Recent Updates
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Russian flight attendant sues Aeroflot for discrimination
International 08/23/2017A Moscow court postponed a hearing Tuesday in the case of a flight attendant who is suing Russia's flagship airline Aeroflot. She says she was taken off sought-after long-haul international flights because of her looks.Moscow City Court said that the...
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Vietnamese activist sentenced to 9 years in prison
International 08/05/2017A Vietnamese court on Tuesday sentenced an activist to nine years in prison on charges of producing videos that defamed the country’s leadership, in the latest crackdown on dissent.Tran Thi Nga was convicted of spreading propaganda against the ...
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Court ends hearing into corruption charges against PM
International 08/03/2017Pakistan’s supreme court on Friday concluded its hearing into a high-profile case involving allegations of corruption against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family, but it wasn’t immediately clear when a verdict would be announced, d...
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Top Vatican official to face Australian court on sex charges
International 07/23/2017The most senior Vatican official ever charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis is expected to make his first court appearance in Australia on Wednesday, as he vows to clear his name in a scandal that has rattled Rome.Cardinal George Pell, Aust...
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Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya guilty of disobeying top court
International 07/13/2017India's top court on Tuesday found wanted tycoon Vijay Mallya guilty of disobeying its order barring him from transferring $40 million to his children.Mallya, who fled to London last year, is wanted in India on charges of money laundering and bank de...
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Kim Jong Nam murder suspect asks her parents to pray for her
International 07/13/2017A suspect in the poisoning death of the North Korean leader's half brother wrote to her parents from jail, asking them to pray for her but saying "don't think about me too much."Siti Aisyah, an Indonesian mother who worked in Malaysia, appeared in co...
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Philippine lawmakers ask top court to nullify martial law
International 07/09/2017Philippine opposition lawmakers petitioned the Supreme Court on Monday to review and nullify President Rodrigo Duterte's imposition of martial law in the southern third of the country.The petition filed by six House lawmakers led by Rep. Edcel Lagman...
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Kyrgyz court confirms life sentence for journalist
International 01/23/2017A court in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday upheld a life sentence for an ethnic Uzbek journalist in a case that has drawn international criticism. Azimzhan Askarov was convicted in 2010 for stirring up ethnic hatred, a charge related to ethnic unrest in the so...