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Judiciary

Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan gets bail but can’t leave jail

Khan, who denies wrongdoing, had filed a bail application before Islamabad High Court Khan, 71, has been in jail since August last year

Daniel Sancho finishes his statement at the trial in Thailand

The young Spaniard Daniel Sancho finished his statement this Wednesday after around three hours in the trial against him in Thailand for the alleged murder of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta, who...

Top UN court to rule in Germany ‘genocide’ case over Gaza

Israel has killed at least 34,488 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry Press reports have identified a battalion called...

Argentine court blames Iran and Hezbollah for deadly 1994 Jewish center bombing

Argentina’s highest criminal court reported a new development Thursday in the elusive quest for justice in the deadliest attack in the country’s history — the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center headquarters —...

Top UN court opens hearings in a case accusing Germany of facilitating Israel’s Gaza...

While the case brought by Nicaragua centers on Germany, it indirectly takes aim at Israel’s military campaign in Gaza Israel strongly denies that its assault amounts to...

Thailand’s Constitutional Court says it will rule on whether to dissolve popular Move Forward...

Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday said it will rule on whether to dissolve the political party that won the most seats in last year’s election for allegedly violating the constitution by proposing to amend...

Thai court acquits dozens of protesters who shut down Bangkok’s airports in 2008

A Thai court on Friday acquitted nearly 70 people of all charges related to mass protests that shut down Bangkok’s two airports in 2008 for about 10 days. The...

Lawmakers in Thailand overwhelmingly approve a bill to legalize same-sex marriage

BANGKOK — Lawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill on Wednesday that would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for...

A Pakistani court sentences a woman to life in prison for burning pages from...

A Pakistani court sentenced a Muslim woman to life in prison after finding her guilty of burning pages of Islam’s holy book, a prosecutor said Friday. Under Pakistan’s blasphemy...

Putin cannot escape justice for crimes in Ukraine: Int’l Criminal Court head

The International Criminal Court's newly elected president has expressed strong conviction that Russian President Vladimir Putin, against whom the Hague-based body issued an arrest warrant last year, will be brought to justice...