Recent Updates
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Polish director demands apology from justice minister for comparing her film
International 09/12/2023Film director Agnieszka Holland demanded an apology from Poland’s justice minister after he compared her latest film, which explores the migration crisis at the Poland-Belarus border, to Nazi propaganda. Holland said Wednesday that she planned ...
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Pakistan leader moves to disband parliament, his jailed nemesis seeks release
International 08/08/2023Pakistan’s prime minister said Wednesday he is moving toward dissolving parliament, starting a possible countdown to a general election, as his chief political rival fought to overturn a corruption conviction that landed him in a high-security ...
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Tunisian court releases prominent radio director from prison
International 05/21/2023Tunisia’s most popular private radio station said an appeal court has allowed its director to be released on bail from prison, after more than three months of detention.Mosaique FM announced Wednesday that its director, Noureddine Boutar, was f...
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Top Spanish court considers far-right challenge to LGBT law
International 05/08/2023Spain’s Constitutional Court said Tuesday it would consider a legal challenge lodged by the far-right Vox party against a new law extending rights for transgender teenagers and encouraging tolerance for sexual diversity in schools. The wide-ran...
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Court: Ukraine can try to avoid repaying $3B loan to Russia
International 03/15/2023The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Ukraine can go to trial to try to avoid repaying $3 billion in loans it said it took under pressure from Russia in 2013 to prevent it from trying to join the European Union. The court rejected an attempt to...
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Pakistani court acquits parents of activist in treason case
International 02/13/2023A Pakistani court on Wednesday acquitted the parents of an exiled female human rights activist, a defense lawyer said, three years after the couple was arrested on charges of terror financing and sedition.The 2019 arrests of Gulalai Ismail’s pa...
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2 German ex-soldiers convicted over Yemen mercenary plans
International 10/24/2022Two former German soldiers were convicted Monday of trying to form a mercenary group to intervene in Yemen’s civil war. They were found guilty of attempting to form a terrorist organization.The Stuttgart state court said the two men, aged 61 an...
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India’s top court split on school ban on Muslim headscarves
International 10/13/2022Two judges on India’s top court on Thursday differed over a ban on the wearing of the hijab, a headscarf used by Muslim women, in educational institutions and referred the sensitive issue to a larger bench of three or more judges to settle.Just...
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German court rejects environmental group’s suit vs Mercedes
International 09/13/2022A German court has rejected a lawsuit from an environmental group which sought to have automaker Mercedes-Benz barred from selling cars with combustion engines that emit greenhouse gases after 2030. The state court in Stuttgart, where Mercedes-Benz G...
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Thai court asked to rule if prime minister must step down
International 08/23/2022Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Monday received a petition from opposition lawmakers seeking a ruling on whether Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has reached the legal limit on how long he can remain in office.The petition, signed by 171 mem...
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Palestinian hunger striker to appeal to Israel’s high court
International 08/15/2022The lawyer for a Palestinian prisoner said Tuesday that her client will appeal his case to Israel’s Supreme Court as he continues what his family says is a 165-day hunger strike against his detention. Also Tuesday, an Israeli military court ext...
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Zimbabwe students scoop international awards for moot court
International 07/14/2022A history-making team of Zimbabwean high school students that became world and European moot court competition champions has been widely praised in a country where the education system is beset by poor funding, lack of materials and teachers’ s...