The Military Court Centre in Bulford on Friday sentenced a sergeant of the UK Royal Marines to life in prison for the murder of a Taliban insurgent that occurred during the sergeant's overseas deployment. Alexander...
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UK marine sentenced to life for murder of Taliban prisoner
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Supreme Court to rule on software patents
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US House approves bill to limit frivolous patent lawsuits
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Second Circuit releases developer of World Trade Center 7 from liability
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Italy court convicts Egyptian cleric of terror charges
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Supreme Court hears arguments in military protest case
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AI: North Korea continues expansion of political prison system
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Illinois General Assembly approves pension reform bill
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US prosecutors charge 49 Russian diplomats with health care fraud
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Report finds Eritrea’s military involved in human trafficking to Sudan
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The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to rule on a a key software patent case. The question before the court in Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International is:...
The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill intended to curb the actions of "patent trolls" , or patent assertion entities, in which companies frivolously accuse other companies, often small business...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday that developers of the 7 World Trade Center (7WTC) Building were not liable for the damages caused by the collapse of the 7WTC several...
Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr , who was kidnapped in Milan as part of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition program , was sentenced to six years in prison on...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in United States v. Apel . The case addresses the issue of whether a statute that prohibits a person...
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday released new satellite images and an assessment of North Korea's political prison camps, which reveal new housing blocks, an expansion of production facilities and continued tight security. In a...
The Illinois General Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday that would reform the state's pension plan to lower future benefits for current state employees. The legislature amended the pension plan in an effort to...
US prosecutors unsealed on Thursday charges it has filed against 49 current and former Russian diplomats and their family members for allegedly conspiring to commit health care fraud . The complaint, which was...
A team of Dutch and Swedish researchers released a report on Wednesday which concluded that senior military officers in Eritrea are kidnapping Eritrean children and smuggling them into Sudan. The report, entitled "The Human Trafficking Cycle:...
