charges of hate speech

Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders is back in court to answer charges of discrimination and hate speech against the country’s Moroccan minority

Business Series

Former Porsche boss cleared of market manipulation in VW takeover attempt

Porsche's former chief executive Wendelin Wiedeking has been acquitted of alleged stock market manipulation, over its attempt to take control of Volkswagen in 2008.

USA

US ISIL recruiter is jailed for 22 years

A court in New York state jailed a local man for over 22 years on Thursday for trying to recruit fighters to join ISIL in Syria. The sentence handed

Germany

Germany: wannabe triple agent jailed for 8 years for spying and treason

A German would-be triple agent who claims not enough trust was placed in him has been sentenced to eight years in prison for spying and treason

USA

Tough new US sanctions against N.Korea on same day American student jailed

New sanctions include the freezing of North Korean government property in the US and a ban on US exports to North Korea

North Korea

15 years' hard labour for US student arrested in North Korea

Otto Warmbier is accused of trying to steal a banner bearing a propaganda slogan from a hotel

Belgium

ISIL flag found next to body of suspect killed in Brussels shootout

Belgium’s federal prosecutor told reporters that an Islamic State (ISIL) flag was found next to the body of a suspect shot dead during an anti-terror

South Africa

South Africa's Supreme court rules against Pretoria over Bashir

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir should have been arrested when he was in South Africa attending an African Union Summit last June. South

Norway

Mass killer Breivik appears in court in human rights case against Norway

Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has appeared in public for the first time since being sentenced for killing 77 people five years ago. He gave a

Norway

Norway's mass killer Anders Breivik sues his jailers for violating his human rights

Anders Behring Breivik , the man convicted of killing 77 people in Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity is suing his jailers for alleged cruel and

Norway

Norway mass murderer Breivik sues over his human rights

Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is about to return to court – but this time it is to sue the Norwegian state, claiming it is violating his human

Turkey

Erdogan warns Turkey's top courts over freed journalists

Turkey’s president warned the country’s top court that it’s survival would be up for debate if it repeated rulings that were against the country

Denmark

Danish children's rights campaigner found guilty of smuggling

Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her husband have two weeks to appeal

Belgium

Church of Scientology 'unfairly hounded by Belgian authorities' - judge

A Belgian court has cleared the Church of Scientology on charges of forming a criminal organisation over alleged fraud. Presiding judge Yves Regimont

Russia

Mikhail Lesin died of 'blunt force injuries' say Russian authorities

Authorities in Russia say former press minister Mikhail Lesin died of blunt force injuries to the head. He was found dead inside a hotel room last

Sport

Benzema eligible for France selection after winning appeal

Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has become eligible to play for France at this summer’s European Championships on home soil after an appeals court