A French appeals court on Thursday absolved Continental Airlines of blame and overturned the manslaughter conviction against one of its mechanics in relation to the Air France Concorde jet crash that killed 113 people just...
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France court overturns conviction of Continental Airlines in Concorde jet crash
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Italy appeals Europe rights court decision on embryonic screening ban
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Poland Supreme Court recognizes same-sex relationships for tenancy retention
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Military judge accepts plea terms for Army private charged in WikiLeaks case
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BP executive, supervisors plead not guilty to criminal charges
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Government report: Guantanamo detainees could be safely absorbed by US prisons
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Poland court rules ritual slaughter of animals violates constitution
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War crimes tribunal acquits former Kosovo Liberation Army commander
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Federal appeals court suspends order for Argentina to pay $1.3 billion to creditors
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Egypt court sentences 8 Christians to death in symbolic trial over anti-Islam film
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The Italian government on Wednesday announced that it has appealed a recent decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that the country violated the rights of a couple with cystic fibrosis by...
The Polish Supreme Court for the first time on Wednesday declared that same-sex partners living together will retain the same legal standing as heterosexual couples in regard to taking over a lease if their romantic...
The military judge presiding over the case of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning , who is accused of leaking confidential documents to WikiLeaks , accepted on Thursday the terms of a partial...
Two well-site supervisors and one former executive of British Petroleum (BP) pleaded not guilty in US federal court on Tuesday to criminal charges stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill . The...
US Senator Dianne Feinstein released a report by the Government Accountability Office on Wednesday which asserts that US prisons could safely absorb the 166 detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay military prison...
Poland's Constitutional Tribunal ruled Wednesday that the ritual slaughter of animals violates the Polish Constitution. The court's ruling will bar strictly-followed slaughtering practices by Muslim and Jewish citizens where the animal is not stunned first. The decision...
The Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday acquitted former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commanders Ramush Haradinaj , Idriz Balaj, and Laji Brahimaj of all charges. Haradinaj...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday stayed a lower court ruling that would have forced Argentina to pay $1.3 billion to one of its creditors, the investment fund NML Capital Ltd. [corporate...
An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced in absentia seven Coptic Christians and an American preacher to death on charges stemming from an anti-Muslim film, Innocence of Muslims , which sparked violent protests in the Middle East earlier this...
