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Korea

Park snubs impeachment hearings as South Korea's highest court begins scrutiny

South Korea's President Park stayed away from the Constitutional Court's first day of hearings into her possible impeachment.

03/01/2017

France

Son of Equatorial Guinea president seeks delay in Paris corruption trial

The first case of alleged plundering by the families of African leaders to make lavish purchases in France has come to court in Paris.

02/01/2017

Malta

Libyan men in Malta court charged over hijacking

Two Libyan men have appeared in court in the Maltese capital Valetta, charged with hijacking an airliner on Friday.

26/12/2016

World News

Christine Lagarde vows to fight allegations of negligence at Paris trial

IMF chief Christine Lagarde vowed to fight “allegation by allegation” on the first day of her trial in Paris where she is being accused of negligence in allowing the misuse of public…

12/12/2016

Italy

Verdict expected in Catania shipwreck trial

The Sicilian court is expected to deliver its verdict on captain Ali Malek on Tuesday. Just 28 of the 800 migrants survived when the fishing boat sunk in April 2015.

12/12/2016

Europe News

LuxLeaks tax whistleblowers appear in court to appeal convictions

Dozens of campaigners are in Luxembourg to call for the protection of whistleblowers.

12/12/2016

France

IMF chief Lagarde 'confident' ahead of negligence trial in France

The head of the International Monetary Fund goes on trial in Paris over her role in a state payout to businessman Bernard Tapie when she was finance minister.

12/12/2016

Netherlands

Wilders to appeal discrimination conviction

Judges have found the Dutch lawmaker guilty of discrimination against Moroccans. However, the ruling carries no punishment.

09/12/2016

World News

Mladic was central figure in Srebrenica massacre, say war crimes prosecutors

Prosecutors have been summing up at the war crimes trial of the ex-Bosnian Serb commander in The Hague.

05/12/2016

Russia

Ukraine: exiled ex-President Yanukovych's testimony cut short in Maidan murder trial

Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has appeared in court via video link to give evidence in the trial of five ex-riot policemen accused of shooting dead protesters in…

25/11/2016

Netherlands

Geert Wilders blasts 'political trial' over rally call for fewer Moroccans

The leader of the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) has denied being racist at his incitement trial in Amsterdam.

24/11/2016

Italy

Mysterious case of mistaken identity? 'Prolific people smuggler' on trial in Italy could be wrong man

The trial in Italy of an alleged prolific people smuggler has been suspended until November 28 amid allegations of a glaring case of mistaken identity.

22/11/2016

World News

Russia's Supreme Court sends Navalny case for retrial

Russia’s Supreme Court has struck down a lower court’s decision to hand Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a five year suspended sentence for corruption and sent the case back for…

16/11/2016

Indonesia

Jakarta's Christian governor faces blasphemy probe

The Christian and ethnic Chinese governor of Jakarta, Indonesia, is to be investigated on allegations of blasphemy.

16/11/2016

Sport

Neymar could stand trial for alleged corruption

Barcelona forward Neymar, his parents and two of the club’s executives should stand trial for alleged corruption, Spain’s High Court said on Monday as it wrapped up a fraud investigation into the Braz

08/11/2016

Germany

German couple go on trial accused of torturing women

A couple have gone on trial accused of luring women to their house in western Germany and torturing them so badly, that at least two of them died.

26/10/2016

China

British banker on trail for brutal Hong Kong murder

Rurik Jutting is on trial in Hong Kong for the murder of two Indonesian women. The 31-year old plead not guilty.

24/10/2016

Germany

Germany: Teenager goes on trial accused of stabbing 'on ISIL's orders'

The trial began on Thursday of a teenage German-Moroccan girl accused of stabbing a police officer at a train station in Hanover in February on the orders of so-called Islamic…

20/10/2016

Netherlands

Hate speech trial of far-right politician Wilders will go ahead

A Dutch court ruled on Friday that prosecutors can pursue anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders over comments in which he led a roomful of supporters in chanting that they wanted “fewer” Moroccans in th

14/10/2016

Spain

Spain's 'trial of the year' opens

Top officials inside Spain’s ruling Popular Party, have appeared in court in Madrid on charges of fraud.

04/10/2016