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BBC News
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A leading Turkish gay rights group will fight a court ruling that ordered it be closed for "violating morality".
Lambda, which has become increasingly vocal in calling for gay, lesbian and transgender rights in Turkey, says it will appeal against the d..
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BBC News
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An Austrian man who admitted holding his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children is due to appear before a regional court.
Josef Fritzl, 73, is being held at a court near his home in Amstetten, Lower Austria, where a judge wi..
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CNN
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A South African court on Monday postponed the trial of a former dormitory matron accused of abusing students at a school set up by Oprah Winfrey. A lawyer acting for Tiny Virginia Makopo said he needed more time to consult with his client. She is charged..
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CNN
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Zimbabwe is anxiously awaiting a key court ruling which may end more than two weeks of election deadlock -- or could send the troubled nation into further turmoil if its government further delays announcing the results of the vote. The High Court is expec..
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CNN
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Zimbabwe's High Court has postponed a ruling on a petition to force release of vote results until Tuesday, the opposition said.
Zimbabwe's High Court convened a hearing Monday to consider the Movement for Democratic Change's petition calling for the re..
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News.com.au
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A CATHOLIC priest sexually abused a number of teenagers at a boys' home in southern Sydney in the late 1980s, a court has been told.
Father Paul Evans was dorm master at Boys' Town Catholic boarding school at Engadine at the time of the alleged inciden..
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BBC News
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A British teenager who is accused of possessing material for terrorist purposes has appeared in court.
The 17-year-old, who was arrested in the Dewsbury area of West Yorkshire on Monday, was given bail after a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court...
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CNN
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A Russian court sentenced an American man to nine years in prison Tuesday for strangling his wife's uncle in a fight that broke out over an apartment, his lawyer said.
The Industrial Federal Court in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk handed down the s..
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BBC News
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China's Supreme Court has ordered judges to be more sparing in the imposition of the death penalty.
An order on its website said execution should be reserved for "an extremely small number of serious offenders".
It said the death penalty should be w..
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News.com.au
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A TASMANIAN expert in family conflict resolution flew into a rage and murdered his elderly parents with an axe after his mother laughed about the death of his cat, a court was told yesterday.
Stephen Alexander Harper, 44, pleaded guilty in the Supreme..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's top court has reinstated the country's chief justice in a move being seen as a serious blow to the authority of President Pervez Musharraf.
Iftikhar Chaudhry was suspended by the president four months ago amid claims of corruption, but has s..
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BBC News
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Sierra Leone's UN-backed war crimes court has sentenced three leaders of a militia for war crimes including murder, rape and mutilating civilians.
Alex Tamba Brima and Santigie Borbor Kanu were jailed for 50 years each and Brima Kamara for 45 years...
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BBC News
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An Indian court has ruled against a group of female flight attendants who were grounded from the national airline for being overweight.
The court said that state-owned Indian Airlines had the right to take the step in the interest of flight safety and..
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Yahoo News
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A Chinese court has jailed a farmer for 13 years for trading in state-protected swans and their meat, Xinhua news agency reported Friday.
Zhang Yuelin, 48, from the northern province of Henan, had bought 38 dead swans and one kg of swan meat late last..
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BBC News
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An Irish teenager has won a High Court battle in Dublin to be allowed to visit Britain for an abortion.
The 17-year old was told by doctors her four-month foetus would not live more than a few days beyond its birth.
She is in the care of the Irish R..
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Independent
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Israel's Shin Bet security service tortures Palestinian prisoners during interrogations in defiance of a 1999 court ruling outlawing such practices, two of the country's human rights groups said yesterday.
Interrogators beat suspects, shackle them in p..
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Guardian Unlimited
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An alleged accomplice of one of Britain's most powerful convicted terrorists appeared in court today as the "last remaining member" of the team to face trial.
Qaisar Shaffi was one of seven people assisting Dhiren Barot, who was jailed for at least 40..
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CNN
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An Indian court ordered the arrest of Hollywood star Richard Gere on Thursday for kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness event this month saying it was an obscene act committed in public.
Gere's repeated kisses on Shetty's cheeks..
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Guardian Unlimited
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A mother and her three daughters who forced two toddlers to take part in a "dog fight" and filmed it walked free from court yesterday.
The women, including the children's mother, goaded the tearful brother and sister to punch each other and even use a..
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BBC News
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The European Court of Human Rights has awarded a Polish woman 25,000 euros ($33,000; �16,000) in damages after she was refused an abortion.
Alicja Tysiac's eyesight worsened drastically after she had her third baby and she fears she may go blind...
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