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Companies can ban headscarves at work, top EU court rules
Private companies can prohibit employees from wearing headscarves at work, the EU’s top court ruled on Thursday. Liv Klingert Politico…
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Serbian secret police chiefs face verdict over atrocities in Croatia and Bosnia
The longest running war crimes case will come to a head on Wednesday with a verdict at The Hague tribunal…
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Vicky Hernández: Court says Honduras to blame for trans woman’s murder
In its landmark ruling, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the government to pay reparations to the family of…
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Australia’s national security laws to be scrutinised as inquiry into secret Witness J case begins
Witness J, dubbed by the courts as “Alan Johns”, was convicted and sentenced in complete secrecy in 2019 for five…
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Turkey Flouts European Court Judgments
The Council of Europe should insist that Turkey comply immediately with judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), or…
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Court Pressures Shell And The Oil Industry To Adjust To Climate Change
Many are still basking in the success of the shale revolution, which made the U.S. self-sufficient in oil and gas…
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Death Penalty 2020: Despite COVID-19, some countries ruthlessly pursued death sentences and executions
21 April 2021 REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha The unprecedented challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic were not enough to deter 18 countries from…
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Why this trial was different: Experts react to guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin
It is fair to say that race was on the minds of millions of protesters who took to the streets…
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The Chauvin Verdict Has to Be Just the Beginning
Derek Chauvin did not just murder George Perry Floyd Jr. He tortured him to death. Joan Walsh The Nation Maybe…
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Jock Palfreeman leaves Bulgaria 13 years after being charged with Sofia murder of Andrei Monov
“For my safety I do not want my whereabouts known,” he told the ABC. Belinda Hawkins ABC News Mr Palfreeman’s…
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Commonwealth prosecutors wrong on Witness K case, former NSW DPP says
The former New South Wales director of public prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdery, has slammed the prosecution of lawyer Bernard Collaery and…
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Sarkozy: Former French president sentenced to jail for corruption
He was convicted of trying to bribe a judge in 2014 – after he had left office – by suggesting…
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How The U.S. Is Killing Off The Death Penalty
The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty,” examines America’s uneasy history of capital punishment. Melissa Jeltsen HuffPost One of…
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Donald Trump sued under 19th century ‘Ku Klux Klan Act’ for inciting deadly Capitol riots
A senior Democratic congressman sued former president Donald Trump Tuesday, accusing him of violating the 19th century “Ku Klux Klan…
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US government appeals UK ruling against Julian Assange’s extradition
The US government has appealed a UK judge’s ruling against the extradition of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, according to…
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Court convicts French state for failure to address climate crisis
A Paris court has convicted the French state of failing to address the climate crisis and not keeping its promises…
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